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August 16th Reading + Meeting: Navigating the Literary Landscape with Agent and Author
Join us for our next Reading + Meeting and special new member welcome on August 16th. This month will feature Danielle Svetcov in conversation with Bonnie Tsui as they discuss navigating the literary landscape as agent and author. All are welcome!
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School's in session this summer at The Writers Grotto
New classes and Write-Ins plus an upcoming scholarship opportunity!
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Community Event - Celebrate Alta's Issue 27 at City Lights
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Spring 2024 Classes Virtual Open House
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Fall Write-In with Britta Stromeyer
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Build a World, Seduce the World: How to Hook Your Film or TV Audience with Xandra Castleton
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Storytelling: Revise and Refine: You're Almost There! With Audrey Ferber
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Great Writers Steal: How the Work of Other Writers Can Inform and Inspire You with Laurie Ann Doyle
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Plotting Your Novel with Anoop Judge
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Flash Fiction: Little Stories with a Big Kick with Jenny Bitner Spring 2024
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Reading & Writing the Personal Essay with Mark Wallace
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Autofiction: Combining Memoir and Fiction with Jenny Bitner Summer 2024
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Connecting with Your Writer's Voice with Britta Stromeyer
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Writing Microfiction with Britta Stromeyer
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Creating Compelling Characters with Anoop Judge
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Inspired Creativity with Jenny Bitner
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Fiction Workshop with Doug Henderson
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Deep Dive: Connecting with Your Writer's Voice with Britta Stromeyer
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Spring Write-In with Rowena Leong Singer
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Fund Your Writing Project with Lyzette Wanzer
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Write Your Artist Statement with Lyzette Wanzer
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Reading + Meeting: September 20th, 2024
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Explore the Poetry of Science with Jenny Qi
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Explore the Poetry of Science with Jenny Qi
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Explore the Poetry of Science with Jenny Qi
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Writing Your Personal Essay with Kate Busatto
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The Writers Grotto Salesforce Words & Stories Series, Feb. 29th *Postponed*
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Spring Write-In with Rowena Leong Singer
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Members Only: Book Club - "A Council of Dolls" by Mona Susan Power
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Polishing Your Short Story with Kate Busatto
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Community Event - Moving Breast Cancer Memoirs by Wildfire Magazine
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Plan Your Novel in 6 Weeks with Lisa Lerner
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Spring Write-In with Sabina Khan-Ibarra
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Fall Write-In with Laurie Doyle
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Spring Write-In with Xandra Castleton
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Spring Write-In with Xandra Castleton
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First Pages and Query Letter Feedback with Lisa Lerner
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Spring Write-In with Celeste Chan
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Spring Write-In with Janine Kovac
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Spring Write-In with Lisa Lerner
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Trancewriting: Using Hypnosis to Write with Jenny Bitner - In Person
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First Page Feedback: Short Story with Sabina Khan-Ibarra
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First Page Feedback: Personal Essay with Audrey Ferber
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First Page Feedback: Personal Essay with Audrey Ferber
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Get Invited to Read at Literary Conferences with Lyzette Wanzer
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A Writer's Inventory: Build Your Own Memoir Prompts with Susan Ito
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Revise Your Novel with Scrivener with Janine Kovac
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Trancewriting: Using Hypnosis to Write with Jenny Bitner - Online
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How to Write for Educational Publishing with Lisa Lerner
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Fall Write-In with Xandra Castleton
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Fall Write-In with Xandra Castleton
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Let's NaNoWriMo! with Lisa Lerner
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Member Spotlight
Chino Lee Chung
Chino Lee Chung is a queer Chinese Mexican personal essay writer, grassroots activist, and is currently working on a collection of essays that integrate his social activism with his intersectional identities. He is a recipient of the 2024-2025 San Jose State Steinbeck Fellowship and holds an MFA from the California College of Arts. His work appears in Gender Queer: voices from beyond the sexual binary, Our Family Coalition Newsletter, and is an Assistant Fiction Editor at 14 Hills Literary Magazine.
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LOVE/AGGRESSION
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June Martin
Two trans women go from best friends to tense roommates to bitter enemies in this novel of queer community conflict and surreal architecture. Traversing art, domination, sex, and shape-shifting houses, LOVE/AGGRESSION is a novel about the indignity of depending on other people, and the terrible cost of trying not to.
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