⏰ Deadline update!
The application deadline for the Writers Grotto Classes Registrar & Administrative Manager position has moved up.
🗓 New deadline: March 31, 2026
Apply here:
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#WritersGrotto #ArtsJobs #WritingCommunity
🌱🪻Our Mar. 14 Babylon Salon features 5 fabulous writers!
⭐ Charlie Jane Anders
⭐ Grant Faulkner
⭐ Mark Ernest Pothier
⭐ Grayson Thompson
⭐ And our very own Lauren Johnson!
Bay Area friends, come on out to The Sycamore @ 5:30pm. As always, our shows are free! ❤️ www.babylonsalon.com
ICYMI: A new independent LGBTQ+ publisher named PANSY has been launched by novelist Matt Cain and businessman Harry Glasstone 👇 #BookSky
Obligatory post-AWP tweet
Sandwich board sign on sidewalk. James and Mary Laurie Booksellers. We Buy and Sell Rare, Used and Out-of-Print. BOOKS MAPS PRINTS Appraisals Search Service.
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers is ensconced in their new location at 933 Marquette Ave. S. in downtown Minneapolis. If I have the sequence right, this is about location No. 6 (N. St. Paul>Stillwater>St. Paul>Nicollet Mall>North Loop>Marquette). Yes, the photo when Mick Jagger visited is displayed.
Meet The Female Journalist Risking Her Life To Report On Women In Afghanistan
“No matter what the companies throw at us–lower wages, tighter budgets, buyouts, outright firing–we writers must and will continue to take people to galaxies far far away," says WGAE President Tom Fontana at the NYC #WritersGuildAwards. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2GO...
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Write bold, contemporary poems through close reading, fresh craft tools, and generative prompts.
Fridays, March 13th -27th, from 11:30am-1:30pm PT. Via Zoom.
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
#writing #writingcommunity #writingcraft #poetrywriting #writingclass
This five-week course includes: writing in community, lessons on craft, and the opportunity to share and revise your narratives.
Thursdays, March 12h - April 9th
6:00 - 8:30pm PT. Via Zoom.
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
#writing #writingcraft #writingclass #novelwriting #memoirwriting
We’ll explore plot, character, scene, and structure—without formulas—to support your next steps forward.
Tuesdays, March 10th - April 28th, from 6:00-8:00pm PT. Via Zoom.
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#writing #writingcommunity #writingcraft #novelwriting #writingclass
Bookshelves filled with colorful books with text overlay that reads: “The Writers Grotto — We’re Hiring!” Announcement for a part-time Classes Registrar and Administrative Manager position supporting the Grotto’s classes program.
📚 We’re hiring!
The Writers Grotto is seeking a part-time Classes Registrar & Administrative Manager (15–20 hrs/wk) to support our writing classes program.
📅 Apply by 4/24
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Please repost if you know someone great for this role!
#ArtsJobs #WritingCommunity #WritersGrotto
Write bold, contemporary poems through close reading, fresh craft tools, and generative prompts.
Fridays, March 13th -27th, from 11:30am-1:30pm PT. Via Zoom.
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
#writing #writingcommunity #writingcraft #poetrywriting #writingclass
Do you want to write but don’t know how to begin? This course includes lessons on craft and the opportunity to share and revise your narratives.
Thursdays, March 12h - April 9th
6 - 8:30pm PT. Via Zoom.
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
#writing #writingcommunity #writingcraft
Write your unformulaic novel this spring.
Tuesdays, March 10th - April 28th, from 6:00-8:00pm PT. Via Zoom.
www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...
#writing #writingcommunity #writingworkshop #writingcraft #novelwriting #writingclass
Photo of Erinie Carson and Janine Kovac holding up copies of Erinie's book Bloodfire, Baby
Cover of the book Bloodfire, Baby
Thank you to author Erinie Carson and to everyone who attended Tuesday’s Grotto Night at the SFPL! Janine Kovac talked to Erinie about her new “maternal gothic” novel Bloodfire, Baby. It was a fascinating conversation, and we thank everyone who came out for their great questions!
Swift Press founders Diana Broccardo and Mark Richards on building the press’ reputation through hard work, astute judgement and a bit of luck 👇
an array of D's books and zines, including Little Nothing, Son of Perdition, hallowzine copies, The Book of Korinethians, and two 1-page zines.
hey Capital Region & Adks! this Saturday is the semiannual Indie Book & Comic Expo put on by @blackwalnutbooks.bsky.social in Glens Falls... and you can catch me+50 other cool writers, artists & presses (incl. @duckprintspress.com 🤩) all day 2/28. I'll have books, prints & some brand-new zines!
Anne Carson is a master of the short sentence. Her intelligence infuses her work, along with a heavy dose of playfulness, and just like that, she rearranges the worldhttps://ninaschuyler.substack.com/p/why-not-rearrange-the-world
These men are so grimy. So unoriginal.
What a night! 🤩 “Black Pasts, Presence, and Prospects” brought together some truly incredible voices on Friday at the San Francisco Writers Grotto.
Thank you Ashia S. Ajani, Duane Horton, Christl Rikka Perkins, Lyzette Wanzer, and Audrey T. Williams for sharing your powerful work! 🔥
"I think (Toni) Morrison wanted to go back to what she described as village literature, which is a notion that literature is a social form, it's a community form... It has to open up questions so that we can talk about it as a community." —Namwali Serpell www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
ICYMI: Independent bookshops in England are facing business rates increases of up to 100% under the government’s new reforms, research commissioned by the Booksellers Association has found 👇 #BookSky
Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell are not only two of the greatest figures in modern popular music history but they're also both on the right side of history. Like, I seriously want to throwdown with people criticizing these two. Young people and artists aren't the problem. #fuckbillmaher
ICYMI: Author, historian and literary agent Andrew Lownie has filed a lawsuit against the American publisher Simon & Schuster US over an alleged breach of contract 👇 #BookSky
How about a five more announcements for THE LIBRARY OF THE UNDEAD? The anthology will include all new fiction by @jamieflanagan.com, @ericlarocca.bsky.social, @lisamorton.bsky.social, @joycecaroloates.bsky.social, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, along with the others listed on the cover. More soon!
“Yuzuki believes that books about the struggle of insecure work, including Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) and Kikuko Tsumura’s There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job (translated by Barton), opened doors to Western readers.”
#translation #booksky #japan
The Crow Road, by Iain Banks
Post the cover of a book you love from the 90s. (Any century!)
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
