Blood. Sweat. Tears. Publish!

The Rin Kelly Scholarship for Fiction is now accepting applications. Founded in honor of The Writers Grotto student and author of "Into the Laughing Gas World" Rin Kelly, the Rin Kelly Scholarship for Fiction offers three $350 scholarships to emerging fiction writers with a focus on speculative, imaginative and critical/satirical works. Please click the link for submission guidelines and to learn more.

For the September Reading & Meeting, authors will read and talk about their works-in-progress. ‍ Yeva Johnson, Audrey Ferber, Brandy Collins and Nate Olivarez-Giles will read from the poetry, fiction and memoir they are working on and discuss their works-in-progress and their writing process/experience. Christl Rikka Perkins will emcess. ‍ As always, there will be snacks & drinks.

The Writer’s Grotto in San Francisco, a 30-year-old writing community of 160+ members, stands in solidarity with other arts organizations across the country who have lost their National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funding. We condemn all efforts to silence free speech and expression within our vibrant and diverse society. We urge the government to restore all funding cuts and rescinded grants, and to strengthen the NEA and NEH, thereby providing essential support for art organizations and individual writers and artists now and into the future.