Mendocino Coast Writer's Conference
mcwc.org
A vibrant, inclusive literary gathering in Mendocino, California with workshops in a wide range of genres, as well as seminars, open mic events, and one-on-one consultations. July 31 - August 2, 2025.
@mendocinoartcenter.bsky.social
A historical art center on the California coast, we host residencies, workshops, events, and provide a space for community to come together. https://www.mendocinoartcenter.org/
@sesmith.lol
that person with the peaches national magazine award-winning culture critic and journalist seen in bitch (rip), the nation, the verge, rolling stone, etc @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder, @scarleteen.bsky.social coconspirator, & much more! realsesmith.com
@duckmckrush.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🧸🖖🎮Occasionally NSFW 21+ ONLY he/him6️⃣8️⃣y/o . Prefer public contact prior to private chat. Scammers beware. That said, lets get to socializing and open our minds and learn.
@mendocinomama.bsky.social
Early education advocate, occasional artist, sometimes writer, aging hiker, lifelong learner, gardener, plant mom, lover of bright colors, intermittent theater geek, stargazer, casual pagan #jillofalltrades
@mendovoice.bsky.social
📰 An Independent, nonprofit news site serving all of Mendocino County, California. Part of the BCN Foundation family. TIPS 👉 info@mendovoice.com.
@mendocinocoast.bsky.social
Photography of local and neighboring counties. Local events. Humor
@markwallace.bsky.social
Writer, with occasional music. Words: Alta Journal, The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, NY Times Magazine, Salon, many more. MFA from Bennington. Childhood from Brooklyn. Former ED at the Writers Grotto. News: inlooking.substack.com Games: markwallace.itch.io
@sabinaki.bsky.social
writer, poet, digital marketer, mama, daughter, partner, friend, forever student, and life-long writer with many projects-in-the-works...
@thaisafrank.bsky.social
Errant lover of Swift, children, constellations #ENCHANTMENT #HEIDEGGER'S GLASSES Starred Reviews Publishers Weekly, SFGrotto#Pushcart2023 www.thaisafrank.com.
@swethaamit.bsky.social
Author of chapbooks- Cotton Candy from the sky by @bottlecap Press, Mango pickle in summer by Alien Buddha Press. Fiction @thirtywest @havehad @doorisajar @MaudlinHouse @Flashficmag & others https://swethaamit.com/ writers grotto
@svobodster.bsky.social
Author of WHAT MAKES A HERO? and THE LIFE HEROIC. Words in Scientific American, Boston Globe Ideas, Psychology Today, Atlas Obscura, NYT, etc.
@swildmansf.bsky.social
#Kid-Lit writer | MIRI'S MOVING DAY (2024) |GHOST WRITER (2024) | BREATH BY BREATH (2024) | BRAVE IN THE WATER| TREASURE HUNT| #SCBWI, #12x12PB, #WritersGrotto | www.stephaniewildman.com
@dangerjr.bsky.social
Author, journalist, editor, photographer, traveler, and tequila demigoddess.
@shikhamalaviya.bsky.social
poet | mentor | undercover historian (through poetry)| Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems (HarperCollins India, 2023)| Geography of Tongues, (TGIPC, 2014).
@anoopjudge.bsky.social
Author: Book Club Fiction: MERCY & GRACE📚NO ORDINARY THURSDAY📚THE AWAKENING OF MEENA RAWAT📚THE RUMMY CLUB/ Non-Fiction: LAW: WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT & HOW TO GET IN📚Adjunct Professor, SFBU💻/SFGrotto#/ Pushcart nom. 2019/ website: https://anoopjudge.com
@robvato.bsky.social
Author of Unforgetting http://bit.ly/2W1XFc3, called a "groundbreaking" memoir by the NY Times. Creative Writing Professor @UNLV. He/him. rlovatoauthor@gmail
@jdominiclim.bsky.social
he/him 🏳️🌈🇵🇭| Writers Grotto member | Babylon Salon cohost | Actors Equity Assoc | rep by Talcott Notch Literary | KARAOKE QUEEN ‘24 and ALL THE RIGHT NOTES ‘23 from Forever/GCP/Hachette
@shirleyhuey.bsky.social
Writer/reader/eater/wanderer. SF born + raised. Words: Catapult, Panorama: the Journal of Travel, Place, & Nature, EatingWell, sparkle+blink, Berkeleyside, & others. Former atty. Member, Writers Grotto. https://www.shirleyhuey.com
@arielgore.bsky.social
@notvanhooten.bsky.social
Writer. Formerly Outside magazine & Sunset. Bylines also in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. Researcher at The Atavist. Member of The Writers Grotto in San Francisco.
@ljswrites.bsky.social
Freelance climate journalist / Managing Editor at DeSmog / 2022 Kiplinger Fellow and Brown Handler Resident / she, her, hers
@jennyqi.bsky.social
Focal Point (2021) freelance med/sci writer, poet essays & poems in NYT, The Atlantic, etc. www.jqiwriter.com
@xandramaria.bsky.social
Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Filmmaker, Adjunct Professor Brazilian & American, came of age in West Africa, lives in Berkeley.
@bethwinegarner.bsky.social
✏️ Journalist & author: bethwinegarner.com 📚 "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History" out now! 🎵 Dark as a lake. Perfectly misaligned. 💀 "Even in Arcadia, there am I." 👩🏻🦰 She/her.
@thewritersgrotto.bsky.social
An inclusive community of writers providing cross-pollination, and insider expertise as well as classes and membership.
@leilaniclark.bsky.social
Writer. Chicanx. Californian. Working on a narrative nonfiction book about freeways, displacement, erasure, & survival in East Los Angeles. Published at The Guardian, Civil Eats, Mother Jones, KQED. Comms manager at a Sonoma County environmental nonprofit.
@darwinbondgraham.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, historian; peripatetic, skeptic; fisherman, amateur pomologist, admirer of wildflowers, mushrooms; worshiper of forests, swamps, deserts, and mountains.
@lizweil.bsky.social
“great story!”— Judith Butler. Feature writer, @nymag (before that: “propublica, @nytmag).
@arielwaldman.com
Antarctic Explorer + Filmmaker. TED speaker + National Geographic explorer. Previously: NASA. 📍 San Francisco 🔗 https://arielwaldman.com 💌 https://patreon.com/arielwaldman
@nancyjooyounkim.bsky.social
Umma / Author of LA Koreatown novels WHAT WE KEPT TO OURSELVES THE LAST STORY OF MINA LEE https://bio.site/nancyjooyounkim
@hannah-the-bold.bsky.social
Writer, naturalist, wilderness guide, performer. Recipient of the Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize and the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award. Lover of all things wild and free 🌱 hannahhindley.com
@eeewhysee.bsky.social
Author of LOUDER THAN THE LIES: ASIAN AMERICAN IDENTITY, SOLIDARITY, AND SELF-LOVE
@karjohnson.bsky.social
They/them. Writer. Bookseller. Events for Green Apple Books in SF. Oakland-based. Do no harm, take no shit.
@emmaruthless.bsky.social
Writer for hire. Erstwhile arts / culture / music editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies. Yes, I can write a bio for your band emmasilvers.com
@booksmith.bsky.social
Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976. 11AM - 7PM daily. Find the good stuff at booksmith.com
@joylanzendorfer.bsky.social
Author of RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM. Work in The New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, and others. Host of What's The Story on The Krush. www.ohjoy.org
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social
Writer - A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS (2024) - THE FAR AWAY BROTHERS (2017) - IMMEMORIAL (forthcoming February 2025) Other work in NY Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Guardian, Mother Jones, VQR & elsewhere
@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social
Book out March 2025, The Pacific Circuit KQED Forum Oakland Garden Club