The Writers Grotto
We are a San Francisco-based membership organization of 100+ writers, journalists and creatives. The Writers Grotto offers co-working space, classes, and a supportive community
Created by
@gracelp.bsky.social
@lairdh.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, teacher, journalist and AI consultant at San Francisco State University, The Writers Grotto and The Authors Guild.
@lmichelcassidy.bsky.social
Writer, poet, artist, houseboat-dweller, open-water swimmer. Collection, When We Were Hardcore, 2025 from Eastover Press. Senior reviews editor at Tupelo Quarterly. More at lmichelcassidy.com
@khanwong.bsky.social
SFF Author, 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, retired hula hooper & bohemian weirdo 🏳️🌈 DOWN IN THE SEA OF ANGELS out April 22, 2025 from Angry Robot Books. THE CIRCUS INFINITE out now! rep: Ernie Chiara at Fuse Literary khanwong.com
@mjuhae.bsky.social
Author of STARRY FIELD: A Memoir of Lost History (Melville House). Journalist, public speaker, waning soccer mom, enthusiastic dog owner, my own social media manager, Writers Grotto member. www.margaretjuhaelee.com
@xandramaria.bsky.social
Screenwriter, Script Consultant, Filmmaker, Adjunct Professor Brazilian & American, came of age in West Africa, lives in Berkeley.
@jennyqi.bsky.social
Focal Point (2021) freelance med/sci writer, poet essays & poems in NYT, The Atlantic, etc. www.jqiwriter.com
@ljswrites.bsky.social
Freelance climate journalist / Managing Editor at DeSmog / 2022 Kiplinger Fellow and Brown Handler Resident / she, her, hers
@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.
@arielgore.bsky.social
@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
@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
@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
@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
@shikhamalaviya.bsky.social
poet | mentor | undercover historian (through poetry)| Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems (HarperCollins India, 2023)| Geography of Tongues, (TGIPC, 2014).
@dangerjr.bsky.social
Author, journalist, editor, photographer, traveler, and tequila demigoddess.
@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
@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.
@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
@thaisafrank.bsky.social
Errant lover of Swift, children, constellations #ENCHANTMENT #HEIDEGGER'S GLASSES Starred Reviews Publishers Weekly, SFGrotto#Pushcart2023 www.thaisafrank.com.
@janeciab.bsky.social
Fiction [Stealing the Fire]. Critic [BBC_Culture LitHub. Community [@bookcritics.bsky.social SFGrotto BayBookFest Litcampwriters .
@sabinaki.bsky.social
writer, poet, digital marketer, mama, daughter, partner, friend, forever student, and life-long writer with many projects-in-the-works...
@thesusanito.bsky.social
Writer, adoptee, author of memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere, National Book Critics Circle finalist. 🥚 website: http://www.thesusanito.com member of the Writers Grotto
@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
@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.
@gracelp.bsky.social
Writing about belonging & diaspora in NYT, Longreads, LitHub, The Offing and elsewhere. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024)