Writer, Avid reader, Tendency to disappear into hobby black holes. 🤓 Pubs: @nyt, @narrative, @blackwarriorrev @kqed. Associate Editor @craftliterary.
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Rowena Leong Singer 梁月媚 retweeted
Congratulations to @rowenalsinger MFA ’16 (Fiction)! She has been named a 2025 BIPOC scholarship recipient for the Sonoma County Writers Camp:
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Thrilled to usher in another year of #rootedwritten as co-director with #sabinakhanibarra!
Rooted & Written is the first tuition-free professional creative writing program offered for BIPOC writers in the USA.
rooted-written.org
#bipoc #WritingCommunity
Rowena Leong Singer 梁月媚 retweeted
Open now: Our 2024 Novelette Print Prize!
We are seeking submissions of polished novelettes from 7,500 to 15,000 words. Guest Judge @PemiAguda will choose one grand-prize winner.
Learn more: craftliterary.com/craft-nove…
Rowena Leong Singer 梁月媚 retweeted
Applications for The Writers Grotto are now open through December 31, 2024!
If you are a dedicated writer living in the Bay Area, we invite you to apply.
writersgrotto.org/apply-for-…
#writer #writercommunity #writers #writerscommunity #writing #writingcommunity #openforapplication
Looking forward to the @sfgrotto event on 11/15!
#WritingCommmunity #writerscommunity #WritingCommmunity
Join us in welcoming 17 new Grotto members with excerpts from recent book releases by @mawsheinwin, Dominic Lim, @TerryTierney14, and @eleanorpvincent. Brad Balukjian will introduce the new members. Refreshments provided!
RSVP (free): tickettailor.com/events/thew…
Rowena Leong Singer 梁月媚 retweeted
Very grateful to the @sfgrotto, @vanessa_hua, @sabina_writes and @rowenalsinger for the opportunity to learn from all of you and grow as a writer!❤️
#rootedwritten #bipocwriters #writingconference
Meet our 2024 Rooted & Written fiction fellows: Swetha Amit, Guananí Gómez Van Cortright, Mark Flores, Arely Miranda González, Edward Gunawan, Christian Ivey, Gi Jariya, and Giorlando Madureira de Lima.
rooted-written.org
#RootedWritten #BipocWriters
The 2024 US Elections will be held this Tuesday, November 5. Please vote and let your voice be heard.
“Every election is determined by the people who show up.” —Larry J. Sabato, Pendulum Swing
#acvote #vote #votevotevote #beheard #voteforyourlife
Flash prose writers! The @CraftLiterary Flash Prose Prize Deadline extended to 11/1!
#writingcontest #flash #write #writing #WritingCommunity #writer #writercommunity #writing #WritingCommunity
Apply here:
craftliterary.com/craft-flas…
Final day to submit your work!
We're seeking your best flash work, whether fiction or nonfiction. Guest Judge @megpokrass will select three winning pieces from the shortlist.
Deadline: October 27, 2024, 11:59 PM Pacific
Learn more: craftliterary.com/craft-flas…
The 2024 Rooted and Written Conference—the first tuition-free conference taught by and for BIPOC writers—kicked off yesterday! I could not be more thrilled to meet the incredible Fellows who comprise the heart of #rootedwritten.
#poc #writer #writercommunity #writers #writing
Rowena Leong Singer 梁月媚 retweeted
There's no feeling like unboxing your book for the first time, and The Writers Grotto has helped countless authors get there (including @vanessa_hua, @thesusanito, and @robvato)!
Donate today to help us continue getting new books into the world: tinyurl.com/30Kfor30
So happy to be part of this @litcrawl event, “Party Like It’s 1999 (in 2024)” to celebrate 25 years of @WritingSalon this Saturday, 10/26!
6:30pm
Latin American Club
3286 22nd St, SF
writingsalons.com/event/bing…
#writing #writingcommunity #writings #writer #writercommunity #writers
Join us at @litcrawl San Francisco’s “Party Like It’s 1999 (in 2024)” event to celebrate the @WritingSalon’s 25th anniversary, which will include readings and literary bingo!
writingsalons.com/event/bing…
#writing #writingcommunity #writer #writercommunity #writers #reading
At tonight’s @litquake event, with my incredible fellow panelists, who read stories, poems, essays, and articles reflecting “narratives that explore the ignored, overlooked, and under-represented.” Grateful for the @thewritersgrotto members who came out to support our panel. ❤️
Join me and my incredible fellow writers @Litquake for a stimulating panel “Celebrating Defiance, Resisting Silence!”10/13, 7pm at Sagrada in Oakland.
#bipoc #litquake #writing #WritingCommmunity #writer #WriterCommunity #writers #writerscommunity
eventbrite.com/e/celebrating…
BIPOC writers in the Bay Area! Today (9/29) is the last day to apply!
#writer #WriterCommunity #writing #WritingCommmunity #writers #writerscommunity #bipoc #rootedwritten
There are just under 48 hours left to apply to Rooted & Written 2024!
We're looking for BIPOC writers of fiction, poetry, screenwriting, essays, and memoir.
Deadline: 9/29 at midnight PT!
Learn more at: rooted-written.org
#rootedwritten #bipocwriters #writingconference
Rowena Leong Singer 梁月媚 retweeted
There are just under 48 hours left to apply to Rooted & Written 2024!
We're looking for BIPOC writers of fiction, poetry, screenwriting, essays, and memoir.
Deadline: 9/29 at midnight PT!
Learn more at: rooted-written.org
#rootedwritten #bipocwriters #writingconference
Rowena Leong Singer 梁月媚 retweeted
Please join us for an hour of readings by award-winning authors! We're thrilled to have @megpokrass, guest judge of the CRAFT 2024 Flash Prose Prize and author of "The First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories," as our featured reader.
Register here: craftliterary.com/craft-2024…
Bay Area BIPOC writers! Rooted & Written is the first BIPOC-only conference--taught by and for writers of color. It’s tuition-free. Apply Now!
rooted-written.org
#writing #writingcommunity #writer #writercommunity #writers #writerscommunity #bipocwriters #bayareawriters
Applications open for Rooted & Written 2024! We have another spectacular lineup for our annual free conference for Bay Area writers of color!
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Thrilled to see this brilliant piece by @amber2dawn selected as a 2024 BOTN Finalist!
#shortstory #shortstories #writing #writingcommunity #writer #writercommunity #writers #writerscommunity
Hearty congratulations to 2024 Best of the Net Finalist in Fiction, @amber2dawn! Read her stunning short story, "Costumes," on our website.
Check out the BOTN 2024 finalists: bestofthenetanthology.com/20…
Read "Costumes": craftliterary.com/2023/01/20…
Love this precarious yet tender story set in 1960s Nigeria.
#shortstory #shortstories #newstory #WritingCommmunity #WriterCommunity #wtiterscommunity
New #shortstory:
"He saw the yellow kegs of ogogoro, the rusted metal cups, the lit ends of cigarettes. He saw the men."
—Ayotola Tehingbola, "because if something no right, you no suppose sit down and look"
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ALT Image is a color photograph of a bridge on water; title card for the new short story, "because if something no right, you no suppose sit down and look," by Ayotola Tehingbola.