ROOTED & WRITTEN WAS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS!
View the Fellowship Award Winners here!
View the Keynote talks here!
Ingrid Rojas Contreras with Tonya Foster
MONDAY, August 15, 2022, 12noon - 1:00pm
Hector Tobar with Roberto Lovato
TUESDAY, August 16, 2022, 12noon - 1:00pm
Victoria Chang with Maw Shein Win
WEDNESDAY, August 17, 2022, 12noon - 1:00pm
Natalie Baszile with Faith Adiele
THURSDAY, August 18, 2022, 12noon - 1:00pm
View the Agents and Editors Panels here!
Rooted & Written is the first fully funded, tuition-free premiere professional writing conference offered for Writers of Color in the country, if not the world.
All Rooted and Written Fellows are awarded full scholarships to the entire week-long conference and workshops.
In August 2022, the Grotto’s award-winning conference and workshop for Writers of Color featured literary luminaries Hector Tobar, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Victoria Chang, award-winning poet, writer, editor, and critic, and author of OBIT, winner of the the PEN Voelcker Award, Natalie Baszile, award-winning author and filmmaker, and the creator of the novel Queen Sugar, which inspired the drama directed by Ava DuVernay, now beginning its 7th season on the Oprah Winfrey Network, and Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of the 2022 memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds, named a "Most Anticipated Book of the Year" by Time, Today, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Ms. Magazine, the Seattle Times, Electric Literature, and more.
The Sunday, August 14, 2022 Opening Session featured Marie Myung-Ok Lee, whose novel, The Evening Hero, was just published with Simon & Schuster in Summer 2022 and was a Good Morning America Book Club "Buzz" book pick. Her young adult novel, Finding My Voice, is considered to be the first contemporary-set YA with an Asian protagonist. She has written for The New York Times, Slate, The Guardian, The Nation, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Poets & Writers, The Guardian, and Salon. She teaches fiction at Columbia where she is Writer in Residence. The essay series she did for Slate on treating her son with autism with cannabis was featured in Dr. Sanjay Gupta's CNN series, "Weed" and she is a cofounder and former board president of the Asian American Writers' Workshop.
Forty-eight Rooted & Written Fellows were selected for seven full days of classes, workshops, and mentoring, plus the opportunity to participate in lunchtime “Conversations” with featured literary luminaries. Rooted & Written took place live and online daily from August 14 through August 20, 2022.
On Friday, August 19, 2022, Rooted & Written Fellows and all applicants to the conference participated in R&W “Flash Classes” -- a day-long menu of 90-minute courses in all genres, including invaluable talks by agents and editors for professional development.
On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 3:30pm PST, the work of all 48 Rooted & Written Fellows was featured through live readings in a nationally-screened program, “Words of Color.”
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2022 SCHEDULE
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Welcome & Orientation, 1:00 - 3:00 pm PST
Hosted live and virtually at the San Francisco Writers Grotto.
Monday, August 15, 2022 through Thursday, August 18, 2022
**ALL VIA ZOOM**
9:00am – 12:00 Morning Workshops
Fellows will meet virtually in groups of 8 with their mentor teacher.
Morning, 12:00 noon – 1:00pm “Conversations”
Virtual lunch craft talks by Keynote speakers, via ZOOM.
Open to all R&W Fellows and the general public at
https://zoom.us/my/rooted.written
Afternoon, 1:00pm – 4:00pm - Fellows Writing Studio
Open, optional Zoom Room for all Fellows, with drop-in group writing sessions to share work. During the afternoons, the R&W faculty also schedule one 1:1 meeting with each Fellow they are teaching to occur at some point during the M-Th class sessions.
Friday, August 19, 202,2 Flash Class Day!
All Day, 9:00 am – 4:30pm
Flash Classes of all genres offered via ZOOM, highlighting craft and professional development. The 90-minute classes are presentation only, but faculty can opt to include a Q&A session if they wish.
Friday, August 19, 2022 Reading & Meeting at the Grotto -Also open to the public!
5pm - 7:00pm
The Writers Grotto at 1663 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
At 5pm, longtime Grotto members Susan Ito, Preeti Vangani, JD Beltran, Maw Shein Win, and Celeste Chan, all Rooted & Written 2022 faculty, will read from their work. Register for this free event at here.
Saturday, August 20, 2022, Live Presentation of Rooted & Written Fellows
3:30 - 7:00pm
The work of all forty Rooted & Written Fellows will be featured in a nationally-screened program, “Words of Color,” with 3-minute readings of their work.
Hosted live and virtually at the San Francisco Writers Grotto . Join us at
https://zoom.us/my/rooted.written !