{"id":6855,"date":"2012-03-24T22:24:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=6855"},"modified":"2012-03-24T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T05:24:14","slug":"writers-grotto-writers-bask-in-their-three-minutes-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/writers-grotto-writers-bask-in-their-three-minutes-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Grotto Writers Bask in Their Three Minutes of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lauren Patti, a short memoir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some thirty\u00a0writers and storytellers took the mic — for three short\u00a0minutes each —\u00a0to share their works in progress Friday evening at Book Passage<\/a> in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. The writers\u00a0had been\u00a0taking classes in memoir, young adult fiction, the short story, personal essay, storytelling\u00a0and the novel at the Writers Grotto.<\/p>\n

Jon and I took along our trusty camera, and I’m publishing pictures here of many folks as they read.\u00a0Among the crowd pleasers\u00a0were Oliver Williams’ short story about a little boy who could fly, Lauren Patti’s memoir about being short (which she is), and Chris Caldeira’s short story about — let’s call it p—- envy and leave it at that.<\/p>\n

We storytellers\u00a0had a blast telling our stories; we’re pretty sure\u00a0we made our teacher, Jeff Greenwald, proud.<\/p>\n

Photos by Jon and Barbara Newhall\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lia Banie, fiction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Chris Caldeira, fiction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Ana Selby, personal essay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Andrea Weiner, memoir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Michelle Zaffino, young adult fiction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lisa Vogt, Storm the Page class<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bryan Costales, fiction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Catherine Hollis, memoir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Sarah Jessee, short story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Ed Kamrin, pesonal essay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Laura Perkins, young adult fiction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lindsay Riddell and screenwriting group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mette Risa read from her smart phone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oliver Williams, short story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kent Wright, novel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Writers and storytellers took the mic to share their works in progress Friday evening at Book Passage in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,52],"tags":[633,700,683,701,702,685,575],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-writing-reading","category-the-writing-room","tag-book-passage","tag-chris-caldeirs","tag-jeff-greenwald","tag-lauren-patti","tag-oliver-williams","tag-writers-grotto","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}