Category: News

  • Get Ready to Write: Our Third Annual Writing Retreat is Coming Next Month

    Get Ready to Write: Our Third Annual Writing Retreat is Coming Next Month

    This Fall we’ll meet in Grover Beach and Oceano for our annual Writing Retreat. This year’s theme, “a tidal wave of inspiration,” is inspired by our 2025 anthology and will feature: Schedule Friday 5pm–8pm at SLO Life Studio & Mercantile Before we write, we’ll spend an evening learning to make our own books in a…

  • Eco-horror Book Giveaway

    Eco-horror Book Giveaway

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    Local author Nicholas Belardes’ latest novel, The Deading, takes place in Baywood (that is, fictional Baywood Park) … and we held a giveaway for a signed copy of his book. To enter, writers pitched book ideas that could only take place in SLO County to our Discord server. We randomly selected a winner at our…

  • Discord Channel Updates, February 2025

    Discord Channel Updates, February 2025

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    As our group evolves online, we change the organization of our Discord server. This time around: All that’s to help us organize our five kinds of regular events as the anthology submission deadline approaches in addition to the many channels that remain active. Check them out:

  • Open for Submissions!

    Open for Submissions!

    Pen & Pier is officially opening up for submissions to their 2nd annual anthology. Last year our anthology was around the theme of “Reverse Tropes” but we chose to keep that within the group as a practice of sorts. Well, we are ready now to make a full-on publication and the editing team is very…