PEN/Dau Prize x Catapult: Reading from Best Debut Short Stories 2025
Join us on December 10th, 2025, for an evening celebrating the winners of the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Eleven of the...
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Join us on December 10th, 2025, for an evening celebrating the winners of the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Eleven of the...
read moreJoin us for the next edition of What’s New in Historical Fiction, a live panel series celebrating...
read moreBring your coziest sweaters, laptops (or preferred writing instruments), and creative juices to this generative writing event! We'll pull prompts and word counts out of a bowl...
read moreThe Pop-Hop Books Co-Op in Highland Park, Los Angeles welcomes El Martillo Press for a reading with authors Alyesha Wise, Matthew Cuban Hernandez, Margaret Elysia Garcia,...
read moreCity Lights Bookstore welcomes El Martillo Press for a reading with Lorna Dee Cervantes, Paul S. Flores, Tshaka Campbell, Margaret Elysia Garcia and Briana Muñoz. Hosted by El...
read moreLos Angeles Times columnist and OC Legend Gustavo Arellano sits down with El Martillo Press co-founders Matt Sedillo and David A. Romero to discuss independent...
read moreA reading by poet Anna Boughtwood with an open mic for community writers.
Anna Boughtwood is a poet and zine enthusiast living in Albany, NY. She is the author of...
read morePoets of Place & Body is a reading in celebration of Teresa Dzieglewicz’s Something Small of How to See a River...
read moreBeyond Baroque welcomes Judith Pacht, David St. John, & Holaday Mason ...
read moreBeyond Baroque and Todos Santos Writers Workshop presents Con Garro y Sin Paz. Author Marcela Magdaleno Deschamps will read...
read moreCelebrating 9 years of Magra Books with readings and discussions by poets and editors of the press! A definitive departure from its series of 29 chapbooks published between...
read moreThis local independent bookstore event is to introduce Chris Myers, a first-time author, to the community of readers, share his book, stimulate conversations, and provide an...
read moreHow to build your presence and get a book deal–by doing what you actually enjoy.
How can a midlife writer make a dent on social media?
By showing...
read moreWinter Writing Institute (Online)
Join us for an online professional development session co-presented by Teach Tank. This session will support educators...
read moreOriginally published in 2010, The Emperor of All Maladies is a humane “biography” of cancer, tracing the disease from its first documented appearance thousands of years ago...
read moreStep into a winter wonderland at the Library for a sparkling queer variety show—an evening of short, dazzling performances full of comedy, dance, music, and more. Grab a drink...
read moreLittoral Books hosts an evening online with writers reading from their newest fiction anthology Positivity Bias: Maine Writers, Defiantly Happy Endings. Join the...
read moreFeaturing Olga Garcia Echeverría, Iyatunde Folayan, Traci Kato-Kiriyama Jessica Kashiwabara, Alvaro Ramirez & Adhalia Rivera.
Poets will share work inspired by...
read morePalestinian-British poet and scholar Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Kosovar-Albanian writer Serafina Ferizaj will read from their work and join ...
read moreOn the third Thursday of each month, Writers in Conversation invites two writers at differing stages of their writing career to share their work and engage one another...
read moreDoes the act of sitting down to put words on the page feel insurmountable? Larksong has a fix for that! It’s our Sit Down and Write! Silent Writing Club. Meeting every...
read moreThe final installment of the International Armenian Literary Alliance's Literary Lights 2025 reading series features Tenny Arlen’s posthumous poetry collection To...
read moreYou are invited to join us for our 2025 Annual Brownstone Poets Anthology Celebration on Zoom on Saturday, December 6, at 2 p.m. ET.
Since 2005...
read moreMFA Student Writers from Sarah Lawrence College:
Kerry Kurdziel lives in New York and is an...
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Our intrepid playwrights have 45 minutes to write a brand-new play, entirely based on audience suggestions. While they're hard at work, you're taking part in our...
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