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Funding for Events

Since its inception in 1970, Poets & Writers has provided fees to writers who give readings or conduct writing workshops. Each year, our Readings/Workshops program supports hundreds of writers participating in events in large cities and small towns throughout New York and California, as well as in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Seattle, New Orleans, Tucson, and Washington D.C.

Here is a sample of some of the writers and events we funded this year.

Each year, through its Readings/Workshops Program, Poets & Writers supports hundreds of writers participating in literary events. If you're interested in attending any of the readings or workshops listed in the calendar, please be sure to get in touch with the contact person to confirm time and place.

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Each year, Poets & Writers holds an Intergenerational Reading, "Connecting Generations," where seniors and teens from P&W-supported writing workshops in New York City come together to read their work. In June 2009, P&W held our 8th Annual Intergenerational Reading at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore near Lincoln Center.

View videos from the 2009 Intergenerational Reading

To apply for funds to support your event, download our application.

If you're a writer or an organization interested in learning more about the Readings/Workshops program, please check out our FAQ.

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Learn how to host a successful reading or event, step by step, by downloading our helpful Poets & Writers Guide to Presenting Readings and Workshops.

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Poets & Writers is committed to making literature available to the widest possible public, including audiences that rarely have access to literary events. Learn more about the special projects we support that bring readings and workshops to prisons, clinics, homeless shelters, settlement homes, and more.

Read Writing by Participants

The Southern Storytellers Series, a presentation of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's Kohlmeyer Circle,  in New Orleans, presented writers Rick Bragg and Tom Franklin, both from Alabama.  They read to an audience of over 70 people, ranging from college students to those over 60, in one of the museum's galleries with an exhibition of paintings by Bo Bartlett.  The event culminated with a lively Q&A  and booksigning.   Thanks to Poets & Writers for helping to make this such a success!

– Sue Strachan, Project Director, Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

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(Left to right) featured readers Ed Toney, Autumn Newman, Cheryl Bocye-Taylor, Monica Hand, and Kathy Engel at the Calypso Muse reading in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, October 2009.
Credit: E. J. Antonio
(Left to right) featured readers Ed Toney, Autumn Newman, Cheryl Bocye-Taylor, Monica Hand, and Kathy Engel at the Calypso Muse reading in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, October 2009.
Poet Camille Dungy (left) and project director Suzanne Roberts at Dungy’s reading at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe, California, November 2009.<br />
Credit: Ray Black
Poet Camille Dungy (left) and project director Suzanne Roberts at Dungy’s reading at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe, California, November 2009.
Susannah Risley and seniors at the Scotia-Glenville Senior Center Reading, in Glenville, New York, on June 25, 2009. 
Credit: Cindy Amell
Susannah Risley and seniors at the Scotia-Glenville Senior Center Reading, in Glenville, New York, on June 25, 2009. 
Fiction writers (from left) Jennifer J. Stewart, Marge Pellegrino, Janni Simner, Robin Brande, and Juanita Havill at a Hopi Foundation Owl &amp; Panther Project reading in Tucson, Arizona, October 2009.
Credit: Evan Pellegrino
Fiction writers (from left) Jennifer J. Stewart, Marge Pellegrino, Janni Simner, Robin Brande, and Juanita Havill at a Hopi Foundation Owl & Panther Project reading in Tucson, Arizona, October 2009.