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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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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.

The Alvar Branch Library offered the locall Bywater community and all of the residents of the City of New Orleans a wonderful opportunity to hear poetry read aloud and to encourage them to express themselves in the creative process of writing poems and other forms of writing. We are grateful to Poets & Writers and appreciate your support for poets Valentine Pierce and Phyllis Parun and such a worthy program.

– Mary Ann Marx, Project Director, New Orleans, LA.

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Poet Victor Hernandez Cruz reads at the San Joaquin River Parkway in Fresno, CA, April 2009.<br />
Credit: Face News
Poet Victor Hernandez Cruz reads at the San Joaquin River Parkway in Fresno, CA, April 2009.
Workshop leaders Regie Cabico, Tina Jacobson, and Tahani Salah with teens from P 135 at their poetry reading on May 21, 2009.
Credit: Linda Rondinelli
Workshop leaders Regie Cabico, Tina Jacobson, and Tahani Salah with teens from P 135 at their poetry reading on May 21, 2009.
Poet Hermine Pinson reads at Texas Southern University’s J. Marie McCleary Literary Symposium, April 2009.
Credit: Arbolina Jennings
Poet Hermine Pinson reads at Texas Southern University’s J. Marie McCleary Literary Symposium, April 2009.
Corie Feiner, with a participant in the senior writing workhops at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, Health Enhancement Program in New York City, January 2009. <br />
Credit: Bonnie Rose Marcus
Corie Feiner, with a participant in the senior writing workhops at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, Health Enhancement Program in New York City, January 2009.