The Laughter by Sonora Jha with Nalini Iyer

Author Sonora Jha and her colleague, Nalini Iyer, discuss her new work of literary fiction, which has been described as tense, explosive, and illuminating. It perfectly captures the privilege, radicalization, race, and class tensions that simmer in the world of modern academia and in present-day America. Booklist calls it "a complete triumph." "Readers will become immersed in Sonora Jha’s brilliantly crafted world, which explores the intersection of the politics of college campuses and a wild obsession.” —The Best Books for February 2023, Shondaland.

The Birds and the Trunk: A Reading & Gallery Walk-through

How do we attend to objects? What do they teach us about how they wish to receive the attention we give them? The artist-researchers of ESTAR(SER) have focused on these problems for decades, and created a body of work that invites each of us to take more time with the art we love. For this event, visiting artist Max Taylor-Milner—one of the ESTAR(SER) contributors to THE THIRD, MEANING—will offer a set of short readings from In Search of the Third Bird and the related Frye Trunk study, Opening a Pandora’s Box in the Archives of Attention, and invite participants to explore the exhibition.

Masks are encouraged but not required.

Beerhall Bookfair at Optimism Brewing

Join nine independent publishers for a day of poems and stories, beers and readings! Browse books while sipping your favorite bubble beverage in Optimism's light-filled space, on Broadway in the Capitol Hill Arts District. Drop by any time! Readings from press contributors throughout the event, with books available for signing. Participating presses include: Perugia, CavanKerry, Beyond the Veil, Headmistress, MoonPath, Lost Horse, Blue Cactus, Birch Rosen, and your host, Papeachu. We're just a half-mile east of the Convention Center. Walk up Pike St, or take the 2 from Seneca and 8th!

Mapping the Unmappable: A Conversation with Four Southeast Asian Writers

Southeast Asian writers experience diaspora, and its losses, both within the region and without, both psychologically and socially, as both postcolonial subjects and citizens of a neoliberal order. How do they contend with the multiple manifestations of diaspora in their writing? Jee Leong Koh (Snow at 5 PM), Jim Pascual Agustin (Waking Up to the Pattern Left by a Snail Overnight), Lawrence Lacambra Ypil (The Experiment of the Tropics), and Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint (Names of Light) read from their work and converse with Reuven Pinnata on mapping the unmappable.

Vaccination required. Mask optional.

VCCA Fellows & Friends Gathering

Join fellows and friends of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts to make new connections and renew old ones. Learn about VCCA and the great changes that have occurred over the last few years.

Opacity of Performance

Takahiro Yamamoto, Jang Wook Huh, and Heather Kravas. Literary reading and dance performance featuring readings from artist Takahiro Yamamoto and scholar Jang Wook Huh along with a dance performance by Seattle-based choreographer Heather Kravas. Yamamoto’s latest book, Opacity of Performance, takes its title from his 2022 performance installation at the Portland Art Museum. This dynamic reading expands upon the book’s investigations into visibility and objectification and uses the lens of choreography to question the opacity of performance.

NWFF patrons will be required to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. We are not currently checking vaccination cards. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.

Compass Lines Prelaunch Party: A Porphyry Press Reading with John Messick & Friends

Prelaunch party for Compass Lines: Journeys Toward Home by John Messick, hosted by Porphyry Press. Reading, signing, revelry. Doors at 5:00 p.m. Program at 6:00 p.m. Hang late if you like. Reading, signing, wining, and dining at The Rabbit Box, a literary-forward new venue in a renown Pike Place space, walking distance to hotel. Food and drink to order. Special guests additional to John Messick: Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Tom Kizzia. Find The Rabbit Box in the basement of the Corner Market building. Take the stairs off Pike Street next to Left Bank Books Collective. The Rabbit Box Theatre is accessible according to ADA standards. Information about ramps and elevators can be found at https://www.pikeplacemarket.org/map/

Inspired by Iceland: A Multimedia Poetry Reading

Join us for a a multimedia poetry reading inspired by Iceland, including poems, interactive rune poems, films, and lava erasures. Featuring poets Katy Didden (Ore Choir: The Lava on Iceland, Tupelo Press), Sierra Nelson (The Lachrymose Report, Poetry NW Editions), Melanie Noel (The Monarchs, Stockport Flats), and Katie Prince (Tell This to the Universe, forthcoming from YesYesBooks).

BOA Poets Reading & Launch

Join a group of BOA poets sharing poems and helping to launch Margaret Ray's Poulin Poetry Prize-winning debut collection, Good Grief, the Ground. Readers include Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Nickole Brown, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Luther Hughes, Alicia Mountain, Dustin Pearson, and Margaret Ray. Drinks, poetry, fun! Help us kick off the 2023 conference, and support BOA's fabulous poets!

Follow COVID protocols as appropriate.

Athena's Pet Project Presents: Of Gods and Monsters

Join us on the first night of the conference for an ensemble reading of poems that celebrate all things in heaven and hell. Poems torn from the pages of the bestiary. Poems pagan and poems divine, poems cryptozoological and poems heretical. Featuring thirty-five poets and their pet dragons. Costumes are encouraged!

Off the Chain: Cave Canem

Experience Cave Canem's signature offsite reading featuring a selection of Fellows from around the country. Cave Canem is a nonprofit organization committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of Black poets for over 25 years.

City Feet, Swamp Mouths: A Louisiana Regional Offsite Reading

Join us March 8, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Blarney Stone Pub (approximately 0.4 miles from the Convention Center) for a regional offsite reading showcasing Louisiana's finest literary journals and organizations! Editors and readers representing Rougarou, Bayou Magazine, Bear Review, Peauxdunque Review, Tilted House, and New Delta Review will read from their work. This is a reading you won't want to miss! Featured readers: Mag Gabbert, Melissa Crowe, Stacey Balkun, Rodrigo Toscano, Remi Recchia, Eric Tran, Christine Kwon, Bae Di, Nick Rees Gardner, Anne Elliott, Henry Cherry, Erin L. McCoy, Rusty Morrison, and more!

Wednesday Night Poetry, Hosted by Kai Coggin

Wednesday Night Poetry, the longest running consecutive weekly poetry open mic series in the country, convenes at Cafe Racer in Capitol Hill to welcome any and all poets who have shared a poem at Virtual WNP: Poetry Through the Pandemic. This is a warm and inclusive space. Poets are welcome to read one poem, open mic style. Confirmed poets include Diamond Forde, Lauren Camp, Nicole Callihan, Joan Kwon Glass, chisaraokwu, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Saida Agostini Bostic, Allison Blevins, Angelina Sáenz, Amy Baskin, and many more. Dance party at Cafe Racer immediately following! Come join us!

Sly, Witchy, Twisted, Free: Writing Women Beyond the Literary Gaze

A reading featuring Sonora Jha, Alexandra Teague, Kristen Millares Young, Sayantani Dasgupta, Laura Read, and Maya Jewell Zeller.

Denise Levertov: A Celebration of Her Work and Life

Join poets and writers Claudia Castro Luna, Jan Wallace, Paul Constant, and Madhur Anand for a reading in celebration of Denise Levertov's work and life. Denise Levertov spent the last years of her life in Seattle where her remains lie. She was a founding board member of the venerable Copper Canyon Press alongside Rick Simonson of Elliott Bay Books who will join us for part of the evening. Bring your favorite Levertov poem or anecdote to share. This is a communal event to commemorate the iconic and beloved poet.

Page Meets Stage

Page Meets Stage, an eighteen-year-old poetry series, has been called “where the Pulitzer Prize meets the poetry slam," and was founded at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. Different poets—some who write primarily for the page and others who are more performance-oriented—take the stage one after another and answer poem for poem. Poems are read "popcorn style," with no set order and sometimes no set list in an ongoing poetic conversation. Featuring Nicole Homer, Derrick Brown, Mahogany Browne, Brendan Constantine, Anastacia-Renee, and hosted by Taylor Mali.

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An Evening with Waxwing, Third Coast, and Porter House Review

Join us for an immersive night of readings, hosted by Waxwing, Third Coast, and Porter House Review. Featured readers include Andrew Collard, Sara Lupita Olivares, Sam Herschel Wein, K. Iver, aureleo sans, Lena Crown, Jose Hernandez Diaz, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

The 10th Annual Rock and Roll Reading

A dozen readers from around the country read work about or inspired by rock and roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots), each for just the length of a song. Featuring M.M. Carrigan, Monica Prince, Aaron Burch, Holly Pelesky, and Farah Ali.

Poetry Gays

An off-site reading 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8 at Queer/Bar for LGBTQ+ poets and allies, followed by a free BIPOC Drag Show (Bronze Babes at 9:30 p.m). Food and drinks and poetry! Hosted by Brian Sonia-Wallace, West Hollywood City Poet Laureate. Featuring: Chen Chen, Benjamin Garcia, Armen Davoudian, Chibbi Orduña, Meliza Bañales, Cynthia Guardado, Charles Jensen, Joshua Barnes, HanaLena Fennel, Ben Trigg, Dare Williams, Dāshaun Washington, Carla Sameth, Carlos Allende, Brian Kim, Sofia Fey, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, Ching-In Chen, Janine Mogannam, and Micaela Kaibni Raen.

Masks encouraged.

Pacific Northwest Showcase

This event is both a celebration of our region’s creative vitality and a showcase to give visitors from across the country a taste of what we're all about in the great Northwest. Co-presented by two different Seattle-based literary organizations—Moss and Pacifica Literary Review—the showcase will feature readings from NW literary standouts Paul Hlava-Ceballos, Dujie Tahat, Rebecca Brown, John Beer, Megan Snyder-Camp, and Heidi Seaborn. There will be drinks available at CAM's donation bar and plenty of time for mingling and camaraderie once the readings are done.

Lumpenpockets: Gender Ideology

A reading from non-quarterly sick rag Lumpenpockets featuring Emily Bark Brown (Hot Pink Mag), Kay Gabriel (A Queen in Bucks County, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics) and editor Aditi Natasha Kini. Queer insurrections and trans/gressions may ensue. Doors at 7:00 p.m. Reading starts at 7:30 p.m. Accessibility information: the front space of the store where events will take place is wheelchair accessible but the rest of the store includes several flights of stairs. Feel free to call and reach out to the store for more info about other accessibility needs!

Masks are required

Spanner: A Multimedia Literary Performance

Northwest Film Forum presents an offsite event with poets Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Troy Osaki, Sasha LaPointe, and Jasmine Elizabeth Smith. This multimedia event will include poetry, visual text, documentary poetics, screenplay, and more.

Masking is strongly recommended.

Rebecca Makkai with Peter Mountford—I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel

Third Place Books is thrilled to welcome Rebecca Makkai—author of The Great Believers, winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize—to our Lake Forest Park store! Makkai will be discussing her highly-anticipated new novel, I Have Some Questions for You, in conversation with author, writing coach, and teacher Peter Mountford. This event is free and open to the public. Registration recommended in advance.

Welcome Party

Poetry Northwest and Seattle Arts & Lectures are excited to welcome you to our hometown with a literary kick-off event! Come hear Kenzie Allen, Laura Da', Lauren Hilger, James Hoch, Sasha LaPointe, Eugenia Leigh, Sierra Nelson, and Paisley Rekdal read their poems at the Pine Box bar at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening. Named one of Seattle's top bars by TimeOut magazine, the Pine Box features a wide selection of craft beers and traditional bar munchies all located within... a former mortuary! Come celebrate some of the best (living) poets with us before the conference madness gets officially underway.

Growing From Our Roots: An Asian Debut Author Showcase

Join us in Elliott Bay Book Company's Reading Room for a celebratory night of poetry and prose spotlighting Asian authors with recent debuts! Featured authors will read from their debut poetry collections, memoirs, and novels. This reading will be emceed by poets Susan Nguyen and Joshua Nguyen and is sponsored by Kundiman South.

Write Bloody Poetry Super Showcase & Sock Hop

Join Write Bloody Publishing for an evening of poetry and dancing! The event begins with readings by Amber Flame, Courtney LeBlanc, Taylor Mali, Sheleen McElhinney, Kimberly Nguyen, and Seema Reza. Then, it's time to ditch our shoes and boogie down in our sock-clad feet!

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Writing Cross Genre with Nicole Hardy at Chin Music Press

On March 9 at 10:00 a.m, Writers.com instructor Nicole Hardy will lead a workshop on writing cross genre at independent publisher Chin Music Press. Using Chin Music Press’s title, A Commonplace Book Of Pie by Kate Lebo, Nicole will demonstrate how poets can write nonfiction, novelists can tackle screenplays, graphic novelists can compose short stories, or any combination of writing in a genre not normally your own. Join us for writing exercises, a craft discussion, and multiple examples of writing in multiple genres.

Regal House Authors Read

Regal House Publishing authors read from their newly released or forthcoming books. Readers: Tim Cummings, Mimi Herman, Karla Huebner, Heather Newton, Zack Rogow, Kerri Schlottman, Peter Selgin, Stephanie Vanderslice. Genres: adult fiction, young adult fiction, poetry. Short walk from the Seattle Convention Center.

Exploring Duality in Identity, Experience, and Tradition for Writers and Writing

Critical and creative works often reflect two sides of identity: experience and tradition. Experience explores what it means to be between two cultures, lifestyles, habits, languages, genders, heritages, realities, and selves. Tradition reflects on customs, touchstones, and figures. Authors of fiction, memoir, and poetry Adele Annesi, Nicholas A. DiChario, Marc DiPaolo, Annie Rachele Lanzilotto, and Janet Sylvester will read excerpts from their work and discuss the role of duality in their creative efforts, followed by a Q&A. This virtual event will take place from 1:45 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. PT.

Black Earth Institute & Cutthroat at Common Area Maintenance Reading & Art Exhibit

Black Earth Institute (BEI) is a community of artists and scholars addressing social justice, the environment, and the spiritual dimensions of the human condition. Common Area Maintenance (CAM) is a vibrant gallery and open format generative studio offering collaborative work and exhibition space in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. Join BEI fellows and guests from Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts for an afternoon of reading, art, book signings, and refreshments at CAM, 2125 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121, a short distance from the Convention Center.

Common Area Maintenance encourages but does not require patrons to wear masks.

Stuttering & Writing: Five Authors on Speech Disability in Literature

Amid the welcome attention now paid to writers with disabilities, stuttering continues to receive scant notice. This panel, comprised of writers who themselves stutter and have made it the theme of their works, will discuss with the audience why and how they have come to to write, in prose and verse, about stammering in an otherwise fluent world. Participants include Adam Giannelli, Amy Reardon, Jordan Scott, David Shields and John Whittier Treat.

Literary Rule Breakers

To some artists, rules are challenges! At this event, seven published writers will briefly explain before reading what "rule" they are breaking. Maybe the piece breaks rules of form or style, or features a character who doesn’t play by the rules. Come listen, drink tasty coffee, and chat with writers! Featuring: Jennifer Moore (poet), Matt Bell (fiction writer), Alyse Bensel (poet), Josh Davis (poet), Kelly Kathleen Ferguson (nonfiction writer), Katie Berta (poet), Jennifer Pullen (fiction writer).

Iris Press/Madville Publishing/Stephen F. Austin State University Press & More Off-site Reading

What: The Iris Press, Madville Publishing, Stephen F. Austin State University Press, and more off-site reading at the Chieftain Irish Pub at 908 12th Avenue. When: Thursday, March 9 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. After running around the convention center, sit back, grab a tasty beer and some fabulous food and listen to a diverse range of poets and writers from Iris Press, Madville Publishing, & Stephen F. Austin State University Press with Lana K. W. Austin, Rick Campbell, Mike Hilbig, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, Karla Morton, Bruce Overby, Susan O'Dell Underwood, Lee Zacharias, Danielle Cadena Deulen, and more!

Northwestern SPS MFA Faculty & Alumni Reading

Join Northwestern University's MA in Writing and MFA in Prose and Poetry Programs for a special faculty and graduate reading on Thursday, March 9. Readers include writing faculty Gina Frangello, Rebecca Makkai, Juan Martinez, and Faisal Mohyuddin, along with recent graduates of the MFA program Joshua Bohnsack and Jameka Williams. The reading will be emceed by faculty director Christine Sneed. Doors open at 4:30 p.m, reading at 5:00 p.m.

University of Houston Creative Writing Program Reception

The University of Houston Creative Writing Program invites faculty, students, and alums of the program to gather, catch up on program news, and enjoy some complimentary food and beverages. Stop in for a few minutes or stay for the full two hours! Our event will also overlap with the Adam Zagajewski Tribute Reading taking place in the adjacent venue, so you can grab a seat and listen to readings and poems inspired by Adam's work. We look forward to seeing you! The Rabbit Box Theatre is accessible according to ADA standards. Information about ramps and elevators can be found at https://www.pikeplacemarket.org/map/

We encourage attendees who are concerned about COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses to wear well-fitted masks while not eating or drinking.

A Dozen Nothing Poetry Reading

Celebrating seven years of A Dozen Nothing magazine at legendary Capitol Hill music venue, Chop Suey. Readers: Colleen Louise Barry, Mary Biddinger, Bill Carty, Paul Hanson Clark, Jason Crawford, Nicelle Davis, Gabriel Dozal, Knox Gardner, Elizabyth Hiscox, Charles Jensen, Robert Lashley, Denis Mair, John Marshall, Trey Moody, Sierra Nelson, Shawnte Orion, Sarah Pape, Rena Priest, Todd Robinson, Lily Someson, Arianne True, Elizabeth Vignali, and Jason Whitmarsh. Check out their work at ADozenNothing.com! Doors at 4:30 p.m, so come early, buy a drink, and relax before the reading begins at 5:00 p.m. 21 and over.

Per Chop Suey: "masks are suggested to wear at all times unless actively eating or drinking."

Water~Stone Review 25th Anniversary Reading

Water~Stone Review celebrates twenty-five years with a reading of several contributors. Join us for a glass of wine, a toast to the good journal, and the wonderful voices of V. 25. Featuring: Ed Bok Lee, Sin Yong-Mok, Jake Levine, Kathryn Savage, Joseph Holt, Jose Hernandez Diaz, and others.

Poetry Hour at the Capitol Hill Library

Poets Armen Davoudian, Benjamin Gucciardi, Ambalila Hemsell, Emily Lee Luan, Rosalie Moffett, and Jacques Rancourt will read from recent and forthcoming books at the Capitol Hill Meeting Room in the Capitol Hill Library, located at 425 Harvard Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102.

Celebrating Seattle! A Literary Evening with Seattle U's Students & Faculty

This event will feature brief readings from students and faculty in Seattle University's Creative Writing Program. Snacks will be served. The Casey Building is wheelchair accessible, with ramps outside leading into the building, and an elevator inside leading up to the Casey Commons Room.

Storyknife Writers Reading & Get Together

Reading featuring women writers in residence from Storyknife Writers Retreat in Homer, Alaska. An opportunity to hear amazing women writers read from their fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Come and hang out with a spectacular community. More info on readers at http://www.storyknife.org.

2 Horatio Poetry Reading

2 Horatio: Poetry of the Pandemic, Then and Now is a special issue of 2 Horatio created by Elaine Sexton and co-edited by Elaine Sexton, Jennifer Stewart Miller and Joan Capello. Readers include contributors to the issue and friends of this community. Readings will be plentiful, short, and will include a ten-minute intermission. Food and drink will be available for purchase from this acclaimed bar and eatery. Join us!

Masks are encouraged but not required.

Helen Zell Writers Program Reading

A reading featuring writers currently attending the UMich Helen Zell Writers Program MFA.

Meet Gaudy Boy: An Indie Press from New York

Gaudy Boy, the publishing arm of the NYC-based literary non-profit Singapore Unbound, publishes poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction by Asian authors residing across the world. Notable recent titles include Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan and Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring: Witness Poems and Essays from Burma/Myanmar 1988-2021. At this special event in Folio, publisher Jee Leong Koh will speak about the mission of the press to amplify minoritized voices. Visiting writers Lawrence Lacambra Ypil and Jim Pascual Agustin will read from their Gaudy Boy books.

Celebrating the Elders / Great Pacific Northwest Poets

At one of the most famous literary dives in the city—with portraits of Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, and Theodore Roethke hovering above the bar—several poets will read one or two pieces each by their PNW poetic elders, sung or unsung, poets who had an impact on their own work and on the larger body of American poets and poetry.

Wandering Words & Wild Euphony

Join us in the Sorrento Hotel's Fireside Room where musical improv virtuoso Xitlalic Hernandez will accompany readings by fifteen writers from Wandering Aengus Press and Trail to Table Press. Emceed by writer and publisher Jill McCabe Johnson. Readers include: Marcia Aldrich, Lucy Ferriss, Gail Folkins, Jessica Gigot, Andrew C. Gottlieb, Steven Harvey, Amanda Hawkins, Holly J. Hughes, Jed Myers, Julie Riddle, Tina Schumann, Jan Shoemaker, Ana Maria Spagna, Alina Stefanescu, and Tarn Wilson. Maximum fifty attendees. Come early to get your seat and order any food and beverages!

UCF MFA Creative Writing Program 10th Annual Reading & Reunion

Join us for drinks, food, reuniting, and socializing at our 10th Annual Reunion at the Blarney Stone Pub in Seattle. Come early (5:00 p.m. or so) for the Flash Readings by MFA students in the UCF MFA program. Hosted by first-year MFA students. It's always exciting to see alumni, current students, and faculty. Hope to see you there!

A Divine Reading: Where Writing and Divination Meet

Join writers and divination practitioners for a reading of work influenced and shaped by divination practice and poetics. Featured readers include Teresa Carmody, Megan Kaminski, Kristen E. Nelson, Selah Saterstrom, and Lesley Ann Wheeler.

Please follow any updated COVID protocols as appropriate.

Adam Zagajewski Off-site Tribute Reading

In collaboration with alum Cate Marvin, the University of Houston Creative Writing Program is hosting a tribute reading in honor of the late Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, a beloved mentor to numerous UHCWP alums. Come hear poems, stories, and memories from a terrific lineup of writers. If time allows, we’ll offer an open mic for those who feel inspired to contribute day of. All friends and fans of Adam’s are welcome at this event. If you wish to read something, please sign up using the form no later than March 1: Zagajewski Tribute Reading Sign-Up Sheet. The Rabbit Box Theatre is accessible according to ADA standards. Information about ramps and elevators can be found at https://www.pikeplacemarket.org/map/

Attendees who are concerned about COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses are encouraged to wear a well-fitted mask while not eating or drinking.

Off the Page

Off the Page is an introductory, hands-on workshop highlighting non-traditional expressions of poetry. Participants will have a chance to experience animation poetry, embodied movement poetry, and video poetry in a lively, drop-in setting.

Patrons will be required to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.

Seattle Restored Collective Market x Chin Music Press: An Off-Site Reading

An evening celebrating local independent publisher Chin Music Press!

Party with the Northwest Literary Translators

All translators and friends of translators are invited to celebrate with Seattle's literary translation community! We'll have select readings by local translators, delicious free food (come early), and drinks for purchase. Event sponsored by the Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society, the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, and Seattle City of Literature.

This event will be held partially in an outside space. Masks are appreciated but not required.

They Rise Like a Wave: An Evening of Asian American Poetry

Kundiman presents poets from They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets. Join us for an evening of poetry and community! Featured readers: Christine Kitano, Su Cho, Manahil Bandukwala, Maw Shein Win, CE Shue, Shelley Wing, Maria Isabelle Carlos, Carlina Duan, Megan Pinto, Raena Shirali, and Jihyun Yun.

Masks recommended.

Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers Reading

Celebrated author Ariel Gore’s Literary Kitchen and the School for Wayward Writers has provided hundreds of writers with community, inspiration, and creative workshops since 2005. At this event, you’ll hear brilliant writers from near and far who have thrived in this liberated literary utopia, and incubated their stories in the Literary Kitchen. Ariel Gore’s new book The Wayward Writer: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar is out now from Microcosm Press.

Masks are optional but are encouraged. Elliot Bay Book Company has masks available at the front counter and in the Readings Room. They also have two air purifiers in the Readings Room. Elliot Bay Book Company follows state and county protocols for masking, though, so if these change, they abide by these changes.

Sadie Dupuis: Cry Perfume Book Launch

Featuring Richard Chiem and Sullivan Forderhase.

Reading: Veliz Books, BOA Editions, Noemi Press

Join us to hear new and exciting work by authors from BOA Editions, Noemi Press, and Veliz Books.

Densho Hosts an Evening with Japanese American Poets & Writers

Five award-winning authors share poetry, stories, memories, and letters in this special event hosted by Densho, a grassroots organization devoted to preserving Japanese American stories of the past for the generations of tomorrow. Featuring David Mura, traci kato-kiriyama, Karen Tei Yamashita, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Kiku Hughes, and hosted by Brynn Saito, the event will include a light reception and will take place in Densho's community room located at 1416 S Jackson St in Seattle. RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-japanese-american-poets-and-writers-registration-525091551967

Puerto del Sol, SEMO Press, and Laurel Review Offsite Reading

A free reading of poetry and prose sponsored by Puerto del Sol, SEMO Press, and Laurel Review. Readers include: Rae Armantrout, Ron Austin, Oliver de la Paz, Timothy Donnelly, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Christine Kwon, Joe Milazzo, Michelle Ross, and Deb Olin Unferth.

Orchestrate Your Whole Fucking Life!

Orchestrate your whole fucking life! If you tend to think of the mixtape/playlist as an antidote for what ails you, this might be one to check out. Come listen to five writers reveal the music that orchestrates their lives, their work, and their survival. There will be words and music. There will be free cold beer and nothing but love in the air. Featuring Amy M. Alvarez, Neema Avashia, Steven Dunn, Katie Jean Shinkle, and Glenn Taylor.

We the Indigenous: A City of Literature Celebration

Join us for a night of Indigenous writers featuring Washington State Poet Laureate Rena Priest (Lhaq'temish Nation), Arianne True (Choctaw, Chickasaw), Laura Da' (Eastern Shawnee), Rob Arnold (Chamoru), Scott Bentley, Sara Marie Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo), Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe (Upper Skagit, Nooksack Indian Tribe), host Brandi Douglas (Puyallup Tribe), and Ken Workman (Duwamish Tribe). Free food from Native Soul Cuisine and drinks for purchase. Hosted by We the Indigenous, Seattle City of Literature, and Hugo House. Books for purchase by authors.

https://hugohouse.org/about/health-safety-guidelines/

DreamYard's Rad Off-site Reading

DreamYard's Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium is putting on a reading with previous fellows and a few rad guests at Pratt Fine Arts Center, featuring: Ally Ang, Carlina Duan, Will Harris, Czaerra Ucol, Lisa Ascalon, Natalia Torres, Winston Lin, Marina Hope Wilson, and Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman.

Masks required.

Transgressions, Transformations: A Shadow Work Writers' Literary Arts Reading

Come to Shadow Work Writers’ first annual literary arts event, Transgressions, Transformations, a free reading of eight diverse, emerging writers from around the country including the following: EJ Levy, author of The Cape Doctor (Little Brown, 2021), Daren Dean, author of The Black Harvest (UWA Livingston Press, 2021), and Katerina Canyon, poet author of Surviving Home (Kelsay Books, 2021). This year’s theme: transformations, transgressions. At the intersection of change and hurt, we find our characters, our verses, and ourselves. Find your new favorite writer by coming to our event!

Come as you are.

Defining Cascadia: A Cultural Celebration

Featuring diverse art, poetry, and stories, the newly published Cascadia Field Guide explores scientific, sensory, and cultural knowledge to celebrate the unique Pacific Northwest region. Editors Derek Sheffield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Elizabeth Bradfield bring together dozens of authors and artists to describe thirteen communities (from Tidewater Glacier to Shrub-Steppe) and 128 beings (from cryptobiotic soil to the giant Pacific octopus) that fill Cascadia with wonder. Join them and several contributing writers and artists for an engaging evening of storytelling, art, and nature.

Masks are recommended at Town Hall Seattle but not required.

Reading & Writing Home: Ronit Plank & S.L. Wisenberg

Ronit Plank and S.L. Wisenberg will read from their new books, Home is a Made-Up Place, stories (Plank) and The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home (Wisenberg). Before the reading, Wisenberg will lead a low-stress twenty-five minute workshop on "writing home." Just bring something to write with. She has taught writing workshops at Northwestern and other universities for decades, as well as many non-credit classes. This event is free to attend, though registration is required through the link provided. If you have questions about this event, please contact us at events@ubookstore.com. Thank you for supporting your local independent bookstore!

We encourage all attendees to wear masks during the event and maintain social distancing.

A Reading Revelry with the Massachusetts Review and the Arkansas International

Join the Arkansas International and the Massachusetts Review at Dead Line for their 2023 reading, featuring Sarah Viren, Randall Mann, Kemi Alabi, and Diannely Antigua! Swing by for a drink, chat with our editors, and join in a celebration of great literary voices. Please reserve your ticket on the Eventbrite page. The Massachusetts Review: www.massreview.org. The Arkansas International: www.arkint.org.

IAWA & Bordighera Press Writers Read

IAWA and Bordighera Press writers reading their work and celebrating community at Cherry Street Coffee House. Confirmed readers include: Anthony D'Aries, Gina Troisi, Gail Reitano, Connie Post, Sandy Marchetti, Jenn Martelli, Martha Silano, Julia Lisella, and Kathy Curto. Food and beverages available for purchase. For more info about the open mic portion of the reading or to register to attend, please RSVP to kcurto@icloud.com.

Hybrid Possibilities: Asian Queer Writers Across Genre

What does writing Asian and South/east Asian futures even mean? What ways does APIA writing contribute to re-imagining possibility? What do we hope for writers, workers, and community sustainability? Join Kirin M. Khan, Zeyn Joukhadar, Angela Peñaredondo, Lisa Factora-Borchers, and Kay Ulanday Barrett as they share new work and discuss the current stakes and patterns in craft, audience, editing, and themes centering Asian, Pacific Islander, Desi writers in the U.S. We'll discuss how hybrid writing and existence pivots norms of technique and culture. Hosted by Asian American Writer's Workshop. ASL and closed captioning will be provided. Event begins at 6:00 p.m. ET (3:00 p.m. PT).

Huizache Showcase of Central American Writers at Casa Latina

Huizache Magazine and Casa Latina present a showcase of Central American writers, including Claudia Castro Luna, Cynthia Guardado, Francisco Aragón, Adela Najarro, and Huizache poetry editor León Salvatierra.

A Toast with Milkweed Editions at Optimism Brewing Company!

Join us to celebrate Milkweed Editions at the conference. Festivities will begin at 6:00 p.m. on the first floor of Optimism Brewing Company. Come raise a glass with us! This will be a night of gathering and celebration of Milkweed authors and readers. We will be featuring an exclusive reading from our recently published poets accessible through a QR code at the event. Poets have also contributed a “book artifact:” an object, playlist, or piece of memorabilia that is connected to their collection available to win through a raffle along with other Milkweed swag!

Come As You Are: A Reading Produced by Leah Umansky & Dena Rash Guzman

Who: Robert Lashley, Sarah Gilbert, Meg Day, Nathan McClain, Zeina Hashem Beck, Dena Rash Guzman, and Leah Umansky. Prelude: music by Mark Brunke (guitar). What: verses and chords and vino. When: Thursday, March 9th at 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. PT. Where: A/NT Gallery (https://www.antgallery.org/). Hosted/produced by: Leah Umansky and Dena Rash Guzman.

Audible Browsing Experience

During the pandemic many of us came to miss browsing in bookstores and libraries. The experience of scanning and flipping through books that we wouldn't ordinarily order for ourselves, but which catch our eye and we find ourselves fingering, flipping, reading, and then checking out and buying. This reading creates an "audible browsing" experience by presenting readers who are published authors in a variety of genres. This includes mystery, romance, poetry, memoir, drama, literary and international fiction.

Please wear a mask, unless you're on stage reading!

[neonpajamas] & Obliterat Presents: An Off-site Circus

A reading marathon in a record store, featuring over a dozen poets and surrealists and absurdists and novelists, including Vi Khi Nao, Michael Earl Craig, Matt Bell, Joanna Ruocco, Joyelle McSweeney, Rick Bursky, Evan Nicholls, Srikanth Reddy, Michael Bazzett, Taisia Kitaiskaia, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Kirstin (Kai) Ihns, Evan Williams, Sadie Dupuis, Nathan Hoks, and Vik Shirley. Hosted by Benjamin Niespodziany.

Diode Poetry Reading

Diode is headed to Seattle! Join the press for an evening of poetry readings at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 9 at C & P Coffee and hear from the Beyond the Frame Diode anthology contributors and the following Diode authors: Lee Ann Roripaugh, Teow Lim Goh, Joan Kwon Glass, Jared Harél, Sally Rosen Kindred, Jane Satterfield, Eric Tran, Dorothy Chan, Huan He, and Rosanna Young Oh. We're looking forward to seeing you!

Mask-wearing is encouraged.

California College of the Arts MFA Happy Hour

Calling all CCA alumni, students, and prospective students! Please join us for a happy hour get-together before Thursday's keynote. This is a great chance for us to reconnect, and get to know each other.

Lightscatter Press & Friends Reading!

Meet Lightscatter Press authors Anna Scotti, Kelly Hoffer, Natalie Young, and friends of the press Annelyse Gelman and Matt Broaddus. Sip sake and listen to these literary lights read their work!

Masks advised.

Baobab Press Meet 'n Greet at Optimism Brewing

Baobab Press has reserved space to gather at Optimism Brewing on March 9 at 6:30 p.m. This will be an informal affair. No RSVP necessary. Just swing on by so we can catch up with and/or meet you. There will be a food truck, Mexicuban, on hand serving “fluffy tacos,” and if you don’t drink beer, you can bring whatever you would like with you to drink (and eat, actually). There is a kid’s play area if you have children, and well-behaved dogs on leashes are more than welcome.

If you plan on driving, drink responsibly, and check out Optimism’s website for parking tips: https://optimismbrewing.com/visit/beer-hall

Snail Trail: A Reading

The snails come out in the rain! Join Snail Trail Press for readings, art objects and experiences, refreshments, and more! We'll gather at Common Area Maintenance in Belltown to hear from the following writers, with intermissions throughout: Ryan Bollenbach, Amaranth Borsuk & Terri Witek, jace brittain, Jennifer Calkins & Anne de Marcken, Ching-In Chen, Kenning JP García, Tracy Jane Gregory, Joe Hall, nanya jhingran, Nadine Antoinette Maestas, Katie Naughton, Pamela K. Santos, and Dana Venerable.

Common Area Maintenance encourages but does not require patrons to wear masks.

YesYes Books Together Again!

Please join us for a spectacular evening as we celebrate new, recent, and forthcoming titles from YesYes Books with readings by Jamaica Baldwin, Allison Blevins, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Lisa Low, Jill Mceldowney, Alycia Pirmohamed, Kelly Grace Thomas, Gale Thompson, and Shelley Wong. We'll have appetizers from 6:30 p.m. until they're gone, dessert at 8:00 p.m, complimentary lemonade and iced tea, and a full cash bar ($5.00 drink tickets to the first twenty-five through the door!). Readings will begin promptly at 7:15 p.m. Come celebrate with us!

The Rumpus Presents: Sapphic Storytelling in Seattle

Join The Rumpus and authors Kristen Arnett, Ariel Delgado Dixon, Allegra Hyde, and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya for an evening of sapphic storytelling emceed by Rumpus Editor-in-chief Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn. Drinks, mingling, and dancing (starts at 10:30 p.m). In partnership with Elliot Bay Book Company. Advance ticket cost includes two complimentary drink tickets. Event is 21+. Note: We define “sapphic” as an umbrella term for attraction and relationships between women, inclusive of trans and cis women as well as nonbinary people who align and identify with these experiences.

Celebration of In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets

This celebratory reading will feature In-Na-Po board members Heid Erdrich, Denise Low, Elise Paschen, and Cedar Sigo, and In-Na-Po poetry fellows Kenzie Allen, Mary Leauna Christensen, Max Early, Halee Kirkwood, and Annie Wenstrup, with emcee Kimberly Blaeser, founder of In-Na-Po. In-Na-Po is a national indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native writers, past, present and future.

Jessamine Chan with Angela Garbes: The School for Good Mothers

Third Place Books is pleased to welcome Jessamine Chan for the paperback release of her New York Times bestselling novel, The School for Good Mothers. An “intense” (Oprah Daily), “captivating” (Today) page-turner using dark wit to explore the pains and joys of the deepest ties that bind us, Chan has written a modern literary classic. Chan will be joined in conversation by Angela Garbes, the celebrated local author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change. This event is free and open to the public. Registration recommended in advance.

A Night of Indie Publishers

Cost: Free
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Join us at our Ravenna neighborhood store for a celebration of independent publishers, weird and meaningful literature, and the long future of publishing. The evening will include presentations from: Two Lines Press, Dalkey Archive / Deep Vellum, Open Letter, Catapult / Soft Skull / Counterpoint, Coffee House Press, Dorothy, a publishing project, Transit Books, and A Public Space. Join us afterward for drinks, reunion, and casual conversation at The Pub at Third Place. This event is free and open to the public. Registration recommended in advance.

Queerly Beloved: An Evening with Foglifter Press

Join the editorial staff and contributors of Foglifter Press, the award-winning LGBTQIA2-S+ journal, for a reading of epic proportions followed by a short panel/salon discussion with the authors. Readers: Michal 'MJ' Jones, author of Hood Vacations, Joy Priest, author of Horsepower, Miah Jeffra, author of American Gospel, Kazim Ali, author of Inquisition, Dior Stephens, author of Cruel/Cruel, and Xan Phillips, author of Hull.

Contemporary Jewish Poets: A Reading Sponsored by Ayin Press & Yetzirah

A reading with six Jewish poets spanning multiple generations, backgrounds, and aesthetics: Lauren Camp, Chanda Feldman, Eden Pearlstein, Alicia Ostriker, and Dan Alter. Your cohosts for the evening will be poets Jessica Jacobs, founder and executive director of Yetzirah, an organization dedicated to providing a community that supports Jewish poets and Jewish poetry, and Tom Haviv, cofounder and publisher of Ayin Press, an artist-run publishing platform and production studio rooted in Jewish culture and emanating outward. Audience members of all traditions welcome.

CALYX & Friends at Cone and Steiner

Readings from Rooja Mohassessy, Emily Jon Tobias, and Sibyl James. Open mic to follow. Refreshments available for purchase from the venue.

Muzzle Off-site Reading

Please join Muzzle Magazine for an off-site reading! Our reading roster includes: Emily Pérez, Sam Herschel Wein, Imani Davis, Nicole Homer, Jae Nichelle, Rachel Edelman, M. Mick Powell, and Gaia Rajan. The reading will be on March 9th, 2023, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The venue, The Loving Room, is a Black woman owned bookstore, and is ADA accessible.

Poetry Reading with Joanna Sit & Thaddeus Rutkowski

A feature reading by Joanna Sit and Thaddeus Rutkowski; open reading to follow. This event is organized by Goldfish Press and supported in part by Poets & Writers.

Clarion West Social & Readings

Come socialize and hear Clarion West alumni and community members read from their work! We'll host a social hour starting at 7:00 p.m. followed by readings starting at 8:00 p.m. at Old Stove Ship Canal brewery in North Queen Anne. Meet us outside under the heated tent after grabbing a drink on tap or bar food, or check out the food truck for a full meal. The venue is all-ages and dog friendly. Specific accessibility requests can be accommodated with two weeks' notice of the event by contacting workshop@clarionwest.org. RSVP: https://clarionwest.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/clarionwest/event.jsp?event=557&

Masks will not be required under the tent, but we recommend them if the space is crowded. The tent is open air and there is ample space to wander outside.

Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow: A Trans-Genre Cabaret

"Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow: A Trans-Genre Cabaret" features poets as early media film tellers (Benshis) performing new scripts to silent films, to now media poets spinning DJ jams around ChatGPT. Hailing from the theater of old New Orleans: Rodrigo Toscano, Henry Goldkamp, and Sean F. Munro. Railing within new media and music on the coasts: Ronaldo V. Wilson, Mark Scroggins, Margaret Rhee, Roxi Power, Greta Jane, Katy Bohinc and De Kai. Come to our madcap cabaret. With gallery art, music, and drink, our party will, in fact, jam today.

Defunkt Magazine & Bloomsday Literary Present: An Evening of Gorgeous Readings

Join us at Blarney Stone Pub to hear from a panel of talented prose and poetry writers brought to you by two Houston-based literature and arts organizations, Defunkt Magazine and Bloomsday Literary.

Celebrate 20 Years of Literary Mama

Literary Mama is celebrating its twentieth anniversary with a meetup and readings at The Ballast Bar (downstairs from Capitol Cider)! Readings: Jill Christman, author of If This Were Fiction, Minna Dubin, author of Mom Rage, Jody Keisner, author of Under My Bed And Other Essays, and Cheryl E. Klein, author of Crybaby. Then, enjoy a preview of our forthcoming anthology with readings from our staff!

Deaf Author United Readings at the Limited Expressions Showcase with Deaf Spotlight

The Deaf Authors United will present short author readings from each of the following Deaf authors: Willy Conley, playwright, Plays of Our Own. Peter Quint, fiction novelist, Resilient Silence: A Deaf-Experience Suspense Novel. Ross Showalter, short story/essay writer, "Night Moves," "Feast." Rachel Zemach, creative memoir writer, "The Butterfly Cage." Don Bangs, curriculum author and playwright, My ASL Book. These readings will be conducted in American Sign Language and will be voice interpreted as well as captioned. The readings will be followed by a panel type Q&A session.

Due to COVID-19 protocols, masks are required of all participants and audience members at this event.

Riot in Your Throat & Write Bloody: An Off-site Poetry Reading

Riot in Your Throat and Write Bloody: an off-site poetry reading. Riot in Your Throat poets: Courtney LeBlanc, Melissa Fite Johnson, Sonia Greenfield, Sara Quinn Rivara, Laurie Rachkus Uttich, and Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer. Write Bloody poets: Courtney LeBlanc, John-Francis Quiñonez, Brian S Ellis, Kimberly Nguyen, Lexis Pelle, and Derrick Brown.

Good Times Bad Bar: CSU Poetry Center, Rescue Press, Annulet, & The Dodge

It's a reading! Philip Metres, Sarah Minor, Timmy Straw, Adrienne Raphel, Kelly DuMar, Michael Joseph Walsh, Adele Elise Williams, Gabriel Blackwell, Rajiv Mohabir, Valerie Hsiung, Gabriel Palacios, and Sara Deniz Akant.

Local Author's Debut Book Release Party

B Line Dot is known for his artistry, from big wall murals, to DJing, to typewriter poetry. B's debut book, It's Nothing or It's Everything, is a collection of poetry on depression, regret, comfort, and hope in the form of ink, paint, and prose. Each poem was hand-typed on B’s 1969 Royal 890 typewriter, then printed into the pages. The book includes five pieces of B's original, full-spread artwork. There will be a reading, Q&A, book signing, and art exhibit curated by the author. Ticket prices on Eventbrite include a free drink token, food, coffee bar, a tote bag, and stickers.

Lightning Fast Readings: Four Way Books & Friends

We welcome mask wearing!

Lightning Fast Reading: Autumn House & Friends

Celebrate Autumn House's twenty-fifth anniversary with an off-site reading with friends, Burrow Press, and Four Way Books. Reading featuring AHP authors Jacqui Germain, Charles Kell, Shayla Lawz, Dennis James Sweeney, Michael Walsh, Michael X. Wang & Wendy Wimmer. Also joining: Authors from Four Way Books & Barrow Street Press!

Black SWANA Lit: Mizna DJ & Reading Featuring Safia Elhillo

Join Mizna for a night of Black Arab/SWANA literature and music featuring readings from Safia Elhillo, Romaissaa Benzizoune, Samah Fadil, and Umniya Najaer. Ladin Awad will be emceeing the reading and DJing a dance party to follow. This reading launches the special issue of Mizna's literary and art journal, the Black SWANA Takeover Issue, led by guest editor Safia Elhillo and a full Black SWANA team. Stay tuned, we may have some additional exciting features!

Covid-19 Safety: This event requires masks for all patrons while in the building. Read more at bit.ly/nwffcovidsafety.

Anvil Press & Book*hug Press Present: Canadians in Seattle

Anvil Press and Book*hug Press present a night of poetry and prose readings showcasing six Canadian writers. Readers include Carellin Brooks, Andrew Chesham, Raoul Fernandes, Kristen Renee Miller, Michael V. Smith, and Rob Taylor. Come join us for this free offsite event. All are welcome! Accessibility information: the front space of the store where events will take place is wheelchair accessible but the rest of the store includes several flights of stairs. Feel free to call and reach out to the store for more info about other accessibility needs!

Masking is encouraged and welcomed.

Translated Bodies: Performance Research

Velocity Dance Center presents "Translated Bodies," a three day event, curated by Gabrielle Civil and featuring Civil and fellow artist/translators Madhu H. Kaza, Sawako Nakayasu, and JD Pluecker. For Thursday night Research leave your expectations of dance at the door. Here you will find movement, ritual, poetry, and critique at the intersection of performance, writing, and translation. Come research with us! ASL interpretation of this event occurs on Thursday, March 9. 12th Avenue Arts is fully accessible for wheelchairs and walkers. The lobby and bathrooms are at street level, and seating is available without the need for an elevator or stairs.

Thursday Performance Research night: indoor masking required.

Voices of the Anthropocene: An Ecopoetry Reading

How should we live and make meaning during the current era of the Anthropocene, in which we are called to witness and respond to human-caused climate change? Voices of the Anthropocene features readings from award-winning poets across four different geographical regions: Hila Ratzabi, Claire Wahmanholm, Brittney Corrigan, Angela Voras-Hills, and Sean Hill. The poets and their work invite us to deepen our personal connection to the reality of the climate crisis and heighten our awareness of the fragile environment around us.

Margin Shift Presents: A Night of Poetry and Ritual

Poetry and writing deriving from, responding to, or inspired by non-mainstream spiritual practices. Featuring performances by: Jen Currin, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cara Diaconoff, Jared Daniel Fagen, Knox Gardner, Sarah Mangold, Emily J. Mundy, Lorsarc Raal, Janaka Stucky, Jenn Zhart, (and potentially more to be announced). This is an alcohol and meat free venue, so please be respectful.

The Entanglements Network: Readings & Performances

Join us at The Rabbit Box Theatre in the heart of Seattle's Pike Place Market for an evening of poetry that engages cutting-edge science and technology by members of The Entanglements Network, a global collective of transdisciplinary writers, artists, scholars, and scientists. Readings and performances by Vidhu Aggarwal, Madhur Anand, Rae Armantrout, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Amy Catanzano, John Cayley, Kelly Krumrie, Nick Montfort, Ed Roberson, and Edwin Torres. Enjoy craft cocktails and exquisite food in one of Seattle's most unique venues, just a five-minute walk from the conference center. Come get entangled! The Rabbit Box Theatre is accessible according to ADA standards. Information about ramps and elevators can be found at https://www.pikeplacemarket.org/map/

SmokeLong Quarterly & Loose Cannons Reading and Improv Celebrating SmokeLong's 20th Year

Celebrating SmokeLong Quarterly's 20th anniversary! Readings by María Alejandra Barrios, Venita Blackburn, Rebecca Bernard, Gwen E. Kirby, Deesha Philyaw, Jasmine Sawers, Brendan Stephens, Rion Amilcar Scott, and Erin Vachon! Featuring the improv company Unexpected Productions! This is a hybrid event of literary readings and improv. Expect the unexpected.

Kenyatta Rogers 40th Birthday Celebration & Reading

Join us in celebrating the 40th birthday of poet Kenyatta Rogers in true literary fashion at Good Bar! Come for the poetry reading, stick around for the party. 21+. Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem Fellow and Bread Loaf Scholar. His work has appeared in Poetry magazine, Jubilat, and MAKE Magazine, among others. He cohosts the Sunday Reading Series with Simone Muench and is the Creative Writing Department Head at The Chicago High School for the Arts. Readers: F. Douglas Brown, Kyle Churney, Matthew Kelsey, Maya Marshall, Simone Muench, Roger Reeves, Kathleen Rooney, and Keith S. Wilson.

Lit Up Thursday

Lit Up Thursday: Mega Reading & After Party! The Adroit Journal, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review and Pleiades are hosting the Lit Up Thursday Reading featuring poets and writers Victoria Chang, Erika Wurth, Chen Chen, Faylita Hicks, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Dana Levin, Philip Metres, Lee Ann Roripaugh, K. Iver, Chloe Garcia Roberts, Chanda Feldman, Saúl Hernández, Luther Hughes, Vanessa Villareal, and Sejal Shah. The reading will be followed by a celebration after party at Oddfellows (1525 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122) with DJ Gold Chisme. The first one hundred arrivals to the reading will receive a free drink ticket for the after party. After party is twenty-one and over.

Nightboat All Night at The Rendezvous Jewelbox Theatre

We hope you will join us Thursday, March 10 at The Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater for Nightboat All Night! There will be readings from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. and then party until 1:00 a.m! Readings by: Allison Cobb, Andrea Abi-Karam, Dior J. Stephens, Douglas A. Martin, Emily Lee Luan, Gillian Conoly, Gillian Osborn, imogen xtian smith, Janice Sapigao, Joyelle McSweeney, Kay Gabriel, Kevin Holden, Lindsay Turner, Muriel Leung, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Rosie Stockton, Samiya Bashir, Tiff Dressen, and Wo Chan.

LOGOS & EcoTheo Present Luther Hughes & Gabrielle Bates

LOGOS gatherings are "liturgically-inflected" reading events. By lovingly, artfully, non-dogmatically incorporating elements of sacred ritual into the format of a traditional poetry reading, LOGOS cultivates a space for sharing poetry that is participatory and dynamic — and seeks to "evoke transcendence through poetry, ritual, and conversation." LOGOS is a project of EcoTheo Collective, a registered nonprofit that "celebrates wonder, enlivens conversations, and inspires commitments to ecology, spirituality, and art." Poet bios: https://www.lutherxhughes.com/ and https://www.gabriellebat.es/.

LOGOS & EcoTheo respect and celebrate the precautionary health measures taken by any participants and attendees, but will not have any specific health protocols in place.

Poetry Reading at Rattlesnake Lake

Travis Mossotti and Kerry James Evans will be hosting a no-mic, open-air poetry reading by headlamp starting at 5:00 a.m. at Rattlesnake Lake Recreation Area & Trails. Attendees are encouraged to bring a poem to read at this predawn reading at Rattlesnake Lake. Poets interested in hiking can accompany Mossotti and Evans on a hike up to Rattlesnake Ledge for a sunrise reading as well. Event is free to all, but it is limited to thirty participants. Predawn reading at Rattlesnake Lake Trail is foot, bike, and ADA accessible. Dress for the weather, and monitor current trail conditions.

Translated Bodies: Virtual Play

Velocity Dance Center presents "Translated Bodies," a three day event, curated by Gabrielle Civil and featuring Civil and fellow artist/translators Madhu H. Kaza, Sawako Nakayasu, and JD Pluecker. For Friday Virtual Play translate the blur of your own life with specially curated scores, playlists, and prompts arriving direct to your inbox. To receive the prompts, share your email when you purchase your ticket from Velocity. Stay inside and make art or take your device out for a spin in the world. Melt into interface and blur . . .

Fractured Lit Reading

Don't miss this stellar group of writers reading from their recent work! Presented by Fractured Lit. Patricia Q. Bidar, Tommy Dean, Beth Hahn, Eliot Li, Laurie Marshall, Alexandra M. Matthews, Andrew Porter, aureleo sans, María Alejandra Barrios Vélez, and Tara Stillions Whitehead.

Flash Break Reading with Fractured Lit

Fractured Lit invites conference attendees to join us for a reading of flash and microfiction! The readers are Patricia Q. Bidar, Tommy Dean, Beth Hahn, Eliot Li, Laurie Marshall, Alexandra M. Matthews, Andrew Porter, aureleo sans, Maria Alejandra Barrios Veliz, and Tara Stillions Whitehead! Take a midday break from the Bookfair and sit back and relax with flash fiction!

Latinx/Chicanx & More (Poetry at Seattle University)

Seattle University welcomes poets from the entire country by having this reading and reception, as well as an open mic at the Lemieux Library. Local and national poets will read to our local and national audiences in town for a major conference. Dr. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs hosts this event. Please contact her at gutierg@seattleu.edu should you like to read for this event. She is the author and editor of several Latinx/Chicanx anthologies and poetry collections.

We appreciate your wearing a mask for this event, except while eating or drinking.

Reception for Carletta Carrington Wilson's book Poem of Stone & Bone

This is a reception for the Raven Chronicles Press’s 2023 publication of Carletta Carrington Wilson’s Poem of Stone & Bone, The Iconography of James W. Washington Jr. in Fourteen Stanzas and Thirty-One Days. This book documents four site-specific installations Wilson created in 2011 on the Seattle property of noted African American sculptor James W. Washington Jr. This house, located at 1816 26th Avenue in Seattle, Washington, honors the life and legacy of Washington, a celebrated African American painter and sculptor and a leading member of the Northwest School of artists.

Wearing of masks is voluntary.

Risk/Reward: On Disrupting Aesthetic Convention in Writing

How can we disrupt aesthetic convention without also risking our livelihoods? Risk-taking is essential for innovation, yet when creative writing classrooms privilege a cautioned aesthetics, publishing industry gatekeepers prefer to play it safe, and critics remain skeptical toward adventurous forms, the avenues available to academics, writers, and literary translators to embrace risk remain nebulous. Each of the five speakers on this panel will discuss the specific ways they are building a practice in the classroom and on the page by disrupting aesthetic standardization. Open bar, folks!

Saved: Objects of the Dead Reading, Discussion, & Book Signing

Saved: Objects of the Dead (Artsuite 2023) is a collaborative book by artist Jody Servon and poet Lorene Delany-Ullman. We often come together in grief, seeking connection, even with strangers, to acknowledge our human suffering. This book explores the universality of how objects embody the emotions of loss and memory. Pairing photography and prose, Servon and Delany-Ullman chronicle the lives, deaths, and relationships of individuals whose objects, imbued with emotional and physical senses, are kept by loved ones as an affirmation of their former lives. Reading, discussion, and book signing. Poet Lynne Thompson will host the event as the discussant.

The Frye Art Museum monitors the CDC's Community Levels data to determine COVID-19 policy. While masks* and proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a recent negative test result are not currently required for museum admission, we strongly encourage all eligible visitors to wear masks and be fully vaccinated for the health and safety of our community. *Mask-required hours occur the first Sunday of the month, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Frequent sanitization of all high-touch surfaces. Enhanced air filtration throughout the museum. Hand sanitizer stations throughout the museum.

Chicanx/Latinx Poets in the Northwest, an Ensalada

Chicanx/Latinx poets attending a major conference in Seattle will read their poetry for the Seattle community at Seattle University, Pigott Auditorium, from 3:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hosted by Professor Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Modern Languages, Women and Gender Studies. Please join the following nationally renowned poets: Matt Sedillo, Carmen Tafolla, Angelina Sáenz, Jen Yáñez-Alaniz, Paul Nelson, Angela C. Trudell Vasquez, Jim and Catalina Cantú, Adela Najarro, Vicky Bañales, Raúl Sánchez, Maiah Merino, Violeta Orozco, John Martínez, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Arnoldo Colibri, Carlos Sibaja, and Edward Vidaurre.

A Reading of West Virginia UP & Ohio UP Authors

A spectacular lineup of ten authors from West Virginia University Press and Ohio University Press will read from their recently published fiction and nonfiction books. Authors include Lana Austin, Courtney Sender, Joanna Eleftheriou, Sadie Hoagland, Neema Avashia, Rachel King, Kristine Langley Mahler, and Andrew Collard. Second contact email: courtney.sender@gmail.com

Reading & Book Launch Party with Jenn Brown, Gin Hammond, Lucas Jacob, and Rebecca Redshaw

Join us as we launch three books, read from across our catalogues, and welcome special guests! Fully-stocked cash bar. The location can't be beat: Seattle's preeminent theatre, in the artistic hub Seattle Center, in the shadow of the Space Needle. Venue within walking distance of the Convention Center, for public-transport lovers, the monorail runs right from the Convention Center to Seattle Center. Party starts at 4:00 p.m. Readings 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Book signings and more partying from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Ticket discounts to that night's Seattle Rep performance of Between Two Knees. We can't wait to host you!

Longleaf Writers Conference & University of Mississippi CW Happy Hour Reception!

Join us for the happiest happy hour at the conference! Come celebrate Longleaf's tenth year while mingling or hanging out uncomfortably in the corner with the directors, UM faculty, and past fellows and scholars! The Longleaf Writers Conference and the University of Mississippi's MFA and PhD program in English partner each year to create scholarship opportunities and this is our yearly get-together to celebrate our accomplishments with friends old and new. Spread the word and plan to join us!

Drink and Draw

Illustrators, zine-makers, graphic novelists, and people who like doodling in the margins of pages: come hang out and draw! At this very chill happy hour, we will offer a few collaborative drawing and zine-making exercises, but mostly just hang out, sketch, and talk.

This is an indoor event at a bar. We have reserved space for twenty people. Masks are encouraged but not required.

Madvillans Read

Madville Publishing authors and anthology contributors of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will read from their work. Among the readers will be Jodi Angel, Wondra Chang, Francine Rodriguez, Bruce Overby, Lee Zacharias, and many more. We will update the list of participants as we learn of more.

At this time, we are not requesting masks. That could change nearer to the event!

Happy Hour with Bookshop.org, PEN America, and The Word

Join Bookshop.org, PEN America, and The Word for a happy hour gathering to learn more about the ways we are working together to build longer tables, from writing to publishing to bookselling.

Hot Off the Presses! Fall 2022/Spring 2023 Debut Reading

Join six authors for a reading and casual conversation to celebrate recently-released and soon-to-be released fiction, nonfiction, and poetry debuts—and a chance to win signed copies! Featured readers: Su Cho, Jasmin Iolani Hakes, Chachi Hauser, Lauren Kay Johnson, Tonee Moll, and Paige Towers. Kells Irish Restaurant and Bar is located in Pike Place Market and the historic Butterworth building, Seattle's first mortuary. Enjoy authentic Irish drinks and dining along with the literary goodness.

Writing the Earth with Our Whole Bodies

This embodied workshop will bring together writers imagining other ways of being in the world and relating to one another. We will focus on issues pertaining to extractive capitalism, labor, and our environment in relation to specific places in our realm of experience. Writing does not need to be a solitary experience. We will collaborate and create a shared library of literal and abstract gestures, images, and words. Each of us will come away from this workshop inspired to generate more work, and feel a deeper connection to our planet, each other, and ourselves.

Masks are required. Please avoid fragrances to help make the space safer for people with allergies and sensitivities. Please inform us of any accessibility needs you may have, and we will do our best to accommodate them. The devised theater exercises may include movement and touch. To maintain a safer space for participants, I will adapt exercises for a range of mobility and bodily capacities. I will prioritize participants’ safety, wellbeing, and agency by setting norms for seeking permission and consent from one another.

A Kalamazoo Frame of Mind: A Reading by Alumni of WMU’s MFA and PhD Programs

Poets, novelists, and writers of creative nonfiction from all over the country will gather to read their latest and greatest—connected by their time at Western Michigan University. There will be a band (Snowmound, of Seattle), drinks, and a tribute to dear friend and fellow alum poet Cody Todd. An open mic will follow the scheduled reading. Come one, come all.

Macondo Writers

Please join us for a reading by Macondistas at the conference. Held in a beautiful art gallery with proprietor and host Enmanuel Arjona, four Macondistas will share their work with us. This event is walking distance from the Convention Center, and one block from the Seattle Public Library. The gallery is in the façade of the Fifth Avenue Theatre.

Masking optional, but please mask if you are more comfortable.

Queer Love: A Reading from Listen To Your Skin's Upcoming Anthology of Queer & Self Love

Join us at a leather shop for a reading from Listen To Your Skin: An Anthology of Queer & Self Love, which contains self sex, couple sex, group sex, mono and poly sex. Happy and sad and hilarious and heartwarming sex. These pieces express the psychological truths we circle and seek in the sexual and romantic realms. Readers include Sinclair Sexsmith (aka SugarButch), writing coach and editor of the Best Lesbian Erotica series, Denver’s Slam Nuba host and CantoMundo poetry fellow Aerik Francis, Fast Forward Press founder, Lena Rogin, and many others. Walking distance from convention center.

Please do not attend if you've had recent confirmed exposure. Please wear a mask if you can't be sure if you've been exposed and/or if you have symptoms.

Northwest Literary Happy Hour

Join Big Fiction, Crab Creek Review, Mineral School, and Tahoma Literary Review at Seattle University to celebrate Northwest writers and publishers. Drinks and light snacks will be available, including a sampling of local wines.

Chax, Kelsey, Airlie, Tinfish, & Friends

Reading by friendly presses and their authors. Chax Press, Tinfish Press, Kelsey Street Press, Airlie Press, and friends. Readers include but are not limited to: Rae Armantrout, Jeanne Heuving, Robert Mittenthal, Sarah Rosenthal, Charles Alexander, Amaranth Borsuk, Jaime Guzman, Redell Olsen, and Drew Milne. High energy, cash bar, see you there!

Masks recommended.

We Keep Beginning

On Friday, March 10 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m, join The Seventh Wave above the hustle of the conference in the seventh floor penthouse of The Sorrento Hotel (haunted by Alice B. Toklas) for an evening of prose, poetry, and accessible connection. Drinks to purchase, free charcuterie from The Sorrento Hotel. Prose and poetry from Lars Horn, Michael Chang, Kristen Millares Young, Marisa Siegel, Joyce Chen, Barracuda Gaursico, Corinne Manning, Amy Saul-Zerby, Erin Sroka, Bretty Rawson, Teri Vela, and Bobuq Sayed. Introvert? Extrovert? Yes. This event is for you. The reading begins at 5:45 p.m. and is expected to last until 7:15 p.m.

Masks will be required when not eating and drinking. Masks will be available on site. The terrace doors will be open for air flow and people who prefer to be outside are welcome on the terrace. There are no steps leading up to the property. There is a wheelchair accessible restroom on the lobby floor. The elevator is wheelchair accessible. There are no steps leading into the venue space. There is one step leading onto the outdoor terrace, which is not ramped. There are three nearby parking garages where folks who are driving can park (these garages are not free).

Shane McCrae & John West, Live in Seattle

Come hear acclaimed poet Shane McCrae and award-winning journalist John West read from their forthcoming debut memoirs. About the books: Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of Kidnapping by Shane McCrae (Scribner, available August 1). Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery by John West (Eerdmans, available May 2). Sponsored by Image Journal & Eerdmans Publishing. This space is ADA accessible.

Jennifer McGaha & Peter Turchi in Conversation

Join Trinity University Press for Jennifer McGaha and Peter Turchi in conversation at the Seattle Public Library. Jennifer McGaha, author of Bushwhacking: How to Get Lost in the Woods and Write Your Way Out and Peter Turchi, author of (Don’t) Stop Me If You’ve Heard This Before and Other Essays on Writing Fiction and Maps of the Imagination: Writer as Cartographer​ will sit down for a timely and intimate conservation on writing both fiction and nonfiction. Free and open to the public​, no ticket necessary. The library address is 1000 4th Ave, between Spring and Madison Streets with entrances on both 4th and 5th Avenues. The event is taking place on Level 4, Room 2. Once in the building, take the elevator to Level 4. Escalators do not serve the fourth floor.

An Evening of Modern Love

Join us for a reading of true stories from the celebrated New York Times Modern Love column. Six writers will each share their own story from the column, on topics ranging from dating and sex to the unexpected complications of marriage and family life. Laugh, cry, and enjoy delicious food and drinks in a beautiful space. Hosted by Modern Love Special Projects Editor Miya Lee, and featuring writers Shin Yu Pai, Putsata Reang, Theo Nestor, Nicole Hardy, Denny, and Nicole Comforto.

Off-site On Point: Three Authors on Writing and Activism

Join debut authors Prince Shakur (When They Tell You To Be Good, Tin House Books), Soraya Palmer (The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts, Catapult), and veteran author Madeline ffitch (Stay and Fight, Picador; Valparaiso, Round the Horn, Publishing Genius Press) read from their works and discuss the intersections between their writing and their work with local movements doing anti-gentrification and work with criminalized survivors to national and global movements like Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock. Moderated by labor organizer and poet, Emily Dhatt.

Antioch University's MFA Program: A Night of Reading

Join us for an early evening of readings by Antioch University MFA Program students, faculty, and alums. Hosted by Tim Cummings. Readings will begin at 5:30 p.m, social to follow at 6:30 p.m. Readers: Jazmine Aluma, Andrea Auten, Semaj Saint Garbutt, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Diana Hardy, Scott LaMascus, Malia Márquez, Ari Rosenschein, Kim Sabin, and Mireya Vela.

Celebrate Nightboat at Arundel Books

We hope you will join us Friday, March 10 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Arundel Books to celebrate Nightboat! There will be brief readings and drinks! Readings by: Allison Cobb, Andrea Abi-Karam, Dior J. Stephens, Douglas A. Martin, Gillian Conoley, jayy dodd, Joyelle McSweeney, Rosie Stockton, vincent katz, Wo Chan, and Xan Philips.

Catamaran's 10-Year Anniversary Celebration Readings

The event will include readings by: Joe McAvoy, Tess Gallagher, Ben Masaoka, Dion O’Reilly, Micah Perks, Martin Perlman, Vincent Rendoni, and Barbara Tannenbaum.

Lorca Latinx Prize Reading Featuring Carmen Giménez & heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

In collaboration with Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame, LOGOS & EcoTheo Collective are pleased to present a liturgically-inflected poetry reading in celebration of the work of 2023 Lorca Latinx Prize winner heidi andrea restrepo rhodes & 2023 Guest Judge Carmen Giménez. Established in 2019, the Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize for an emerging poet supports the publication of a dual-language, artisanal chapbook by a poet with no more than one full-length collection in print. Poet bios: https://carmengimenez.net/ and https://www.heidiandrea.com/.

LOGOS & EcoTheo respect and celebrate the precautionary health measures taken by any participants and attendees, but will not have any specific health protocols in place.

A Reading with Spuyten Duyvil Press

Readings from authors Teresa Carmody, Caroline Hagood, Jenny Irish, Dan Kaplan, Brooks Sterritt, Elisabeth Sheffield, Jeffrey DeShell, and Kevin Allardice.

Quadruple Nonfiction Off-Site Reading

Four great magazines bring you an evening of fun and nonfiction at The Blarney Stone in the heart of downtown Seattle! Fourth Genre readers: Annie Penfield & Cara Stoddard. Hippocampus readers: Ronit Plank & Lara Lillibridge. River Teeth readers: Kathleen Driskell & Ana Maria Spagna. Under the Gum Tree readers: Amber Wong & Steve Wing.

Poetry Reading: Persea Books with Alice James Books

Poetry and pizza go together well, so join the talented poets of Persea Books and Alice James Books at Razzi's Pizzeria in downtown Seattle for a night of delicious food, drinks, and community. Readers include Jane Wong, Shawn R. Jones, Jeffrey Thomson, and more. See you there!

CalArts Reading

CalArts reading. Brian Evenson, Carribean Fragoza, Rose Andersen, Rosa Boshier, Devlin Grimm, and Collin Jonkman. Outlier, 1101 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101. March 10, 2023. 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. PST. Light food and drinks provided. Signed books available for purchase.

Apogee Press Reading

Join us for an evening with Berkeley's Apogee Press! Cash bar is available. Featured readers will include Susanne Dyckman, Alice Jones, Denise Newman, Elizabeth Robinson, Cole Swensen, Barbara Tomash, and Laura Walker.

Red Hen Press Omnibus Celebration

Join Red Hen Press authors from our Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 seasons for a reading celebration! Come for the readings, stay for the food! Limited number of drink tickets available, plus free food for the early birds!

Harbor & Acre: Where the Sea Meets the Land

Join Harbor Editions and Acre Books for a Friday night off-site to celebrate the triumph of the small and mighty press, featuring poetry readings by Lisa Ampleman, José Hernandez Diaz, Faylita Hicks, Jessica E. Johnson, Matthew Minicucci, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, Sarah Cedeño, john compton, Josh Davis, Joan Kwon Glass, Sonia Greenfield, Anna Leahy, and Meghan Sterling.

2023 Spring Salon: Moon Tide Press & CRAFT

All welcome! Hosted by the University of Washington’s Creative Writing Department. Friday, March 10, 2023, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. PT, Simpson Center for the Humanities. Please join us in person or virtually for this reading of poetry and prose! Featured readers: Rebecca Evans and Nicole McCarthy. Additional readers: Tami Haaland, Robert Herbst, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Eliot Li, Rachel Rix, Suzanne Roberts, and Ross Showalter. Please register in advance via the Submittable link provided above. More details provided via your confirmation email upon registration.

In accordance with campus policy, wearing masks will be strongly encouraged but not mandatory.

Anaphora Arts & Pacific University MFA Partnership Celebration and Reading

Launching a new partnership with Anaphora Arts, the LA-based nonprofit that advocates for writers and artists of color, we are co-hosting a reading featuring a host of writers from the Pacific community and a number of Anaphora fellows. Join us at 6:00 p.m. on Friday evening, March 10, at Little Saigon Creative, an arts space located at 1227 S Weller, Suite A. Readers include Jamaica Baldwin, Beatriz Brenes Mora, Njara Hamilton, Atina Hartunian, Tamara J. Madison, Vanessa Micale, Rooja Mohassessy, Shella Parcarey, Mahtem Shiferraw, Jen Shin, and Rana Tahir.

Counterpath / Using Electricity / The Body in Language Anthology Performances & Readings

Wave Books at Sole Repair Shop

Wave Books will host readings from Cedar Sigo, Chris Nealon, Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Wier), Douglas Kearney, Edwin Torres, Garrett Caples, Geoffrey Nutter, Jack Jung, John Beer, Joshua Beckman, Joyelle McSweeney, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Kate Durbin, Lisa Fishman, Matthew Rohrer, Matthew Zapruder, Michael Earl Craig, Prageeta Sharma, Rachel Zucker, Richard Meier, Rodney Koeneke, Sandra Simonds, Sarah Mangold, Sawako Nakayasu, Srikanth Reddy, and Timothy Donnelly.

Military & War Writing Community Gathering

Join the Wrath-Bearing Tree, Collateral, MilSpeak Books, and others concerned with topics of the military, veterans, war, and violent conflict for a casual gathering at an historical Seattle locale. All are welcome.

Sarah Gerard Chapbook Launch and Reading (with Cats!)

Sarah Gerard reads and signs copies of their new chapbook, The Butter House. In this story, a woman becomes a caretaker for a feral cat colony. We’re celebrating this cat-themed release with some of Seattle’s most adorable (and adoptable) felines. The venue offers beer, wine, coffee, tea, and snacks for purchase. The main event takes place in the free and open café space. However, the cat room has limited capacity, and we encourage you to pre-order a hardcover edition through the Conium Press website if you’d like guaranteed cat room time: http://coniumreview.com/blog/awp-2023-offsite/.

Atticus Review and Barzakh Lit Mag

Join Barzakh Lit Mag and Atticus Review for a live reading featuring contributors and staff at the Grumpy Bean. There will be a 10% discount on drinks, too!

For the well-being of readers and guests, please remain masked at this event.

Gulf Coast Connection

Enjoy some great Cuban food and coffee while listening to some amazing writers. Kayla Min Andrews, Elizabeth Miki Brina, Jonathan Escoffery, Ariel Francisco, and Christopher Louis Romaguera all read from their respective works, while Havana Sweets Bakeshop provides the good eats and coffee. Come for the reading, stay for the pan cubanos, cortaditos, y pastelitos. (Or the other way around works too!)

Off-site. On Purpose. SWWIM, NELLE, & MER Reading

MER, NELLE, and SWWIM present: Off-site. On Purpose, a reading featuring many of today's most celebrated women writers and poets, including Francesca Bell, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Tina Cane, Julia Dasbach Kolchinsky, Diamond Forde, Melissa Studdard, and more stellar voices! Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free.

This is a mask-optional event.

Good Actors: A Play by Sommer Browning

Good Actors is a one-woman performance of the poet Sommer Browning’s third poetry collection, Good Actors (Birds, LLC; 2022). It is funny, moving, irreverent, sexy, and funny (again). It explores the boundarylessness of genre but also our human roles—where do our roles and performances end and “real life” begin? How do we transition between art and life when life itself is a creative act? The performance is directed and produced by Aaron Angello and features bold, vibrant animations created specifically for the text by filmmaker Kelly Sears.

Oindrila Mukherjee & Chaitali Sen: The Dream Builders & A New Race of Men from Heaven

Join Oindrila Mukherjee, author of the debut novel The Dream Builders (Tin House Books) and Chaitali Sen, author of the short story collection A New Race of Men From Heaven (winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction, Sarabande Books) for a reading, conversation, and book signing.

Oindrila Mukherjee and Chaitali Sen: The Dream Builders & A New Race of Men From Heaven

Third Place Books is pleased to welcome authors Oindrila Mukherjee and Chaitali Sen for a discussion of their new fiction at our Ravenna neighborhood store. Mukherjee's The Dream Builders (Tin House Books) explores class divisions, gender roles, and stories of survival within a society that is constantly changing and becoming increasingly Americanized. Winner of Sarabande's Mary McCarthy Prize, Sen's A New Race of Men from Heaven (Sarabande Books) is a collection of stories about characters who wander but are are never truly lost. Registration recommended in advance.

Rewind/Unwind Hugo Fellows Reading

It's a night of firsts and of celebration! For the first time ever, former Hugo House Fellows from both the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 cohorts will take the stage together. Hear work from local luminaries s.c. bostwick, Brian Dang, Cassidy Dyce, CR Glasgow, Marguerite Harrold, Clare Johnson, Troy Osaki, and Stephanie Segura. Hosted by former Hugo House Writers-in-Residence Laura Da’, Ruth Joffre, and Jessica Mehta.

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Brooklyn Poets Reading

Join us for an offsite reading at Cherry Street Coffee House (700 1st Avenue location), featuring Brooklyn Poets teachers, staff, fellows, and alums: Gabrielle Bates, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Patrycja Humienik, Jason Koo, Eugenia Leigh, José Olivarez, imogen xtian smith, and Dujie Tahat. Free and open to the public. Doors will open for the event at 6:30 p.m. and readings will begin at 7:00 p.m. Book signing to follow. Guests are encouraged to register to attend on Eventbrite.

VMI and Friends

Vancouver Manuscript Intensive hosts a reading of alumni, mentors, and friends! Join us for a lively and wide-ranging series of short readings in many genres hosted by director Elee Kraljii Gardiner. We'll have time at the end for questions about this unique mentoring program that supports emerging and professional authors anywhere in the world. The readers are Ashanti Anderson, David Bradford, Jen Currin, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Charles Mudede, Susan Olding, Susan Steudel, and Erika Thorkelson.

Masked event. Venue is accessible.

Sundress Publications Reading

Sundress Publications is pleased to announce that the readers for our 2023 off-site reading include Barbara Fant, Kimberly Ann Priest, Stacey Balkun, Atena Nassar, jason b. Crawford, Sunni Wilkinson, Nicole Arocho Hernández, Amanda Galvan Huynh, Cynthia Guardado, Dani Putney, and Donna Vorreyer. The reading will take place on March 10, 2023, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. PST at Old Stove Brewing Co, 600 W Nickerson St, Queen Anne, Seattle, WA 98119.

This event will be held outdoors.

Reading with co-im-press, Veliz Books, Eulalia Books, & Carrion Bloom Books

Featuring authors and translators from co-im-press, Veliz Books, Eulalia Books, and Carrion Bloom Books.

25th Anniversary Reading by Gival Press Authors

Gival Press authors will read from their work: Jeff Walt, Esther Schwartz-McKinzie, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Cecilia Martinez-Gil, John Domini, and Cliff Bernier.

Attendees should follow all conference health and safety guidelines. Wearing masks at this event is optional. No outside food or drink may be brought into the venue.

The Wilds—Pleasure, Power, and the Erotic—Celebrating Miah Jeffra’s American Gospel

Join us at the Museum of Museums to celebrate the release of Miah Jeffra’s novel, American Gospel. We do so by gathering writers who dare to write sex and joy. We imagine a radical consent culture in which an enthusiastic yes is possible. We seek a praxis of ecstasy, a poetics and storytelling of humor, embodiment, satisfaction, resilience, and writing that embraces desire as creative and liberatory practice. Joining Miah will be dynamic and poignant readings from Amber Flame, Arisa White, Jennifer Lewis, Jubi Arriola-Headley, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Syr Beker, Addie Tsai, and others to be announced.

b e t w e e n s p a c e s

University of Washington Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, Kelsey Street Press, Essay Press, and Bellingham Review host a hybridisciplinary phonetic transference featuring Ally Ang, Kiran Bath, Ching-In Chen, Steven Dunn, Valerie Hsiung, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Dennis James Sweeney and Keith S. Wilson.

Celebrating Twenty-Five Years: The Terrain.org Seattle Reading

Celebrate twenty-five years of publishing place-based literature, artwork, commentary, and design with Terrain.org in a fun, fast-paced reading by Terrain.org editors and editorial board members, including: Betsy Aoki, Simmons Buntin, Janine DeBaise, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Danielle Beazer Dubrasky, Elizabeth Dodd, Sean Enfield, Joshua Dewain Foster, CMarie Fuhrman, Renata Golden, Andrew C. Gottlieb, Allison Adele Hedge Coke, Lee Herrick, Sean Hill, Karen An-hwei Lee, Lisa Levine, Hannah Markley, Anne Haven McDonnell, Nick Neely, Georgia Pearle, Derek Sheffield, and Leonora Simonovis. Free hors d'ouvres and drinks!

Adverse Abstraction & Stone Pacific Zine Collaboration Event

Adverse Abstraction (a monthly artist series held in NYC) & Stone Pacific Zine (a zine of unconventional art and writing) are coming together to host a collaborative event featuring our past contributors! This event will not only have poetry, music, and artwork available, but also snacks, beverages, and beautiful company in an artist's studio.

hex HAD Comal

Join hex and HAD for an evening of brief, weird readings from a bunch of our contributors. Seattle taco pop-up Comal will be on hand selling food, beer, wine, and nonalcoholic drinks. Broadcast Coffee Roosevelt is a two-minute walk from the Roosevelt light rail stop.

Switchback, Futurepoem, Action, VOLT, Jellyfish, Boa, & Everybody: Off-site Extravaganza

Join us at Bad Bar, the place in Seattle where a weekend can turn into a week! Enjoy a cash bar, great food, pink neon, and a fun vibe while you listen to some of the best poets in the world, including: Kazim Ali, Ghayath Almadhoun, Julie Carr, Paul Cunningham, Jessica Guzman, Kate Hedeen, Valerie Hsiung, Alyse Knorr, Manuel Paul López, Irene Mathieu, Olivia Muenz, Jeffrey Pethybridge, Kathleen Rooney, Jessica Q. Stark, Rodrigo Toscano, and more.

We encourage attendees to wear masks for the health and safety of all readers and audience members.

One Poet, One Poem

Join the staff and contributors of Image, Presence, Rock & Sling, Whale Road Review, and WordFarm for a fast-paced one poet, one poem reading in a gorgeous space. Drinks and good company included.

My Beats Are Icky: A Poetry Reading

This ensemble reading, "My Beats Are Icky," is titled as a tribute to Seattle icon Sir Mix-a-Lot. Featured readers include Wendy Barnes, Ebo Barton, Sarah Browning, Claudia Castro Luna, Xavier Cavazos, Joel Dias-Porter, Keetje Kuipers, Robert Lashley, Jen Lynn, Chloe Martinez, Joanna Thomas, Emily Van Kley, and Shelley Wong. Wine provided by Locus Wines. Open mic to follow. Please arrive by 6:30 p.m. for signup.

Tolsun Books Cafe Reading (BYOB)

Join Tolsun Books for a great evening of rad writers sharing their phenomenal talent! Authors who will be reading: Katy Ellis, Sarah Anne Strickley, Amie Whittemore, Jake Levine, Molly Kugel, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Kim Kralowec, Caitlyn Hunter, Letisia Cruz, AJ Odasso, Colin Pope, and Shawnte Orion.There will be delicious coffee and food for purchase. Menu here: https://www.cherryst.com/menus. This event will be BYOB. Cost of admission: nothing.

No Irritable Reaching

Seattle meets Santa Cruz! There will be "no irritable reaching" as poets reveal what Keats called "negative capability" in a gorgeous art gallery. Poet Paul E. Nelson of Cascadia Poetics Lab will read along with Sara Marie Ortiz, Roxi Power, Vicki Banales, Farnaz Fatemi, Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, and Adelia MacWilliam. Inspired, in part, by the panel, "Rhizomatic Literary Communities: from the Local to the National" (Thursday 1:45 p.m.), we will grow rhizomes of poetic connection up the coast between our literary communities. Join us for sake, appetizers, art, words, and Cascadian community.

Group Reading with Nightboat, FC2, and The Elephants

We hope you will join us Friday, March 10 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Havana Social Club for a group reading with Nightboat Books, FC2, and The Elephants! Readings by Nightboat authors: Carrie Hunter, jayy dodd, Oscar Oswald, and Sueyeun Juliette Lee. FC2 authors: George Abraham, Sarah Yanni, and Thirii Myint. The Elephants authors: Dalia Neis, Joshua Berson, Robert Majzels, Sara Larsen, and Syd Staiti.

Lily Poetry Review Books

Join us at Lily Poetry Review Books at the Seattle Central Public Library in the Betty Jane Narver Reading Room at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 10th for a reading featuring Meghan Sterling, Max Heinegg, Kelly DuMar, Deborah Leipziger, Josette Akresh Gpnzales, Tommy Archuleta, Phoebe Reeves, Paul Nemser, Gloria Monaghan, Christine Jones, Liz Ahl, Kareem Tayyar, Jennifer Jean, Anne Riesenberg, Cynthia Bargar, Alexis Ivy, Barbara Helfgott Hyett, and Michael McInnis.

Battle of the Craft Experts, Hosted by StoryStudio Chicago

Hosted by StoryStudio Chicago, please join us for a social hangout with a twist: "Battle of the Craft Experts." Part cocktail party, part game-show-style fun, this event will be a chance for you to mingle with fellow writers and experience short segments of Drunk Spelling Bee, Bibliomancy, Lit Trivia, etc. The below authors will compete for the title of the Ultimate Craft Champion, while you cheer them on with drinks, cheers, and good-natured heckling. Featuring: Matthew Salesses, Matt Bell, and Robin Black, with emcee Rebecca Makkai. Books will be for sale on-site via Elliott Bay Books.

We respect and encourage all personal precautions attendees would like to take, but wearing masks is not required at this time.

A Night of Native Stories

Come out and celebrate the stories of four First American writers as they read from their forthcoming and previously published books. Co-hosted by the Authors Guild and the Institute of American Indian Arts at the Seattle Public Library, you’ll experience poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction by T. Kira Madden, Bojan Louis, Brendan Basham, and Deborah Taffa.

Masks are strongly encouraged at this indoor event.

Queer Nature Anthology Poetry Reading

Join Autumn House Press in celebrating Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology with readings from contributors Kevin McLellan, Jessica Jacobs, Nickole Brown, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Khalisa Rae, Jacques J. Rancourt, Amie Whittemore, Ed Madden, Eric Tran, Ever Jones, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers, S. Brook Corfman, Arianne True, Tobias Wray, sam sax, Brenda Shaughnessy, Michael Walsh, and Luther Hughes. Accessibility information: the front space of the store where events will take place is wheelchair accessible but the rest of the store includes several flights of stairs. Feel free to call and reach out to the store for more info about other accessibility needs!

Nubian Stories

Nubian Stories by Nabra Nelson and Mona Sherif Nelson. Produced by Dunya Productions as a living room touring play. Sabila, a Nubian woman who was forcibly relocated from her village in the south of Egypt due to its intentional flooding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam, tells the story of her people through her own incredible biography as well as through the ancient Nubian folkloric tales she grew up with. Based on a true story, Nubian Stories is a play about loss and legacy set simultaneously in the past and present.

Wine & Reading with Coffee House Press, Feminist Press, & The Rumpus

Join independent publishers Coffee House Press, Feminist Press, and The Rumpus for another amazing evening of literary readings, community, and an open wine bar at Structure Cellars! Featuring readings by Courtney Faye Taylor (Concentrate), Eleni Sikelianos (Your Kingdom, What I Knew, Make Yourself Happy), Joe Vallese (It Came From the Closet), Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (Children of the Land, Cenzontle, Dulce), Tom Comitta (The Nature Book, 〇, Airport Novella), and YZ Chin (The Age of Goodbyes, Edge Case, Though I Get Home). Wine while supplies last, beer and NA available for purchase. Sliding scale pricing is available, with discounted admission available to those for whom the standard admission price presents a financial hardship. Supporting at the higher end of the sliding scale helps us provide accessible ticketing options for this event. We appreciate your support!

Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 48 hours required for entry.

Triptych: A Reading, A Screening, and a Dance Party

Triptych: A reading, a screening, and a dance party, hosted by TriQuarterly, Denver Quarterly/FIVES, and Southeast Review. Featuring an hour-long reading of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction with screenings of short video essays and cinepoems between each reader. Cash bar opens in the lobby at 7:30 p.m, reading starts promptly at 8:00 p.m. in Cinema 1. Dance party to follow featuring a playlist curated by our editors and readers! Free registration via Eventbrite encouraged—doors will close when we reach capacity!

A 3rd Thing Convergence at Elliott Bay Book Company

Join Alissa Hattman, Aricka Foreman, Jennifer Calkins, M Freeman, Quenton Baker, and Summer J. Hart as Elliott Bay Book Company hosts the first in-person west coast convergence of artists published by The 3rd Thing, an Olympia-based independent publisher of necessary alternatives. This interdisciplinary lineup will read from works published by The 3rd Thing and elsewhere. Brief Q&A to follow.

The 3rd Thing encourages attendees to wear a mask and test before gathering. Elliott Bay Book Company's Covid Protocol: Vaccination cards are not checked. Masks are optional but are encouraged. We have masks available at our front counter and in our Readings Room. We also have two air purifiers in our Readings Room. We follow our state and county protocols for masking, though, so if these change, we abide by these changes.

Poetry at Perihelion

Unsolicited Press poets read their work at Perihelion Brewery.

Elegies: Open Mic Nite With the Dead

Bring your dead and unveil your best ghost stories and haunted writing. There will be plenty of corpses to go around so excerpts should be three minutes or less, all genres welcome. Arrive early to grab a drink and put your name in the coffin. All readings will take place on the patio so dress accordingly. A/V available for those who would like to project images during their reading. Time permitting, everyone who wants to read will be able to do so, or grab some friends and just sit back and listen. All are welcome!

Reading at Seattle Beer Company

Join us at Seattle Beer Company for a reading co-hosted by Burnside Review Press, Saturnalia Books, Letter Machine Editions, Black Ocean, and Barrow Street Press featuring Kary Wayson, Angelo Mao, Meghan Maguire Dahn, Lee Upton, Jacob Sunderlin, Jonathan Weinert, Dan Kaplan, Sawako Nakayasu, Jessica Laser, Joe Hall, Chaun Webster, Sadie Dupuis, Timothy Liu, Joni Wallace, Stephen Massimilla, and Sin Yong-Mok.

A Very Important Karaoke Party

Don’t miss A Very Important Karaoke Party, the living musical lit mag, a collaboration between songwriters and audience singers for a night of belting parody songs about being a writer. We’ll commiserate, celebrate, and sing to works by an incredible list of writers, from Steve Almond to Vanessa Hua.

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Bird Walk at Union Bay Marsh

Meet at the Union Bay marsh for a gentle 1+ mile walk on level dirt and gravel. We'll look for birds as we wander. You can expect to see lots of avian activity, from ruby-crowned kinglets and yellow-rumped warblers, to green-winged teals and hooded mergansers, to great blue herons and bald eagles. I can't guarantee particular species sightings, but I can promise you'll breathe easy in the outside air. Dress for the weather and reach out with any questions.

Dress for the weather, masks optional.

Drag Brunch Reading

Lambda Literary is proud to present our first annual Drag Brunch reading, hosted by the artist-writers Wo Chan & Tim "TinTim" Jones-Yelvington. Grab drinks and food from the Stella while enjoying the reading of a lifetime! Featuring readings from Lambda Literary retreat fellows, including Kristen Arnett, Stephen Patrick Bell, Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick, noam keim, MARS Marshall, Shelby Pinkham, Dior J. Stephens, and Tauheed Zaman. Registration required.

Raul Salinas Presente! A Vers[o]frenda to a 91-Year Legacy of Liberation Poetics

Masks are encouraged but not required.

A Celebration with The Hopkins Review

This celebration of The Hopkins Review's Phoenix Award-winning fifteenth anniversary redesign and the launch of its new volume 16 will feature drinks, hors d'oeuvres, short readings, and a chance to connect with THR contributors, staff, and readers, as well as alumni and friends of the JHU Writing Seminars.

A NoMaterial Symposium

Northwest Film Forum and Black Sun Lit present an off-site event: a NoMaterial Symposium where Carlos Lara and Brian Amsterdam (Ceremonial Abyss), plus some of their current friends, take over the NWFF lobby with spontaneous readings, a mini-lecture, and noise overall.

NWFF patrons will be required to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. We are not currently checking vaccination cards. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.

Hanging Loose, Rigorous, & Unlikely Stories

Hanging Loose Press, Rigorous: a journal by people of color, and Unlikely Stories/Unlikely Books team up to present an awesome, three-hour poetry reading with many of your favorites! Readers will include John Wall Barger, Martine Bellen, Carol Dorf, Gerald Fleming, Joanna Fuhrman, Kenning JP García, Martha Jackson Kaplan, Cecilia Martinez-Gil, Laura Mattingly, Gloria Mindock, Renuka Raghavan, dan raphael, Michael Ruby, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Rone Shavers, Rats Alice Trujillo, and Marc Vincenz! This schedule is not finalized, and more names will likely appear!

A Mind Full of Music: Words & Songs

Part concert, part reading, and pure celebration of song. Chris Forhan, a poet, memoirist, and essayist originally from Seattle, now living in Indianapolis, will appear with local musicians Mikey Gervais (aka “Mikey the Rad Scientist,” of the duo Mikey & Matty) and Kaylee Cole. Forhan will read from his new book, A Mind Full of Music: Essays on Imagination and Popular Song (Overcup Press), the musicians will play, and all will talk about how songs operate upon our minds in intimate, strange, and powerful ways. Come enjoy music, words, and some of that famously great Seattle craft beer!

Essay Press, Noemi Press, and Bloof Books Extravaganza: An Off-Site Reading

Natalie Eilbert (Bloof), Ginger Ko (Bloof), Irene Vazquez (Bloof), Danielle Pafunda (Bloof/Essay), Abby Hagler (Essay), Min Kang (Essay), Olivia Muenz (Essay), Dennis Sweeney (Essay), Jackson Bliss (Noemi), Megan Kaminski (Noemi), Nilufar Karimi (Noemi), JD Pluecker (Noemi), Claire Marie Stancek (Noemi), and Sarah Minor (Noemi/Essay).

Somatic Spiraling: The Body as a Creative Resource

Emily Mundy and Amy Hirayama present an embodied workshop. Often, writing is considered a disembodied act. But the physicality of writing exists on a much deeper level than simply excavating the mind for language, then allowing it to flow through fingers on a keyboard or from the wrist to the pen on a page. In this workshop, Amy and Emily will combine movement, guided meditation, and sensory exploration with generative writing prompts to steer writers through the energetic channels of their own bodies, in hopes of accessing surprising information for their creative work.

NWFF patrons will be required to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. We are not currently checking vaccination cards. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.

Seismic: Seattle City of Literature Happy Hour

Please join Seattle City of Literature for a celebration of our essay collection Seismic, edited by Kristen Millares Young. Stick around for free food and drinks! Short readings by Kristen Millares Young and three former Seattle Civic Poets, including Anastacia Reneé, Claudia Castro Luna, and Jourdan Imani Keith. Event starts at 4:00 p.m, followed by a happy hour to honor all of the amazing literary organizations, libraries, bookstores, writers, publishers, and readers that make our City of Literature amazing. Please RSVP.

Seven by Seven

Join The Seventh Wave for our 2023 off-site event, “Seven By Seven,” bringing together an unforgettable lineup of seven TSW contributors and local Seattle talents. Featuring Sarah Ghazal Ali, Gabrielle Bates, Ariana Benson, Sadia Hassan, Patrycja Humienik, Erin Lynch, and Troy Osaki, this poetry reading is the perfect way to close out your time at the conference: among good people, in a stunning art-filled space, nourishing your soul with verse. Come to reconnect with old friends or meet someone new; we can't wait to give y'all a warm Wavey welcome. Learn more about us at www.seventhwavemag.com.

Attendance is limited to seventy people, so be sure to RSVP to secure your spot. Video and audio from the reading will also be projected outside the event space for those preferring to partake from a distance. Attendees are encouraged to wear a mask at all times, and a limited number of masks will be available at the venue for those who need one. We appreciate your cooperation in helping us to hold this event as safely and responsibly as possible!

Women Writers of Empty Bowl Press

Sponsored by Seattle University's Philosophy department, this Empty Bowl Press reading showcases four recent authors: Rebekah Anderson, Rena Priest, Kate Reavey, and Ann Spiers. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing. Holly J. Hughes, copublisher of Empty Bowl Press, will serve as host.

Masks are recommended.

Another Chicago Magazine Reading

ACM contributors Marie Biondolillo, EJ Colen, Alle Hall, Audrey Shipp, and Maya Jewell Zeller will all read briefly from their work. There will be light refreshments.

Wearing of masks is encouraged.

Writing at the End of a City

Writers read on arriving, staying in, or leaving the city, about where we go, how we flourish, and how we work to belong. Sara Brickman, C.R. Grimmer, Clara Olivo, Meredith Arena, Karen Finneyfrock, Jay Thompson, Shelby Handler, Bill Carty, Sara Yinling Post, and J. Turner Masland. Still Liquor has a ramp to enter the bar and round tables as well as booths. The website and Google Maps have many photos of the space and sidewalk.

Please wear a mask. We will have some available for you.

Memoir Monday

Memoir Monday brings the very best first-person writing together in a weekly newsletter and a quarterly reading series. This special Saturday edition of Memoir Monday will be hosted by Lilly Dancyger and feature authors Sabrina Imbler (How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures), Raquel Gutiérrez (Brown Neon), Erin Keane (Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me), and Camonghne Felix (Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation).

Comics Night Out: It's an Art Party

It's a double-header comics night out at the Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery in Georgetown, co-organized with Fieldmouse Press and MUTHA Magazine. First up, a conversation between indie cartoonists MariNaomi and Megan Kelso. Then celebrate MUTHA-Decade, with an opening reception (drinks and eats!) of a curated exhibit of originals and prints from the radical parenting zine's comics pages, including Eisner nominated and Ignatz winning works from artists Rina Ayuyang, Tyler Cohen, Leela Corman, Robyn Jordan, Kate Lacour, Lisa Lim, Rachel Masilamani, Mardou, Keiler Roberts, and Lauren Weinstein.

Glitterati! A Reading of Sparkling New Work at The Rabbit Box Theatre, Pike Place Market

The Rabbit Box Theatre presents Glitterati!, a celebratory gathering and reading of sparkling new work by Arianne Zwartjes, Michael X. Wang, Sarah Viren, Addie Tsai, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Talia Kolluri, Allegra Hyde, Irene Cooper, and Beth Alvarado. Relax with a drink from the bar and a bite from the bistro, mingle with friends, and wrap up your conference experience in glittering style at Seattle's iconic Pike Place Market. (Take the stairs off Pike Street, next to Left Bank Books Collective.) The Rabbit Box Theatre has ADA accessibility. There are ramps and elevators and information about them on this website: https://www.pikeplacemarket.org/map/

Masks are appreciated and will be available, but are not required.

Words With Music...And Friends

Words with music...and friends. In celebration of words, both written and sung, and the way we gather at coffee shops, pubs, and conferences to talk about such, we've put together a lineup of writers and musicians to perform their craft in a night celebrating fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and, of course, song. Writers: Andrew Bertaina, Jason Thornberry, Dave O'Leary, Ronit Plank, Derek Delahunt, Alycia Calvert, and Chaitania Hein. Musicians/Bands: A Murder at Baker Street and Furniture Girls.

A Prestigious Evening of Literature with Taco Bell Quarterly & CLASH Books

Join Taco Bell Quarterly and CLASH Books for an evening of prestigious literature at TeKu Tavern in Seattle! Hear readings from prestigious and famous writers and poets, readings from the latest issue of Taco Bell Quarterly, and celebrate the upcoming release of Proximity by Sam Heaps. Come party and hang out. Is The Paris Review even real?

Hugo House Presents: Khadijah Queen, Raymond Antrobus, L. Lamar Wilson, & Ilya Kaminsky

Hugo House presents an evening of Disability Poetry featuring: Khadijah Queen, Raymond Antrobus, L. Lamar Wilson, and Ilya Kaminsky. The reading will be followed by a brief discussion moderated by Saleem Hue Penny. This event is made possible through the support of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. Real-time, social media engagement coordinated by Zoeglossia. Hugo House aims to be a barrier-free learning environment. The building is an accessible space and fully ADA-compliant. ASL will be provided. If you have access needs please contact Jasmine Plaskon at Hugo House.

In order to keep everyone safe and healthy while at Hugo House, we continue to require all attendees to wear a face mask while within our facility regardless of vaccination status. Masks may only be removed temporarily when actively eating or drinking. Masks should be worn so that they fully cover your nose and chin. The CDC currently recommends N95 masks as the most effective against the spread of COVID-19. Face masks will be provided to attendees who do not bring their own.

Good Symptom

"Good Symptom"—a serial anthology of time-based disturbances—troubles the boundaries between cinema and literature. At this special showcase screening, get a sneak peek at a selection of the short films featured in this video anthology produced by independent, interdisciplinary press The 3rd Thing. These remarkable pieces push the language and form of poetry, essay, correspondence, autobiography, manifesto, thought piece, and hybrid literary work off the page and onto the screen.

NWFF patrons will be required to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. We are not currently checking vaccination cards. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.

Super Position

One poetry reading in two locations simultaneously. Quantumically umbilicaled by projector and Google Meet. Second location: Casa de Xolo, 3418 Fremont Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103. Info on Instagram: @bottle_meat. Featuring: Alex Mattraw, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Paul Nelson, Justine Chan, Greg Bem, Eric M. Acosta, Sky O'Brien, Ricardo Ruiz, Lara de la Rosa, Irving Ayala, and Amy Hirayama.

Art Inspires Art: How Music Influences Literature

An old saying claims that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Come join Frances Badalamenti, Joshua Bohnsack, Tim DeMarco, Lee Matthew Goldberg, Thomas Kohnstamm, Tomas Moniz, and Michael Overa as they read from their music-influenced works. End the conference with a bang. Or a beer. Feel free to dance to the architecture if you please.

A Reading of Readings at the Museum of Museums

Join hosts Srikanth Reddy (series editor, Phoenix Poets) and Sebastián H. Páramo (poetry editor, Deep Vellum) for a reading featuring poets from the University of Chicago Press Phoenix Poets series and from Deep Vellum. Phoenix Poets: Annelyse Gelman, Dong Li, and Lindsay Turner. Deep Vellum: KB Brookins, Sophia Terazawa, and Taisia Kitaiskaia.

Translated Bodies: Performance Experiment

Velocity Dance Center presents Translated Bodies, a three day event, curated by Gabrielle Civil and featuring Civil and fellow artist/translators Madhu H. Kaza, Sawako Nakayasu, and JD Pluecker. For Saturday Experiment we meet to catch up or catch on to something new, blurring artist and audience with recaps, pop-up performances, and play. On our last day together, let’s free write—jam—improvise—show & tell. Dress to witness, move, or spark . . . Come join us! 12th Avenue Arts is fully accessible for wheelchairs and walkers. The lobby and bathrooms are at street level, and seating is available without the need for an elevator or stairs.

Masking encouraged but not required.

Publishing in Spanish in the United States

Literary production in Spanish has a long tradition in the United States, but despite being the country with the second-highest number of Spanish speakers in the world, its publishing industry remains focused on the English language. In this panel, literary agents, editors, and authors will share their experiences about publishing in Spanish in our country. After the event, we will celebrate with music and appetizers. This event will take place in Spanish. However, translated subtitles will be available for the benefit of our English-speaking audience.

Masking by all patrons, presenters, and employees is no longer required for Town Hall-produced events. Town Hall Seattle strongly encourages all audience members to continue to wear a mask over their nose and mouth except when eating or drinking. We ask that all audience members be respectful of each other’s choices.

Northwest Modern: Bringing Together an Eclectic Cast of Readers with Ties to the PNW

Northwest modern: bringing together an eclectic cast of readers with ties to the Pacific Northwest. Featuring Quenton Baker, Bill Carty, Sonia Greenfield, Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka, Paul Hlava Ceballos, Jessica E. Johnson, Jessica Mehta, and Colleen O'Brien.

With a Little Help From My Friends: A Poetry Party Presented by PoemoftheWeek.com

My friends, you are invited to the final event of Seattle 2023, and how could you have survived without knowing, at its bitter end, you only survived with a little help from (your) friends: a poetry party presented by poemoftheweek.com? No doubt, you would have perished... it's been quite the literary circus, and all circuses must have their grand finale. This is the grandest of grandiose finales you've been waiting for: an absurd lineup of poets reading their most beloved poem whilst overlooking the Emerald City. List of readers on Facebook event page in link.

Hot Pink Mag Reading

Featuring readings by: imogen xtian smith, Jack Jung, NM Esc, Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo, Kirsten Ihns, Jack Chelgren, Rachelle Rahme, Ryan Patrick Cook, and Christine Kwon. Hosted by Emily Bark Brown and Zoe Tuck.

Please wear a mask when not eating or drinking.

Nubian Stories (Opening Performance)

Nubian Stories by Nabra Nelson and Mona Sherif Nelson. Produced by Dunya Productions as a living room touring play. Sabila, a Nubian woman who was forcibly relocated from her village in the south of Egypt due to its intentional flooding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam, tells the story of her people through her own incredible biography as well as through the ancient Nubian folkloric tales she grew up with. Based on a true story, Nubian Stories is a play about loss and legacy set simultaneously in the past and present.

On an Island Reading Series with Kathy Fagan & Phoebe Reeves

This is an outside event. Masks (though always encouraged) will be optional.

Writers Who Play (in Tacoma)

Join writers/musicians Ken Waldman and Brian Laidlaw, plus Northwest singers/songwriters/guitarists Louis Ledford and Mick Radichel, plus special guests for a roots music celebration and variety show with fiddle, banjo, guitar, poetry, storytelling, and song. It's at the historic Spanish Ballroom in the Elks Temple, downtown Tacoma. Check the URL link for bios of all featured participants, and see what to expect on Sunday afternoon, March 12. For years, Ken Waldman co-produced an event, Writers Who Play, with Barton College writer and musician, Jim Clark. This 2023 iteration has a great venue!

For the venue's house rules, visit the venue website.