2023 Off-Site Event Schedule

Join AWP's literary community for the following off-site events, hosted throughout the Seattle, Washington area and virtually during our conference.

The organizers of these events have agreed to ensure that the off-site venues listed here are accessible according to the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

These events are not produced, moderated, or curated by AWP, and AWP is not responsible for their quality or accessibility services. We list these events as a courtesy to the literary field.

If you have any questions or concerns about specific off-site events, please contact the organizers of the event directly.

 

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

6:00 pm

Campion Ballroom, Seattle University, 901 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122

The Laughter by Sonora Jha with Nalini Iyer


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Seattle University College of Arts and Sciences
Contact Email: arts-sciences@seattleu.edu
Organization: Seattle University College of Arts and Sciences

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

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


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Masks are encouraged but not required.


Contact: Anna Buxton
Contact Email: abuxton@fryemuseum.org
Organization: Frye Art Museum
Organization URL: website

4:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Optimism Brewing Company, 1158 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122

Beerhall Bookfair at Optimism Brewing


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Lynne Ellis
Contact Email: papeachuevents@gmail.com
Organization: Papeachu Press
Organization URL: website

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

University of Washington, Communications Building, CMU Room 202, 2023 King Ln NE, Seattle, WA 98105

Mapping the Unmappable: A Conversation with Four Southeast Asian Writers


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Vaccination required. Mask optional.


Contact: Singapore Unbound
Contact Email: jkoh@singaporeunbound.org
Organization: Southeast Asia Center, University of Washington at Seattle
Organization URL: website

Redhook Brewlab, 714 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122

VCCA Fellows & Friends Gathering


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Clifford Garstang
Contact Email: cliffgarstang@gmail.com
Organization: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Opacity of Performance


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Takahiro Yamamoto
Contact Email: rana@nwfilmforum.org
Organization: Northwest Film Forum & On the Boards
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

The Rabbit Box, 94 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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/


Contact: Jeremy Pataky
Contact Email: jeremy@porphyry.press
Organization: Porphyry Press
Organization URL: website

The National Nordic Museum, 2655 NW Market St, Seattle, WA 98107

Inspired by Iceland: A Multimedia Poetry Reading


Cost: $5.00
Event URL: website

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).


Contact: Katy Didden
Contact Email: gillianc@nordicmuseum.org
Organization: The National Nordic Museum
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

1600 Melrose Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

BOA Poets Reading & Launch


Cost: Free

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!


Health & Safety Information:

Follow COVID protocols as appropriate.


Contact: Subhaga Crystal Bacon
Contact Email: subhaga.crystal.bacon@gmail.com

Shawn O'Donnell's, 508 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

Athena's Pet Project Presents: Of Gods and Monsters


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Sonia Greenfield
Contact Email: sonia.greenfield@gmail.com

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

Off the Chain: Cave Canem


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Cave Canem
Contact Email: programs@ccpoets.org
Organization: Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
Organization URL: website

Blarney Stone Pub, 1416 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

City Feet, Swamp Mouths: A Louisiana Regional Offsite Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Nikki Ummel
Contact Email: lmnl.lit.nola@gmail.com
Organization: lmnl lit
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Cafe Racer, 1510 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Wednesday Night Poetry, Hosted by Kai Coggin


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Kai Coggin
Contact Email: wednesdaynightpoetry@gmail.com
Organization: Wednesday Night Poetry
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Capitol Cider, 818 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free

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


Contact: Laura Read
Contact Email: lauraelizabethread@gmail.com

Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Denise Levertov: A Celebration of Her Work and Life


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Claudia Castro Luna
Contact Email: castrolunaclaudia@gmail.com
Organization: Elliott Bay Book Company
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Page Meets Stage


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Hugo House, Page Meets Stage
Contact Email: welcome@hugohouse.org

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Vermillion Gallery & Bar, 1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Amanda Scott
Contact Email: aes126@txstate.edu
Organization: Waxwing, Third Coast, Porter House Review

Central Saloon, 207 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

The 10th Annual Rock and Roll Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Dan Hoyt
Contact Email: danhoyt@ksu.edu

7:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Queer/Bar, 1518 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Poetry Gays


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Masks encouraged.


Contact: Brian Sonia-Wallace
Contact Email: bsoniawallace@gmail.com
Organization: Pride Poets
Organization URL: website

Common Area Maintenance, 2125 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

Pacific Northwest Showcase


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Connor Guy
Contact Email: connorbguy@gmail.com
Organization: Common Area Maintenance
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

92 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101

Lumpenpockets: Gender Ideology


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Health & Safety Information:

Masks are required


Contact: Left Bank Books Collective
Contact Email: leftbank@leftbankbooks.com

7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Spanner: A Multimedia Literary Performance


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Masking is strongly recommended.


Contact: Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Contact Email: eleethursdays@gmail.com
Organization: Northwest Film Forum
Organization URL: website

Third Place Books Lake Forest Park, 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Spencer Ruchti
Contact Email: events@thirdplacebooks.com
Organization: Third Place Books

8:00 pm to 9:30 pm

The Pine Box, 1600 Melrose Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Welcome Party


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Keetje Kuipers
Contact Email: keetje@poetrynw.org
Organization: Poetry Northwest and Seattle Arts & Lectures
Organization URL: website

8:15 pm to 9:15 pm

Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Growing From Our Roots: An Asian Debut Author Showcase


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Susan Nguyen and Joshua Nguyen
Contact Email: susan.girlpoet@gmail.com
Organization: Kundiman South

9:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Write Bloody Poetry Super Showcase & Sock Hop


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Hugo House, Write Bloody Publishing
Contact Email: welcome@hugohouse.org

Thursday, March 9, 2023

10:00 am to 11:00 am

Chin Music Press, 1501 Pike Place #329, Seattle, WA 98101

Writing Cross Genre with Nicole Hardy at Chin Music Press


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Writers.com, Chin Music Press
Contact Email: brookes@writers.com
Organization: Writers.com
Organization URL: website

1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Optimism Brewing Company, 1158 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122

Regal House Authors Read


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Zack Rogow
Contact Email: zrogow@berkeley.edu
Organization: Regal House Publishing

1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

Virtual

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Nicholas Grosso, Editor, Bordighera Press
Contact Email: info@bordigherapress.org
Organization: Bordighera Press
Organization URL: website

3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Common Area Maintenance, 2125 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: DJ Lee
Contact Email: deblee@wsu.edu
Organization: Black Earth Institute & Common Area Maintenance
Organization URL: website

3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, Pike Place Market, 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101

Stuttering & Writing: Five Authors on Speech Disability in Literature


Cost: Contribution
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: John Whittier Treat
Contact Email: john.treat@yale.edu

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Seattle Coffee Works, 108 Pine St, Seattle, WA 98101

Literary Rule Breakers


Cost: Free

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).


Contact: Jennifer Pullen
Contact Email: j-pullen@onu.edu

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

The Chieftain Irish Pub, 908 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Iris Press/Lana K. W. Austin
Contact Email: lwa0002@uah.edu
Organization: Iris Press/Madville Publishing/Stephen F. Austin State University Press
Organization URL: website

4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Locust Cider First Hill, 500 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

Northwestern SPS MFA Faculty & Alumni Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Christine Sneed
Contact Email: christine.sneed@northwestern.edu
Organization: Northwestern University School of Professional Studies MA/MFA Program in Creative Writing
Organization URL: website

The Rabbit Box, Pike Place Market, 94 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101

University of Houston Creative Writing Program Reception


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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/


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Giuseppe Taurino
Contact Email: cwp@uh.edu
Organization: University of Houston
Organization URL: website

Chop Suey, 1325 E Madison St, Seattle, WA 98122

A Dozen Nothing Poetry Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Pete Miller and Jeff Sirkin
Contact Email: adozennothing@gmail.com
Organization: A Dozen Nothing
Organization URL: website

5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

The Washington Wine Tasting Room, 1924 Post Alley, Seattle, WA 98101

Water~Stone Review 25th Anniversary Reading


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Meghan Maloney-Vinz, Robyn Earhart
Contact Email: water-stone@hamline.edu
Organization: Water~Stone Review
Organization URL: website

5:00 pm to 6:15 pm

425 Harvard Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102

Poetry Hour at the Capitol Hill Library


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Ben Gucciardi
Contact Email: ben.gucciardi@gmail.com

5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Seattle University, Casey Commons Room (Fifth floor of Casey Building), 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98

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


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Susan Meyers
Contact Email: meyerss@seattleu.edu
Organization: Seattle University
Organization URL: website

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Vermillion Gallery & Bar, 1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Storyknife Writers Reading & Get Together


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Erin Hollowell
Contact Email: info@storyknife.org
Organization: Storyknife Writers Retreat
Organization URL: website

Bad Bishop, 704 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

2 Horatio Poetry Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Health & Safety Information:

Masks are encouraged but not required.


Contact: Thea Goodman & Vanessa Smith
Contact Email: goodthayer@gmail.com

Green Tortoise Hostel, 105 Pike St, Seattle, 98101

Helen Zell Writers Program Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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


Contact: Jordan Hamel
Contact Email: hameljo@umich.edu

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101

Meet Gaudy Boy: An Indie Press from New York


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Gaudy Boy
Contact Email: jkoh@singaporeunbound.org
Organization: Folio: the Seattle Athenaeum
Organization URL: website

Blue Moon Tavern, 712 NE 45th St, Seattle, WA 98105

Celebrating the Elders / Great Pacific Northwest Poets


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Richard Robbins
Contact Email: richard.robbins.2@mnsu.edu

900 Madison St, Seattle, WA 98104

Wandering Words & Wild Euphony


Cost: Free

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!


Contact: Jill McCabe Johnson
Contact Email: jill@jillmccabejohnson.com
Organization: Wandering Aengus Press, Trail to Table Press

5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Blarney Stone Pub, 1416 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

UCF MFA Creative Writing Program 10th Annual Reading & Reunion


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Terry Ann Thaxton
Contact Email: terry.thaxton@ucf.edu
Organization: University of Central Florida MFA CRW Program
Organization URL: website

5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Quest Bookshop and Theosophical Society, 717 Broadway E, Seattle, WA 98102

A Divine Reading: Where Writing and Divination Meet


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Please follow any updated COVID protocols as appropriate.


Contact: Michele Battiste
Contact Email: mcbattiste@gmail.com

The Rabbit Box, Pike Place Market, 94 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101

Adam Zagajewski Off-site Tribute Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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/


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Cate Marvin
Contact Email: catemarvin@gmail.com

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Off the Page


Cost: $10 suggested donation
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Kamari Bright
Contact Email: kamaribrightart@gmail.com
Organization: Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Black Cinema Collective
Organization URL: website

5:30 pm to 7:15 pm

Seattle Restored Market, 1503 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

An evening celebrating local independent publisher Chin Music Press!


Contact: Adriana Campoy, Justine Chan
Contact Email: editor@chinmusicpress.com
Organization: Chin Music Press
Organization URL: website

5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Solo Bar & Eatery, 200 Roy St, Seattle, WA 98109

Party with the Northwest Literary Translators


Cost: Free, drinks for purchase
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Shelley Fairweather-Vega & Gabriella Page-Fort
Contact Email: translation@fairvega.com
Organization: Northwest Literary Translators
Organization URL: website

Zeitgeist Cafe, 171 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA 98104

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


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Masks recommended.


Contact: CE Shue, Shankar Narayan, Jordan Alam, Carla Cruji
Contact Email: candy@invisibleadventure.com
Organization: Kundiman PNW
Organization URL: website

5:45 pm to 6:45 pm

Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Ariel Gore’s School for Wayward Writers Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Ariel Gore & Christa Orth
Contact Email: christamaeorth@gmail.com
Organization: Literary Kitchen
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Sonic Boom Records, 2209 NW Market St, Seattle, WA 98107

Sadie Dupuis: Cry Perfume Book Launch


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

Featuring Richard Chiem and Sullivan Forderhase.


Contact: Sadie Dupuis
Contact Email: info@sonicboomrecords.com

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Seattle Public Library, 10th Floor Reading Room, 1000 Fourth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

Reading: Veliz Books, BOA Editions, Noemi Press


Cost: Free

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


Contact: Veliz Books, BOA Editions, Noemi Press
Contact Email: info@velizbooks.com

1416 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA 98144

Densho Hosts an Evening with Japanese American Poets & Writers


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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


Contact: Densho
Contact Email: bsaito@csufresno.edu
Organization: Densho
Organization URL: website

Rendezvous Jewelbox Theatre, 2322 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: James Brubaker, Brandon Hobson, Luke Rolfes
Contact Email: luke.rolfes@gmail.com
Organization: Puerto del Sol, SEMO Press, Laurel Review
Organization URL: website

Slip Gallery, 2301 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

Orchestrate Your Whole Fucking Life!


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: 17 Clay Marbles
Contact Email: mglenntaylor@gmail.com
Organization: Slip Gallery
Organization URL: website

Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

We the Indigenous: A City of Literature Celebration


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Seattle City of Literature, We the Indigenous
Contact Email: info@seattlecityoflit.org
Organization: Hugo House
Organization URL: website

Pratt Fine Arts Center, 1902 South Main St, Seattle, WA 98144

DreamYard's Rad Off-site Reading


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Masks required.


Contact: Andy Powell & Ellen Hagan
Contact Email: apowell@dreamyard.com
Organization: DreamYard
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

1000 Fourth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Health & Safety Information:

Come as you are.


Contact: Daren Dean, Eli Hastings, Shaun Anthony McMichael
Contact Email: shaun.a.mcmichael@gmail.com
Organization: Shadow Work Writers
Organization URL: website

Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

Defining Cascadia: A Cultural Celebration


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Masks are recommended at Town Hall Seattle but not required.


Contact: Mountaineers Books
Contact Email: katej@mountaineersbooks.org
Organization: 4Culture
Organization URL: website

University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Ronit Plank and S.L. Wisenberg
Contact Email: events@ubookstore.com
Organization: University Bookstore, Seattle
Organization URL: website

Dead Line, 114 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

A Reading Revelry with the Massachusetts Review and the Arkansas International


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Arkansas International / Massachusetts Review
Contact Email: development@arkint.org

Cherry Street Coffee House, 1st & Cherry St (700 1st Ave), Seattle, WA 98104

IAWA & Bordighera Press Writers Read


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Kathy Curto
Contact Email: kcurto@icloud.com
Organization: Italian American Writers Association and Bordighera Press
Organization URL: website

Virtual

Hybrid Possibilities: Asian Queer Writers Across Genre


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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).


Contact: Kay Ulanday Barrett
Contact Email: events@aaww.org
Organization: Asian American Writers' Workshop
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Casa Latina, 317 17th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144

Huizache Showcase of Central American Writers at Casa Latina


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Suzanne Bottelli
Contact Email: suzanne@casa-latina.org

Optimism Brewing Company, 1158 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122

A Toast with Milkweed Editions at Optimism Brewing Company!


Cost: Free

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!


Contact: Morgan LaRocca
Contact Email: morgan_larocca@milkweed.org
Organization: Milkweed Editions
Organization URL: website

A/NT Gallery, 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Leah Umansky & Dena Rash Guzman
Contact Email: Leahumansky@gmail.com

Ada's Technical Books & Cafe, 425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112

Audible Browsing Experience


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Cristina Deptula
Contact Email: authorslargeandsmall@gmail.com
Organization: Authors, Large and Small Book Publicity
Organization URL: website

321 Broadway E, Seattle, WA 98102

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


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Benjamin Niespodziany
Contact Email: btniespod@gmail.com
Organization: [neonpajamas]

6:00 pm to 9:30 pm

C & P Coffee Company, 5612 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98136

Diode Poetry Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Health & Safety Information:

Mask-wearing is encouraged.


Contact: Diode Editions
Contact Email: diodeeditions@gmail.com
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 7:45 pm

Diller Room, 1224 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

California College of the Arts MFA Happy Hour


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Valentine McClain
Contact Email: valentine@cca.edu
Organization: California College of the Arts MFA Writing
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

106 Cherry St, Seattle, WA 98104

Lightscatter Press & Friends Reading!


Cost: Free

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!


Health & Safety Information:

Masks advised.


Contact: Lisa Bickmore
Contact Email: lightscatterpress@gmail.com
Organization: Lightscatter Press
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Optimism Brewing Company, 1158 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122

Baobab Press Meet 'n Greet at Optimism Brewing


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Danilo John Thomas
Contact Email: danilo@baobabpress.com
Organization: Baobab Press
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Common Area Maintenance, 2125 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

Snail Trail: A Reading


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Woogee Bae
Contact Email: snailtrailpress@gmail.com
Organization: Snail Trail Press
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Sole Repair Shop, 1001 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122

YesYes Books Together Again!


Cost: Free

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!


Contact: KMA Sullivan
Contact Email: kmasullivan@yesyesbooks.com
Organization: YesYes Books
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm

The Woods, 1512 11th Ave, 1st & 2nd floors, Seattle, WA 98122

The Rumpus Presents: Sapphic Storytelling in Seattle


Cost: $20.00 advance, $25.00 door (if available)
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: The Rumpus
Contact Email: hello@therumpus.net
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Celebration of In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Elise Paschen
Contact Email: indigenous.nations.poets@gmail.com
Organization: Indigenous Nations Poets, In-Na-Po
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Third Place Books Seward Park, 5041 Wilson Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118

Jessamine Chan with Angela Garbes: The School for Good Mothers


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Spencer Ruchti
Contact Email: events@thirdplacebooks.com
Organization: Third Place Books

Third Place Books Ravenna, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115

A Night of Indie Publishers


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Spencer Ruchti
Contact Email: events@thirdplacebooks.com
Organization: Third Place Books

Corvus and Company, 601 Broadway E, Seattle, WA 98102

Queerly Beloved: An Evening with Foglifter Press


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Miah Jeffra
Contact Email: fabulous@foglifterpress.com
Organization: Foglifter Press
Organization URL: website

Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1511 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Jessica Jacobs & Tom Haviv
Contact Email: yetzirahpoets@gmail.com
Organization: Ayin Press & Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry
Organization URL: website

Cone and Steiner, 135 S King St, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA 98104

CALYX & Friends at Cone and Steiner


Cost: Free ($5.00 suggested donation)

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


Contact: Beth Russell
Contact Email: director@calyxpress.org
Organization: CALYX Press
Organization URL: website

The Loving Room, 1400 20th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Muzzle Off-site Reading


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Brittany Rogers
Contact Email: muzzlemagazine@gmail.com
Organization: Muzzle Magazine
Organization URL: website

8310 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103

Poetry Reading with Joanna Sit & Thaddeus Rutkowski


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Koon Woon, Gold Fish Press
Contact Email: jsit@mec.cuny.edu
Organization: Poets & Writers
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Old Stove Brewing Ship Canal, 600 W Nickerson St, Seattle, WA 98119

Clarion West Social & Readings


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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&


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Jae Steinbacher
Contact Email: workshop@clarionwest.org
Organization: Clarion West
Organization URL: website

Gallery 110, 110 3rd Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

Jam Yesterday, Jam Tomorrow: A Trans-Genre Cabaret


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

"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.


Contact: Roxi Power
Contact Email: roxipower@ucsc.edu
Organization: Cascadia Poetics Lab
Organization URL: website

Blarney Stone Pub, 1416 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Defunkt Magazine & Press, Bloomsday Literary
Contact Email: eic@defunktmag.com

Capitol Cider Ballast Bar, 818 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122

Celebrate 20 Years of Literary Mama


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Literary Mama
Contact Email: cdt.editorial@yahoo.com

12th Avenue Arts, 1620 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98112

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


Cost: $5.00 and donation if desired
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Peter Quint and Patty Liang
Contact Email: pmquint@gmail.com
Organization: Deaf Spotlight
Organization URL: website

Vermillion, 1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Courtney LeBlanc
Contact Email: riotinyourthroat@gmail.com

Bad Bar, 819 5th Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109

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


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Contact Email: poetrycenter@csuohio.edu

Gray Sky Gallery, 320 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

Local Author's Debut Book Release Party


Cost: $29.00
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: GoldScriptCo Publishing
Contact Email: goldscriptco@gmail.com

Seattle Beer Company, 1427 Western Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

Lightning Fast Readings: Four Way Books & Friends


Cost: Free
Lightning fast reading featuring readers from Four Way Books, Autumn House Press, and Barrow Street Press: Carlie Hoffman, Eugenia Leigh, Rebecca Foust, Rushi Vyas, Yerra Sugarman, Rob Schlegel, Jennifer Franklin, Bruce Willard, Kevin Prufer, James Allen Hall, Anthony Cappo, Julia Guez, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Angela Narciso Torres, James Fujinami Moore, Hannah Matheson, Spencer Williams, and more! Bring your own food! 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Celebrating Four Way Books thirty years anniversary!


Health & Safety Information:

We welcome mask wearing!


Contact: Four Way Books, Autumn House Press, Barrow Street
Contact Email: publicity@fourwaybooks.com

Seattle Beer Company, 1427 Western Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

Lightning Fast Reading: Autumn House & Friends


Cost: Free

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!


Contact: Autumn House Press
Contact Email: cstroud@autumnhouse.org

7:30 pm

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Black SWANA Lit: Mizna DJ & Reading Featuring Safia Elhillo


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Mizna
Contact Email: lana@mizna.org

7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Left Bank Books Collective, 92 Pike St Suite #B, Seattle, WA 98101

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Health & Safety Information:

Masking is encouraged and welcomed.


Contact: Anvil Press and Book*hug Press
Contact Email: hazel@bookhugpress.ca

7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

12th Avenue Arts, 1620 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Translated Bodies: Performance Research


Cost: $10.00-35.00 sliding scale
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Thursday Performance Research night: indoor masking required.


Contact: Gabrielle Civil
Contact Email: experimentsinjoy@gmail.com
Organization: Velocity Dance Center
Organization URL: website

7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101

Voices of the Anthropocene: An Ecopoetry Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Hila Ratzabi
Contact Email: hila.ratzabi@gmail.com

Seattle Theosophical Library, 717 Broadway E (Capitol Hill), Seattle, WA 98102

Margin Shift Presents: A Night of Poetry and Ritual


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Matt Trease and Deborah Woodard
Contact Email: marginshiftseattle@gmail.com
Organization: Margin Shift: friends in poetry
Organization URL: website

8:00 pm to 9:30 pm

The Rabbit Box Theatre, 94 Pike St Suite 11, Seattle, WA 98101

The Entanglements Network: Readings & Performances


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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/


Contact: Amy Catanzano
Contact Email: catanza@wfu.edu
Organization: The Entanglements Network
Organization URL: website

8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

The Market Theater, Pike Place Market, 1428 Post Alley, Seattle, WA 98101

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


Cost: $15.00
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: SmokeLong Quarterly
Contact Email: editor@smokelong.com
Organization URL: website

8:00 pm to 11:45 pm

Good Bar, 240 2nd Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

Kenyatta Rogers 40th Birthday Celebration & Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Jesse Fleming
Contact Email: jesselfleming@gmail.com

8:15 pm to 11:45 pm

Elliott Bay Books, 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Lit Up Thursday


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: The Adroit Journal, American Poetry Review, Kenyon
Contact Email: editors@theadroitjournal.org
Organization: The Adroit Journal, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Pleiades
Organization URL: website

9:00 pm to 11:45 pm

The Rendezvous Jewelbox Theatre, 2322 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

Nightboat All Night at The Rendezvous Jewelbox Theatre


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Nightboat Books
Contact Email: lina.bergamini@nightboat.org

10:00 pm to 11:30 pm

Vermillion Gallery & Bar, 1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

LOGOS & EcoTheo Present Luther Hughes & Gabrielle Bates


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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/.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: LOGOS & EcoTheo Collective
Contact Email: travis@ecotheo.org
Organization URL: website

Friday, March 10, 2023

8:00 am to 8:30 am

17905 Cedar Falls Rd SE, North Bend, WA 98045

Poetry Reading at Rattlesnake Lake


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Travis Mossotti
Contact Email: travis.mossotti@gmail.com

8:00 am to 11:45 pm

Virtual

Translated Bodies: Virtual Play


Cost: $10.00-35.00 sliding scale
Event URL: website

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 . . .


Contact: Gabrielle Civil
Contact Email: experimentsinjoy@gmail.com
Organization: Velocity Dance Center
Organization URL: website

12:00 pm to 2:30 pm

425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112

Fractured Lit Reading


Cost: free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Tommy Dean
Contact Email: beth@berth-hahn.com
Organization: Fractured Lit
Organization URL: website

12:30 pm to 2:30 pm

Ada's Technical Books and Cafe, 425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112

Flash Break Reading with Fractured Lit


Cost: Free

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!


Contact: Tommy Dean
Contact Email: tommy@fracturedlit.com
Organization: Fractured Lit
Organization URL: website

2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Lemieux Library, Seattle University, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Latinx/Chicanx & More (Poetry at Seattle University)


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Contact Email: gutierg@seattleu.edu
Organization: Seattle University

2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Sheraton Grand Seattle, Diamond Room, 1400 6th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Wearing of masks is voluntary.


Contact: Phoebe Bosche
Contact Email: editors@ravenchronicles.org
Organization: Raven Chronicles Press
Organization URL: website

3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Common Area Maintenance, 2125 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

Risk/Reward: On Disrupting Aesthetic Convention in Writing


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Common Area Maintenance
Contact Email: IZIDORA.ANGEL@GMAIL.COM
Organization: Exhibit B
Organization URL: website

3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA 98014

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Anna Buxton, Lorene Delany-Ullman, & Jody Servon
Contact Email: ABuxton@fryemuseum.org
Organization: Frye Art Museum
Organization URL: website

3:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Seattle University, Pigott Auditorium, 901 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122

Chicanx/Latinx Poets in the Northwest, an Ensalada


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Contact Email: gutierg@seattleu.edu
Organization: Seattle University

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Chieftain Irish Pub & Restaurant, 908 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

A Reading of West Virginia UP & Ohio UP Authors


Cost: Free

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


Contact: West Virginia University Press
Contact Email: joannace@gmail.com
Organization: Ohio University Press
Organization URL: website

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

The Rotunda at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Center, 155 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109

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


Cost: Free

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!


Contact: Lucas Jacob & Gin Hammond
Contact Email: ljjacob22@gmail.com
Organization: Seattle Repertory Theatre
Organization URL: website

The Alibi Room at Pike Place Market, 85 Pike St #410, Seattle, WA 98101

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


Cost: Free, but please consider cash donations
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Longleaf Writers Conference / Univ. of Mississippi
Contact Email: longleafwritersconference@gmail.com
Organization: University of Mississippi PhD and MFA program
Organization URL: website

Linda's Tavern, 707 E Pine St, Seattle, WA 98122

Drink and Draw


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: S. Mirk
Contact Email: mirk.sarah@gmail.com

4:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Sheraton Grand Hotel, Columbia Room, Fourth Floor, Union Street Tower, 1400 6th Ave, Seattle, WA 981

Madvillans Read


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Kimberly Davis & Luanne Smith
Contact Email: info@madvillepublishing.com
Organization: Madville Publishing
Organization URL: website

4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

999 3rd Ave Suite 700, Seattle, WA 98104

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Viniyanka Prasad
Contact Email: info@thewordfordiversity.org
Organization: Bookshop.org, PEN America, The Word
Organization URL: website

5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Kells Irish Restaurant and Bar, 1916 Post Alley, Seattle, WA 98101

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Lauren Kay Johnson
Contact Email: johnson.lauren.kay@gmail.com

5:00 pm to 6:45 pm

Pipsqueak Gallery, 173 16th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Writing the Earth with Our Whole Bodies


Cost: Free, donations accepted to support the venue
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Barrak Alzaid, Mizna, Pipsqueak
Contact Email: writer@barrakalzaid.com
Organization: Mizna
Organization URL: website

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Vermillion Gallery & Bar, 1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Kelly Daniels
Contact Email: kellydaniels@augustana.edu

Anxestral Gallery, 1302 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

Macondo Writers


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Kathleen Alcalá
Contact Email: kjalcala@gmail.com
Organization: Macondo
Organization URL: website

Doghouse Leathers, 715 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Stina French
Contact Email: listentoyourskinopenmic@gmail.com
Organization: Listen To Your Skin Open Mic & Feature Series
Organization URL: website

5:00 pm to 7:15 pm

Casey Hall, Seattle University, Marion St & 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Northwest Literary Happy Hour


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Julia Hands and Jim Gearhart
Contact Email: publisher@tahomaliteraryreview.com
Organization: Crab Creek Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Big Fiction, Mineral School
Organization URL: website

The Cloud Room, 1424 11th Ave Ste 400, Seattle, WA 98122

Chax, Kelsey, Airlie, Tinfish, & Friends


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Health & Safety Information:

Masks recommended.


Contact: Charles Alexander
Contact Email: chaxpress@chax.org
Organization: Chax Press
Organization URL: website

5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Hotel Sorrento, 900 Madison St, Seattle, WA 98104

We Keep Beginning


Cost: $15.00
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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).


Contact: The Seventh Wave
Contact Email: bretty@seventhwavemag.com
Organization URL: website

5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

MadArt Studio, 325 Westlake Ave N #101 Seattle, WA 98109

Shane McCrae & John West, Live in Seattle


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Lisa Ann Cockrel
Contact Email: lacockrel@eerdmans.com

5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Seattle Public Library, 1000 4th Ave, Level 4, Room 2, Seattle, WA 98104-1109

Jennifer McGaha & Peter Turchi in Conversation


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Trinity University Press
Contact Email: bstreetm@trinity.edu
Organization: Trinity University Press
Organization URL: website

Porter, 1201 2nd Ave #100, Seattle, WA 98101 (entrance is on 1st Ave, between University St & Seneca

An Evening of Modern Love


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Nicole Comforto
Contact Email: nicoleacomforto@gmail.com

5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

The Hideout, 1005 Boren Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Soraya Palmer, Madeline ffitch, Prince Shakur
Contact Email: Soraya95@gmail.com

The Graduate Hotel, 4507 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105

Antioch University's MFA Program: A Night of Reading


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Tim Cummings
Contact Email: gtimcummings@gmail.com
Organization: Antioch University Los Angeles
Organization URL: website

Arundel Books, 322 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

Celebrate Nightboat at Arundel Books


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Nightboat Books
Contact Email: lina.bergamini@nightboat.org

Freehold Theater, 517 Maynard Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

Catamaran's 10-Year Anniversary Celebration Readings


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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


Contact: Catherine Segurson
Contact Email: editor@catamaranliteraryreader.com
Organization: Catamaran Literary Reader
Organization URL: website

5:45 pm to 6:45 pm

The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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/.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: LOGOS & EcoTheo Collective
Contact Email: travis@ecotheo.org
Organization: Letras Latinas
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Pine Box, 1600 Melrose Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

A Reading with Spuyten Duyvil Press


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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


Contact: Kevin Allardice
Contact Email: kevin.allardice@gmail.com
Organization: Spuyten Duyvil
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

The Blarney Stone Irish Pub, 1416 1st Ave, Seattle WA 98101

Quadruple Nonfiction Off-Site Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Joey Franklin (Fourth Genre) & Jill Christman
Contact Email: Joey_Franklin@byu.edu
Organization: Hippocampus, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, & Under the Gum Tree
Organization URL: website

Razzi's Pizzeria, 1314 Howell St, Seattle, WA 98101

Poetry Reading: Persea Books with Alice James Books


Cost: Free

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!


Contact: Persea Books
Contact Email: aroustio@perseabooks.com
Organization URL: website

Outlier, 1101 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

CalArts Reading


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: CalArts
Contact Email: randersen@calarts.edu

The Lab at Ada's Books, 425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112

Apogee Press Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Lisa Alden
Contact Email: laura@watsonwalker.com
Organization: Apogee Press
Organization URL: website

Rhein Haus Seattle, 912 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Red Hen Press Omnibus Celebration


Cost: Free

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!


Contact: Red Hen Press
Contact Email: media@redhen.org

Pub 70, 2801 Alaskan Wy, Seattle, WA 98121

Harbor & Acre: Where the Sea Meets the Land


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Allison Blevins, Sonia Greenfield, Jessica Johnson
Contact Email: harboreditions@gmail.com

Communications 120, Simpson Center for the Humanities, 4109 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195

2023 Spring Salon: Moon Tide Press & CRAFT


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Rebecca Evans & Courtney Harler
Contact Email: courtney@craftliterary.com
Organization: Moon Tide Press & CRAFT
Organization URL: website

Little Saigon Creative, 1227 S Weller St, Suite A, Seattle, WA 98144

Anaphora Arts & Pacific University MFA Partnership Celebration and Reading


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Mahtem Shiferraw & Scott Korb
Contact Email: smkorb@pacificu.edu
Organization: Anaphora Arts & Pacific University MFA
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Ada's Technical Books and Cafe, 425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website
Join us for this free event (food, alcohol, and many many books for sale) at Ada's, a don't-miss bookstore in a classic Seattle neighborhood! Counterpath blowout superstar lineup, including world premiere performance piece by Ronaldo Wilson, Using Electricity series authors Arwa Michelle Mboya, Li Zilles, John Cayley, and Nick Montfort, feature of Edwin Torres's anthology The Body in Language, with Eleni Sikelianos, Rae Armantrout, and Urayoan Noel, plus a brand new film by Edwin Torres. Plus! Valerie Hsiung, Jose Antonio Villarán, and Rodrigo Toscano!


Contact: Tim Roberts
Contact Email: counterpath@gmail.com
Organization: Counterpath
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 11:45 pm

Sole Repair Shop, 1001 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122

Wave Books at Sole Repair Shop


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Wave Books
Contact Email: publicity@wavepoetry.com

6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Kells Irish Restaurant & Bar, 1916 Post Alley, Seattle, WA 98101

Military & War Writing Community Gathering


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Lauren Johnson
Contact Email: johnson.lauren.kay@gmail.com
Organization: Wrath-Bearing Tree, Collateral, MilSpeak Books

NEKO Cat Cafe, 519 E Pine St, Seattle, WA 98122

Sarah Gerard Chapbook Launch and Reading (with Cats!)


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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/.


Contact: James R. Gapinski
Contact Email: editors@coniumreview.com
Organization: Conium Press
Organization URL: website

6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

The Grumpy Bean, 910 Stewart St, Seattle, WA, 98101

Atticus Review and Barzakh Lit Mag


Cost: Free

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!


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Keene Short
Contact Email: jkeeneshort@gmail.com
Organization: Atticus Review, Barzakh Lit Mag

462 N 36th St Ste 100, Seattle, WA 98103

Gulf Coast Connection


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!)


Contact: Christopher Louis Romaguera
Contact Email: c.romaguera004@gmail.com

6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

The Forum at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

This is a mask-optional event.


Contact: MER, SWWIM, NELLE
Contact Email: themomegg@gmail.com
Organization: MER, SWWIM, NELLE
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Lee Center for the Arts, 905 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Good Actors: A Play by Sommer Browning


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Sommer Browning
Contact Email: waverlysands@gmail.com

Third Place Books (Ravenna), 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Third Place Books
Contact Email: events@thirdplacebooks.com

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Third Place Books Ravenna, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Spencer Ruchti
Contact Email: events@thirdplacebooks.com
Organization: Third Place Books

Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Rewind/Unwind Hugo Fellows Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Hugo House
Contact Email: welcome@hugohouse.org

Cherry Street Coffee House, 700 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

Brooklyn Poets Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Jason Koo
Contact Email: bkp@brooklynpoets.org
Organization: Brooklyn Poets
Organization URL: website

Vermillion Art Bar, 1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

VMI and Friends


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Masked event. Venue is accessible.


Contact: Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Contact Email: info@vancouvermanuscriptintensive.com
Organization: Vancouver Manuscript Intensive
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Old Stove Brewing Co, 600 W Nickerson St, Queen Anne, Seattle, WA 98119

Sundress Publications Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

This event will be held outdoors.


Contact: Sundress Publications
Contact Email: erin@sundrsespublications.com
Organization URL: website

MadArt Studio, 325 Westlake Ave N #101, Seattle, WA 98109

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


Cost: Free

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


Contact: Michelle Gil-Montero
Contact Email: michelle@eulaliabooks.com
Organization: co-im-press, Veliz Books, Eulalia Books, Carrion Bloom Books
Organization URL: website

Mayflower Park Hotel, 405 Olive Way, Seattle, WA 98101

25th Anniversary Reading by Gival Press Authors


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Robert L Giron
Contact Email: givalpress@yahoo.com
Organization: Gival Press
Organization URL: website

Museum of Museums, 900 Boylston Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Siolo Thompson
Contact Email: psychopompprojects@gmail.com
Organization: Psychopomp Projects and Red Light Lit
Organization URL: website

Common Area Maintenance, 2125 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Common Area Maintenance
Contact Email: hello@camseattle.org

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Simmons Buntin
Contact Email: info@terrain.org
Organization: Terrain.org
Organization URL: website

2813 15th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144

Adverse Abstraction & Stone Pacific Zine Collaboration Event


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Adverse Abstraction & Stone Pacific Zine
Contact Email: adverseabstraction@gmail.com

Broadcast Coffee, 6515 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115

hex HAD Comal


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: hex
Contact Email: hexlitmag@gmail.com
Organization URL: website

Bad Bar, 819 5th Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109

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


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Switchback Books, Futurepoem, Action Books, VOLT
Contact Email: alyse@switchbackbooks.com
Organization: Switchback Books
Organization URL: website

St. Paul's Episcopal, 15 Roy St, Seattle, WA 98109

One Poet, One Poem


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Katie Manning
Contact Email: whaleroadreview@gmail.com
Organization: Whale Road Review
Organization URL: website

309 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

My Beats Are Icky: A Poetry Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Wendy Barnes, Xavier Cavazos
Contact Email: pxcavazos@gmail.com

Cherry Street Coffee House, 2719 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

Tolsun Books Cafe Reading (BYOB)


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Tolsun Books
Contact Email: risa@tolsunbooks.com

Gallery 110, 110 3rd Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

No Irritable Reaching


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Paul E. Nelson
Contact Email: splabman@icloud.com
Organization: Cascadia Poetics Lab
Organization URL: website

Havana Social Club, 1010 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122

Group Reading with Nightboat, FC2, and The Elephants


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Nightboat Books, FC2, and The Elephants
Contact Email: lina.bergamini@nightboat.org

7:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Seattle Central Library, Betty Jane Narver Reading Room, 1000 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

Lily Poetry Review Books


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Eileen Cleary
Contact Email: eileen.poet@gmail.com
Organization: Lily Poetry Review
Organization URL: website

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Barboza Bar, 925 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122

Battle of the Craft Experts, Hosted by StoryStudio Chicago


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: StoryStudio Chicago
Contact Email: sara@storystudiochicago.org

7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

SPL Central Library, Microsoft Auditorium, Level 1, 1000 4th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

A Night of Native Stories


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Masks are strongly encouraged at this indoor event.


Contact: Rachel Marquez
Contact Email: rachel.marquez@iaia.edu
Organization: IAIA & the Authors Guild

7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Left Bank Books, 92 Pike St # B, Seattle, WA 98101

Queer Nature Anthology Poetry Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Autumn House Press
Contact Email: cstroud@autumnhouse.org

7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Kent, WA

Nubian Stories


Cost: $20.00–100.00
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Nabra Nelson
Contact Email: dunyaproductionseattle@gmail.com
Organization: Dunya Productions
Organization URL: website

7:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Structure Cellars, 3861 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98134

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


Cost: $12.00–20.00, sliding scale, open bar
Event URL: website

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, , 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!


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Feminist Press, Coffee House Press, The Rumpus
Contact Email: info@coffeehousepress.org

7:30 pm to 10:30 pm

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: TriQuarterly
Contact Email: triquarterly@northwestern.edu
Organization: Northwest Film Forum
Organization URL: website

8:00 pm to 9:15 pm

Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

A 3rd Thing Convergence at Elliott Bay Book Company


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Alison Bailey
Contact Email: alison@the3rdthing.org
Organization: The 3rd Thing/Elliott Bay Book Co
Organization URL: website

8:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Perihelion Brewery, 2800 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA

Poetry at Perihelion


Cost: Free

Unsolicited Press poets read their work at Perihelion Brewery.


Contact: Liz Kellebrew
Contact Email: liz.kellebrew@gmail.com
Organization: Unsolicited Press
Organization URL: website

8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

The Pine Box, 1600 Melrose Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Elegies: Open Mic Nite With the Dead


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Allison Ellis
Contact Email: allison.e.ellis@gmail.com

8:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Seattle Beer Company, 1427 Western Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

Reading at Seattle Beer Company


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Burnside Review Press
Contact Email: dan@burnsidereview.org

9:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

A Very Important Karaoke Party


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Hugo House
Contact Email: welcome@hugohouse.org

Saturday, March 11, 2023

9:00 am to 10:30 am

UW Crew Docks, 3896 Walla Walla Rd, Seattle, WA 98195

Bird Walk at Union Bay Marsh


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Dress for the weather, masks optional.


Contact: Rachel Edelman
Contact Email: edelman.rachel@gmail.com

11:00 am to 1:30 pm

Fireside Room, Hotel Sorrento, 900 Madison St, Seattle, WA 98104

Drag Brunch Reading


Cost: $5.00
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Suzi F. Garcia
Contact Email: sgarcia@lambdaliterary.org
Organization: Lambda Literary

12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

2524 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144

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


Cost: Free, although donations of any denomination gratefully accepted
Beloved and renowned XicanIndio poet, prisoner/indigenous/human rights activist, and founder of Resistencia Books/Casa de Red Salmon Press in Austin, TX who who transitioned in 2008, Raul Salinas was born March 17, 1932. He began his post-carcerial, transformational journey in 1973 at Seattle's then newly opened El Centro de La Raza. During an illustrious and inspiring life, he mentored hundreds, among them Lorna Dee Cervantes, Abel Salas, John Martinez, Raul Sanchez, and many others, who will gather at the historic former grade school to honor his life and legacy with cafecito and pan dulce. Join us!


Health & Safety Information:

Masks are encouraged but not required.


Contact: Abel Markos Salas
Contact Email: abelmarkosala@gmail.com
Organization: El Centro de la Raza, the Center for People of All Races
Organization URL: website

The Lab at Ada's, Ada's Technical Books and Café, 425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112

A Celebration with The Hopkins Review


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Dora Malech
Contact Email: thehopkinsreview@gmail.com
Organization: The Hopkins Review
Organization URL: website

1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

A NoMaterial Symposium


Cost: Free, or $0.00–25.00 sliding scale donation
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Carlos Lara and Brian Amsterdam
Contact Email: rana@nwfilmforum.org
Organization: Black Sun Lit
Organization URL: website

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar, 1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Hanging Loose, Rigorous, & Unlikely Stories


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Jonathan Penton, Joanna Fuhrman, Kenning JP García
Contact Email: jonathan@unlikelystories.org

3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Old Stove Brewing Ship Canal, 600 W Nickerson St, Seattle, WA 98119

A Mind Full of Music: Words & Songs


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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!


Contact: Chris Forhan
Contact Email: cforhan@butler.edu
Organization: Overcup Press
Organization URL: website

3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

1413 E Olive Way, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free

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).


Contact: Min Kang
Contact Email: mkk287@gmail.com

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Somatic Spiraling: The Body as a Creative Resource


Cost: Free, or $0.00–25.00 sliding scale donation
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Emily Mundy and Amy Hirayama
Contact Email: rana@nwfilmforum.org
Organization: Northwest Film Forum
Organization URL: website

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, 93 Pike St #307, Seattle, WA 98101

Seismic: Seattle City of Literature Happy Hour


Cost: Free food and drink
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Seattle City of Literature
Contact Email: info@seattlecityoflit.org
Organization URL: website

5:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Common Area Maintenance, 2125 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

Seven by Seven


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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!


Contact: The Seventh Wave
Contact Email: info@seventhwavemag.com
Organization URL: website

Casey Commons, Seattle University, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Women Writers of Empty Bowl Press


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Masks are recommended.


Contact: Empty Bowl Press
Contact Email: editor@emptybowl.org
Organization: Seattle University Philosophy Department
Organization URL: website

Arundel Books, 322 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

Another Chicago Magazine Reading


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Wearing of masks is encouraged.


Contact: Sasha Weiss
Contact Email: anotherchimagazine@gmail.com
Organization: Another Chicago Magazine
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 7:15 pm

Still Liquor, 1524 Minor Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

Writing at the End of a City


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Meredith Arena, Shelby Handler
Contact Email: marena@antioch.edu
Organization: Seattle Arts & Lectures, Seattle City of Literature, Poetry NW, Seventh Wave

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Third Place Books Ravenna, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115

Memoir Monday


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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).


Contact: Spencer Ruchti
Contact Email: events@thirdplacebooks.com
Organization: Third Place Books

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery, 1201 S Vale St (at Airport Way S) Seattle, WA 98108

Comics Night Out: It's an Art Party


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: MUTHA Magazine, Fantagraphics Books, Fieldmouse
Contact Email: muthamagazine@gmail.com
Organization: MUTHA Magazine and Fantagraphics Books
Organization URL: website

6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

The Rabbit Box Theatre, 94 Pike St, Pike Place Market, Seattle, WA 98101

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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/


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Beth Alvarado and Irene Cooper
Contact Email: bethalvarado1@gmail.com

Bad Jimmy's Brewing Co, 4358 Leary Wy NW B, Seattle, WA, 98107

Words With Music...And Friends


Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Dave O'Leary
Contact Email: dave@daveoleary.net

6:00 pm to 11:00 pm

552 Denny Way, Seattle, WA 98109

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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?


Contact: MM Carrigan
Contact Email: tacobellquarterly@gmail.com

6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Jasmine Plaskon & Saleem Hue Penny
Contact Email: jasmine@hugohouse.org
Organization: Hugo House, Zoeglossia, & Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Good Symptom


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

"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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: The 3rd Thing
Contact Email: rana@nwfilmforum.org

Bulldog News & Café, 4208 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105

Super Position


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Eric Michael Acosta
Contact Email: acostaeric500@gmail.com

Seattle Beer Co, 1427 Western Ave, Seattle, WA 98101

Art Inspires Art: How Music Influences Literature


Cost: Free

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.


Contact: Tim DeMarco
Contact Email: timdemarco84@gmail.com

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Museum of Museums, 900 Boylston Ave, Seattle, WA 98104

A Reading of Readings at the Museum of Museums


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: David Olsen
Contact Email: dbolsen@uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Press and Deep Vellum
Organization URL: website

7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

12th Avenue Arts, 1620 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

Translated Bodies: Performance Experiment


Cost: $10.00-35.00 sliding scale
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Masking encouraged but not required.


Contact: Gabrielle Civil
Contact Email: experimentsinjoy@gmail.com
Organization: Velocity Dance Center
Organization URL: website

7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 (West entrance)

Publishing in Spanish in the United States


Cost: $5.00 general admission, free for youth 22 & under
Event URL: website

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.


Health & Safety Information:

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.


Contact: Seattle Escribe
Contact Email: mesadirectiva@seattleescribe.org
Organization: Seattle Escribe
Organization URL: website

8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

The Pine Box, 1600 Melrose Ave, Seattle, WA 98122

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Sonia Greenfield, Jessica E. Johnson
Contact Email: jejohnson1978@gmail.com

The Lookout, 757 Bellevue Ave E, Seattle, WA 98102

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


Cost: Free
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, Gerard Robledo
Contact Email: andrew@poemoftheweek.com
Organization: PoemoftheWeek.com
Organization URL: website

8:00 pm to 10:30 pm

Blue Moon Tavern, 712 NE 45th St, Seattle, WA 98105

Hot Pink Mag Reading


Cost: Free

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.


Health & Safety Information:

Please wear a mask when not eating or drinking.


Contact: Emily Bark Brown and Zoe Tuck
Contact Email: hotpinksubmissions@gmail.com
Organization: Hot Pink Mag
Organization URL: website

Sunday, March 12, 2023

2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Seattle, WA 98136

Nubian Stories (Opening Performance)


Cost: $30.00–100.00
Event URL: website

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.


Contact: Nabra Nelson
Contact Email: dunyaproductionseattle@gmail.com
Organization: Dunya Productions
Organization URL: website

3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Skyroot Farm, 7297 Bailey Rd, Clinton, WA 98236

On an Island Reading Series with Kathy Fagan & Phoebe Reeves


Cost: Free, or by donation if possible
On an Island Reading Series is popping back up at Skyroot Farm at 7297 Bailey Rd, Clinton, WA. Featuring Ohio poets, Kathy Fagan and Phoebe Reeves, Sunday, March 12 at 3:00 p.m. at Skyroot Farm (Clinton). All ages and by donation! All proceeds go to the poets. Refreshments. And though there will be a fire, BYOB (bring your own blanket).


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Fritha Strand
Contact Email: frithastrand@gmail.com

5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Spanish Ballroom at Elks Temple, 565 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402

Writers Who Play (in Tacoma)


Cost: $10 advance, $12 at the door
Event URL: website

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!


Health & Safety Information:

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


Contact: Ken Waldman
Contact Email: ken@kenwaldman.com
Organization: Writers Who Play
Organization URL: website

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