Judy Temes with Tina Schumann, Girl Left Behind

The Forum 1119 8th Ave (Entrance off Seneca St.), Seattle, WA, United States

In Hungary, one summer’s night in 1969, Judy Temes’ family packed the car for, what was supposed to be, a vacation to Vienna. Judy’s parents took her 12-year-old brother and left her behind. She was five-years-old and was given to her grandmother. Her family wasn’t taking a vacation. They were escaping Hungary’s totalitarian regime. Her […]

$5.00

Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series with Nicole Stellon O’Donnell

Virtual

Join Nicole Stellon O'Donnell in a craft talk, where she'll discuss using sequences and patterns as a generative act! This is a part of the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Zoom Link Here to Join: https://alaska.zoom.us/j/88180614945?pwd=Rk5BSjFVNTZDMEZlRmhOVkpRYURzZz09

Free

Nicole Stellon O’Donnell: Midnight Sun Visiting Writing Series

Virtual

Please join us online at 7pm AKST for Nicole Stellon O'Donell's poetry reading on the UAF College of Liberal Arts Facebook page. Nicole Stellon O'Donnell is the author of three collections of poetry, including the just-released, Everything Never Comes Your Way. Her second book, You Are No Longer in Trouble, was the 2019 open submission […]

Free

Having Fun with Forms: A Hugo House (Virtual) Workshop with Veronica Golos

Hugo House

All Levels | In this class, we will discuss the dictionary, the bop, the golden shovel, the ghazal, the gacela, found poems, visual poems, and more. We’ll explore how you can change a poem’s form and deepen its content  by doing so. We will explore the back and forth relationship between form and content-- Participants will be sent poems […]

$120

Having Fun with Forms: A Hugo House (Virtual) Workshop with Veronica Golos

Hugo House

All Levels | In this class, we will discuss the dictionary, the bop, the golden shovel, the ghazal, the gacela, found poems, visual poems, and more. We’ll explore how you can change a poem’s form and deepen its content  by doing so. We will explore the back and forth relationship between form and content-- Participants will be sent poems […]

$120

GrubStreet Grubbie Debut Author Series: M. Soledad Caballero discusses debut poetry book I WAS A BELL

Crowdcast

GrubStreet and Porter Square Books have partnered for a celebratory new reading and conversation series that goes behind the scenes with members of the GrubStreet community to launch their debut books. These are all authors whose time in GrubStreet’s classes, conferences, and/or events shaped their books in some important way. In candid conversations with fellow authors, […]

Free

Malaprop’s Poetrio: Meghan Sterling, Sandra Meek, and Gaylord Brewer

Join us for Malaprop's monthly poetry event featuring three poets. This month, they welcome Meghan Sterling, Sandra Meek, and Gaylord Brewer. Click here to RSVP. On the day of the event, we will send a reminder email with the link required to attend. Like most of Malaprop's events, this event is free.

Free

Hen House at Home: The Lasting Impact of Short Stories

Virtual

October 7, 4:00pm PT Jim Peterson, author of THE SADNESS OF WHIRLWINDS, and Beth Gilstrap, author of Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Award Winner DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES, join us for this installment of the Red Hen Press Hen House at Home series! This week, we’re focusing on short stories: the craft of writing them, […]

Literary Investigations Featuring Red Hen Authors Kristen Millares Young and Dariel Suarez

A reading and discussion with Kristen Millares Young, Steve Almond, Dariel Suárez and Michelle D. Bowdler. Deep truths take time to find and artfulness to portray. To learn the craft of revealing the hidden, join us. Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 4 p.m. PST / 7 p.m. EST Belmont Books, 79 Leonard St, Belmont, MA 02478. Link […]

Hen House at Home: Exposed: Capturing Personal Trauma

Virtual

It’s difficult to capture traumatic personal events in a memoir. How do you do it? We ask two memoirists from Red Hen Press’s Fall 2021 season: Jan Beatty, author of AMERICAN BASTARD, explores her journey trying to find her birth parents. Joan Nockels Wilson’s THE BOOK OF TIMOTHY: THE DEVIL, MY BROTHER, AND ME shares […]

Hen House at Home: The New Moons Celebration

Virtual

Red Hen Press is so honored to be publishing this important and vital anthology highlighting work by contemporary North American Muslims. In this special event, with an introduction by editor Kazim Ali, we celebrate this anthology with flash readings from over 20 contributors! View the event on Zoom here! Join us LIVE on November 3 […]

Tom Sanders Memorial Reading: Laurie Ann Guerrero & Carl Marcum

Guidance regarding COVID-19 procedures at our Reading & Lecture Series events is available here. All events will be streamed live on our website.  We are proud to present a reading by Laurie Ann Guerrero and Carl Marcum. Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio and is the author of four collections: Babies under the […]