Tony Smith and Kathleen Harris host an open mic afternoon for writers of prose. Writers of fiction, essays, memoir, and other forms of prose are welcome to share their work. Each reader will have a strict ten-minute time limit. Hosts recommend that you practice your piece before showing up to know you are within time.…

An afternoon of Poetry, Presence, & Healing Through Words with Lachrisa Grandberry Join Milwaukee-born, Chicago-based multi-faceted artist Lachrisa Grandberry for a two-hour immersive afternoon of poetry, reflection, and conversation. Through curated readings from her collection Shredding Rugs, Lachrisa explores truth-telling, resilience, generational healing, and the radical act of speaking what once felt unspeakable. The afternoon will…

Meet the winners of the Wisconsin Writers Association’s Jade Ring Award and hear them read from their work: Yvette Flaten (poetry), Evelyn Symes (fiction) and Lynn Watson (nonfiction). Light refreshments will be served. No registration is required.

Tony Smith and Kathleen Harris host an open mic afternoon for writers of prose. Writers of fiction, essays, memoir, and other forms of prose are welcome to share their work. Each reader will have a strict ten-minute time limit. Hosts recommend that you practice your piece before showing up to know you are within time.…

Tony Smith and Kathleen Harris host an open mic afternoon for writers of prose. Writers of fiction, essays, memoir, and other forms of prose are welcome to share their work. Each reader will have a strict ten-minute time limit. Hosts recommend that you practice your piece before showing up to know you are within time.…

The best novels in any genre are inescapably immersive, redolent with sensory detail that transports you across time and space. How do writers achieve this full immersion effect in fiction? Does setting inspire story, or do you begin with a story in search of a setting? M.L. Rio has written about boarding schools and graveyards…

We are proud to present a public reading of work to emerge from Telling the Truth of Our Lives, our yearlong women’s writing program that invites participants to explore personal and creative narrative through guided craft and community. The 2025 cohort, led by Gail Eckl and Maryanne O’Dowd, will share selected works that reflect their…

Tony Smith and Kathleen Harris host an open mic afternoon for writers of prose. Writers of fiction, essays, memoir, and other forms of prose are welcome to share their work. Each reader will have a strict ten-minute time limit. Hosts recommend that you practice your piece before showing up to know you are within time.…

Tony Smith and Kathleen Harris host an open mic afternoon for writers of prose. Writers of fiction, essays, memoir, and other forms of prose are welcome to share their work. Each reader will have a strict ten-minute time limit. Hosts recommend that you practice your piece before showing up to know you are within time.…

Every winding trail hides a mystery, and every heartbeat hides a story. Join us to celebrate the publication of Valerie Clarizio’s latest novel, Trail to Trouble, book one in the Wild Hearts Series. Light refreshments will be served. About the Book: Hunter Samuelson has spent a decade longing for the woman who vanished without a…