1 to 2 PM — Creative Writing Prize Showcase
Featuring readings by award-winning student writers Mialise Carney, Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras, Celeste Jones, Sharon K. McClain, James T. Morrison, Alejandro Perea-Sanchez, Jacob Reina, Kaylee Ruiz, and Alberto Saldaña Uribe. With introductions by student writer Stella Velez.

2:30 to 4 PM — Debut Authors
Featuring readings by alumni authors Pilar Christiana Graham, Padraig Hogan, and Gabriel Ibarra. With introductions by alumni writer Angela Chaidez Vincent, and a book signing to follow.

4 to 6 PM — Break
Dinner on your own.

6 to 7:30 PM —…

Kaleidoscope members and their guests are invited to peek behind the covers—and behind the curtain—of Milkweed Editions. Join Milkweed Publisher and CEO Daniel Slager, author and translator Dan Beachy-Quick, and Milkweed Fellow Moheb Soliman to learn more about the Seedbank series of world literature and how these books come to life.

Join Jennifer duBois for a reading and conversation about her latest novel The Last Language.

Join Shilpi Suneja for a reading and conversation about her debut novel House of Caravans.

Join us for the December entry in our monthly Faculty/Student Reading Series, where we host a local faculty writer from the University of Minnesota’s Creative Writing MFA Program and a student writer, offering a chance for emerging local writers to place their work in conversation with an established writer. For this final reading of the Fall 2023 semester, MFA candidate Jordan Young will be reading with Kathryn Nuernberger, author of The Witch of Eye.

This reading will also feature an exclusive student discount on all purchases in the bookstore, where anyone attending with a valid student…

Join us for the November entry in our monthly Faculty/Student Reading Series, where we host a local faculty writer from the University of Minnesota’s Creative Writing MFA Program and a student writer, offering a chance for emerging local writers to place their work in conversation with an established writer. For this month’s reading, MFA candidate Natalie Dalea will be reading with Kim Todd, author of Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters.”

This reading will also feature an exclusive student discount on all purchases in the bookstore, where anyone attending with…

Join us for the October entry in our monthly Faculty/Student Reading Series, where we host a local faculty writer from the University of Minnesota’s Creative Writing MFA Program and a student writer, offering a chance for emerging local writers to place their work in conversation with an established writer. For this month’s reading, MFA candidate John LaPine will be reading with Krys Malcolm Belc, author of The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood.

This reading will also feature an exclusive student discount on all purchases in the bookstore, where anyone attending…

Join us at Milkweed Books as we welcome Casey Plett, author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning novel Little Fish, and celebrate the reissue of her debut Lambda-winning short story collection A Safe Girl to Love and the release of her new nonfiction book On Community. Casey will read from both titles, followed by a conversation with academic writer Cass Adair, with a signing afterward.

Alongside Casey’s reading from A Safe Girl to Love and On Community, we’re also delighted to have poets torrin a. greathouse and Daphne DiFazio, short fiction writer Alice Stoehr, and interdisciplinary…