Events

Join Brooklyn Poets in partnership with Books are Magic to celebrate the launch of Latif Askia Ba’s The Choreic Period. Latif Askia Ba and Jay Deshpande will both read their work, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A. This in-person event will also be livestreamed on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/live/g2A0DLUKo6A.

Join us at Milkweed Books to hear Marlene Zuk and Kathryn Nuernberger read, discuss science writing and finding inspiration from museum collections. Students from the workshop will be invited–but not required–to share their writing at the open mic after the reading and conversation.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

MARLENE ZUK is Regents Professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota. She studies the evolution of animal sexual behavior and animal communication. The author of Paleofantasy and Sex on Six Legs, among other works, her latest book is Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man’s Test, which was…

Join Milkweed Books as we present poet KIMIKO HAHN to celebrate her newest collection, The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems. She will be joined by torrin a. greathouse and Michael Kleber-Diggs.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Opening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a writer’s artistic journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. Exploring the mysteries of science, nature, and the experiences of contemporary womanhood, Hahn both reinvents classic Japanese forms and experiments…

Join Milkweed Editions, Grist, and The Great Northern Festival for “Role of Sci-Fi + Imagination in Climate Solutions,” a virtual session exploring the themes of the recent Cli-Fi anthology, Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future. Featuring Grist editor Tory Stephens in conversation with Metamorphosis contributors Sanjana Sakar and Louis Evans.

Join The Great Northern Festival in partnership with Milkweed Editions for a special Open Steam sauna reading with poets Michael Bazzett and Claire Wahmanholm. The reading will take place in our event sauna, where you’re welcome to come and go at your leisure. Step inside and enjoy the reading in the soothing heat, and then cool off outside or check out one of our other saunas. Please note that sauna participants must be 13+ years of age at the time of their sauna experience. Attendees under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

We are pleased to present a conversation between author Deni Ellis Béchard and his editor and Milkweed CEO and Publisher, Daniel Slager in celebration of Béchard’s latest novel, We are Dreams in the Eternal Machine.

Join us virtually via Zoom at 6:00 PM CST. Registration is free but required.

Pre-order your copy of We are Dreams in the Eternal Machine here: https://milkweed.org/book/we-are-dreams-in-the-eternal-machine

Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of eight previous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Vandal Love, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and Into the Sun, winner of the 2016 Midwest Book Award for Literary…

Join Milkweed Books and poet Claire Wahmanholm as we welcome Eiren Caffall to Minneapolis to launch her two new books, The Mourner’s Bestiary and All the Water in the World.

Eiren will read from both titles and talk about her creative process with Claire, followed by a Q+A and book signing.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Eiren Caffall is an author and musician based in Chicago. Her writing on loss and nature, oceans and extinction has appeared in Orion, The Writer’s Digest, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and the anthology Elementals…

We welcome our members to register for the 2025 Annual Member Event, a publishing preview of Milkweed’s 2025 list with Publisher and CEO, Daniel Slager. Keep an eye on your inboxes for the registration link, or feel free to reach out to membership@milkweed.org to register.

If you are not yet a Milkweed member, learn more about our program and sign-up here before 2/12 for access to the event!

Join Print: A Bookstore for a reading and book launch of Sarah V. Schweig’s The Ocean in the Next Room with Gibson Fay-LeBlanc.

Join Elliot Bay Books for a reading with Rosalie Moffett, alongside local poet and friend of the store Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

Milkweed Editions in conjunction with the University of Minnesota Press present Creature Conservation hosted by Claire Wahmanholm, featuring Charles Baxter, Kimberly Blaeser, and Sean Hill.

The event will feature readings from the new collection Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation out with University of Minnesota Press out on January 21. Claire Wahmanholm will then host a panel that centers on craft and art activism for creature conservation.

ABOUT THE HOST

Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Meltwater, Redmouth, and Wilder, which won the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry and…

Milkweed Books & Writers Go to the Movies present Sarah Jones, author of Disposable: America’s Contempt for the Underclass, and Chris Stedman, author of IRL: Finding Our Real Selves in a Digital World. Tickets are not necessary but encouraged for planning purposes.

The author has selected the film Pride, which speaks to her work. We will all view it together. Writers Go to the Movies will provide popcorn, candy, and beverages to enhance the viewing experience. After, Sarah will read from her new book, and join Chris in a conversation around the film, their craft, and how media influenced…

Please join Karen Babine for the celebration of her latest work, The Allure of Elsewhere.

Join author Kerri ní Dochartaigh in prioritizing your creativity for ten days in spring 2025 at the seaside village of Doolin, County Clare, Ireland.

This retreat is led by Ryan Dennis of The Milkhouse Rural Writers Collective; co-organized with NatureCulture/Writing the Land.