Twin Cities Literary Calendar

October 2023

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
  • Literary Bridges
  • The Mill City Reading Series
2
  • William Kent Krueger and Benjamin Percy
  • Up Close: Colors of Time
3
  • Danny Caine
  • C. M. Alongi
4
  • Milkweed Presents: A Discussion on Difficult Joy, hosted by Michael Bazzett
  • Does Art Need Words? Art Writers on Arts Writing
  • Totally Criminal Cocktail Hour
  • Drew Brockington
  • Beowulf, performed by Jeff Heimbuch
  • Poetry Night
5
  • Barbara Sjoholm
  • Meta Herrick Carlson
  • Camille Dungy
  • Casey Plett
  • Mandy-Suzanne Wong
  • Poetry Reading: Justice
6
7
  • Highland Park Workshoppers: Family
  • Kurtis Scaletta
  • Lee Henschel Jr.
  • Scott W. Berg
  • The Great Twin Cities Poetry Read 2023
  • Ben Orlin
  • JJJJJerome Ellis
8
  • The Memory Fields of Water: Women Writers on Water Crisis and Rescue
  • Tom Peek
  • Heidi Barr
  • Haley Lasché
  • Opus & Olives
9
  • Amber Jensen, Christine Stewart-Nuñez, and Mary Woster Haug
10
  • Iman Mersal
  • 2023 Kerlan Award, honoring Laurie Hertzel and Lauren Stringer
  • A Reading on Mental Health
  • Jeremy Norton
  • Mental Health Poetry Reading
  • Picture Perfect Partnerships
  • William Kent Krueger
11
  • Cracked Walnut Writing Collective Reading
  • Michael Perry
  • Kate St. Vincent Vogl
  • T Kira Madden
12
  • Debbie Russell
  • Dianna Hunter
  • C.M. Alongi RESCHEDULED
  • Heidi Shertok
  • Jeremy Norton
13
  • Twin Cities Book Festival Opening Night Reception
  • Elizabeth Rush
14
  • Twin Cities Book Festival
  • Mississippi Valley Poets Society Reading
15
  • Cory Doctorow
  • Deborah Keenan, Haley Lasché, and Emily August
  • Cracked Walnut Festival Poetry Reading
16
  • Literature Lovers' Night Out™
17
  • Literature Lovers' Night Out
  • Nicole Chung
  • Readings By Writers
18
  • Books & Bars
  • Greil Marcus
  • Poets & Pints
19
  • Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
  • Blank Verse Reading
  • Klecko's Fitzgerald Story Series, vol. 4
  • Daniel Hornsby
20
21
  • Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
  • Autumn Leaves: Poetry & Music
22
  • LGBTQ+ Reading
  • The Mill City Reading Series
23
  • Christy Prahl
  • Curtis Chin
  • Donald Mengay
  • Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  • Tylor James
24
  • Books & Bars
  • Mary Carroll Moore
  • Matthew Batt
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen
25
  • C.M. Alongi
  • Launch Party for When We Become Ours
  • Bonnie Garmus
26
  • Bonnie Garmus
  • Chris Stedman and Kara Nesvig
  • Jesmyn Ward
27
  • Georgia Finnegan
  • Haley Lasché, Joshua Gottlieb-Miller, and Chelsea DesAutels
  • Jonathan Escoffery
28
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30
31
  • Patrick Barb