Our mission is to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.

UPCOMING EVENTS

July 17, 2025
Slamlandia – July
July 21, 2025
And After All: Melissa Locker in conversation with DJ Greg Glover
July 22, 2025
Orion Magazine’s Summer 2025 Issue Launch
July 23, 2025
Queer Community Write-In
July 24, 2025
Stafford Challenge Anthology Reading
July 30, 2025
BIPOC Reading Series – July
August 6, 2025
One Page Wednesday – August
August 21, 2025
Slamlandia
August 22, 2025
EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: Mariah Rigg
August 27, 2025
BIPOC Reading Series – August
August 28, 2025
Theatre Diaspora Presents ISABEL
September 4, 2025
The Ghostkeeper: Johanna Taylor
October 23, 2025
Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts
October 28, 2025
Timothy Snyder in Conversation

WRITING CLASSES

July 23, 2025
YALLAH! MUSLIMS WRITE: 3 MONTH WORKSHOP
July 28, 2025
The Break with Kaveh Akbar
August 4, 2025
The Art of the Gut Renovation: Revising as Rebuilding
August 5, 2025
Close Reading and Imitation: A Generative Workshop
August 6, 2025
Poems Against Decay: Online Writing Workshop
August 9, 2025
Writing A Picture Book Primer
August 16, 2025
Short Story: Take Two!
August 16, 2025
Making a Picture Book Dummy
August 20, 2025
Ready, Set, Submit: Demystifying the Submission Process
September 3, 2025
The Art of Fiction
September 6, 2025
9,131 Sentences: Reverse-Engineering Great Writing
September 7, 2025
Grief Spiral: Writing Elegies Along a Curved Path
September 10, 2025
Nine Month Novel Intensive: Wednesdays
September 11, 2025
Nine Month Novel Intensive: Thursdays
September 16, 2025
Oulipo: Generative Experiments in Constrained Writing
September 18, 2025
Writing the Weird
September 27, 2025
To Have and Keep a Beautiful Mind: A Multigenre Writing Workshop
October 2, 2025
The Finish Line: Weekly Accountability
October 5, 2025
SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT: VISUAL POETRY WORKSHOP
October 7, 2025
Nature Writing Seminar
October 21, 2025
Tools for Nonfiction Narrative Writing
November 1, 2025
Prompts and Play
November 4, 2025
WRITING EKPHRASTIC POETRY
November 12, 2025
Art of the Article Pitch

A Statement from Literary Arts

Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Literary Arts denounces white supremacy in all its manifestations and we acknowledge our role in having contributed to and benefitted from the racist systems that still flourish in our community and the nation.

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