About Events

About Loft Events

The Loft offers a diverse array of literary events, reading series, book launches, and more. Please see our calendar listings—we encourage everyone to participate. Expand your literary network, get inspired, be entertained, or just support your local and global literary community.

Annual Events
Wordplay, Wordsmith & Narrative Power

Each year, the Loft presents two major annual events—Wordplay and Wordsmith. Wordplay is a festival for readers of all kinds to come together, connect, and celebrate the year in books. Wordsmith is a career, connection, and craft conference for writers at all levels.

In addition, the Loft explores a theme each year. From September 2022 until August 2023, the Loft will explore Narrative Power. 

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Wordplay Wordsmith Narrative Power
Upcoming Events
Oct
18
2022
Loft Member Meetup
Loft members make magic happen! Come make some bookish buddies at our members social hour.
Nov
12
2022
Making the Revolution Irresistible
Join us at this launch event for our year-long Narrative Power theme, which will also serve as an in-person welcome to the Loft’s new Executive Director, long time changemaker and poet Arleta Little. This event will feature short readings by 2023 McKnight Artist Fellows in Poetry and Spoken Word: Douglas Kearney, Chavonn Shen, Khary Jackson, and Preeti Kaur Rajpal.
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The Loft is committed to providing authors and audiences with unique events that deepen their understanding of the craft of writing, and engage them in lively and thought-provoking discussions. We strive to produce events that encourage crowd participation, build audiences for diverse authors, and offer learning opportunities to the more than 4,000 students who take our classes. These goals are the foundation of our programming.

See the links below for information about upcoming event series, our approach to partnerships, and other resources for your potential book event. 

Loft Partnerships Narrative Power (theme) Community Events Mentor Series