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.

Upcoming Events
May
8
2025
The Loft's Spring 2025 Student Reading

The Loft presents an evening of student readings! Come join us for a showcase of some of our talented students, as they read some of their own work.
May
13
2025
The Mechanic Book Launch in Support of the Loft

Join us for a Loft fundraiser and launch of board member Jon Austin's debut sci-fi novel, The Mechanic, with My Word Publishing.
May
22
2025
Art in Words - Writing@Mia: African Art & Its Influences (May)

Come, write about art in an immersive experience of exhibitions, lectures, and collections at the Minneapolis Art Institute. In this adventurous class, writer and Loft Executive & Artistic Director, Arleta Little, will invite participants to explore ekphrastic writing through discussion, exercises, and workshops while learning about visual art and artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. Register on Mia's website. This event is sold out.

More Loft Event Information

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 Community Events Mentor Series