Upcoming Events

Bid on one-of-a-kind artwork, unique experiences, book collections, and hand-made gifts sure to please the bibliophiles and wordsmiths on your holiday list. All while supporting the Loft's community of writers and readers!

Please join us to celebrate the conclusion of the 2025 Year-Long Creative Nonfiction Writing Project. Participants from the Year-Long 2025 Creative Nonfiction Writing Project with Sun Yung Shin will read from their completed manuscripts at this culminating event.

Please join us to celebrate the conclusion of the 2025 Year-Long Novel Writing Project. Participants from the Year-Long 2025 Novel Writing Project will read from their completed manuscripts at this culminating event.

Please join us to celebrate the conclusion of the 2024 Year-Long Memoir Writing Project. Participants from the Year-Long 2025 Memoir Writing Project will read from their completed manuscripts at this culminating event.

Join internationally acclaimed poet Pádraig Ó Tuama for an intimate evening of poetry in support of the Loft. Known for his vivid explorations of language, conflict, belonging, and belief, Ó Tuama is the beloved host of Poetry Unbound and the author of celebrated works across poetry, memoir, and theology.

"What does community look like for you?"

City of Minneapolis Poet Laureate Junauda Petrus will explore this topic alongside current and emeritus poets laureate from around the region, including Heid E. Erdrich, Jean Prokott, Donte Collins, and Joyce Sutphen.

Discover what Loft writers are publishing now! Loft Connect Live! brings together 4–5 new books in one inspiring evening. Reception to follow. Our first event will feature Debra Stone, Ember Reichgott Junge, Ralph Remington, Derek Francis, and Anthony Ceballos. 

Please join us for a public reading by the 2025 McKnight Judge in Children's Literature, acclaimed writer of both middle grade and YA, Christine Day. Day be joined in conversation with the Loft's Partnerships Program Manager, Cristeta Boarini.

Come together as one big friend group at our spring gathering for Friends of the Loft! Meet fellow wordsmiths and bibliophiles, enjoy some refreshments, and participate in the open mic at this free donor social.