Upcoming Events

If you're curious about the Loft's Year-Long Poetry Apprenticeship Writing Project Hieu Minh Nguyen or the Year-Long Fiction Writing Project with Junauda Petrus and learning which is right for you, come to this informal information session to find out more and ask questions!

Join Magers & Quinn and the Loft Literary Center for an evening with beloved poet Maggie Smith in conversation with Jeannine Ouellette, celebrating her brand new book on writing! Please register for the event via Magers and Quinn's website.

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.

Join the Loft Literary Center and Milkweed Books for an evening with Mark Gustafson, celebrating Mark's new book Sowing Seeds. Mark will be in conversation with Jim Lenfestey, considering Minnesota's literary landscape from the late 1950s through today.

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

Join the Loft Literary Center and Graywolf Press for an evening with Jim Moore, celebrating Jim's new book Enter. Jim Moore will be in conversation with his editor and publisher Carmen Giménez.

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.

Join and celebrate the Loft's young writers as they read from works written in a Loft summer youth camp! This reading takes place from 12:30-1:30PM and is open to family, friends, and the public.