Upcoming Events

Join us as we celebrate our diverse writing community! During this social hour, we encourage current and prospective friends of the Loft to come hang and write with us from 4:00 - 5:00 PM at Open Book and join us for the Writers of Color Open Mic Reading afterwards at 5:30 PM. Drinks and light snacks are provided. $5 or pay as you can at the door for non-members; free for members!

If you're curious about the Loft's Lit!Commons program, come to this informal information session to find out more! In this session, we'll discuss an overview of the platform, tour each of the pathways and community spaces, and leave time for Q&A about how your writing and goals may fit in. This will be a recorded event. Please pre-register for this event. Join the conversation!

If you're curious about the Loft's Year-Long Writing Project in Novel Writing with Peter Geye, Creative Nonfiction with Sun Yung Shin, Memoir with Carolyn Holbrook, or Poetry with Heid E. Erdrich and which is right for you, come to this informal information session to find out more!

Please join us for a public reading by the 2024 McKnight judge in Poetry/Spoken Word, Mahogany L. Browne, author of Black Girl Magic. Browne will be joined in conversation with the Loft's Executive and Artistic Director, Arleta Little.

If you're curious about the Loft's Year-Long Writing Project in Novel Writing with Peter Geye, Creative Nonfiction with Sun Yung Shin, Memoir with Carolyn Holbrook, or Poetry with Heid E. Erdrich and which is right for you, come to this informal information session to find out more!