Upcoming Events

Come together as one big friend group at our fall gathering for Friends of the Loft! Have a drink and a bite, make connections, and participate in the open mic at this free donor social.

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.

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 Kelly Sundberg, Poetry with Heid E. Erdrich, or Fiction with Junauda Petrus, 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 2025 McKnight Judge in Creative Prose, acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, Valeria Luiselli. Luiselli will be joined in conversation with the Loft's Executive and Artistic Director, Arleta Little.

Celebrate the launch of Revolutions Are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs with authors Sun Yung Shin and Mélina Mangal. This is a family friendly event. Bring the kiddos!

Please join us for a series of book club events where we will discuss select titles and the different themes they explore by some of the renowned authors featured at the Loft this fall! Come even if you haven’t read the book! 

For our second book club, join the Loft’s Senior Director of Craft, GE Patterson, to discuss the 2025 Year-Long Poetry Apprenticeship Project mentor Hieu Minh Nguyen's Not Here (Coffee House Press, 2018).

The Loft Literary Center Presents a 2025-2026 Loft Mentor Series Reading with mentors Vanessa Hua and Sarah Ghazal Ali and fellows Sook Jin Ong, Madeleine Wolfe, Ellen Rogers.

Celebrate the launch of the inaugural Loft Youth Anthology! Enjoy a reading by young writers from Loft classes (Sept 2024–Aug 2025), followed by a book signing and reception. Tickets include a copy of the anthology, with proceeds supporting the Loft's mission to inspire and nurture young writers. This event is open to family, friends, and the public—come celebrate the creativity of these emerging voices!

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