Upcoming Events

Come together as one big friend group at our bi-annual 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 hour.

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.

Kick off the October Lit!Series with our Friday night welcome party! This will be a fun chance to mingle with fellow Lit!Series participants, meet some of our Visiting Artists, and explore this month’s theme: Banned Books.

Registration included with all Craft Seminar passes and Agent/Editor appointments.

Join the Loft Literary Center for its second Lit!Series event of the year featuring October’s Keynote, Carmen Maria Machado! This conversation will be centered around the topic of banned books and the wave of literary censorship that is facing teachers, students, librarians, and authors across the country. Carmen will be joined in conversation by authors Safia Elhillo, Jake Maia Arlow, and Ashley Hope Pérez as they discuss their work and their own experiences having books banned or challenged in schools and libraries.

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