Upcoming Events

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. This event is sold out!

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 and Nor Hall, 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 read from his new book and be in conversation with his editor and publisher Carmen Giménez.

The Loft presents an evening of student readings! Come join us for a showcase of some of our talented students, as they read some of their own work.

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. This event is sold out.

Join Heid E. Erdrich and a cohort of poets convened and commissioned as part of her fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.

Please join us for a craft talk on writing picture books with the 2024 McKnight judge in Children’s Literature, Don Tate! 

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.