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Literary
Your Writing, Live!: The Reading
Majestic Repertory TheatreYou are invited to the fabulous Your Writing, Live!: The Reading! Join BMI to cheer the students of Your Writing, Live!: The Workshop! These will perform original work to demonstrate what they have learned from Shearing Fellow Julián Delgado Lopera and Vegas Drag Queen Lexùs Chandeliér. The festivities start at 5:30 with light bites from Soul Belly, followed […]
Your Writing, Live!
Majestic Repertory TheatreYou are invited to the fabulous Your Writing, Live!: The Reading! Join BMI to cheer the students of Your Writing, Live!: The Workshop! These will perform original work to demonstrate what they have learned from Shearing Fellow Julián Delgado Lopera and Vegas Drag Queen Lexùs Chandeliér. The festivities start at 5:30 with light bites from Soul […]
A Conversation with Brian Crane
Carson City Senior Center 911 Beverly Dr., Carson City, United StatesBrian Crane is an American cartoonist who created Pickles, a comic strip featuring a retired couple, Earl and Opal Pickles, their family, and their family pets, Muffin (cat) and Roscoe (dog). After a career in graphic design, Brian revived his childhood dream of being a comic strip artist, eventually creating Pickles, which has seen success since its […]
Neon Lit Reading x Witness Launch Party
Vegas Theatre Company 1025 South 1st Street, Las Vegas, United StatesPlease join Neon Lit and Witness Magazine for a reading celebrating the fresh launch of Witness's spring issue on April 16th at 7 PM (doors 6:30 PM) at Vegas Theatre Company. Featuring readings by Annie Livingston, Sada Malumfashi, Leah Mell-Carrington, Arel Wiederholt Kassar, Madina Tuhbatullina, with special guest Hannah Olabosibe Eko. Access info: Vegas […]
The Dysfunction of Food: On Food That Isn’t Beautiful or Comforting or Delicious with Kim Foster
UNLV 4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154Kim Foster, James Beard Award-winning Author of the forthcoming The Meth Lunches: The Care and Feeding of a Drug Addict, St. Martin’s Press. In this lecture, Kim Foster will examine the ways food can signify and complicate dysfunction in Las Vegas, for both individuals and communities – those with empty tables, and those with full plates. […]
Solar Flare contest offers $500 for Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Art, or Graphic Novel
onlineSunspot Lit is looking for one work, including a novel or novella excerpt, that provides a flare of creative energy. Literary or genre accepted. First prize: $500 plus publication. Open May 1 to May 31. Entry fee: $10 Enter through Submittable or Duotrope.
Their Divine Fires Book Launch with Wendy Chen
UNLV 4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154Join BMI and the UNLV Department of English as we celebrate Creative Writing faculty member Wendy Chen for her debut novel, Their Divine Fires. A captivating and intimate story interwoven with folktale and myth, the book is shaped by love affairs of three generations of Chinese women across one hundred years of revolutions, both political and […]
Sagebrush to Sandstone: Wild Life, Wild Skies – Nature Walk and Creative Writing
Desert National Wildlife Refuge 16001 Corn Creek Road, Las Vegas, Nevada, United StatesJoin us for a day of poetry and outdoor exploration at the Desert National Wildlife Refuge! Local poet JM Huck and Dale Etheridge Planetarium staff will guide participants in experiencing and appreciating our Nevada landscape, as well as the wildlife within.In the first half hour, participants will take a slow-paced nature walk on these Corn Creek trails: Big […]
An Evening of Poetry with Sean Singer
Winchester Dondero Cultural Center 3130 McLeod Drive, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesJoin us for an evening of poetry and conversation with Sean Singer. Winchester Dondero Cultural Center 3130 McLeod Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89121 Wednesday, May 15, 2024 6:00 - 7:30 pm […]
Author Event – Children’s Author and Illustrator Apryl Stott Storytime and Paper Crafts Fun at Browsers Corner Book Store
Brewery Arts Center 449 W. King St, Carson City, NV, United StatesChildren's author and illustrator Apryl Stott will be at Browsers Corner Book Store on Saturday, May 18 from 10:30-12:00 to read from her popular book Almost Always Best Best Friends. She […]
Surface Tension: A Salon hosted by Black Mountain Institute
West Las Vegas Library 951 W. Lake Mead, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesJoin Black Mountain Institute, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District for Surface Tension: A Salon, an evening of art and community at the West Las Vegas Library. Surface Tension brings together local artists and performers on the stage at the West Las Vegas Library’s performing arts center, for one night […]
Art and Poetry at the Bird Viewing Preserve
Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve 350 E Galleria Dr, Henderson, NV, United States10am-11:30am Nature Poetry Workshop with Heather Lang-Cassera Celebrate birds as we write in a beautiful and encouraging environment. This workshop will explore poetic forms ranging from blackout poetry to ekphrasis, all steeped in the art of close looking. Flexible prompts, activities, and guidance will be provided. Poets of all levels will go home having written […]