Upcoming Events

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.

Please join us to celebrate the conclusion of the 2025 Year-Long Fiction Writing Project. Participants from the Year-Long 2025 Fiction Writing Project with Junauda Petrus will read from their completed manuscripts at this culminating event.

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.

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 - 5:30 PM at Open Book and join us for the Writers of Color Open Mic Reading afterwards at 6:00 PM. Drinks and light snacks are provided. $10 or pay as you can at the door for general public; $5 for Friends of the Loft!