Events

Madison’s literary community is thriving! Please keep an eye on the events listings at The Wisconsin Book Festival, the Arts & Literature Lab, A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, and the Monsters of Poetry Series, for a rough picture of all that is happening around town. Here are a few of the events we’re particularly excited about, during the 2025-2026 academic year:

10/14 @ 7pm — Poet, Novelist, and Playwright Quan Barry, reading from her new novel The Unveiling in the Madison Public Library’s Third-Floor Community Rooms (201 W Mifflin St, rms 301 & 302). This event is sponsored by The Wisconsin Book Festival and the UW-Madison Program in Creative Writing. (Details Here)

03/16 @ 7pm — Our Graduating Fiction MFAs Shah Tazrian Ashrafi, Felix Lecocq, Katherine W. Liu, Hannah Mackey, H’Abigail Mlo, and Charles Muhumuza, reading from their novels and short story collections in progress in the Madison Public Library’s Third-Floor Wisconsin Room (201 W Mifflin St). This event is sponsored by The Wisconsin Book Festival and the UW-Madison Program in Creative Writing. (Details forthcoming)

04/16 @ 7pm — Our Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows in fiction and poetry, Nandi Comer, Jennifer Galvão, Alina Grabowski, Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe, and Daniel Lurie, reading from their novels, short story collections, and poetry collections in progress in the Madison Public Library’s Third-Floor Wisconsin Room (201 W Mifflin St). This event is sponsored by The Wisconsin Book Festival and the UW-Madison Program in Creative Writing. (Details forthcoming)

04/30 @ 7pm — Our Annual Creative Writing Awards Ceremony, featuring poet and undergraduate alum Kiyoko Reidy, in the Madison Public Library’s Third-Floor Community Rooms (201 W Mifflin St, rms 301 & 302). This event is sponsored by The Wisconsin Book Festival and the UW-Madison Program in Creative Writing. (Details forthcoming)

Many of our events are made possible through our ongoing partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival

Bookstore Partners

We encourage people interested in purchasing books featured at the readings to place their orders at any of these local, independent partner bookstores around the state of Wisconsin.

A Room of One’s Own, Madison
608.257.7888 | room.bookstore@gmail.com
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The Book Store, Appleton
920.734.8908 | thebookstoreappleton@gmail.com
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Honest Dog Books, Bayfield
715.779.5223 | info@honestdogbooks.com
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Dotters Books, Eau Claire
715.829.0468 | dottersbooks@gmail.com
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Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee
414.263.5001 | woodlandpattern@sbcglobal.net
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Fox Den Books, River Falls
715.425.6180 | foxdenbooks@gmail.com
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Mind Chimes Bookshop, Three Lakes
715.546.4222. | mindchimesbookshop@gmail.com
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Arcadia Books, Spring Green
608.588.7638 | info@readinutopia.com
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Driftless Books & Music, Viroqua
608.638.2665 | driftlessbooks@gmail.com
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