There are many great literary events around Indianapolis and beyond. Looking for something to do? Here are just a few ideas:
Many events are virtual. Please confirm with venue for scheduled events.
Do you have an upcoming literary event? Send us the details at mail@indianawriters.org to be featured on our events blog.
Ann Katz Festival of Books & Arts
Oct 25–Nov 22, 2020
This year, the Ann Katz Festival of Books & Arts is all virtual. Enjoy authors, films and performances without leaving your home!
The 22nd annual Ann Katz Festival of Books & Arts is a month-long, all-virtual festival featuring well-known authors, award-winning films and performing arts events. This year, the festival kicks off with master of suspense Harlan Coben. Check out our line-up below and get ready to curl up with the stories behind the stories of this fall’s favorite reads.
Join one or see them all from the comfort of your home. Links will be provided to ticketholders shortly before each event.
Price for each event is per household. Book orders will be processed the day after the respective program.
INconversation with Jean Thompson and Barbara Shoup
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 7 PM – 8 PM
Online event hosted by Indiana Humanities
Join a discussion with Jean Thompson, author of “The Year We Left Home” and Barb Shoup!
Coffee with Friends with poet Ross Gay
Sunday, November 8 at 2 pm EST.
Online event hosted by Friends of the Monroe Co. Public Library (IN) and Monroe County Public Library (Indiana)
Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His new poem, Be Holding, will be released from the University of Pittsburgh Press in September of 2020. His collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. Gay received the 2020 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award for NonFiction for this book. Ross will share his poetry with an opportunity for your questions too.
What Was and What Will Be: Life in the Time of Covid 19
This year, the Indiana Writers Center, Dance Kaleidoscope, Jewish Community Center, and Indianapolis Public Library are partnering to present, “What Was and Will Be,” a Spirit and Place program recognizing that each of us felt the weight of this moment from a unique perspective and to build unity through our shared history.
Performances by Dance Kaleidoscope are inspired by written works from writers in the community. These performances are available to view online through November 22, 2020. Watch the virtual performance.
Anthology
WHAT WAS & WHAT WILL BE: LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID19
Curtis L. Crisler & Kevin McKelvey Book Launch & Open Mic
Thursday, November 19, 2020 07:00 PM, online event
Indiana Nocturne(s): Our Rural and Urban Patchwork – From the shadows of the Gary steel mills and tall summer corn, these poems explore two versions of being a Hoosier—rural and urban—exposing the commonality in all Midwesterners. Crisler and McKelvey resonate with each by alternating poems in the odd sections, and the even sections feature a slide-out solo. Each suite of poems unfolds a meditation on the people and places of Indiana and the Midwest.
A conversation with author Maurice Broaddus
Monday, November 30, 2020 at 2 PM EST – 3 PM EST
Join Humanities Librarian and School of Liberal Arts faculty member, Dr. Gemmicka Piper as she converses with local award-wining author and IUPUI School of Science alumnus, Maurice Broaddus.
Mr. Broaddus will speak to his journey as an author, connection to the Afrofuturism genre, his latest book “Pimp My Airship”, and being a 2020 Indiana Author’s Award recipient.