Literary Events Around Indiana
January 2022
Updated 1/18/22
There are many great literary events around Indiana – January 2022. Looking for something to do? Below are just a few ideas.
Many events are virtual. Please confirm with the venue for scheduled events listed in Literary Events Around Indiana – January 2022.
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Indiana Playwrights Circle: Organize Your Yearly Schedule
Save the Date!
Sunday, January 2, 2022, 5:00-6:30 PM EST on Zoom
Two prominent playwrights share tips on how to organize your yearly schedule around submissions to playwriting contests and festivals.
Please join us! This event is free and open to the public (but you must register)
Click here for more information and to register
Let your friends know you’re going–better yet, send them an invite via the Facebook event page!
Find out more about the Indiana Playwrights Circle!
Brick Street Poetry
Poetry on Brick Street Series
We meet the first Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm at Sullivan Munce Cultural Center, 225 West Hawthorne Street, Zionsville, IN 46077.
The next month’s Guest Poet: Poets from the Haiku for Hikers anthology reading with accompanying PowerPoint.
An Evening with the Authors*
*Fake Authors. Fake Books. Real Funny.
Where literary satire meets sketch comedy. Comedians take the stage posing as accomplished authors reading from their most recent works.
Featuring: Sam Griswold, Pauline Shypula, Jonathan Pfendler, Stephen Vincent Giles, Gwen Sunkel, and Eric Sablan
DOOR 7 pm, SHOWTIME 8 pm Must be 21+ with Valid ID.
Limited Reserved Tables are $5/person (Must purchase entire table)
*$5 General Admsssion (GA is First Come, First Served)
Please visit www.whiterabbitcabaret.com for all of our venue/staff health protocols and policies.
Robert Burns Night 2022
What is Burns Night? It is a traditional Scottish celebration of the life and poetry of the Scottish Bard Robert Burns – and all things Scottish. Dinner, bagpipes and Scottish music. There could be no better place to enjoy the evening than the iconic and beautiful Scottish Rite Cathedral.
January 21, 2022
Scottish Rite Cathedral
650 N. Meridian St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204-1214
Please join us for the 4th Annual Burns Night at the Scottish Rite. Reservations are required, please make them online at Eventbrite. Deadline for Reservations is Sunday, January 16, 2022.
Our Burns Suppers are usually black-tie, although business formal is acceptable and Highland Dress is highly encouraged
Speed City Sisters in Crime Guest Speaker
January 22, 12PM EST Register Here
Andrew Stoner is an Indiana native living in the San Francisco area who writes on topics including true crime, politics, history, mass media and popular culture. His latest are “Wanted in Indiana: Infamous Hoosier Fugitives” from the History Press, and “Dear Abby, I’m Gay: Newspaper Advice Columnists and Homosexuality” from McFarland Publishing.
A Conversation with Sara Gran, Naomi Hirahara, and Lori Rader-Day
Sunday, January 23 at 4:00 p.m. PT on Zoom
Sara Gran, Naomi Hirahara, and Midwest author Lori Rader-Day join Sisters in Crime to talk about the art, craft, and business of writing crime fiction.
So it Goes: A Series Honoring the Spirit and Ethos of Kurt Vonnegut
Starting January 25 | Kan-Kan Cinema & Brasserie
A quarterly series of films and events will highlight the iconic author’s ability to deftly weave narratives about serious social issues still faced today.
Buy tickets to the January 25 screening of The Slaughterhouse Five
Butler Visiting Writers Series: Percival Everett
PEN USA Literary Award and Academy of Arts & Letters Literature Award Winner
Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 7:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium
Percival Everett is the author of more than 30 novels and story collections, including The Trees, Telephone, So Much Blue, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, and Erasure. Everett has won the Dos Passos Prize, the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, The 2010 Believer Book Award, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, a Creative Capital Award, BS the Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.