Literary Events Around Indiana

March 2022

Updated 3/28/22

There are many great literary events around Indiana. Looking for something to do?  Below are just a few ideas.

Many events are virtual. Please confirm with the venue for scheduled events listed here.

To be featured in our “Literary Events Around Indiana” monthly events blog, email the details to mail@indianawriters.org.

In Print Festival 2022

Join #bsuenglish at Ball State University Teachers College for the return of the In Print Festival of First Books!

Tuesday, March 29 at 7PM (TC 120): poet Ananda Lima (Mother/land), novelist Dionne Irving (Quint), and nonfiction writer J.R. Jamison (Hillbilly Queer) will read from their work

Wednesday, March 30 at 7PM (TC 121): Lima, Irving, & Jamison will be joined by poet and editor Abigail Cloud (Editor-in-Chief of Mid-American Review) for a panel and Q&A about writing and publishing

Both events are free & open to the public!

Butler Visiting Writers Series presents Catherynne Valente

Monday March 28 7:30 PM at Shelton Auditorium

ABOUT CATHERYNNE VALENTE
New York Times Bestselling Fantasy & Sci-Fi author Catherynne Valente joins our Visiting Writers Series on Monday, March 28!

Valente is the author of forty works of speculative fiction and poetry, including Space Opera, The Refrigerator Monologues, Palimpsest, the Orphan’s Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (and the four books that followed it). She has won or been nominated for every major award in her field.

And just this week Esquire Magazine named her novel Radiance one of the 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time. The New York Times has called her “an incandescent young star.”

Valente lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.

The reading will take place on Monday, March 28 @ 7:30PM at Butler University’s Shelton Auditorium and will last approximately 45 minutes. A brief audience Q&A period will follow and a book signing will close out the evening in the lobby of the auditorium. We kindly ask that you wear a face mask during all parts of the program.

The event & parking are free. As always, no tickets are required. For directions to Shelton or for additional information, refer to the links below.

Butler Visiting Writers Series presents Percival Everett

Tuesday March 15 7:30 pm at Shelton Auditorium

Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty 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 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, 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. Everett is currently Distinguished Professor of English at University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.

Mr. Everett’s reading will last approximately 45 minutes, followed by a 20-minute audience Q&A period. A book signing will take place immediately after in the lobby of the auditorium. We kindly ask that you wear a face mask during all parts of the program.

Indy Story Slam

March 16, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Virtual & Centerpoint Brewing Company
1125 E. Brookside Ave Indianapolis, IN 46202

Free

A fun night for storytellers of every skill level, designed as an after-work event to relax and unwind. There’s prizes!

Check out Storytelling Arts of Indiana for more information.

If you can’t make it to see the slam in person, watch the livestream on YouTube.com/StorytellingArts, our Facebook page and the Freetown Village Facebook page.

Butler University Visiting Writer’s Series: Emma Nussbaum

Pulitzer Prize-Winning TV Critic and Essayist

Thursday, March 3, 2022, 7:30 PM

Shelton Auditorium

Emily Nussbaum has been the television critic for The New Yorker since 2011. She has written about “The Good Wife,” “Girls,” “Mad Men,” and “Scandal,” among other shows. Previously, she worked at New York for seven years, editing the Culture Pages (and creating the Approval Matrix) and writing both features and criticism. She won a 2014 National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. She has also written for Slate, The New York Times, Lingua Franca, Nerve, among other publications. In 2016 she won the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism “for television reviews written with an affection that never blunts the shrewdness of her analysis or the easy authority of her writing.”

She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Clive Thompson and her two children. She doesn’t have a favorite television show, but under pressure, she’ll choose “Slings and Arrows.”

Minton Sparks and Manón Voice: Bold Lineage

March 19, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

WHERE: Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center (and Virtual)
450 West Ohio St. Indianapolis, IN 46202

Visit the Storytelling Arts of Indiana for more details

Or stay up to date on the Bold Lineage Facebook Event Page!

Tickets: $20 – $35

IndyReads Virtual Event Indy Actors’ Playground

Each month, an Indy actor picks a play he or she really wants to do (new, classic, unknown oldie, whatever) but that hasn’t been staged here in the past few years and isn’t on an upcoming schedule.

Monday February 21, 6 PM EST*

NOTE: This is earlier than the usual 7-9 PM

After you register for this event, you will receive an email with details on how to join the book club via Zoom.

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.

Irving Theater Weekly Poetry Open Mic

Every Thursday night
7:00p – 9:00 PM EST
LOCAL POETS * ORIGINAL POETRY * COME READ OR LISTEN]

A completely nonjudgmental and safe space to share poetry! Every Thursday on the deck at the Irving Theater in the Summer, inside all Winter. Performances are broadcast live on our Facebook page (link below). Come enjoy original poetry and readings from local and regional artists, or present your own poetry.

This event is free.

FACEBOOK LIVE LINK  
For more information, visit the Irving Theater’s website

Books & Brews Open Mic