Lit Crawl Denver: Full Schedule

The first annual Lit Crawl Denver is Friday, September 2! Join more than 30 Denver-area writers for a wild night of literary debauchery during Tennyson Street’s First Fridays Art Walk. The fun continues during the after-party hosted by the 2nd Annual Fu*%ing Fabulous Fiction Fest presented by BookBar, 9-11 p.m., at the Oriental Theater. Entertainment includes High Fiction Band. More Details Soon!

At each reading Bienvenidos Food Bank will collect non-perishable items. There will also be cash cans; for every $1 donated Bienvenidos is able to provide $9 worth food for a family in need. Bienvenidos has been helping neighbors in need for 40 years!

6:00pm MDT

Colorado Humanities

Colorado Humanities inspires the people of Colorado to explore ideas and to appreciate our diverse cultural heritage. Passing on the knowledge of the past, the inspiration of the present, and the hope for the future, we envision a Colorado that celebrates its heritage and its diversity; that reads, embraces cultural activities, participates in critical discussions, and listens, teaches, and learns; where communities, families, individuals, and especially our youth, apply the humanities in their everyday lives. Colorado Humanities strives to bring the humanities to life in Colorado. Learn more at www.coloradohumanities.org.

Moderators

Josephine Jones

Josephine Jones serves the Colorado writing community as Director of Programs and Center for the Book at Colorado Humanities. The Colorado Authors League awarded an “Author Advocate” award jointly to Jones and Colorado Humanities Executive Director Margaret Coval last year... Read More →

Authors

Lisa Birman

Lisa Birman is a novelist and poet. She is the author of the poetry collection For That Return Passage: A Valentine for the United States of America; co-editor of Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action; and editor of Dearest Annie, You Wanted A Report on Berkson’s... Read More →

Edward Hamlin

Edward Hamlin’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals and on stage. He was the winner of the 2013 Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction. A New York native, Hamlin spent his formative years in Chicago, and now makes his home in Boulder.

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz grew up in a Boulder bookstore named The Rue Morgue, one of the first mystery bookstores in the U.S. She holds an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University and lives with her family in an old farmhouse on the outskirts of Boulder. Fig is her first... Read More →

Jonathan Waldman

A former Ted Scripps Fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado, Jonathan Waldman grew up in Washington, DC, studied environmental science and writing at Dartmouth, and earned a master’s degree from Boston University’s Knight Center for science journalism... Read More →

Friday September 2, 2016 6:00pm - 6:45pm MDT
Mermaid Fine Books 4220 Tennyson St, Denver CO

Phase 1

6:00pm MDT

Mile-High MFA

Mile-High MFA is a two-year terminal degree that provides students with one-on-one instruction in fiction, young- adult fiction, creative nonfiction, writing for performance, poetry, or the graphic novel, along with theory and craft lessons, workshops, seminars, and readings by accomplished authors, as well as guidance on the practical and professional aspects of writing. The Mile-High MFA is not for casual writers who see writing as a hobby. It is for writers who are ready to take themselves seriously and fully engage in writing as a vocation.

Moderators

David Hicks

David Hicks is the author of the novel, White Plains (forthcoming from Conundrum Press) as well as over a dozen short stories in Glimmer Train, Colorado Review, and other fine magazines. He is a professor of English at Regis University, where he is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director... Read More →

Martin McGovern

Martin McGovern earned his master's degree in Philosophy at Stanford and his Ph.D. in Creative Writing (Poetry) at The University of Houston. He also spent a year studying in the Denver Center Theatre Company’s Playwrights Unit. Working in poetry and playwriting, Marty taught for... Read More →

Andrea Rexilius

Andrea Rexilius is the author of three books of poetry: New Organism: Essais (Letter Machine, 2014), Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012), and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011).

Authors

J. Michael Martinez

J. Michael Martinez received the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for his first book, Heredities. His latest, In the Garden of the Bridehouse, is available from the Universtiy of Arizona Press. He is Poetry Editor of NOEMI Press and his writings are anthologized... Read More →

Khadijah Queen

Khadijah Queen is the author of four books, most recently Fearful Beloved (2015). In 2015, The Relationship theater company staged her verse play, Non-Sequitur, in NYC as part of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers, with publication by Litmus Press... Read More →

Jenny Shank

Jenny Shank's novel The Ringer (The Permanent Press, 2011) won the High Plains Book Award in fiction, was a finalist for the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's Reading the West Book Awards, and was a Tattered Cover Book Store Summer Reading selection. Her stories... Read More →

Helen Thorpe

Helen Thorpe is an award-winning journalist who lives in Denver, Colorado. Her magazine work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, Westword, and 5280. She has also reported radio stories that have aired on This American Life and Soundprint... Read More →

Denise Vega

Denise Vega is the award-winning author of four books for middle school and young adult readers, including her blog books: Click Here (to find out how i survived seventh grade) – a Scholastic Book Club/Fair bestselling title and a Colorado Book Award winner – and Access Denied... Read More →

Friday September 2, 2016 6:00pm - 6:45pm MDT
BookBar 4280 Tennyson Street, Denver, CO

Phase 1

7:00pm MDT

At The Inkwell

At The Inkwell supports published authors through book reviews, interviews and readings. Founded in 2013, the series is held in Denver, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Readings in Denver are held on the first Mondays, 7 p.m. at Syntax Physic Opera, 554 South Broadway. Learn more at www.attheinkwell.com.

Moderators

Monique Antonette Lewis

Monique Antonette Lewis is the founder of At The Inkwell. She is an annual reader for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. A former board member of the New York Writers Workshop, she taught fiction workshops in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She was also the fiction editor for City... Read More →

Authors

Teow Lim Goh

Teow Lim Goh is the author of Islanders (Conundrum Press, May 2016), a book of poems on the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station. She also makes letterpress and art editions of poetry and other writings at her imprint Black Orchid Press. She lives in Denver.

Jovan Mays

Jovan Mays is the Poet Laureate of Aurora, Colorado and a National Poetry Slam Champion. As member of the Denver SlamNUBA national slam poetry team, he has had many highlights including winning two Denver city slam championships and qualifying for three international finals stages... Read More →

Manuel Ramos

Manuel Ramos is a retired lawyer and the author of eight published novels and one short story collection. For his professional and community service he has received the Colorado Bar Association’s Jacob V. Schaetzel Award, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association’s Chris Miranda Award... Read More →

Nancy Sharp

Nancy Sharp is a keynote speaker, BOLD Living expert, and the author of Both Sides Now: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Bold Living, winner of eight literary honors, including the 2015 Colorado Book Award. She holds a MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College.

Friday September 2, 2016 7:00pm - 7:45pm MDT
Tea for Ewe 4234 Tennyson St, Denver, CO

Phase 2

7:00pm MDT

Tethered by Letters

At Tethered by Letters, we believe in the power of storytelling. This uniquely human ability should be treasured and championed, no matter a person’s background, age, or education. We provide the tools to help writers master this craft, combining our extensive educational resources, lively international community, and in-house publisher. By fostering a love of literature, we strive to discover, nurture, and publish the next generation of great storytellers. Learn more at www.tetheredbyletters.com.

Moderators

Leah Scott

Leah Scott is the Education Director for Tethered by Letters and a Senior Editor for F(r)iction, a tri-annual collection of art and literature published by TBL. Her poetry manuscript With Scissors & a Tiny Saw won the University of Denver’s Mary Cass Award in 2015. You can find her in the virtual realm on Instagram (@miss.teamountain... Read More →

Authors

Kathy Fish

Kathy Fish's stories have been published or are forthcoming in THE LINEUP: 20 PROVOCATIVE WOMEN WRITERS (Black Lawrence Press, 2015), Guernica, Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is the author of four collections of short fiction: a chapbook of flash fiction in... Read More →

Richard Froude

Richard Froude has written three books: FABRIC (Horse Less 2011), The Passenger (Skylight 2012), and Tarnished Mirrors: Translations of Charles Baudelaire (Muffled Cry 2004). His writing about working with palliative care and hospice patients has been awarded the 2013 Wabash... Read More →

Emily Pérez

Emily Pérez is the author of the poetry collection House of Sugar, House of Stone (Center for Literary Publishing) and the chapbook Backyard Migration Route (Finishing Line Press). She graduated with honors from Stanford University and earned an MFA at the University of Houston... Read More →

Nate Ragolia

Nate Ragolia is the author of There You Feel Free; a novella. He’s also the creator, writer and illustrator of the webcomics, The Illiterate Badger and The Right Corking Adventures of Cecil Larkbunting and Alastair Wakerobin. He writes articles about Denver, and all sorts of o... Read More →

Suzi Q. Smith

Poet and author Suzi Q. Smith lives with her brilliant daughter in Denver, Colorado. In addition to working as a teaching artist in Denver, Suzi Q. performs throughout the United States. Among the most well-known performing poets in the country, she has shared stages with the... Read More →

Gina Wohlsdorf

Gina Wohlsdorf was born in Bismark, North Dakota, and graduated from Tulane University. In 2013 she earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado. "Security "is her first novel.

Friday September 2, 2016 7:00pm - 7:45pm MDT
Berkeley Untapped 4267 Tennyson St, Denver, CO

Phase 2

8:00pm MDT

F Bomb

The FBOMB (Flash-Bomb) is Denver’s only flash fiction reading series with rotating guest hosts and featured performers, as well as (limited) open mic slots. A beautiful blend of amateur and professional set in the quirky Mercury Cafe. Third Tuesdays, 7:30 pm at 2199 California Street. Visit www.flashbombdenver.wordpress.com for more details.

Moderators

Nancy Stohlman

Nancy Stohlman’s books include The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, The Monster Opera, Searching for Suzi: a flash novel, and four anthologies including Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, a finalist for a 2011 Colorado Book Award. She is the creator of the Fbomb Flash Fiction... Read More →

Authors

Steven Dunn

Steven Dunn is the author of Potted Meat (Tarpaulin Sky Press). He was born and raised in West Virginia, and after 10 years in the Navy he earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from University of Denver. He is also the Reviews and Interviews editor for Horse Less Press.

Roseanna Frechette

Roseanna Frechette is in love with words. Written. Spoken. Published. Or not. It's all about words on page and energy on stage. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, most recently Blink-Ink out of North Branford, CT, Naropa's “Semicolon” and “Lummox” out of... Read More →

Rob Geisen

Rob Geisen writes books. A number of these books have been published. He also writes books under the name Get in the car, Helen. Some of these books have been published too. Once upon a time he ran a weekly open mic in Boulder and was poetry editor for Illiterate Magazine, but he... Read More →

Bryan Jansing

Bryan Jansing is an international, award-winning author. Some of his works include, “Like Clumps of Dried Dirt,” “Bridge Party,” and “A Number on Reality,” in Fast Forward Vol. 3, The Mix Tape (2010), which was the finalist for the Colorado Book Awards. He has also... Read More →

Jonathan Montgomery

Jonathan Montgomery was born in 1980 in Akron, Ohio. He’s a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Naropa University and the author of The MeToo Poems Volume I & II, and Taxis and Shit: The MeToo Poems Volume III. He lives in Colorado and works as a taxi driver.

Kona Morris

Kona Morris received her moral guidance from Kermit the Frog. She is originally from the foggy redwood hub of Humboldt County, California, though she has since lived everywhere from Boston to a remote village in northern Alaska. She has an MFA in Creative Writing, a slew of publications... Read More →

Nicholas B. Morris

Nicholas B. Morris has been many things: a grocery bagger, a knife salesman, an oil company stooge, and even one of those annoying people who asks if you have a minute for the environment. Now he spends a lot of time talking about Batman and rock music under the auspices of higher... Read More →

Friday September 2, 2016 8:00pm - 8:45pm MDT
Local 46 4586 Tennyson St, Denver, CO

Phase 3

8:00pm MDT

Lighthouse Writers Workshop

Lighthouse Writers Workshop is the largest nonprofit literary center in Colorado and the Mountain West. Since 1997, we’ve offered high-quality writing instruction in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, and many other genres. Lighthouse members have published books with the likes of Little Brown, Harper Collins, Red Hen Press, and Pegasus Books. Their books have been on the New York Times bestseller list, been made into award-winning movies, been short-listed for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and received several Colorado Book Awards. Our workshops aim to support—and to challenge—writers. At Lighthouse you’ll find a safe, creative learning environment, whether at the introductory, intermediate, advanced, or masters level. Learn more at www.lighthousewriters.org.

Moderators

Dan Manzanares

As Lighthouse’s creative curator, Dan Manzanares loves collaborating with Denver and Colorado-based individuals and organizations. He’s led writing workshops at the Leon Gallery, Arts Brookfield, American Museum of Western Art, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, History Colorado, and... Read More →

Authors

Sheree Brown

Sheree Lovemestiza Brown is an artist, a writer, a poet and creative. Sheree has been invited to read poetry and speak on panels at numerous universities and has taught and provided workshops for youth with Lighthouse and other organizations, and has coordinated after-school programs... Read More →

Michael J. Henry

Michael J. Henry currently serves as Executive Director of Lighthouse, where he also teaches poetry and memoir and essay workshops. He's published two full-length collections of poetry, No Stranger Than My Own and Active Gods, both with Conundrum Press.

BK Loren

BK Loren’s novel Theft won the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Award, the Willa Award, a Dana Award for novel in progress, and was a finalist in several other national awards. Her collection of essays, Animal, Mineral, Radical won the Colorado Book Award. Her short... Read More →

Elizabeth Robinson

Elizabeth Robinson is the author most recently of On Ghosts (Solid Objects), Counterpart (Ahsahta Press), and Blue Heron (Center for Literary Publishing). Robinson will be a Dora Maar House fellow in Menerbes, France in the fall of 2016.

Friday September 2, 2016 8:00pm - 8:45pm MDT
Call to Arms Brewing Company 4526 Tennyson St, Denver, CO

Phase 3

9:00pm MDT

2nd Annual Fu*%ing Fabulous Fiction Fest presented by BookBar and High Fiction (After-Party)

The 2nd Annual Fu*%ing Fabulous Fiction Fest will include hip hop dancing, adult drinking spelling bee, burlesque, circus acts, authors doing strange things and High Fiction Band!

Tickets are $10. This is an adult-only event. Reserve your ticket now!

Friday September 2, 2016 9:00pm - 11:00pm MDT
The Oriental Theater 4335 W 44th Ave, Denver, CO

Phase 4