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!

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

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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