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SUMMARY:Dallas Is Lit! Book & Author Fair
DESCRIPTION:The community book & author fair is back and bigger than ever! Happening this year at the Oak Cliff Assembly and co-presented by Apprentice Creative Space\, the book & author fair will bring together dozens of local literary and literary-adjacent businesses and organizations\, from writing clubs to craft supplies\, book stores to libraries–and of course\, your favorite local authors selling and signing their work.\nPlus\, next door in Apprentice Creative Space\, we’ll have a series of activation events\, including bilingual story time\, a Lyceum Series literary conversation\, a “Hot Ones” style literary panel with local hot sauces\, and a community open mic.\nSaturday\, May 17\, 2025\nOak Cliff Assembly & Apprentice Creative Space\n919 Morrell Ave.\nFree to all\nVendors Include: \nApprentice Creative Space\nAssure Press\nAlesandra Bell\nDeep Vellum Publishing\nEspañol\, la Lengua Amiga\nThe First Line/Workers Write!\nGnashing Teeth Publishing\nH3aling Empir3/Purpl3 3mporium\nHello Readers\nInfinity Oaks Books\nLeather & Bound Coffee Book Bar\nLuna Mercantile\nMad Swirl\nRemnant Media Publications\nSley Houses Publishing\nWhose Books/ARCO\nThe Writer’s Garret\nWriters’ League Of Texas \nAuthor Signing Schedule \nSigning From 10am-11:05am \nDr. Carter\nCandace Gray\nJordan Gray\nKathalyn Martinez\nMandy Montane\nAlexis Pierce\nMonique Randle\nMatthew Rollins\nXin Yi Xan\nJoaquín Zihuatanejo \nSigning From 11:15am-12:20pm \nKit Aldridge\nBeth Bando\nPatricia Griffin\nDeAnn Daley Holcomb\nChristine Horstman\nRosario Martinez\nBiviana McAfee\nMaribel Rubio\nTrent D.Walters\nSandra Walters \nSigning From 12:30pm-1:35pm \nChristopher George\nFrancisco Guerra\nSummer Jelinek\nKian Sabik\nC. K. McAdam\nRobin Myrick\nHailey Robinson\, M.S.\nBrittney Wardlaw\, JD \nSigning From 1:45pm-2:50pm \nDayo Adesuyi\nMaya Golden Bethany\nW. A. Ford\nStories with Ms. Chaney\nTim Cloward\nBonnie Daneker\nTaylor Hayden\nAmena Jamali\nJudy Liu \nThe Book & Author Fair is supported\, in part\, by the City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture.
URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/dallas-is-lit-book-author-fair-2/
LOCATION:The Oak Cliff Assembly\, 919 Morrell Ave.\, Dallas\, Texas\, 75203
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SUMMARY:Story Time En Español & Book Gifting
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun half hour of story time en español with our friends at Whose Books\, plus cookies\, punch\, and a FREE book giveaway to the first 10 families to arrive! We’ll be reading Las Magníficas Plantitas Bailadoras de Mamá by Eliza Kinkz.\nWhen Jesus gets home after school\, he has his usual routine: do homework\, daydream\, do small chores here and there around the house … but one day\, Mama appoints him honorable Chief Plant Officer\, Branch Manager\, AND big brother to her precious houseplants! Jesus does an excellent job keeping them hydrated\, entertained\, and happy until one plant has an accident and throws Jesus’s entire job into crisis mode … \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRSVP To Join Us! (note: RSVP is not a reservation for a free book. Books will be given on a first come\, first served basis)\nRSVP for Bilingual Story Time
URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/dil-story-time-espanol-25/
LOCATION:Apprentice Creative Space\, 919 Morrell Ave. #110\, Dallas\, TX\, 75203
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SUMMARY:The Lyceum Series Teaching Artist Panel
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear more about the Lyceum Series\, our free monthly workshop on a variety of craft topics\, taught by some of the incredible local writers and professors of creative writing in the North Texas region.\nModerator: Lauren Brazeal Garza \nLauren Brazeal Garza is the author of five books of poetry and fiction including her memoir-in-verse\, Gutter (YesYes Books\, 2018)\, which chronicles her homelessness as a teenager. She earned her M.F.A in creative writing from Bennington College\, and her Ph.D. in Literature from The University of Texas at Dallas\, where she teaches literature and creative writing. Lauren is also the co-creator and curator of the Lyceum Workshop Series through the Writer’s Garret\, which pairs publishing authors and creators with the Dallas community to offer FREE\, university-quality writing workshops. \nCallynth Photography \nMaya Golden Bethany: \nMaya Golden Bethany is an Associated Press winning and Emmy-nominated freelance journalist in Tyler\, Texas where her foundation\, 1 in 3 Foundation\, serves survivors of sexual trauma with little to no income. Her memoir\, The Return Trip\, will re-release in hardcover edition on March 4\, 2025 from Rising Action Publishing. Her first novel\, a political thriller\, The Senator\, will release April 15\, 2025\, also through RAPC. Maya has written for Newsweek\, Salon\, Insider and BlackGirlNerds.com. Maya recently received the Parent Writer Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University. \nJames Davis: \nJames Davis teaches at the University of North Texas\, where he received his Ph.D. in English in 2024. His debut poetry collection\, Club Q\, won the Anthony Hecht Prize. His poems have been featured on NBC News and CBC Radio and anthologized in two installments of Best New Poets (2011 and 2019). Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Hopkins Review\, The Sewanee Review\, Palette Poetry\, Salamander\, and Gulf Coast online. He serves as Senior Poetry Editor for Narrative Magazine and has served as Editor-in-Chief for American Literary Review. His website is jamesdavispoet.com. \nLisa Huffaker: \nLisa Huffaker integrates poetry\, visual art\, and performance in hybrid forms. Her writing appears in The Georgia Review\, Pleiades\, Cincinnati Review\, Sixth Finch\, Diagram\, and elsewhere. Pegasus Contemporary Ballet recently premiered Words For a Resonant Space\, a new dance work built on her poetry\, and Pierce Planetarium recently featured her hybrid of poetry\, full-dome art projections\, and music. Excerpts of her ongoing book project\, a collage/erasure transformation of a 1963 “self-improvement” book for wives\, have been exhibited internationally as part of TU Delft and Cornell Tech’s 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation\, and widely published in journals. Watch for forthcoming excerpts of the project in Massachusetts Review and The Iowa Review. \nAlex Temblador: \nAlex Temblador is the award-winning author of Writing An Identity Not Your Own\, Half Outlaw\, and Secrets of the Casa Rosada. Her creative writing has appeared in anthologies like Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology\, as well as literary journals like Colorado Review\, PALABRITAS\, D Magazine\, and more. Alex is also an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Travel + Leisure\, The Daily Beast\, Architectural Digest\, National Geographic\, Outside\, and more. \nApril Sojourner Truth Walker: \nApril Sojourner Truth Walker is a Dallas native\, who studied at Emory University in Atlanta and Hollins University in Virginia. Before starting her writing coaching company – A Little More Truth\, LLC – in April of 2020\, she worked for seven years as a Senior Project Manager at AT&T. April also served as an Adjunct Professor at Oklahoma City Community College teaching a myriad of classes in the Humanities from 2016-2022. A perfect day for April is one spent in nature with a good book\, a cup of tea and nowhere to be. \n  \nRSVP for Lyceum Series Panel
URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/lyceum-series-panel/
LOCATION:Apprentice Creative Space\, 919 Morrell Ave. #110\, Dallas\, TX\, 75203
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SUMMARY:An Extremely Lit Literary Panel
DESCRIPTION:What if we interviewed authors while they ate increasingly hot salsa? Does this sound like a bad idea?\nIf you’ve ever watched Hot Ones\, the enormously popular Youtube series featuring celebrities being grilled as they attempt to eat diabolically hot chicken wings\, you’ll know this is\, in fact\, an EXCELLENT idea. Come watch as moderator Alex Temblador interviews 3 local writers as they sample some local salsas that will have their tastebuds feeling *extremely* lit.\n\nAmanda Churchill is the author of The Turtle House (Harper Books). Her work has been featured in Lit Hub\, Hobart Pulp\, Witness and other outlets. She was a Writer’s League of Texas 2021 Fellow\, has received support from Tin House and Community of Writers\, and holds a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of North Texas. She lives in Keller\, Texas\, with her family. \n  \nKatie Condon is the author of Praying Naked\, winner of the 2018 Charles B. Wheeler poetry prize. Her poetry has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from POETRY Magazine\, the New Yorker\, and the American Poetry Review\, as well as the 2025 Best American Poetry anthology. Condon is the recipient of a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, as well as the 2023 Nadya Aisenberg fellowship from MacDowell. She is an assistant professor in the English department at Southern Methodist University\, where she teaches creative writing and edits a line of poetry for Project Poëtica / Bridwell Press. \n  \nA. Kendra Greene is author of the illuminated essay collections No Less Strange or Wonderful and The Museum of Whales You Will Never See. She became an essayist under the auspices of a Fulbright grant to Korea\, and a book artist at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Her work has been presented at the Smithsonian\, exhibited at The Reading Room\, collected as far away as Qatar\, translated into French and German\, and vended from the White Rock Zine Machine for 25 cents a pop. Her nonfiction appears in publications from Atlas Obscura to Zyzzyva\, including Freeman’s\, The Guardian\, Nautilus\, Orion\, and The Wall Street Journal. After fellowships at Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab\, Yaddo\, MacDowell\, Dobie Paisano\, and The American Library in Paris\, she currently teaches epistolary literature as Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri. \n  \nAlex Temblador is the award-winning author of Writing An Identity Not Your Own\, Half Outlaw\, and Secrets of the Casa Rosada. Her creative writing has appeared in anthologies like Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology\, as well as literary journals like Colorado Review\, PALABRITAS\, D Magazine\, and more. Alex is also an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Travel + Leisure\, The Daily Beast\, Architectural Digest\, National Geographic\, Outside\, and more. \nRSVP for Extremely Lit
URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/extremely-lit-panel/
LOCATION:Apprentice Creative Space\, 919 Morrell Ave. #110\, Dallas\, TX\, 75203
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SUMMARY:Community Open Mic Hosted By Lyrik Hunter
DESCRIPTION:From veteran performance poets to newcomers who’ve never been on stage before\, the open mic is the perfect place to show off or try something out. Bring your newest\, your best\, you previously unperformerd poem\, flash fiction\, micro essay or listicle and put it out into the world. Hosted by Lyrik Hunter\, the community open mic is safe space to share your literary passion out loud.\nPerformers will be able to sign up beginning at 1:20. The open mic is FREE to attend and to be a part of.\nNote: Please Respect The Mic. Performers are asked to limit their entry to 1 poem\, prose piece\, song\, joke set\, or other performance not to exceed 3 minutes. The community open mic is an inclusive\, safe space\, so work featuring significant profanity\, mature themes\, or descriptive sex or violence won’t be a good fit. \nThe community open mic is supported by the Office of Arts & Culture Community Artist Program roster.
URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/community-open-mic/
LOCATION:Apprentice Creative Space\, 919 Morrell Ave. #110\, Dallas\, TX\, 75203
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SUMMARY:Langston Hughes' Weary Blues LIVE
DESCRIPTION:Weary Blues is an album by poet Langston Hughes\, recorded in March 1958 in New York and was released on the MGM label in 1959. Hughes recites several of his poems\, from his 1926 debut collection by the same name\, over jazz accompaniment composed and arranged by Leonard Feather and Charles Mingus. It was later reissued on Verve Records.\nThe gritty poems\, all featuring the rhythms of daily Black life in Harlem\, swing between narrative and lyric with a sometimes breezy\, sometimes dirge-like reverberations. Feather and Mingus’ compositions set the tone for each poem\, guiding the emotional weight and hue of Hughes’ poetry\, from swing to blues to be-bop.\nIn the summer of 2000\, Quraysh Ali Lansana had the privilege of reprising this album at the Chicago Jazz Festival with a 7–8-piece band who were members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)\, a seminal organization for experimental music founded by the late Sun Ra.\nMay 17\, 2025\nThe Oak Cliff Assembly | 919 Morrell Ave.\n8pm\n$35 with VIP tables available\nGet tickets to Weary Blues Live\n\nAbout The Performers\nRebecca Cordes (pianist) is a classically trained pianist\, jazz musician\, composer/arranger\, teacher\, and band leader. Originally from Nebraska\, Rebecca has been active on the Dallas music scene for over ten years. Comfortable in both classical and contemporary styles\, she can be found in a variety of performance settings\, most notably playing with her band\, Plus One Jazz Group. Previously\, she collaborated with writer-lyricist David Parr on two original works for theater: The Great White Way\, a full-length musical; and A Most Happy Stella\, a through-composed mini-musical jazz parody of A Streetcar Named Desire. These works have been performed at theater festivals in Dallas and New York. Most recently\, Rebecca contributed to The Pollinators\, a new musical under development by local playwright Carol Crittenden. \n Thaddeus Ford II (trumpet) is a sixth-generation jazz musician from New Orleans. He began playing the trumpet at age 8\, eventually enrolling in New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) for high school. Following graduation\, Thaddeus and his father enrolled in the music program at Southern University in Baton Rouge where they studied together under jazz educator and clarinetist Alvin Batiste. A year later\, he and his father transferred to The University of New Orleans (UNO) to study under Ellis Marsalis\, and\, after two semesters at UNO\, Thaddeus joined the brass-hop group\, Coolbone\, with whom he played for five years. \n  \nDr. Joyce Hsu (trombone) holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Texas Tech University\, a master’s degree in Trombone Performance and Pedagogy from Oklahoma State University. A native of Taiwan\, she also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the oldest and most prestigious art college in her country\, National Taiwan University of Arts. She has performed with the Rio Bravo Trombone Quartet\, El Paso Jazz Collective\, the salsa group Azúcar\, and the El Paso Winds. Dr. Hsu served as the Director of Trombone Ensembles at the University of Texas at El Paso\, where she coached the UTEP Trombone choir\, which was invited\, under her direction\, to perform at the 2019 Big 12 Trombone Conference and the 2020 Texas Music Educators Association Conference. \nQuraysh Ali Lansana (vocals) is author of over twenty books in poetry\, nonfiction and children’s literature. Lansana is currently a Tulsa Artist Fellow and a Visiting Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa. He was formerly a Lecturer in Africana Studies at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa where he also served as Director of the Center for Truth\, Racial Healing & Transformation. Lansana is Executive Producer of KOSU/NPR’s Focus: Black Oklahoma monthly radio program\, which is a recipient of a 2022 duPont-Columbia Award\, a 2022 NAACP Image Award\, a 2022 Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists Award and was a Peabody Award nominee. Lansana is also the recipient of a 2022 Emmy Award\, a 2022 Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Award and a 2022 National Educational Telecommunications Association Public Media Award for his roles as host and consultant for the OETA (PBS) documentary film “Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later.” Lansana is a three-time International Regional Magazine Award-winning Contributing Editor for Oklahoma Today magazine. A former faculty member of both the Writing Program of the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago
and the Drama Division of
The Juilliard School\, Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center
for Black Literature and
Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2012 and was Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing there until 2014. His most recent books include Killing the Negative: A Conversation in Art & Verse (with Joel Daniel Phillips)\, Opal’s Greenwood Oasis\, the skin of dreams: new and collected poems\, 1995-2018\, The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience & Change Agent) and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop. \nAnn MacMillan (percussion) holds a bachelor’s of music education degree from Emporia State University in Kansas and a master’s of music education degree from the University of North Texas. MacMillan began repairing musical instruments at Foster Music Company in Garden City\, Kansas then joined the U.N.T College of Music as an adjunct professor of instrument repair in 1997. She teaches beginning and advanced repair courses and workshops. As a drummer\, she collaborates with various jazz and pop ensembles. \n  \nPaul Nunn (bass) studied at Tuskeegee University and currently plays at Highland Hills United Methodist Church. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoyce Spencer (saxophone) has an extensive repertoire that spans traditional and contemporary jazz\, classical\, R&B\, funk\, fusion\, blues\, pop\, and Gospel/Christian music. Originally from Dallas\, Joyce’s artistry is a testament to her diverse musical upbringing. With mastery over the soprano\, alto\, and tenor saxophones\, as well as the flute and her vocal talents\, Joyce has performed at numerous venues\, including music festivals\, concerts\, church gatherings\, and corporate events across the United States\, where she has had the privilege of collaborating with notable acts such as Yarbrough & Peoples\, i.Tina (Tina Turner Tribute Band)\, Satin Dolls\, Jazz in Pink\, and her band\, Joyce Spencer & Expressions which includes her Sade Tribute Show. \nAbout Taylor Entertainment Group\nTaylor Entertainment Group LLC (TEG)\, based in Tulsa\, Oklahoma\, is a premier entertainment management\, booking\, and consulting company dedicated to delivering exceptional live performances for a variety of events\, including corporate gatherings\, private parties\, weddings\, and festivals. Under the leadership of CEO John Taylor\, TEG has earned a reputation for its commitment to quality\, professionalism\, and outstanding customer service. The company’s extensive roster includes talented artists such as saxophonist\, flutist\, vocalist\, and Billboard #1 Artist Paula Atherton; jazz vocalist Cynthia Simmons; saxophonist Joyce Spencer; and comedian Sondra Slade. TEG’s services encompass live music\, DJs\, emcees\, and comedians\, covering genres like rock\, jazz\, blues\, classical\, R&B\, Caribbean\, reggae\, and more. This diverse selection ensures that clients can find the perfect entertainment to suit their event’s unique atmosphere and audience. http://www.bookwithteg.com \nPLANNING TO GET TICKETS TO MULTIPLE EVENTS? CHECK OUT THE DALLAS IS LIT! LITERATI FESTIVAL PASS
URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/weary-blues-live/
LOCATION:The Oak Cliff Assembly\, 919 Morrell Ave.\, Dallas\, Texas\, 75203
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