Events

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series for the Wild Detectives! RSVP to meet us in the backyard at 7:30pm on Wednesday July 12th for a live reading from one featured writer, with a brief open mic to follow. Don’t worry, podcast fans! We will record the live show and release it as a podcast…

Join us for an afternoon of linguistic invention. Choose from a huge array of creative writing prompts supplied by facilitator Joe Milazzo and start writing. The prompts span multiple genres — poetry, fiction and nonfiction (essay) — and cover topics such as sound, figurative language, theme, character, setting, collaborative writing and even interdisciplinary approaches (ekphrasis,…

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series for the Wild Detectives! RSVP to meet us in the backyard at 7:30pm on Wednesday Aug 9th for a live reading from one featured writer, with a brief open mic to follow. Don’t worry, podcast fans! We will record the live show and release it as a podcast…

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series for the Wild Detectives! RSVP to meet us in the backyard at 7:30pm on Wednesday September 13th for a live reading from one featured writer, with a brief open mic to follow. Don’t worry, podcast fans! We will record the live show and release it as a podcast…

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series for the Wild Detectives! RSVP to meet us in the backyard at 7:30pm on Wednesday October 11th for a live reading from one featured writer, with a brief open mic to follow. Don’t worry, podcast fans! We will record the live show and release it as a podcast…

NOTE: This workshop will take place over TWO EVENINGS, Tuesday, Oct. 24 and Thursday, Oct. 26, from 7 TO 9PM on both nights. The written word is one of the most enduring forms of preservation when it comes to passing wisdom, history and family legacy from one generation to the next. Join the Writing Doula Linda…

Inner Moonlight is the monthly poetry series for the Wild Detectives! RSVP to meet us in the backyard at 7:30pm on Wednesday November 8th for a live reading from one featured writer, with a brief open mic to follow. Don’t worry, podcast fans! We will record the live show and release it as a podcast episode for…

Join Writing Workshops Dallas & The Writer’s Garret  for LitTalk: A DFW Author Panel Series at Whose Books on Thursday, November 9th at 7 pm. Novelist & series creator Alex Temblador will moderate a panel featuring James Davis, Luisa Melania Marte and Laura Neal as they discuss the craft and business of writing, publishing, and…

One of the most iconic works of 20th century literature, T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land remains a widely discussed and studied text to this day. Across two afternoons, Gregg Thompson will lead a discussion regarding the poet behind the text, interpretations of what it offers readers, and the controversy surrounding the editing process that…

The poetic tradition in Egypt stretches back thousands of years, tracing the rise and fall of kingdoms, and the eternal rhythms of the life-sustaining river Nile. Join poet Joan Canby for a morning of reading and discussion centering the works of poets who have lived and written along its famous banks across the centuries. Joan…