The Snowbirds

Christina Clancy, Chloe Benjamin

7:00pm
An honest story of what it takes to commit to someone for a lifetime.

A Forty Year Kiss

Nickolas Butler, Laura Anne Bird

7:00pm - 8:00pm
A small-town story about one couple's hard-won second chance at love, 40 years after their divorce.

The Dark Mirror

Samantha Shannon

7:00pm - 8:00pm
the highly anticipated fifth novel in Samantha Shannon bestselling Bone Season series.

2025 UW Poetry MFA Graduates Reading

Patrycja Humienik

7:00pm - 8:00pm
A reading from the graduating UW-Madison MFA cohort in poetry.

The Good Mother Myth

Nancy Reddy, Jessica Calarco

7:00pm - 8:00pm
pulls back the curtain on the flawed social science behind our understanding of a "good" mom.

Show Don't Tell

Curtis Sittenfeld

7:00pm - 8:00pm
A funny, fiercely intelligent collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Cho Nam-joo, Eunsil Oh

7:00pm - 8:00pm
follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rampant misogyny.

2025 Wisconsin Institute For Creative Writing Fellows Reading

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Poetry and fiction from the 2024-25 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows.

Medicine River

Mary Annette Pember

7:00pm - 8:00pm
A stark portrait of the legacy of acculturation that has affected generations of Native communities.

2025 Creative Writing Awards Ceremony

7:00pm - 8:00pm
The 2025 undergraduate and graduate creative writing awards ceremony.