Events/Classes

Class: Funky Forms in Flash Fiction

Saturday, May 7

10:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT

Hugo House (online)

Sunday, May 1

3:00 pm

Poet's Corner @ Tunnicliff's

Literary Hill BookFest

Tunnicliff's Tavern

Washington, DC

Thursday, April 14

7:00 pm EST

4-Week Online Speculative Fiction Seminar: Sci-fi, Fantasy, & More for the Uninitiated

online

Saturdays, April 9 - 30

10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST

Catapult

Thursday, April 7

Reading at Shenandoah University

Friday, April 1

TGI Reading Series

Thursday, March 24

7:00 pm EST

AWP Offsite: And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing

In-person: Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine St., Philadelphia, PW

Online: Zoom (stay tuned for details)

Thursday, March 17

7:00 pm EST

Reading/Conversation w/ Barrelhouse: Campbell, Housley, Ingram, Squillante

White Whale Bookstore (online)

Saturday, March 5

Bay to Ocean Writers Conference

Chesapeake College

Wye Mills, MD

February 24, 25, OR 26

Time: varies

A Finger on the Drum: Poetry Inspired by Kay Sage

National Gallery of Art Virtual Studio (online)

Tuesday, February 15

1:00 - 2:00 pm EST

NVCC Black History Month: 4 Poets

online

Sunday, February 6

8:00 pm EST

Longleaf Review Launch

online (register at link above to get Zoom link)

Sunday, January 23

4:00 pm EST

Best Small Fictions Launch #2

Online

Saturdays, January 22, 29, and February 5

10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST

Class: Reading the Future: Exploring The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021

Politics & Prose Bookstore

(online)

Thursday, January 13

6:00 pm EST

Virtual AWP Pedagogy: Reclaiming Genre Fiction for the Creative Writing Classroom

2021

Wednesday, December 8

7:00 - 8:00 pm EST

A Novel Idea (Reading)

(online)

Sunday, November 28

5:00 pm - sometime later EST

Hear It On the Rooftop

Emergent Seed Live Peformances

Wild Days, DC (In person!!!)

Thursday, November 18

7:00 pm EST

Author Talk

JHU MA in Writing

Tuesdays, November 9 - December 14

7:00 - 9:00 pm EST

6-Week Online Speculative Fiction Workshop: Introduction to Speculative Fiction

Catapult

Tuesday, November 2

7:00 - 8:00 EST

Launch: The Jarnal

Mason Jar Press and Greedy Reads Bookstore

online

Saturday, October 30

All day

Conversations and Connections Conference

Barrelhouse

online

Tuesday, October 26

5:30 pm EST

This is What America Looks Like:  A Reading and Discussion of Identity Through Poetry

Montgomery College Humanities Day

online

Four Saturdays, October 23, November 6, 13, and 20

10:30 - 11:30 am Eastern

Generating New Stories (Zoom)

The Writer's Center

Thursday - Saturday, October 21, 22, or 23

Times: Various (one 1.5-hour workshop, repeated)

Shapes, Colors, Character: Writing Inspired by Lynda Benglis

Virtual Studio: National Gallery of Art

Online

Tuesday, October 19

7:30 pm

The Inner Loop Reading Series

online

Tuesdays, Sept 14 - Oct 5

7:30 - 9:00 pm EDT

4-Week Online Speculative Fiction Seminar: Sci-fi, Fantasy, & More for the Uninitiated

Catapult

September 13 - October 11

Finish That Flash

4-Week online class (asynchronous)

The Writer's Center (dates listed Sept 13 - Oct 4 at Writer's Center site, but work will continue until Oct 11)

October 14 - 17

Eastern Shore Fiction Weekend 2021

Eastern Shore Writers Association

Online

Thursday - Saturday, July 22-24

Time: Various

Online: Virtual Studio -- Flash Fiction: The Art of Change

National Gallery of Art

Tuesday, July 20

8:00 EDT

Spofest Open Mic

Thursday, July 15

7:30 pm EDT

Panel: It's All About Us: The Many Voices of Speculative Fiction and Poetry

1455 Festival

Thursday, July 8

7:00 pm EDT

Book launch for Cabinet of Wrath: A Doll Collection

Wednesday, June 30

7:00 - 8:30 pm EDT

MoCo Underground

Tuesday, June 15

6:00 - 7:00 pm EDT

The Writer's Center (Zoom)

Tuesday, June 7

7:30 - 8:30 pm EDT

Café Muse

Poetry reading with Meg Kearney

May 10 - June 7

Class: Generating New Flash

Online, asynchronous

You’ve written a number of flash stories, maybe even published some, but have fallen into a rut. This is your opportunity to shake off the writer’s block and do some new work.

The Writer's Center

Saturday, May 8

10:00 - 11:00 EDT

Free Workshop: Funky Forms in Flash Fiction

Wednesday, May 5

7:00 pm EDT

Panel discussion and reading with Kim Roberts and Joseph Ross, moderated by E. Ethelbert Miller

Author talk and poetry reading

Thursday, April 1

6:00 - 7:00 pm EDT

This is What America Looks Like anthology

Saturday, March 20

Workshop: It's All About Us: Diversity in Speculative Fiction

Bay to Ocean Writers Conference

Thursday, March 18

7:00 pm Eastern

Pre-conference Reading:

Bay to Ocean Writers Conference

Saturday, March 6

6:30 pm Eastern

Reading: Writers Resist

Boca de Oro Festival

Sunday, February 28

12:30 - 1:30 pm Eastern

Flash Fiction Festival

A Novel Review and HOOT Review

Thursday, February 18

7:30 - 9:00 pm Eastern

Workshop: Flash Fiction: Fantastic New Forms

Bay to Ocean Rewind

Saturday, February 13

5:00 pm Eastern

Emcee-ing the Barrelhouse/Lit Balm Reading

Saturday, February 6

Conference: Conversations and Connections

Barrelhouse

Monday, January 18

7:00 EST

The Literary Cypher

Three Saturdays, January 16, 23, and 30

10:00 am to noon

Reading the Future: Exploring The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020

Join us for an introduction to speculative fiction, a broad genre encompassing science fiction, fantasy, supernatural, horror, and other stories containing fantastical elements. Participants need not have any prior experience in these genres.

January 11 - March 8

Class: Writing Your Obsessions

Online, asynchronous

Barrelhouse

2020

Wednesday, November 18

6:30 pm EST

Asking "What If?" Writing Speculative Fiction

Women's National Book Association, DC Chapter

Saturday, November 14

3:00 - 5:00 pm EST

Beltway Poetry Celebration of Art in Times of Crisis

November 6 - December 6

Asynchronous (Online)

Class: Sneaking Into Speculative Fiction

The Writer's Center (note, the dates listed on the Writer's Center website indicate when new content will be posted, but the class will be active for a full month)

Tuesday, October 6

7:00 pm EDT

Lit on Politics

An Election Season Reading

online

Saturday, October 3

9:00 - 10:30 am EDT

Workshop: It's All About Us: Diversity in Speculative Fiction

F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival

Sunday, September 20

3:00 pm EDT (noon Pacific)

Erase the Patriarchy Anthology Reading

University of Hell Press

Tuesday, September 15

7:30 EDT

The Inner Loop

Friday, August 28

6:00 - 7:00 pm East Coast Time

Virtual Craft Happy Hour

The Writer's Center (online)

Monday, August 24

5:30 pm East Coast Time

Between Two Succulents

Charm City Books (online)

Saturday, August 15, 22, 29 and September 5

11:00 am - 12:00 pm East Coast Time

Class: Intro to Flash Fiction

Politics and Prose (online)

Thursday, August 13

7:00 - 9:00 on East Coast Time

Writing Salon -- Flash Fiction: The Art of Change

online

Wednesday, August 12

7:30 pm East Coast Time

Launch for Political AF

Hosted by Unlikely Books

Reading and discussion with Amber Sparks and Monica Prince

Moderated by Hannah Grieco

Saturday, August 1

5:00 pm East Coast Time

Lit Balm Reading Series

(online)

July 24, 25, 26, 30, & 31

Time: various

National Gallery of Art (online)

Friday July 17

8:00 pm East Coast Time

A BLM Reading and Discussion

1455 Summer Literary Festival

Friday, July 17

1:00 pm East Coast Time

Panel: The Sociopolitical Power of Story

1455 Summer Literary Festival

Thursday, July 16

9:00 - 10:00 pm East Coast Time

Neon Hemlock Live: July

online -- instagram

July 6 - 27

Class (online): Finish that Flash (Section A)

The Writer's Center

Wednesday, July 1

7:30 pm EST

Reading with Unlikely Books

online

Wednesday, July 1

7:00 pm EST

First Wednesday with Rayceen

Rayceen.com

CANCELLED

Saturday, May 16

10:00 - 6:00 pm

P & P Live! Grace and Gravity

Gaithersburg, MD

Sunday, May 10

3:00 pm EST

Joint Reading with Mary Kay Zuravleff, moderated by Melissa Scholes Young

Online

Friday, May 8

8:30 p.m. EST

DC Virtual Noir at the Bar

to benefit Politics and Prose

Online

May 1 - June 15

Class: Sneaking Into Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, Fantasy, and More for the Uninitiated

Barrelhouse Magazine

Online

CANCELLED

Saturday May 9

Washington Writers Conference

North Bethesda, MD

CANCELLED

Saturday, April 18

Conversations and Connections (Barrelhouse)

Arlington, VA

April 17 - May 15

Class: Intro to Flash Fiction

Writer's Center (online)

Thursday, April 16

3:30 pm

Homebound Series (Online): Short Stories with Rion Amilcar Scott, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Ron Austin, moderated by Salamishah Tillet

Triangle House

April 2

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Class: Let's Get Ekphrastic -- Writing Inspired by Gordon Parks

The Writer's Center

Online

April 1 - 30

Class: Funky Forms in Flash Fiction

Barrelhouse Magazine

Online

Sunday, March 29

2:00 - 5:00 pm

Class: It's All About Us: Diversity in Speculative Fiction

Politics and Prose

Washington, DC

Saturday, March 21

10:00 - noon (online)

One-on-one critiques in speculative fiction and poetry

CityLit Festival Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

POSTPONED

10:30 - 12:30 am

Seeing the World in Short Stories

Flash Fiction: The Art of Change

Archibald John Motley Jr.'s Portrait of My Grandmother

National Gallery of Art

Washington, DC

CANCELLED

Thursday, March 26

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Fall for the Book March Pop-Up Event: Editor Speed Dating

Old Town Hall

Fairfax, VA

CANCELLED

Thursday, March 19

2:00 - 3:30 pm

Virginia Festival of the Book

Charlottesville, MD

CANCELLED

Saturday, March 7

Bay to Ocean Writers Conference

Chesapeake College

Wye, MD

Monday, February 24

7:00 - 8:30

Hear at Martha's

Martha Washington Community Library

Alexandria, VA

Wednesday, February 19

7:30 pm

Tire Fire Reading Series

Tattooed Mom

Philadelphia, PA

Thursday, January 16

7:00 - 8:00

Reading and Book Signing: TreeVolution and more

Organized by Friends of Petworth Library

Washington, DC

January 15 - February 12

Barrelhouse Workshop: A Flashy New Year

Ditch the post-holiday doldrums and make good on your resolution to write more. If you’ve dabbled in flash fiction, but need a spark of inspiration for new stories, this four-week course is for you.

Online

Sunday, January 12

2:00 - 4:00 pm

DiVerse Poetry Reading

Quince Orchard Library

Gaithersburg, MD

2019

Tuesday, November 5

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Class: Spotlight on N.K. Jemisin's How Long 'Til Black Future Month

Politics and Prose

Washington, DC

Sunday, October 27

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Reading: Write for Democracy

Worldbuilding: Into the Unknown with Lee Bontecou

National Gallery of Art

Washington, DC

Saturday, October 26

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Takoma Ranch

Washington, DC

Saturday, October 26

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Worldbuilding: Into the Unknown with Lee Bontecou

National Gallery of Art

Washington, DC

October 21 - November 18

Class: Funky Forms in Flash Fiction

online through the Writer's Center

Sunday, October 20

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Worldbuilding: Into the Unknown with Lee Bontecou

National Gallery of Art

Washington, DC

Saturday, October 19

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Worldbuilding: Into the Unknown with Lee Bontecou

National Gallery of Art

Washington, DC

Friday, October 18

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival

Worldbuilding: Into the Unknown with Lee Bontecou

National Gallery of Art

Washington, DC

Saturday, October 12

9:20 - 10:50 a.m.

Workshop: It's All About Us: Diversity in Speculative Fiction

Rockville, MD

Thursday, October 10

3:00 - 4:15 pm

Stories of the Strange, the Surreal, and the Uncanny

Fall for the Book

Fairfax, VA

Sunday, September 22

3:00 - 7:00 pm

DC Lit Crawl

Various Locations

Washington, DC

September 16 - October 14

Class: Diverse Pasts and Futures in Speculative Fiction

online through the Writer's Center

Saturday, September 14

9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Publish Now (registration required)

The Writer's Center

Bethesda, MD

August 23 - September 20

Class: Intro to Flash

online through Barrelhouse

Sunday, July 28

5:30 - 7:00 pm

Reston Readings

Reston's Used Book Shop

Reston, VA

Saturday, June 8

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Supernatural Stories: Women Writing Alternate Realities and Speculative Futures

The Potters House

Washington, DC

June 4, 11, 18, 25

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Class: Diverse Pasts and Futures in Speculative Fiction

Politics & Prose

Washington, DC

June 3 - 24

Class: Flash Fiction--Generating New Stories

Writer's Center

(online)

Tuesday, May 21

7:30 - 9:30 pm

Arlington EcoAction Author Night

Josephine's Italian Kitchen

Arlington, VA

Monday, May 20

8:00 pm

Workshop: Let's Get Ekphrastic! Writing Inspired by Art

Josephine's Italian Kitchen

Arlington, VA

Saturday, May 18

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Gaithersburg Book Festival

Gaithersburg, MD

Tuesday, May 14

7:30 - 10:00 pm

The Inner Loop: MAYde to Write

Pie Shop DC

Washington, DC

Monday, May 13

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Finish that Flash: Revising and Submitting Your Story

with MoonLit at Loyalty Books (formerly Upshur Street Books)

Washington, DC

Sunday, May 12

6:00 pm

American University MFA Graduate Reception and Reading

Politics and Prose

Washington, DC

May 4 and 5

Class: Poetry: Movement and Meaning

National Gallery of Art Writing Salon

Washington, DC

Wednesday, May 1

7:00 pm

Book Launch/Open Mic: Midnight at the Organporium at lowercase with 826DC

Petworth Citizen

Washington, DC

April 26, 27, and 28

Class: Poetry: Movement and Meaning

National Gallery of Art Writing Salon

Washington, DC

Saturday, April 27

10:30 - 11:30 am

DC Author Festival

Library of Congress: James Madison Building

Washington, DC

Thursday, April 18

7:30 pm

Third Thursday Poetry Series

Takoma Park Community Center Auditorium

Takoma Park, MD

Friday, April 12

7:00 - 8:30 pm

SmokeLong Quarterly Spring Into Flash

Epicure Café

Fairfax, VA

Thursday, April 11

New Leaves Writers' Conference

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA

Monday, April 8

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Class: The World in a Flash: Intro to Flash Fiction

MoonLit at Loyalty Books (formerly Upshur Street Books)

Washington, DC

Saturday, April 6

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Panel: DC Author's Guild

Cleveland Park Library

Washington, DC

Thursday, March 28

8:00 pm

AWP Offsite: Poets Reading the News, Rise Up Review, and Writers Resist

Rontoms

Portland, OR

Wednesday, March 27

7:00 pm

Lit Fest Press AWP Offsite Reading

Ford Food and Drink

Portland, OR

March 27 - 30

AWP Conference

Panels:

A Flash of Difference: Diversity and Inclusion in Flash Fiction

Changing of the Guard: Editors on Inclusion and Diversity in Literary Journals

Portland, OR

Saturday, March 23

12:30 - 2:30 pm

https://northernvirginiawriters.org

Arlington, VA

Saturday, March 9

Bay to Ocean Writers' Conference

Chesapeake College

Wye Mills, MD

Saturday, March 2

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Class: It's All About Us: Diversity in Speculative Fiction

Registration

Washington, DC

Friday, March 1 - 22

Class: Flash Fiction Forms

Registration

Online

2018

Monday, December 10

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Class: Let's Get Ekphrastic: Using Art to Inspire Writing

MoonLit at Duende District

Art Walk at Monroe Street Market

Washington, DC

Monday, November 19

7:30 - 10:00 pm

The Art of Literary Protest

Twisted Vines

Arlington, VA

Friday, November 9

7:30 pm

The Center for Contemporary Political Art

Washington, DC

Sunday, November 4

4:00 pm

Launch of Writers Resist Anthology

The Writer's Center

Bethesda, MD

Saturday, October 27

5:00 pm

Noir at the Bar

Wonderland Ballroom

Washington, DC

Sunday, October 14

2:00 - 4:00 pm

DiVerse Poetry Reading

Gaithersburg Library

Gaithersburg, MD

Thursday, October 11

12:30 - 1:30 pm

Reading at Wheaton College

Norton, MA

Saturday, September 29

10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Eat Local, Read Local

Cascades Library

Sterling, VA

Friday, September 28

7:30 - 8:30 pm

The Writer's Center Contest Winners Reading

The Writer's Center

Bethesda, MD

Wednesday, September 19

6:30 pm

(B)odyssey: Shapeshifters, Changelings, and Transformations

East City Bookshop

Washington, DC

Saturday, September 1

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Class: It's All About Us: Diversity in Speculative Fiction

MoonLit

Meridian Hill Park

Thursday, August 30

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Class: Let's Get Ekphrastic: Using Art to Inspire Writing

MoonLit at Femme Fatale Pop-up

Washington, DC

Sunday, August 19

5:30 - 8:30 pm

At the Inkwell

Book Bar

Denver, CO

Tuesday, August 14

7:30 - 10:00 pm

F-Bomb Flash Fiction Reading Series

Mercury Cafe

Denver, CO

July 9 - August 5

Flash Fiction II (online)

Writer's Center

Online

Thursday, July 12

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Class: Introduction to Flash Fiction

MoonLit

Femme Fatale Pop-up

Washington, DC

Monday, June 18

7:00 pm

Barrelhouse Presents

Reading with Julia Dixon Evans

Solid State Books

Washington, DC

Saturday, June 16

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Class: Introduction to Flash Fiction

MoonLit

Meridian Hill Park

Washington, DC

Sunday, June 10

3:00 pm

Joaquin Miller Poetry Series

Joaquin Miller Cabin

Rock Creek Park

Washington, DC

June 1 - 30

Introduction to Flash Fiction (online)

Writer's Center

Bethesda, MD

Sunday, May 27

12:00 - 12:55

Artificial Bodies in Contemporary Media (panel)

Escape Velocity

National Harbor, MD

Saturday, May 19

3:00 - 3:55

It's All About Us: A Speculative Writing Workshop