February 12, 2013, Tuesday - Community Conversation about Loft Readings and Events at The Loft

Tme: 5:30pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Community Conversation about Loft Readings and Events
  
The Loft is hosting a community conversation about our readings and events. Each year, the Loft hosts around 70 events. We are committed to ensuring that each event provides authors and audiences a high-quality, curated experience. Through our events, we seek to deepen the understanding of the craft of writing and connect writers to new audiences.

Essential to achieving this commitment are our core programs, including student readings, Equilibrium, Inroads, the Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose, McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers, Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant readings, Second Story (for authors of children’s literature), as well as collaborations with Minnesota’s many fine literary presses.

All of this great activity means that in most months we have no more than one open slot for additional events. We are immensely excited and proud that our literary community has so many success stories, so many writers putting words to paper and screen. But this growing vitality also means that we’re not able to accommodate all of the requests for readings in the Target Performance Hall.

This leads us to this community conversation. We’d like to hear from you in a structured conversation. What would you like to see more of at Loft events? Do you have any ideas for future events? How should we handle the decisions about what events to program? How can we be a better resource for writers who can’t find a slot to have a reading at the Loft?