First Feminist Bookstore Reading Series & Open Mic Featuring Mac Crane

Join us for a queer-friendly, feminist reading series at The Feminist Bookstore in Mission Hills!

Our series celebrates diverse voices alongside a featured reader. Before or after the main reading, we have a generative workshop where attendees get a prompt and write for 10 minutes. This helps generate new material that attendees can share at the open mic portion. After that, the microphone is open for attendees to share up to 3 minutes of prose, poetry, or music in an inclusive, welcoming space. Tickets are free, and we invite all to participate and amplify their voices. Hosted by Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press dedicated to socially engaged literature by marginalized voices, this series promises an inspiring night of creativity and community.
Feature: Marisa Crane is a former college basketball player and the author of A Sharp Endless Need and I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Indie Next pick, and winner of a LAMBDA Literary Award. They have received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, American Short Fiction, and Vermont Studio Center, and their short work has appeared in Literary Hub, The Sun, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Joyland, and elsewhere.
Emcee: Elizabeth Earley is the author of two novels and a forthcoming essay collection: A Map of Everything, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and Like Wings, Your Hands, which won the Women's Prose Prize at Red Hen Press. Little Deaths all in a Row, Essays on Sex and Death is forthcoming in September and is available for preorder. Earley is also the owner of The Feminist Bookstore and the president of Jaded Ibis Press.