Tyler Barton is a cofounder of Fear No Lit, the organization responsible for the Submerging Writer Fellowship. He is the author of the flash fiction collection, The Quiet Part Loud, which won the Turnbuckle Chapbook Prize from Split Lip Press and was published in 2019. Find his work in The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Waxwing, and elsewhere. Find him at tsbarton.com or @goftyler.
Sunday 9/4: Magers and Quinn hosts poet Holly J. Hughes and memoirist BJ Hollars for a literary reading centered around extinct birds. Seriously. Their work forecasts climate change and its…
Sunday 8/28: Spend your afternoon at the Highland Park Library in St. Paul to hear poetry performances by Marjorie Saiser, James Cihlar, and William Reichard. 1:30 p.m., free. Wednesday 8/31:…
Wednesday 8/24: Want to bookend your summer with some craft beer and the science of marketing? Join the authors of The Physics of Brand at Surly Brewing Co for Beer,…
Sunday 8/14: Celebrate the release of All We Can Hold (Sage Hill Press), an anthology of poems about motherhood. This evening reading at Magers and Quinn will include short performances…
Sunday 7/31: The 24th annual Diversicon, a multicultural speculative fiction convention, wraps up Sunday with readings by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Naomi Kritzer. Best Western Plus Bandana Square. 12 p.m.,…
Tuesday 7/26: Don’t miss 2014 Minnesota Book Award winner, Sean Hill, reading new work at Augsburg College. The reading takes place on campus, in the Foss Center chapel. 7 p.m.,…
Sunday 7/17: Hear former Minnesota governor, wrestler, actor and now author Jesse Ventura read from his blunt, comedic new book, Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By…
Monday 7/11: What is the ‘war on science’? Find out at the release reading for Shawn Otto’s newest book, The War on Science: Who’s Waging It, Why It Matters, What…
Sunday 7/3: A twenty-minute drive from St. Paul, Chapter 2 Books hosts J. Ryan Stradal, who’ll be answering questions and signing copies of his bestselling debut novel, Kitchens of the…
Sunday 6/26: Enjoy the afternoon in the suburbs with a reading by painter Marley Kaul, whose newest book pairs 77 egg-tempura paintings with letters to his granddaughter. Valley Bookseller in…