Events & Updates

Catch me in the real world at book events, festivals, retreats, etc!

read, rest, and renew: long weekend retreat
sept 1-4, 2023

This three-night weekend retreat will include unstructured time for reading, rest, rejuvenation, art, music, and long walks in nature. We will complement the quiet stillness with optional embodiment practices and optional conversation during meals. Retreatants are encouraged to bring friends and to turn off their phones for the weekend. Please bring your favorite book that you are longing to read, but just have not found the time to.

Sanctuary retreat
feb 24-26, 2023

Sanctuary is a space for LGBTQ people from all faith backgrounds to join together in spiritual community for a weekend of rest, reflection, and joyful connection. Whether you are a person with an established faith life in organized religion, a secular person seeking to explore what spirituality might look like for you in an affirming space, or anywhere in between, you are welcome here!

PEN World Voices festival: indie lit fair
May 13, 12pm-5pm

Join us for the eighth annual Indie Lit Fair, co-presented by PEN World Voices Festival and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses [CLMP]. Feminist Press staff members will tabling all day with a variety of exciting new titles and fan favorites, as well as limited-edition merch. Come say hi!

AWP ‘23 OFFSITE
march 10 @ 7:30pm

Join independent publishers Coffee House Press, Feminist Press, and The Rumpus for another amazing evening of literary readings, community, and an open wine bar at Structure Cellars! Featuring readings by Courtney Faye Taylor, Eleni Sikelianos, Joe Vallese, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Tom Comitta, and YZ Chin. Sliding scale ticket pricing is available.

sapphic summer
august 18 @ 7pm

Join your favorite emerging and established authors this summer for the second installment of readings and conversations around all things sapphic—how identity, sexuality, and desire inform their writing, the queer literary lineages they draw from, what it means to celebrate and center sapphic love, and much more.

AWP PANEL: Queer WRITING ON HORROR FILM
March 11 @ 10:35am

In the new anthology It Came from the Closet, queer writers consider the horror films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences. They blend memoir and film analysis to dive deep into queer, feminist, and subversive readings of a historically homophobic genre. On this panel, writers from different literary genres discuss hybridizing cultural criticism and personal storytelling, writing about visual mediums, and how their work celebrates queer monstrosity in all its forms.

sapphic summer: queer equinox
september 14 @ 7pm

Join us for the third (and final) (for now) installment of the Sapphic Summer series at McNally Jackson Seaport!

This month's event will be centered around transitions—from personal transitional relationships to sapphic identity and community, to the evolution of the sapphic literary landscape across decades.