Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, April 19, at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E. Main St.) for the April Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring poet Raisa Tolchinsky and fiction writer Kevin Moffett. Raisa Tolchinsky is the author of the poetry collection Glass Jaw (Persea Books, 2024), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize (2023). She…
Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, February 16, at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E. Main St.) for the February Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring author GennaRose Nethercott and poet Ben Sloan. GennaRose Nethercott is the author of a novel, Thistlefoot, and a book-length poem, The Lumberjack’s Dove, which was selected by Louise Glück as a winner…
Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, January 19, at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E. Main St.) for the January Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring novelist Tope Folarin and poet Mara Adamitz Scrupe. Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He serves as director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting…
Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, November 17, at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E. Main St.) for the November Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring poet Lisa Parker, writer Jacob Budenz, and poet Monica Prince. Lisa Parker is a native Virginian, a poet, a musician, and a photographer. Her first book, This Gone Place, won the 2010 ASA…
Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, October 20, at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E. Main St.) for the October Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring writer Alex Kingsley, poet Courtney LeBlanc, and writer Vonetta Young. Alex Kingsley (they/them) is a writer, comedian, and game designer. They are a cofounder of new media company Strong Branch Productions, and…
Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, September 15, at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E. Main St.) for the September Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring poet Joumana Altallal and novelist Sara Read. Joumana Altallal is an Iraqi-Lebanese writer, researcher, and artist who was born in Baghdad, and grew up in Charlottesville. She received her MFA in Poetry…
Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, July 21, at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E. Main St.) for the July Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring poet Mary Brancaccio, prose writer Zak Salih, and poet Chapman Hood Frazier. Mary Brancaccio is a poet and teacher. She is the author of the poetry collection Fierce Geometry. Her work has…
Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, June 16, at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E. Main St.) for the June Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring Karen Poppy and D. L. Williams. Karen Poppy (she/her; non-binary) has work published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. Diving at the Lip of the Water is Karen Poppy’s first full-length…
Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, May 19, at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E. Main St.) for the May Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring poet Hajjar Baban and novelist Brendan Slocumb. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating. Hajjar Baban is a Pakistan-born Afghan Kurdish…
Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, April 21, at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E. Main St.) for the April Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring prose writer Rachael Kesler Palm and poet Danielle Beazer Dubrasky. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating. Rachael Kesler Palm…