Modern Language Association Reading: 60 Writers

Saturday, January 7, 2012, 7:30 – 9:00pm

Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street. Free.

Timed to the Modern Language Association’s mega-conference in Seattle, this marathon reading features 60 upstart, alternative writers. Innovative national and international writers, many of whom are in town for the conference, read their work in three minutes or less; featured writers include Johanna Drucker, Rachel DuPlessis, Junte Huang, Susan McCabe, Laura Moriarty, Aldon Nielsen, Paul Nelson, Evie Shockley, Vanessa Place, Rebecca Brown, Joe Milutis, and more. Presented by the University of Washington-Bothell’s MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics, UW Simpson Humanities Center, and Seattle writers.

Admission is free; no tickets required.