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- Accidental Player @ various venues (visiting and local poets)
- All But True (hosted by WWG/New Door Books)
- A Witch’s Craft @ Tattooed Mom (occult writing all genres)
- Backyard Reading Series @ Various Backyards (local writers of fiction & nonfiction)
- Blue Stoop’s “In Conversation” Series (visiting writers in conversation with local writers)
- Bryn Mawr Reading Series (prominent authors visiting Bryn Mawr Creative Writing program, open to public)
- Charmed Instruments @ L’Etage (local & visiting poets)
- Community Drafts @ Lucky 13 Pub (open mic, writers all genres)
- Creative At The Cannery @ Cannery Dock Street (prose, local writers)
- Excuse My Dust @ Good Good Comedy (comedians, local writers all genres)
- Fishbowl Philly @ Kurant (competitive open mic, $5)
- Free Library of Philadelphia Author Events Series @ Parkway Central Branch (prominent visiting authors)
- Galactic Philadelphia @ The Irish Pub (visiting & local writers of speculative fiction)
- Green Line Poetry Series @ Greenline Locust (local poets)
- Hatchery Reading Series @ The Monkey Club (prose, local writers)
- Housework @ A-Space (poetry & art conversation series)
- Kelly Writers House (prominent authors visiting literary event space on Penn’s campus)
- Livin on Luck @ Barnaby’s, West Chester (local poets)
- Moonstone Poetry Series @ Fergie’s Pub (local poets)
- Moore Poetry Series @ The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design (local poets)
- Moveable Beats @ Good Karma Cafe (local poets)
- PBQ Readings @ The Black Sheep (local writers all genres)
- PBQ Slams @ The Pen & Pencil Club (an improv writing game)
- Philly Homebrew Reading Series @ Philly Homebrew Outlet West (prose & poetry, local writers)
- The Philly Pigeon @ various venues (poetry slams, poets of color)
- Poetry Night @ Little Berlin
- Poets & Writers Series (prominent authors visiting Temple MFA program, open to public)
- Random Name Poetry Reading Series @ Dahlak (visiting & local poets)
- Tire Fire @ Tattooed Mom (prose, visiting & local writers)
- Tragic the Gathering @ Wooden Shoe (trans writers)
- UArts Visiting Writers Series (prominent authors visiting The University of the Arts, open to public)
- Villanova Literary Festival (prominent authors visiting Villanova, open to public)
- We the People: Brew & StorySLAM @ Kurant (storytelling, $10)
- Writers in Camden (prominent authors visiting Rutgers-Camden MFA program, open to public)
- Writers Resist PHL (politically-engaged writing read by local authors)
- You Can’t Kill a Poet @ Tattooed Mom (queer & trans writers)