If you’re a creative professional interested in facilitating or speaking at one of LitArts RI’s professional development events, fill out the Professional Development Events form on our website and we’ll be in touch if we see an opportunity to collaborate! litartsri.org/program-propos…

SKULL SLIME TENTACLE WITCH WAR is out today! Melt your eyes in the neon glow of gloopy despair. Grab it on Amazon or message me about buying a signed copy.

NOW OPEN EVENINGS! When this table really GLOWS in the lingering summer light. Reserve a quiet nook or cozy seat online, or stop in to LitArts RI’s creative workspace anytime from 10am-8pm today (Tues) thru Thurs, plus we’re now open 10-4 Fri, Sat + Sun! litartsri.org/creativeworksp…

This evening at our beloved Riff Raff books Meghan Kallman Kate Schapira & Josephine Frerorelli & I will be talking reproduction, community and climate change. (I'm moving to Colombia in 2 weeks so come out and say hi/bye! Back in a year:) riffraffevents.eventcalendarapp.com/u/39909/311172

THIS FRIDAY: LitArts RI + Riffraff Bookstore + Bar’s Open Mic returns! Join fellow creatives performing work on the bookstore stage on Fri, July 12 at 7pm, with sign ups beginning at 6.

We're hiring! Help us spread the word about this opportunity to support RI Humanities as a Grantmaking & Humanities Initiatives Coordinator. Deadline to apply is August 12, 2024. Details at: ow.ly/QNxf50SyXYm

My New Irish Writing poem "California Redwood in Killarney" translated so beautifully into Bulgarian by Rumen Pavlov, thanks to EKF, in the latest edition of Литературен Вестник.

The latest RIters Resource newsletter has been released into the world! So many shout-outs about recent publications as well as not-to-be-missed events AND those new summer hours (in case you haven’t memorized them yet!). Get all that local literary news: mailchi.mp/a1a28ac3cfc3/r…

Thanks to local author Rick Claypool rick claypool for bringing us Leech Girl Lives for the LitArts RI Center’s local author library! Rick is getting ready to launch his next novel, Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War at Lovecraft Arts & Sciences on July 20.

If you’ve been meaning to get to one of the monthly Coffee Hours + write-ins for BIPOC creatives at LitArts RI, mark your calendars for Sat, July 27 and note a slight time change! Going forward these gatherings will be held from 4-6pm on the last Sat of the month.

On Sat, Aug 17 join LitArts RI at North Burial Ground for Writing Among the Gravestones, a free and open to all write-in from 10am-1pm with an optional generative workshop, “Love, Death, and Depression: Moving Beyond Cliché in Emotional Poetry” eventbrite.com/e/writing-amon…

THIS SATURDAY LitArts RI is opening its doors for Writing at the Fringes, a public write-in at our literary center on Harris Ave. Stop in between 12-4pm to write among fellow creatives in the cool writing nooks of our creative workspace: eventbrite.com/e/writing-at-t…

Would you like to help ensure the literary arts thrive in #RhodeIsland? LitArts RI is seeking an experienced Executive Director to help take the organization to the next level by leading our staff, growing our development efforts and supporting the Board. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Adventures In Moontown: A Review of Rick Claypool's "Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War" by Mallory Smart maudlinhouse.net/adventures-in-…

LitArts RI is honored to be one of 49 nonprofit literary arts organizations across the U.S. awarded a capacity grant from the National Book Foundation Foundation. The funds will support expanding org capacity through staff & board development: nationalbook.org/national-book-…

When you see Philip "Read My Book" Eil’s book out in the wild, you have to post a pic! #AliceHauntedLittleBookshop

We are open for fiction submissions The Rumpus for another week, until Sept. 15th! Please send us your stories. Everything we've published in the last two years has come from our open submission periods, which I'm proud of.

Surprise, #rhodeisland! My book release is this Thursday at AS220! Very stoked to read from “Mile Markers: Essays on #Cycling”! Hope you can make it! rick claypool Car Free in PVD Providence Streets Coalition 👟🚲🚌🛴♿🚗🌲 Rhode Island ecoRI News LitArts RI as220.org/calendar/mile-…

Over pine needle tea in Seoul a few years ago, I learned about the disappeared writer Tae-Jun Lee (Yi T'aejun). (His short stories live on thanks to a @columbiaup collection.) Many thanks to The Font for republishing my essay on translation and discovery: thefontjournal.com/pine-needle-te…

After reading Colm O'Shea's "Feeling Gravity's Pull" in The Stinging Fly almost exactly a year ago, I found myself left considering the force of its grief. I wrote about this in the latest Split Lip Magazine — with much thanks to micros editor Daniel 🌆🌺. splitlipthemag.com/reviews/0924/r…