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Reading Den | May 27th at 7pm | Free | @ftgreenebar

Join @lauragreen517, @shastagrant, @brooklynstani, @mirandarschmidt, @kerrydonoghue, and @Dane Bahr for a night of reading and building community!

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READING DEN SEASON 3

🗺️ @ftgreenebar
🗓️ Last Wednesdays
⏱️ 7:00 pm
✨ Free

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Reading Den is in today’s @denverpost! We want seeing authors read to feel sexy and not stale! See you 2/28 at @ftgreenebar for our premiere event!

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Reading Den is in today’s @denverpost! We want seeing authors read to feel sexy and not stale! See you 2/28 at @ftgreenebar for our premiere event!

#denver #colorado #author #literature #303 #milehigh #writer #writingcommunity #denverlife #readingden

Reading Den is in today’s @denverpost! We want seeing authors read to feel sexy and not stale! See you 2/28 at @ftgreenebar for our premiere event!

#denver #colorado #author #literature #303 #milehigh #writer #writingcommunity #denverlife #readingden

READING DEN | May 27th, 7pm | Free | @ftgreenebar

Kerry Donoghue (@kerrydonoghue) joins Reading Den alongside Laura Venita Green, Shasta Grant, Miranda Schmidt, and Dane Bahr. Come to this free event to connect with your literary community and hear some amazing readings!

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Kerry Donoghue is the author of MOUTH (Unsolicited Press, 2025), which Debutiful named as one of the best debut short story collections of 2025. Her poetry and stories have appeared in Ninth Letter, Painted Bride Quarterly, Permafrost, The Louisville Review, and The South Carolina Review, among other journals. She earned an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and was a fiction cohort for the 2025 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out publicity incubator. She currently lives in the Bay Area.

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READING DEN | May 27th, 7pm | Free | @ftgreenebar

Miranda Schmidt (@mirandarschmidt) joins Reading Den alongside Laura Venita Green, Shasta Grant, Kerry Donoghue, and Dane Bahr. Come to this free event to connect with your literary community and hear some amazing readings!

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Miranda Schmidt is the author of the novel Leafskin (Stillhouse Press) and the poetry chapbook The Cemetery Cure (forthcoming from dancing girl press). Their work circles the folkloric, the familial, queer magic, and the more-than-human world. Miranda’s writing has also appeared in Triquarterly, Orion, Electric Literature, Catapult, and more. With an MFA from the University of Washington and a PhD from Bath Spa University, she has taught creative writing at Portland Community College, the University of Washington, the Loft, Portland Literary Arts, and the Portland Book Festival. Their ongoing newsletter and teaching project, Writing Toward Nature, explores methods for bringing the more-than-human more deeply into our writing craft.

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READING DEN | May 27th, 7pm | Free | @ftgreenebar

Shasta Grant (@shastagrant) joins Reading Den alongside Laura Venita Green, Miranda Schmidt, Kerry Donoghue, and Dane Bahr. Come to this free event to connect with your literary community and hear some amazing readings!

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Shasta Grant grew up in New Hampshire and now lives in Indianapolis. An Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow, Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest winner, and recipient of writing residencies from Hedgebrook and The Kerouac Project, she holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of the chapbook Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home and her stories and essays have appeared in cream city review, Epiphany, wigleaf, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, When We Were Feral, comes out on June 9th

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READING DEN | May 27th, 7pm | Free | @ftgreenebar

Laura Venita Green (@lauragreen517 ) joins Reading Den alongside Shasta Grant, Miranda Schmidt, Kerry Donoghue, and Dane Bahr. Come to this free event to connect with your literary community and hear some amazing readings!

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Laura Venita Green is a writer and translator with an MFA from Columbia University, where she’ll begin teaching this fall. Her fiction won the Story Foundation Prize and appears in The Missouri Review, Story, Joyland, and Fatal Flaw. SISTER CREATURES, an Indie Next pick and one of Debutiful’s best debut books of 2025, is her first novel. Originally from Louisiana, she lives with her husband in New York City.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO FRIEND OF THE DEN @erikakrouse!!!

Erika has won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize!!!

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Thank you all who came out on a rainy Wednesday night. You all looked very sexy!

Massive thanks to Pardeep Toor, @jojodancer3000, @diane_botnick, and @laurencamp.

Let’s party in May?

READING DEN IS THE PLACE I WANNA BE

Thank you all who came out on a rainy Wednesday night. You all looked very sexy!

Massive thanks to Pardeep Toor, @jojodancer3000, @diane_botnick, and @laurencamp.

Let’s party in May?

READING DEN IS THE PLACE I WANNA BE

Thank you all who came out on a rainy Wednesday night. You all looked very sexy!

Massive thanks to Pardeep Toor, @jojodancer3000, @diane_botnick, and @laurencamp.

Let’s party in May?

READING DEN IS THE PLACE I WANNA BE

Thank you all who came out on a rainy Wednesday night. You all looked very sexy!

Massive thanks to Pardeep Toor, @jojodancer3000, @diane_botnick, and @laurencamp.

Let’s party in May?

READING DEN IS THE PLACE I WANNA BE

Thank you all who came out on a rainy Wednesday night. You all looked very sexy!

Massive thanks to Pardeep Toor, @jojodancer3000, @diane_botnick, and @laurencamp.

Let’s party in May?

READING DEN | April 29th, 7pm | Free | @ftgreenebar

Lauren Camp (@laurencamp) joins Reading Den alongside Pardeep Toor, Josiah Hesse, & Diane Botnick. Come to this free event to connect with your literary community and hear some amazing readings!

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Lauren Camp is the author of numerous poetry collections. She was the Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park, served as New Mexico Poet Laureate from 2022-25, and founded the New Mexico Epic Poem Project. Honors include fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute, a Dorset Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award and Adrienne Rich Award. Her poems have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic.

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READING DEN | April 29th, 7pm | Free | @ftgreenebar

Diane Botnick (@diane_botnick)joins Reading Den alongside Pardeep Toor, Josiah Hesse, & Lauren Camp. Come to this free event to connect with your literary community and hear some amazing readings!

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Diane Botnick was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, but always knew she’d wind up in New York City. Her first night in Greenwich Village she went to a double feature of Godard’s “Weekend” and Wiseman’s “Titicut Follies,” and her romance with the city began. For the next 30 years, Diane worked around, starting out in Italy assisting people like Jerome Robbins and Ellen Stewart with their contributions to the Spoleto Festival, then back in the City for the Dia Art Foundation, Isamu Noguchi, Great Performances at WNET, and finally, Workman Publishing. Along the way, she returned to school in pursuit of a Masters in Creative Writing at City College. Fulfilling all requirements but unable to pass the French exam (with a dictionary!), she was never awarded her diploma. However, the privilege of being mentored by Donald Barthelme and being appointed student editor of the literary magazine FICTION gave her far more than a diploma ever could.

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READING DEN | April 29th, 7pm | Free | @ftgreenebar

Josiah Hesse joins Reading Den alongside Pardeep Toor, Diane Botnick, & Lauren Camp. Come to this free event to connect with your literary community and hear some amazing readings!

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Josiah Hesse, author of On Fire for God, Runner’s High, and the Carnality series, is a freelance journalist out of Denver, Colorado, covering everything from politics, science, and crime, to art, pop culture, and evangelical culture and theology. A regular contributor to The Guardian and Vice, his work has appeared in Esquire, Newsweek, Men’s Health, and Politico, among other publications.

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