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Writers' Open Mic: November

Name: Writers' Open Mic: November
Start: 2026-11-06T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-06T01:30:00+00:00
Location: GrubStreet Center for Creative Writing

GrubStreet Center for Creative Writing

50 Liberty Drive, Suite 500

Boston, MA, United States

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Dying to share the first few lines of your slice-of-life novel set in the South End or your epic blank verse poem about T delays? Curious what other local creatives are working on? Writers' Open Mic is the home for works in progress from all literary genres. Prose, poetry, flash fiction, pages from your graphic novel, a haiku about Market Basket; whatever you're working on, come and dazzle a live audience in a low-key, supportive atmosphere. Connect with a literary community, have a drink or two, hear inspiring features from established and emerging writers, and be the first to know what's new and next in Boston's lit scene. Doors open at 6:30 to sign up for one of the coveted slots to read. Readings start at 7pm, with features at 8pm. Writers' Open Mic is free to attend, 18+, and registration is requested. Click the link above to register on Eventbrite. Alcohol will be for sale for 21+ attendees. WOM is brought to you by GrubStreet, Porter Square Books, and Mass Poetry. (via GrubStreet)

Featured readers

Cherline Bazile

Haitian American writer from Florida. She graduated from Harvard University and received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan. Her writing has been featured in NPR's Selected Shorts, The Sewanee Review, Symphony Space Theater, TIME, the Best American Short Stories, and more. Cherline has received fellowships from the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Mass Cultural Council, among others. She is a GrubStreet Teaching Fellow and a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project.

Kathryn Silver-Hajo ↗

Her work appears in Atticus Review, Centaur, CRAFT, Flash Flood, Ghost Parachute, Gone Lawn, The McNeese Review, Milk Candy Review, New Flash Fiction Review, New World Writing, Pithead Chapel, Ruby Literary Review, The Phare, and other journals. Her stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, Best American Food Writing, and selected for the 2023-2025 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlists. Her award-winning books include YA novel Roots of The Banyan Tree, flash collection Wolfsong, and (forthcoming) flash collection Spinning: Love, Family, and Other Strange Entanglements.