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SUMMARY:Unpacking Publishing: Approaches to Getting Your Book Published presented by Tomorrow Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Book publishing is an industry that has stood the test of time over hundreds of years—but with new technologies\, confusing business models\, and various stakeholders\, it can be a complex process to navigate. This panel will provide an inside look at the publishing industry and how books come to be. With an aim at authors and curious readers\, panelists will break down various models of publishing and how to be a successful\, published author.  \n About the panelists\nCourtney Corlew writes fiction. Her debut celebrity romance series\, January Studios\, consists of interconnected standalones following six characters as they fall in love and chase their dreams. Her newest novel\, Millie\, Be Mine\, published in April 2025\, begins a new series\, Willow Pines\, which will include five (possibly six) stories following different characters from the small town. When she is not writing\, Courtney runs a book marketing agency\, where she has helped over 50 authors learn how to market their books on social media. She has a passion for the literary scene in her hometown of Indianapolis\, where she resides with her husband and two children. She looks forward to writing many more stories in both the romance and fantasy genres.  \nKristen Renee Miller is the director and editor-in-chief at Sarabande Books and the founder of Zine Machine. An award-winning poet and translator\, she is a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and the translator of two books from the French by Ilnu Nation poet Marie-Andrée Gill. She is the recipient of honors from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, AIGA\, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\, the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation\, and the American Literary Translators Association. Her work can be found widely\, including in Poetry Magazine\, The Nation\, and Best New Poets. She lives in Louisville\, Kentucky. \nLeah McNaughton Lederman\, a Pushcart-nominated author\, has created two volumes of Café Macabre: A Collection of Horror Stories and Art by Women (SourcePoint Press\, 2019; 2021) and her own short story collection: A Novel of Shorts: The Woman No One Sees (2020). Her creative nonfiction has been published in The River and South Review\, Defenestration Mag\, and The Wrath-Bearing Tree. In 2022\, Leah published Beautifully Broken: The Katy Hayes Story\, about her cousin’s life as a quadruple amputee. Currently\, Leah serves as the Social Media Coordinator for the Indiana Writers Center and Executive Director of the Midwest Writers Workshop. She lives in the Indianapolis area with her husband and an assortment of children\, cats\, and dogs.  \nModerated by Jake Budler\, co-owner of Tomorrow Bookstore\, where he manages the operations\, finances\, and team. He is also the VP of Platform for Endeavor Southeast\, managing a portfolio of 30+ growth-stage entrepreneurs across the Midwest and South. In the literary world\, Jake is currently serving as a board member for Sarabande Books\, an independent publisher based in Kentucky\, and founded the Indy Indie Book Crawl in 2024. He holds a BA in economics from Wabash College and an entrepreneurship certification from Harvard Business School Executive Education. Jake lives in Indianapolis with his wife\, Julia\, and their three pets. 
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/unpacking-publishing-approaches-to-getting-your-book-published-presented-by-tomorrow-bookstore/
LOCATION:Harrison Gallery\, 1505 N Delaware St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
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SUMMARY:Midwest Goodbyes: Poets on Loss
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ardery is the author of the poetry collection Level Watch (June Road Press\, 2025). Her poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Best New Poets\, Poet Lore\, Prairie Schooner\, RHINO\, and elsewhere. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a Lifelong Arts Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission\, she was born and raised in Bloomington and now lives in West Lafayette\, Indiana. Learn more at www.maryardery.com. \nCorey Ewing is a native of Indianapolis who pursued a love of poetry across the country on a whim. He would return home to support various poetic projects\, including Word As Bond\, Fighting Words Poetry\, and Cafe Creative\, and he currently curates VOCAB. His poetry and photography have led him to work with National Geographic Photo Camp\, BUTTER Art Fair\, Indy Arts Council\, Central Indiana Community Foundation\, and the Herbert Simon Family Foundation. He is a former Artist at Work with Kheprw Institute and continues to teach\, coach\, and create as a multidisciplinary artist. \nSamantha Fain is an Indiana poet. She is the author of the chapbooks Coughing Up Planets and sad horse music\, which was translated and published in Chile in 2024. She coedited Kiss Your Darlings: A Taylor Swift Anthology with Olney Magazine in 2022. Her full-length collection\, Are You There\, debuted in 2024 with Bad Betty Press. Find her at www.samanthafain.com. \nSreepadaarchana Munjuluri is a sophomore at Indiana University Indianapolis majoring in neuroscience with minors in math and physics. She plans to become a physician working at the intersection of public health and politics\, aiming to heal both beings and bureaucracies. She was the 2023 National Poetry Out Loud champion and has since been swept up into the wonderful whirlwind of poetry programming—performing at the Pegasus Awards\, the Indo-American Arts Council’s literary festival\, and the Inaugural International Poetry Recitation Invitational in London. She has also served as a final reviewer for the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Awards and is a host of the Volta Poetry Open Mic series\, supported by Indiana Humanities and Flanner House. Alongside science and poetry\, she finds joy in Bharatanatyam dance and violin\, two lifelong passions that keep her grounded and creative.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/midwest-goodbyes/
LOCATION:Harrison Gallery\, 1505 N Delaware St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry reading with Rosalie Moffett\, Kristine Esser Slentz\, and Teresa Dzieglewicz
DESCRIPTION:Rosalie Moffett is the author of Making a Living (Milkweed\, 2025)\, Nervous System (Ecco\, 2019)\, which was chosen by Monica Youn for the National Poetry Series Prize and listed by the New York Times as a New and Notable book\, and June in Eden (OSU Press\, 2017). She has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University\, and her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, New England Review\, Narrative\, Poetry\, Kenyon Review\, and Ploughshares\, among others. She is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Indiana and the senior poetry editor for the Southern Indiana Review. \nKristine Esser Slentz is a queer writer of Maltese descent\, raised in the Chicagoland area. A cult escapee and GED holder\, she is the author of EXHIBIT: an amended woman\, depose (FlowerSong Press\, 2021\, 2024) and the forthcoming collection face-to-faces (ThirtyWest Publishing House\, 2026). She is a TEDx participant and regular contributor to The Saturday Evening Post\, and her work has also appeared in TriQuarterly\, Five Points\, and elsewhere. Kristine is the cofounder\, organizer\, and host of Adverse Abstraction\, a monthly experimental artist series in New York City’s East Village. She also produces and performs in Verse & Vision\, a stage production that is currently in a micro-residency at NYC’s DADA and that has just completed a second run at the IndyFringe Festival. Follow her art on Substack at Carnations & Car Crashes. \nTeresa Dzieglewicz is a poet\, educator\, and lover of rivers and prairies. She is a fellow with Black Earth Institute\, a poet-in-residence at the Chicago Poetry Center\, and part of the founding team of Mní Wičhóni Nakíčižiŋ Wóuŋspe (Defenders of the Water School). Her first book of poetry\, Something Small of How to See a River was selected by Tyehimba Jess for the Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press). Her first children’s book\, cowritten with Kimimila Locke\, is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. She has won a Pushcart Prize\, a Best New Poets honor\, the Gingko Prize\, the Auburn Witness Prize\, and the Palette Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, Community of Writers at Tahoe\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center\, and Brooklyn Poets. Her poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Pleiades\, Ninth Letter\, and elsewhere. Teresa lives with her family in Chicago\, on Potawatomi land.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/poetry-reading-with-rosalie-moffett-teresa-dzieglewicz/
LOCATION:Harrison Gallery\, 1505 N Delaware St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46202\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry reading with MARS. Marshall\, Too Black\, and Sylvia Thomas
DESCRIPTION:MARS. Marshall is a writer and cultural organizer born and raised in Detroit. Their work has been published in Obsidian Literature & Arts for the African Diaspora\, Michigan Quarterly Review: The Mixtape\, Foglifter Journal\, Gertrude Press\, and elsewhere. MARS is a 2021 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow in Poetry and a 2019 Lambda Literary Art Emerging Writers Fellow in Poetry. Their debut chapbook\, FLOWER BOI\, is available via Gold Line Press. \nToo Black is a poet\, scholar\, organizer\, and filmmaker who blends critical analysis with biting sarcasm. He’s headlined various stages and events\, including at the historic Nuyorican [NEW-yo-REE-kan] Poets Café in New York City\, at Princeton University\, and at the Johannesburg Theater in South Africa. He’s the co-author of the book Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death\, People\, Property\, and Profits. His words have been published in online publications such as Black Agenda Report\, Hammer and Hope\, Mondoweiss [MON-doh-WHICE]\, and Hood Communist. Too Black is the host of the Black Myths Podcast\, a podcast debunking the BS said about Black people. He’s also the co-director of the award-winning documentary film The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up. \nSylvia Thomas is an artist and writer from Indianapolis. Her work focuses on sex\, gender\, grief\, and euphoria. Over the last 10 years\, she has exhibited and performed her work across North America and Europe\, including the 2025 CLAVO art fair in Mexico City and a presentation for the United Nations Envoy on Youth in 2021. Sylvia is a long-term artist in residence for Big Car Collaborative\, a 2024–25 Creative Renewal Arts Fellow through the Indy Arts Council\, and a recipient of the 2023 Indianapolis Creative Risk Grant through the Herbert Simon Family Foundation.
URL:https://indianahumanities.org/event/poetry-reading-with-mars-marshall-too-black-and-sylvia-thomas/
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