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Conversation with Danez Smith

Speck Gallery 1505 N. Delaware St., Indianapolis, IN, United States

About the Author Danez Smith is the author of four collections including Don’t Call Us Dead, Homie, and most recently Bluff, a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry....

How We Show Up: Building Literary Communities

Speck Gallery 1505 N. Delaware St., Indianapolis, IN, United States

How can we build and sustain communities that honor the art of storytelling? Whether through art, activism, mutual aid, or shared space, people find ways to connect, resist isolation, and...

Censorship: A Conversation on Voice, Artistic Risk and Imagination

Speck Gallery 1505 N. Delaware St., Indianapolis, IN, United States

Artists have always pushed boundaries—only to face backlash, bans, or erasure. From books and films to music and visual art, censorship continues to shape what stories get told and who gets...

The Craft of Crime Writing

Speck Gallery 1505 N. Delaware St., Indianapolis, IN, United States

Join a stellar panel of award-winning Midwestern crime writers for a conversation on the craft of writing a good mystery, moderated by Shamus Award-winning author James D.F. Hannah. About the...

Midwestern Memoir

Speck Gallery 1505 N. Delaware St., Indianapolis, IN, United States

Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays, two memoirs (Darkroom: A Family Exposure and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood), and essays in...

To Be a Bookfluencer: Building Online Literary Communities

Speck Gallery 1505 N. Delaware St., Indianapolis, IN, United States

Join two Indianapolis-based social media influencers whose reach extends far beyond the Midwest for a conversation about online literary communities. Nathan Shuherk (@schizophrenicreads) and Sydney Adams (@sydsydbookworrom_) have built followings...