Writers' Open Mic: July

Event Description

Writers’ Open Mic is a monthly open mic event featuring all literary genres. Come share your work in a low-key, supportive atmosphere!

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. Alcohol will be for sale for 21+ attendees. WOM is brought to you by GrubStreet, Porter Square Books, and Mass Poetry.

Featured readers:

L Scully is a living writer. They are the author of the recently released poetry collection SELF-ROMANCING from DOPAMINE Books and Semiotext(e). L is the cofounder of Stone of Madness Press, a literary magazine publishing queer, trans, and neurodiverse experiences, and the founder of [Working Title}, a New England-based queer literary event series supporting emerging writers. In 2024, L was an awardee of the Independent Press Award's "40 Under 40 in Publishing," and they recently received a 2026 Grant for Creative Individuals from Massachusetts Cultural Council. They swim outside all year, even in the winter.

Kara Urion is a writer currently based in Dorchester who has spent much of her life between Oakland, CA and an island off the coast of Maine. She has been an educator at Rikers Island, San Quentin State Prison and San Francisco Art Institute, and has worked in restaurants, the fishing industry, and as an interpreter. She was a 2025 Emerging Writer Fellow at GrubStreet, Fiction Editor at REVOLUTE magazine, and is currently pursuing her MFA in Prose at Randolph College. Her work explores mental illness, memory, addiction, and climate witness. You can find her in the water.