Writers' Open Mic: October

Event Description

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.

Featured Readers:

Anri Wheeler is a writer, educator, and mother to three strong daughters. She teaches writing at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and GrubStreet and is the nonfiction editor at Pangyrus magazine. She is an alumna of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator, VONA, and Tin House. She has done residencies at Ragdale and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She is working on a memoir about race, class, and mermaids. More at anriwheeler.com.

Princess Moon is a second generation Cambodian-American multidisciplinary artist and mother based in Boston. Inspired by the natural juxtapositions of life, her work is a constant mirroring of joy and tragedy spanning across both the past and present. As the daughter of Cambodian refugees and the mother of a third generation, she hopes to be the bridge between the seed and the blossom through her explorations of motherhood, nostalgia, intergenerational trauma, and the conscious eort to heal.

Moon has featured at The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Asian American Writers Workshop, the Massachusetts Mental Health Forum, and on Hulu’s television series Taste the Nation, among other notable venues in New England. You can nd her work in Out of the Shadows of Angkor, La Guagua Poetry Anthology: Celebration & Confrontation, Wunderman Thomas + Swift Collective’s Outspoken by Design Group Show, PRI’s The World, and in her rst full-length collection of poetry The Genocide’s Love Baby Learns to Sing (Bootstrap Press). In 2025, she was acknowledged by Governor Healey as the First Runner-Up for the inaugural Massachusetts Poet Laureate.

Princess works as a freelance teaching artist, pouring the same care that once shaped her own views of community into the classrooms of future art-makers.