Featuring Kathryn Mayer, Lynn Edelson, Ann Levin, Robert Moulthrop. The Christmas and New Year's holidays are a time to break our routines, set work aside, and gather with friends and neighbors; they're a touch point that can revive old memories and present opportunities to create new ones.

Lessons Learned

Writers Read™ is a literary forum promoting established and emerging writers through curated live and digital performances celebrating the spoken word. It’s a high-quality platform for true personal stories—two pages and 650 words long, read aloud by the writer before an audience. Read650 places a strong emphasis on the craft of writing—word choices, sentence structures, the arc of the narrative. Our submission-based events are developed around broad themes that invite a wide range of expression. An editorial committee curates and sequences the content of each show and, where necessary, our editors collaborate with writers to further refine their work.