Ron discusses his experiences, writing and his new book The Wetback and Other Stories due out September 30, 2016 from Arte Publico Press.

You can take a listen to the conversaton here.

Rain Taxi is once again hosting the Twin Cities Book Festival on Saturday, October 15 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm in the Progress Center and Fine Arts Buliding at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds in Saint Paul.  

Red Bird Chapbooks will have a table at the festival and we hope to see you there.

For more details, visit http://wwww.raintaxi.com/2016-twin-cities-book-festival/.

SubText Bookstore
6 West 5th Street 
Saint Paul, MN 55102 

Monday, October 17, 2016, 7:00 pm

Join poets at the launch of A Little Book of Abundance: poems of thanksgiving throughout the year. Editor-in-chief Sarah Hayes will introduce the book. Readers include Margaret Hasse, organizer and anthologizer, and members of a group of poets who’ve been together for more than five years: Anne Curtin, Don Brunnquell, Sharon Hilberer, Joan Johnson, Barb Jones, Dorothy Schlesselman, and Ann Schroeder.

Paul Van Dyke, author of A Thousand Sunsets, will be on KFAI's Write On segment on Tuesday, October 18 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

To stream the conversation visit: http://kfai.org/writeonradio.

Jason Magabo Perez, an assistant professor of fiction writing at CSUSB, wrote the piece and will perform it beginning at 6 p.m. in the university’s John M. Pfau Library, room PL-4005, with special musical guest Shammy Dee.

More information is available here.

The Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop will be hosting their annual reading at Hamline University in the Kay Fredericks Room of the Klas Center (1537 Taylor Avenue, Saint Paul MN 55104) at 7:00 pm on Saturday, October 22.

Join Red Bird Chapbooks in supporting this great organization and celebrating the talented writers who take part.

Click here for more information. 

Five local Red Bird authors share their work. This is a night of fictions and truths, poetics and candor. 

Love Local celebrates the rich craft traditions of the Twin Cities and is hosted by the Minnnesota Center for the Book Arts.  This will mark the fifteenth year of the annual holiday sale and Red Bird Chapbooks is happy to be participating for the first time this year.  

The event is Saturday, November 19 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at The Shop at MCBA (1011 Washington Avenue South #100, Minneapolis MN 55415).

Click here for more details.

Elinor Cramer will be reading from Mayflower (2015) along with Jessica Cuello, Eric Evans, and Georgia Popoff in celebration of Indie Bookstore Day at River's End Bookstore.

Margaret Hasse, editor of A Little Book of Abudance (2016), reads from Between Us and other of her books from Nodin Press, and Emilie Buchwald reads from The Moment’s Only Moment, also from Nodin Press.