Calendar of local literary events
Scroll down to check out out all the incredible activities that are happening soon! If you are hosting a literary event for our area, please contact us to be added to the calendar for free.
June 2025
Thursday, June 12 from 6-8pm: Spring Cleaning Day! We will be organizing shelves and books while celebrating each other with an Open Mic and a Pizza Party. Come stop by!
Saturday, June 14, from 12-4pm will be the annual Watershed Book Fair during the first day of the Brookville Laurel Arts Festival. Authors will be hawking their wares and meeting new readers in the Town Square. Email us to join in!
Saturday, June 14, from 12-4 we will also be co-hosting a Blank Canvas Event with CREATE Brookville. Poets have sent in their work and artists will be creating visual representations of the poetry live during Art in the Park!
Sunday, June 19, at 2pm at Watershed Books will be the next meeting of Writer’s Block Party, the local and free writer’s group. Bring your unpublished work to share and receive encouragement and inspiration from other writers. The prompt this month is “Outside the Frame”: find a photo and write about what’s happening outside of the frame of the image.
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