Deep Dish Reading October 8, 2026 6pm
after-words welcomes back the Speculative Literature Foundation. This will be the latest in their Deep Dish Readings series.
This event will feature established authors, and introduce emerging writers with rapid-fire.
Featured Reader:
Analee Newitz
Rapid Fire Readers:
Alex Jennings
B.Z. Florida
Gordon Dymowski
Harold Holt
Oleg Kazantsev
Allison Manley
Frances Dascola
Speculative fiction is an umbrella term for any literature with a fantastical element.
The Speculative Literature Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated
to promoting literary quality in speculative fiction.
Banned Books Week Promotions!
Every year we like to reward readers and have fun giveaways.
Spend $30 and you get to choose either a FREE copy of the Constitution or a Banned Books Button
Spend $40 you get a FREE Right to Read mini tote
Spend $50 and you get all three FREE
We hope you will join us in the fight against censorship.
*While Supplies Last*
Writers for Hire November 10, 7pm
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to put words in someone else’s mouth?
Join us for a spirited discussion of the ghostwriting trade! Keir Graff, Barry Pearce, and Christine Wolf
have had very different experiences in writing for hire, and moderator Sharon Woodhouse has not only
hired ghostwriters but shepherded books through every stage of publication. Whether you want to know more about ghostwriting,
co-writing, book coaching, book doctoring—or all of the above—our panelists promise to share the tricks of the trade.
(Along with some of their best ghost stories, naturally).
Banned Books Club December 1st 6:30 pm
This classic book appears on several banned or challenged books lists, but there isn’t much information out there about official challenges or bans. The possible causes for attempts to censor it: queer subtext, sexual themes, and the
“pursuit of forbidden knowledge and the obsession that comes along with it.”
However, it was the movie adaptation in 1940 that faced major censorship (due to the Hays Code),
and could be the real reason the book has made several banned book lists.