Louisville Literary Arts coordinates the InKY Reading Series, Louisville’s oldest independent reading series. Founded in 2004 by poet and Salon editor, Erin Keane, InKY readings are held on the second Friday of the month at the The Bard’s Town restaurant, theater and tavern in Louisville, KY.
The InKY Reading series showcases diverse literary voices from the region and the nation. Since our first reading in 2004, we have featured writers from as far as Los Angeles and as close as our own Louisville neighborhoods. Most featured readers have at least one book from a nationally distributed, literary publisher, although we have been pleased to showcase emerging writers. All writers receive an honorarium
Schedule
6:30 PM Open mic sign-ups
7:00 - 7:30 PM Open mic readings (3 minutes each)
7:30 - 7:50 PM First featured reader
7:55 - 8:15 PM Second featured reader
8:15 - 8: 35 PM Question & Answer Session
Interested in being one of our visiting writers? Fill out the following form.
2016-2017 InKY readers:
Sarah Anne Strickley & Jeff Worley
Norman Finkelstein & Kyle Coma-Thompson
Maggie Smith & Lan Samantha Chang
Julie Hensley & Crystal Wilkinson
Vu Tran & Tasha Golden
Sarah Combs & Gwenda Bond
T. J. Jarrett & Megan Kaminski
Julia Story, Philip White, Hannah Lillith Assadi
Ian Stansel & R. Dean Johnson
2017-2018 InKY readers:
Kristi Maxwell & DaMaris B. Hill
Constance Merritt & Richard Engling
Stephen Robert Stein & Martha Greenwald
Kayla Rae Whitaker & Kiki Petrosino
Frederick Smock & Noah Eli Gordon
Noley Reid & David Serchuk
Tom Hunley, Katie Dary Mullins, &
Katerina Stoykova
Pamela Garvey & Gayle Hanratty
Leesa Cross-Smith & Amelia Martens
2018-2019 InKY readers: