NB: Ages 21 and over only.
Didn’t get enough Unbound during the day? Come and join us for a late-night series of readings and other fun at various venues in the District. Find the full details here.
2023 UNBOUND LIT CRAWL
8:30 p.m. to late Saturday, April 22, at various locations
Orr Street Studios, 8:30–9:00 p.m.
MICROFICTION
What is microfiction? Come see! In this Unbound Lit Crawl kick-off event, Wigleaf editor Scott Garson hosts several (amazing!) writers, including Unbound authors Megan Giddings and Jennifer Maritza McCauley.
Yellow Dog Bookshop, 9:15 – 10:15
THE NEXT WEATHER presents editors from the Missouri Review!
Drop in on the resuscitation of THE NEXT WEATHER Reading Series since the pandemic reared its first gnarly maw. Jacob Griffin Hall (Poetry Editor), AnnElise Hatjakes (Contest Editor), and Marc McKee (managing editor) will share excerpts from recent work and will be on hand to talk TMR, editing, publishing, daffodils versus lilies, the life of the mind, the life of the mind in a dream about eating soup in a traffic helicopter, and just about anything else you’re curious about that we can put words to. Join us, won’t you?
Skylark Bookshop, 9:15 – 10:15
PAST TEN
"Tell us a story about where you were ten years ago…" Editors of the online essay project, PAST TEN, invite you to an evening of remembrance. Unbound Festival authors will read short pieces about where they were in Spring of 2013, sharing their responses to the transformative power of time and the human capacity to turn the unpredictable into art.
Columbia Art League, 9:15 – 10:15
NEW TERRITORY
Join The New Territory Magazine for an hour of all things Lower Midwest. We'll begin with a group oracle reading by Megan Kaminski from her Prairie Divination deck, meet New Territory editors and friends, and play with new approaches to the NT project Literary Landscapes: personal stories about the places of Midwestern Literature.
TOP TEN WINES, 10:30 - late
OUT-TAKES TAKE US OUT
Editor (n): person who is in charge of and determines the final content of a text, particularly a newspaper or magazine. See also: killer of joy; dasher of dreams; butcher of inspiration.
Come and listen to some of this year’s guest authors read excerpts from early drafts of their work which were excised from the final, published version by some asshole* editor. Others will read from their works-in-progress – which is just to say, their editors haven’t got their dirty, stinking hands on it yet.
* Not really. We all love our editors. (Most of the time.)