Celebration of Stories, hosted by Hanna Bartels

Join Rochester writer Hanna Bartels for a celebration of literature. Hanna will read from her novel-in-progress, Now, Everything, then share the stage with local writers in an Open Mic Night. Bartels’s novel, Now, Everything, follows three childhood friends as they navigate adulthood, each wrestling in their own unique way with infertility and the liminal space between womanhood and motherhood. 

Come to listen to local writers or to share your own work at the Open Mic Night (please be advised, there will be a ten-minute reading limit per artist). This event is free and open to the public.

Hanna Bartels received her BA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University and her MFA in Fiction from Queens University of Charlotte, where she served as the Fiction Editor of Qu Literary Magazine. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Sun Magazine and Moon City Review, and was a finalist for the 2019 Indiana Review Fiction Prize and Split Lip Magazine’s Flash Fiction Contest, Vol. 2. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Manifest-Station and in Unspoken: Writers on Infertility, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth, an anthology from L10 Press. She is currently at work on a novel-in-stories. Find her on Twitter: @hlbartels

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.