BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Indy Reads - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Indy Reads
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://indyreads.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Indy Reads
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Indiana/Indianapolis
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251115T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251115T183000
DTSTAMP:20250131T193004Z
CREATED:20250102T190234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250131T193004Z
UID:10001392-1763224200-1763231400@indyreads.org
SUMMARY:Writers Night with Pen to Paper
DESCRIPTION:Join Indy Reads and Pen to Paper for a bimonthly writing workshop on the first and third Saturdays from 4:30-6:30 pm.\n\n\nJoin Indy Reads and Pen to Paper for this bimonthly writing workshop from 4:30-6:30 pm on the first and third Saturdays of the month. \nThis workshop is recommended for ages 18+ \nLearn More about Pen to Paper\n\n\nMeet the Pen to Paper \nWe write. We share. We live. \nPen to Paper is Indy’s most notorious coterie of misfit writers. \n\n\nWhat We Do \nIn its simplest form\, we write stuff\, share it with each other\, and talk about it. \nWe critique each other’s written material and provide creative support\, constructive criticism\, and sage advice. \n\n\nWho May Join \nIf you write\, you may join. Even if you don’t write\, give us a whirl (as long as you provide us with homemade cookies and lemonade). \nWe accept people at all skill levels\, from the doe-eyed novice to the experts. \nIf you want to write or improve your writing\, then you’ve come to the right place! \nWe critique all manner of writing\, be it fiction\, non-fiction\, poetry\, travelogues\, technical manuals … if it has words\, we’ll read it. \n\n\n\nThis event is Pay-What-You-Can. Here’s what your suggested donation can do for the Indy Reads community: \nFREE – This ticket is for attendees that would like to attend this event and are unable to purchase a ticket. Indy Reads values our community and facilitators. We are proud to provide programming to all. Thank you for being a part of our community! \n$10 – This donation covers the cost of one attendee to this event. Indy Reads strives to bring the very best programming to Fountain Square and all Hoosiers. Thank you for helping us to keep our quality programs accessible for all! \n$20 – This donation covers the cost of two attendees to this event. If you are attending as an individual\, your ticket at this level makes it possible for another who cannot afford a ticket to attend. It is only through the generosity of our community that we are able to support programs that enrich the lives of all Hoosiers. Thank you for your support! \nOther – “Pay-What-You-Can” really does mean pay what you can. Indy Reads appreciates that every one of our community members is able to support our vision of 100% literacy for all in different ways. Whether you can pay $5 or $50\, we are so excited to see you – and thank you for your support!
URL:https://indyreads.org/event/writers-night-with-pen-to-paper-29/
LOCATION:Indy Reads\, 1066 Virginia Avenue\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://indyreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/a8a70d70d428740fac4e47fec905114f-Hw0if6.tmp_.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251115T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251115T190000
DTSTAMP:20251020T135121Z
CREATED:20250923T172253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T135121Z
UID:10001503-1763226000-1763233200@indyreads.org
SUMMARY:Author Reading: Melissa Fraterrigo with Sarah Layden
DESCRIPTION:Join Melissa Fraterrigo and Sarah Layden for a reading\, discussion\, and signing of Fraterrigo’s new memoir: The Perils of Girlhood!\n\n\nOn Saturday\, November 15 at 5pm\, join Melissa Fraterrigo for a reading and conversation with Sarah Layden! \nMelissa will read from her new memoir\, The Perils of Girlhood\, and then have a brief discussion with fellow author Sarah Layden.  \nThe discussion and Q&A will cover the personal and emotional toll of being female in our culture\, how pop culture objectified girls and women in the 80s and 90s\, and the hard conversations all of us need to have as we guide our children into the future. \nProceeds from sales at Indy Reads support the nearly 500 adult students in our English literacy classes. \n\n\n\nAbout Melissa Fraterrigo  \nMelissa Fraterrigo’s memoir\, The Perils of Girlhood\, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2025. She is also the author of the novel Glory Days (University of Nebraska Press)\, which was named one of “The Best Fiction Books of 2017” by the Chicago Review of Books as well as the short story collection The Longest Pregnancy (Livingston Press). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies from storySouth and Shenandoah to Notre Dame Review\, Sou’wester and The Millions. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University\, in the Butler University MFA in Creative Writing program\, and is also the founder and executive director of the Lafayette Writers’ Studio in Lafayette\, Indiana\, where she offers classes on the art and craft of writing. She lives with her husband and two daughters in West Lafayette\, Indiana.                            \nAbout The Perils of Girlhood \nLike many girls growing up in the eighties and nineties\, Melissa Fraterrigo leaned on popular culture to transition from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Judy Blume told stories about girls embracing their imperfections; Madonna encouraged bold moves. But Fraterrigo’s experiences with dating and attempts to refashion her body through diet and exercise left her feeling far from empowered. It wasn’t until Fraterrigo became a mother to twin daughters and they began their own self-criticisms that she questioned how she might help them navigate their own girlhoods.  \nA handsome swim coach’s advances\, an anxious daughter soothing her father’s temper\, the history of Mace\, and the joy of female friendship: these are some of the memories that shape Fraterrigo’s worldview as an adult. Written with lyricism and insight\, The Perils of Girlhood provides a reckoning and a reclamation. And while these personal narratives developed from Fraterrigo’s desire to guide her daughters\, their universal truths compel us to consider how best to bring all of our daughters into the future.  \n\n\n\nAbout Sarah Layden \nSarah Layden is the author of Imagine Your Life Like This (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2023)\, The Story I Tell Myself About Myself\, winner of the 2017 Sonder Press Chapbook Competition\, and Trip Through Your Wires (Engine Books\, 2015)\, a novel. She is co-author with Bryan Furuness of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2023.) Her short fiction can be found in Boston Review\, Stone Canoe\, Blackbird\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, the anthologies Best Microfiction 2020\, Welcome to the Neighborhood\, and Sudden Flash Youth\, and elsewhere. Her recent nonfiction work has appeared in The Washington Post\, Newsweek\, Poets & Writers\, Salon\, River Teeth\, The Millions\, and Identity Theory. She is an associate professor of English at Indiana University Indianapolis.  \nAbout Imagine Your Life Like This  \nThe characters who inhabit Sarah Layden’s short story collection are on the verge of change—if only they could see themselves and their situations with greater clarity. Caught in the midst of crises\, they stumble toward the future without fully understanding their past. Layden’s deft\, spare prose sketches worlds and lives with telling details\, juggling disparate strands of identity and often revealing the deeper truths in unexpected moments of epiphany.  \nA bride-to-be puts on her detective hat when her groom goes missing. A woman returns to college after escaping an abusive marriage\, only to discover her professor is a fraud. Reunited at a high school reunion\, two former classmates completely misinterpret a critical incident from a decade prior. These and other characters find themselves lonely and in limbo\, their self-identity as blurry as the old photographs they cling to with stubborn intensity.  \nSet mostly in the Midwest and upstate New York\, Imagine Your Life Like This captures everyday Americans in all their discontent\, misunderstandings\, and dogged determination for a better world.  \n\n\n\nThis event is Pay-What-You-Can. Here’s what your suggested donation can do for the Indy Reads community: \nFREE – This ticket is for attendees that would like to attend this event and are unable to purchase a ticket. Indy Reads values our community and facilitators. We are proud to provide programming to all. Thank you for being a part of our community! \n$10 – This donation covers the cost of one attendee to this event. Indy Reads strives to bring the very best programming to Fountain Square and all Hoosiers. Thank you for helping us to keep our quality programs accessible for all! \n$20 – This donation covers the cost of two attendees to this event. If you are attending as an individual\, your ticket at this level makes it possible for another who cannot afford a ticket to attend. It is only through the generosity of our community that we are able to support programs that enrich the lives of all Hoosiers. Thank you for your support! \nOther – “Pay-What-You-Can” really does mean pay what you can. Indy Reads appreciates that every one of our community members is able to support our vision of 100% literacy for all in different ways. Whether you can pay $5 or $50\, we are so excited to see you – and thank you for your support!
URL:https://indyreads.org/event/author-reading-melissa-fraterrigo-with-sarah-layden/
LOCATION:Indy Reads\, 1066 Virginia Avenue\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://indyreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/a3f23eaf2251399cdb3f623f00f73e5f-tyDeoG.tmp_.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR