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The Redmond Association of Spokenword held the following readings and other events in 2025. See other past readings.
January 31, 2025 — Jack Straw Writers: Elyse Hauser, Mary Pan, and McKenna Princing
(poetry, nonfiction, and fiction)
January 31, 2025 — Jack Straw Writers: Elyse Hauser, Mary Pan, and McKenna Princing
(poetry, nonfiction, and fiction)
Elyse Hauser is an environmental writer who studied creative nonfiction at the University of New Orleans. Her work focuses on aquatic ecosystems, especially the deep sea and protecting the unknown.
Mary Pan is a writer and physician with a background in global health and narrative medicine. Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, McSweeney’s, Intima, and elsewhere. She has been selected for workshops, retreats, and residencies with Tin House, Hedgebrook, Kenyon Review, and Centrum, and is a Harvard Media & Medicine alum.
McKenna Princing writes speculative fiction set in and inspired by the Pacific Northwest and Cascadia bioregion. She also loves retellings and reimaginings of classic works that highlight the ways society has (and hasn’t) changed. She is pursuing her MFA in fiction at Pacific University and is working on a novel.
February 28, 2025 — Salon Style Reading
February 28, 2025 — Salon Style Reading
A salon-style reading is a relaxed evening of sharing and conversation. Come gather around our circle where we take turns reading whatever we wish—it could be your own work, or from another writer—followed by discussion and more sharing. No featured reader, no critique, just a free-flowing conversation with fellow poets and writers celebrating our craft.
March 28, 2025 — Duvall Improv Social Club
March 28, 2025 — Duvall Improv Social Club
The Duvall Improv Social Club, known as DISC, has elevated improv on the Eastside. We are a fun, family-friendly performing troupe. Please join us as we improvise about book genres, poetry, and even Shakespeare—all at the whim of audience suggestions. Even we don’t know what will happen. A guaranteed fun time with lots of laughs!
April 25, 2025 — Ching-In Chen (Redmond poet laureate)
April 25, 2025 — Ching-In Chen (Redmond poet laureate)
Ching-In Chen is author of The Heart’s Traffic: A Novel in Poems; Recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry); Shiny City (forthcoming in 2025, and chapbooks To Make Black Paper Sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters. Chen is coeditor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press collective member, Airlie Press editor, and current Redmond poet laureate.
May 30, 2025 — Salon Style Reading
May 30, 2025 — Salon Style Reading
A salon-style reading is a relaxed evening of sharing and conversation. Come gather around our circle where we take turns reading whatever we wish—it could be your own work, or from another writer—followed by discussion and more sharing. No featured reader, no critique, just a free-flowing conversation with fellow poets and writers celebrating our craft.
June 27, 2025 — Peter Ludwin (poet)
June 27, 2025 — Peter Ludwin (poet)
Peter Ludwin is the recipient of a literary fellowship from Artist Trust, the 2016 winner of the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award for his poem “Wolf Concerto,” and the 2024 winner of the Trail to Table Editors’ Award in Poetry for his new book, An Altar of Tides. The author of three previous books, two of which were nominated for other awards, he spent fourteen years as a participant in the San Miguel Poetry Week in Mexico, where he workshopped under top poets such as Mark Doty, Tony Hoagland, Joseph Stroud, and Robert Wrigley. Peter lives in Kent, and his website is https://peterludwin.com/.
July 25, 2025 — Frederick Livingston (poet)
July 25, 2025 — Frederick Livingston (poet)
Frederick Livingston grew from the southern tip of the Salish Sea in Olympia. Sustainable agriculture and experiential education have since taken him around the world, from Peace Corps Tanzania to the University for Peace in Costa Rica and beyond. Since his sixth-grade debut on local-access television reciting “Ode to a Chair,” his work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, scientific journals, and public spaces. He is the author of The Moon and Other Fruits and Trees are Bridges to the Sky, which won the Prism Prize for Climate Literature. Visit https://fredericklivingston.com/.
August 29, 2025 — Salon Style Reading
August 29, 2025 — Salon Style Reading
A Salon Style Reading is a relaxed evening of sharing and conversation. We gather around our circle where we take turns reading whatever we wish, could be our own work or from another writer, followed by discussion and more sharing. No featured reader, no critique, just a free-flowing conversation with fellow poets and writers celebrating our craft.
September 26, 2025 — Dario Cvencek
September 26, 2025 — Dario Cvencek
Dario Cvencek Dario Cvencek is an immigrant poet from the Balkans. He started writing poetry in high school, inspired by his growing up during the Bosnian War in the 1990s, and his subsequent experiences as a refugee of war and an immigrant in Germany and the United States. In his poems, he explores the themes of war, trauma, healing, identity, immigration, nature, and love. His work has appeared in independent literary magazines, such as Rising Phoenix Review, Beyond Words Magazine, ANARKISS, Blood+Honey, Literary Underground, and others. His first full-length collection of poetry, PTSD Martini, was released by Carbonation Press in May 2025.
October 29, 2025 — Peggy Sturdivant (nonfiction and poetry)
October 29, 2025 — Peggy Sturdivant (nonfiction and poetry)
Peggy Sturdivant is founder of Ballard Writers, facilitates (since 2012) the It’s About Time Writers’ Series and has offered “Writing for the Moment” through Cancer Lifeline for 16 years. For ten years she wrote a weekly column, “At Large in Ballard,” coauthored the nonfiction book Out of Nowhere, and coedited So, Dear Writer. In summers she offers Moving Words Writing Clinics to middle and high school students, and works with all ages throughout the year. Her takedown of The Goldfinch on Goodreads is, alas, her best-known work to date. She keeps meaning to update her eponymous website peggysturdivant.com.
November 21, 2025 — Josh Tuininga (graphic novelist)
November 21, 2025 — Josh Tuininga (graphic novelist)
Josh Tuininga is the author of We Are Not Strangers, a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and winner of the 2024 Excellence in Graphic Literature Award for Best Young Adult Graphic Novel. He is also the author of the children's books Why Blue? and Dream On. His latest work, Serious Damage (Abrams ComicArts 2026), has received a 4Culture Heritage Grant. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Tuininga also founded an award-winning art and design agency based in his hometown of North Bend, Washington. https://www.joshtuininga.com/
December 12, 2025 — Holiday Party
December 12, 2025 — Holiday Party
5:30 p.m., at Centro Cultural Mexicano’s Mi Casa location by Flagpole Plaza
It’s that time of year to eat, laugh, and be merry! Meet in Centro’s “Mi Casa” location at 7945 Gilman Street in Redmond (not the main office). Bring a potluck dish (optional) or bring yourself—we’ll enjoy games, good vibes, and festive cheer. This is our annual social gathering for writers, poets, and friends—old and new. What’s happening:
🍲 Holiday potluck—bring your favorite dish (optional).
🎲 Fun games and activities.
💬 Mixing, mingling, and meeting new people.
🎤 Salon-style open mic—bring a holiday/New Year’s-themed piece if you’re so inspired.
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