Final Thursday Reading Series—Spring 25
Season 24 Continues!
FTRS heads into 2025 with a slate of regional authors & a creative writing open mic on the final Thursday of each month at the Hearst Center for the Arts. Click here to find out more and read interviews with featured readers.
Open mic at 7:00 p.m. Featured reading at 7:30 p.m. Can't attend in person? Featured readers can be live streamed on Zoom. Click to register.
The Final Thursday Reading Series is a collaboration of Final Thursday Press; the Hearst Center for the Arts; the UNI College of Humanities, Arts and Science; and the UNI Department of Languages & Literatures.
Thursday, January 30
Gail Lynn, author of Bell Bottom Blues: A Memoir (BookBaby).
Thursday, February 27
Laura Farmer, author of the short story collection Direct Connection (Bridge Eight Press) and the novel Catch and Release (North Dakota University Press).
Thursday, March 27
Kristi Hemmer, author of the memoir Quit Being So Good: Stories of an Unapologetic Woman (Wise Ink Creative Publishing)
** this event is co-sponsored by the UNI Women’s & Gender Studies program as part of Women’s History Month.
Thursday, April 24
Bao Phi, author of the poetry collection Thousand Star Hotel (Coffee House Press) and the children’s book A Different Pond (Capstone Young Readers), a Caldecott Honor book.
