Lit Crawl Boston

Imagine spending time with your favorite children's book characters, all grown up and out on the town. Boston's meetup group for children's authors hosts a mixer with a purpose: Fill out your bingo card by finding characters based on clues from the books that feature them (i.e., "Find someone who enjoys a butterbeer after a hard day at the Ministry"). There will be prizes for the first few to claim "Bingo!" Guests are welcome to sign up to represent their own favorite kid's lit characters. Costumes encouraged (but not required)!

Agni is excited to join LitCrawl Boston to present  “Whose Line Is it Anyway?,” a hilarious and highbrow night of literature, guessing games, and other foolish fun. Come hang out at the School of Fashion with Agni contributors and watch these authors guess the author of sentences culled from great works. Short readings by the authors will start the night. The event will start at 6:30 sharp.

Got an ex-partner, unrequited love, or nightmare relationship haunting you? You’re not alone when you have books! Join us and the many lovesick characters of fiction as we test our literary cred in a game of Spooky Lit Trivia, hosted by Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein. We can’t wait to raise a (Franken)stein with you to jilted love!

You are handed a mugshot of a real person with no details included about who they might have been. You now must create a short description of who they could be. It's up to you to create a backstory. Join Boston Writers' Meetup for this exercise to stretch your word muscles during short writing sessions. At the end of each session, sharing is encouraged, but not required. 

GrubStreet presents the Exquisite Corpse. If you’ve never heard of Exquisite Corpse, here’s how it works: One person writes the first few paragraphs. The final line of those paragraphs is sent to the next writer, who continues the story. Then the writers come together to read their collective tale, without knowing where it began or where it will end. The only direction offered for this night’s “corpse": because Halloween is around the corner, make it spooky. 

Ploughshares joins the Lit Crawl with a presentation of Literary Balderdash, a game of weird word guessing and derring-do. Players include Chris Castellani, Michael Lowenthal, Nick Flynn, Ted Kehoe, and Suzanne Matson.

Salon Acote will have gift bags and discount offers for all attendees.