# Event Details

- **Event Name**: First Books Reading
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Creative Writing’s annual First Books Reading features four MFA alums with their first books: Emily Bright with Fierce Delight: Poems of Early Motherhood; Jordan Casomar with the young adult novel How to Lose a Best Friend; Kristin Collier with the memoir What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, and Precarity in a Broken System; and John LaPine with the essay collection An Unstable Container. Join us!

Register for this free event (registrants will be checked in by name): z.umn.edu/FirstBooks26

Presented by the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English. For questions about accessibility services and the venue, please email sutt0063@umn.edu or call 612-626-1528. ASL interpretation provided.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/minneapolis/first-books-reading/200029779590746
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 12

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScGluWtJT6xPHMluYvz4vnRclIYceTCdud2W3ZDaU6m7xl4UQ/viewform?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=minneapolis-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Minneapolis
- **state**: MN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 310 Pillsbury Dr SE, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55455
- **lat**: 44.9771
- **long**: -93.23468
- **full address**: 310 Pillsbury Dr SE, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55455

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: University of Minnesota English (https://allevents.in/org/university-of-minnesota-english/8710851)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 310 Pillsbury Dr SE, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55455
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** University of Minnesota English
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about First Books Reading ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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