The Inner Loop September Reading

Mark your calendar, grab your friends, and head to Sonny's Pizza on September 16th at 7:00 pm for our reading featuring Nicole Chung reading alongside nine local writers in fiction, nonficiton, and poetry, including September Author's Corner Spotlight Michele Evans!

Whether you're a bookworm, an inspiring writer, or just enjoy listening to stories, The Inner Loop readings have something for everyone. Our mission is to create an inclusive writing community in DC, so we encourage you to grab some food, a drink, and meet other literature lovers. We can't wait to see you there!

Learn more about our featured reader:

Nicole Chung is the author of the award-winning memoir A Living Remedy, named a Notable Book by The New York Times and a Best Book of the Year by over a dozen other outlets. Her 2018 debut All You Can Ever Know was a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Time, The Atlantic, Esquire, Slate, and many other publications.

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Michele Evans, a fifth-generation Washingtonian, is a writer, teacher, and adviser for Unbound, an award-winning high school literary magazine.  This Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Watering Hole Fellow, and winner of The ASP Bulletin Poetry Contest studied at Smith College, King’s College London, and the Graduate School at the University of Maryland. Her poems have appeared in Artemis Journal, Maryland Literary Review, Mid-Atlantic Review, Sky Island Journal, Spoken Black Girl Magazine, Welter Magazine, Yellow Arrow Journal, Zora's Den, and elsewhere. purl, her debut poetry collection, was released from Finishing Line Press in February 2025.  You can find her online at www.awordsmthie.com or on Instagram at @awordsmithie.

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