upcoming events!
(Unless otherwise noted, all events are free to members and non-members)
We have so many wonderful authors within our membership. This is an opportunity for them to showcase their work and connect with readers and writers. Each participating member author will have time to share their work.
Zoom Link with RSVP
Virtual Member/
author book party
December 8, 2025 7 PM EST
Whether you are ready to submit your query letter or just wondering how it all works, join us with literary agents Sarah Younger, Lauren Scovel, and Jessica Felleman. We will accept a maximum number of 20 submissions. Please note that we will try to get through as many queries as we can during the event but may not be able to read them all.
This event is free to Boston chapter members. $25 for non-members.
More details coming soon!
Virtual pitch & query session with agents
January 22, 2026 - 7-9 p.m.
Join us virtually to celebrate the books selected for this year’s GGR list! We’ll chat with Virginia Evans, author of The Correspondent, and Nanda Reddy, author of A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl.
More details coming soon!
Celebrate the
2025 GGR list
February 10, 2025 7 PM EST
Past EVENTS
Most readers have heard of the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and magical realism—but have you heard of “speculative fiction”? It’s an umbrella term that describes stories of all genres that go beyond the ordinary or realistic. Why are writers gravitating toward the speculative? And why do readers find these stories so irresistible?
THE RISE OF LITERARY SPECULATIVE FICTION
November 17, 2025 7 PM EST, virtual event
In today’s literary world, community among writers, readers, booksellers, and publishing professionals is so valuable to us, yet it can sometimes feel so elusive. How do we find that community? Where do we start? What does it really take to foster a strong literary community in 2025?
This panel brings together people working across the industry to explore how we build audience, foster connection, and create platforms that are more than just tools for self-promotion. Whether you’re writing a book, helping promote one, or simply trying to find your voice in the literary space, this conversation will offer tangible ideas for building both your platform and your community among writers, readers, and publishers.
Making literary community
A Publishing Community Event
October 28, 2025, 6:30 p.m.
Bill Bordy Theater, Tremont Street, Boston
Come challenge your chops on trivia involving some of the most famous feminist and LGBTQIA Boston authors ... and some of the less famous ones, too. For fun, some Boston women authors from the 19th Century will be mixed in—were they feminists and/or queer too?—plus a few non-Bostonians just to make you think. It will be a multi-century romp through women who broke through boundaries and continue to inspire us today.
Women writers history trivia night
September 24, 2025 6:30 PM
All She Wrote Books, 75 Washington St., Somerville
