Be sure to attend the events our friends at Indy Reads Bookstore.  Here’s their 2013 calendar.

Feb 1^st 6pm – 9pm – Get excited about this year’s Alphabet Affair! Indy Reads presents, in preparation for the annual Alphabet Affair, our first ever One Liners competition. Come deliver your best movie lines for a chance to win two tickets to the Alphabet Affair.

Feb 2^nd 1pm – 4pm – Trade School presents a Letter Writing Social, led by Brittany West. Participants will revive the lost art of writing letters. This event requires registration through Trade School Indianapolis.

Feb 4^th 7pm – Indy Word Lab presents a creative writing workshop, open to the public.

Feb 6^th 7 pm– Trade School presents a class on cuddling, led by Mayowa Tomori. This event requires registration through Trade School Indianapolis.

Feb 9^th 2-4pm – Typography enthusiasts are invited to come to the first call out meeting for anyone interested in guided exploration of the art of typography.

Feb 9^th 6 pm – Brett Wiscons book launch for the novel “Friend or Foe,” first in the Bear Whitman mystery series

Feb 14^th 7 pm – Michaal L. L. Collins, poet and former student of Etheridge Knight, will read.

Feb 18^th 7 pm – Indy Actors’ Playground performs.

Feb 21^st 7 pm – IUPUI Student Reading Series

Feb 23^rd 4-7 pm – Brad LaMar launches the first of his new young adult series, titled “The Obsidian Dagger.”

Feb 23^rd 7 pm – Jen Tucker reads and signs her new comic memoir, “The Day I Lost My Shaker of Salt.”

Feb 28^th 7 pm – Roving Cinema presents “The Neverending Story.”

March 1^st 7 pm – Indy Jazz Fest’s High School All Stars will perform for First Friday.

March 4^th 7 pm – Indy Word Lab presents a creative writing workshop, open to the public.

March 5^th 7 pm – Dan Wakefield comes to Indy Reads Books to host a screening of “Going All the Way,” based on Wakefield’s novel.

March 7^th, 5:30-7:30 pm – IN Conversation records their regular podcast at Indy Reads Books.

March 13^th 7 pm – Courtney Elizabeth Mauk, author of “Spark,” will read from and sign copies of her book, published by local small press Engine Books.

March 14^th 5 – 7 pm– Lorene Burkhart comes to speak and sign books, including her most recent, “Bootstraps: How Women Pull Themselves Up Through Tough Times.”

March 22^nd 7 pm – Indy Reads Books hosts a reading and discussion of Ray Bradbury and “The Martian Chronicles,” as part of a weekend long celebration of the author in conjunction with Bookmama’s and the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies.

March 23^rd 7 pm – Vouched Presents reading series

March 27^th 7 pm – IUPUI Student Reading Series

April 5^th 7 pm – The Indy Jazz Fest High School All-Stars perform for First Friday.

April 7^th 7 pm - Indy Word Lab presents a creative writing workshop, open to the public.

April 13^th 7pm – Butler University MFA Reading Series

April 18^th 6 pm – 8 pm – Indiana Young Writers present a student reading.

April 25^th 7 pm – IUPUI Student Reading Series