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Celebrate the 52nd edition of the magazine, our fall 2026 issue, with live readings from contributors. Reception at 6pm followed by readings at 6:30pm. At the Radius Gallery in Santa Cruz on Thursday, Oct. 29th.
Readings by:
Joan Baranow, Asya Graf, Syed Haider, David Hathwell,
Reilly Newton, Nicole Simonson, Svetlana Turetskya
Use code Catamaran to register for free
Readings by:
Polly Conway, Christie Cochrell, Courtney Edwards, Andrew Fague, Caroline Grant,
Kathryn Jordan, Ryan Masters, Rory Meagher, Katie Renz, Kat Ricker, Laura Rosenthal, Patricia Canright Smith, Sean Stiny, and Amanda Turner
6:00 - 6:30: Reception
6:30 - 7:30: Readings
7:30 - 8:00: Tour the museum
Join us for a conversation and reading to celebrate the 2025 winner of our Poetry Prize for West Coast poets, Aaron Tyler Hand. The event will launch his award winning poetry book Floodchaser. Aaron will be joined by poet Kathy Fagan for a discussion and poetry reading from Floodchaser.
Join us in Los Angeles to celebrate Floodchaser by Aaron Tyler Hand, winner of the 2025 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. Featuring readings by Los Angeles based poets Lynne Thompson, Alison Turner, Brendan Constantine, and Michelle Bitting as well as the first in person reading by Aaron Tyler Hand from Floodchaser.
Visit the Catamaran booth at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
We will be located at Booth #923 in the Black Zone.
Catamaran will host readings by contributors to our special Fashion Issue at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Readings by: Eliza Blackorby, Ana Maria Carbonell, Sean Carlson, Kaleikaumaka Carrillo,
Cathleen Cohen, Ian Hamilton, Connie Hills, Charles Hood, Maria Olujic, Patrice Vecchione,
Brian Wedlake
Parking is in the 1060 Lot at the East end of the Tannery Arts Center. Walk through the center of campus and past the first courtyard entrance, after the stairs, and you’ll see a ramp to enter the Radius gallery on the right side of the campus central corridor, before you get to the theater.
Reception: 6:00-6:30, Readings: 6:30-7:30
Readers: George Cotkin, Albert Flynn De Silver, Nicole Fugette, Kathryn Jordan, Veronica Kornberg, Kelly McGuire, Reilly Newton, Lilly Tookey
Join us in celebrating the launch of Catamaran’s 48th issue!
Join us in celebrating the launch of Catamaran’s 48th issue!
Join us at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga for readings by contributors to the special Garden Issue of Catamaran. Beginning at 5:30 with private access to stroll the gardens, followed by an outdoor reception at 6:00 at the Madrone Mound and readings at 6:30 at the Lower House. Register in advance to attend as space is limited.
Join us to celebrate Syed Haider's new short story collection The Dying Sun and Other Stories
SYED AFZAL HAIDER is the author of two novels, To Be With Her and Life of Ganesh, and the newly-released story collection The Dying Sun and Other Stories. He is the founder and senior editor of Chicago Quarterly Review. His stories have appeared in many literary magazines including in Catamaran. Oxford University Press, Milkweed Editions, Penguin Books and Longman Literature have anthologized his work.
This event is part of the First Friday art walk at the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz
Reception: 6:00
Reading and discussion: 6:30
Book signing: 7:00
Catamaran Booth 926 at the AWP Bookfair at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Come stop by and visit us!
Book signings by Jeanne Wagner, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, and Brad Crenshaw at the Catamaran booth
Join us to celebrate Jackie Berger's new poetry collection Left at the Ruin
Of the book, Alberto Rios writes, “These poems, these words, they are quiet fires every one. ‘All of my ages swarm / against the mismatch of time.’ We may know that sensibility ourselves intellectually, but in these poems we are made to truly feel it.”
This event is part of the First Friday art walk at the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz
Reception: 6:00
Reading and discussion: 6:30
Book signing: 7:00
Join us to celebrate Jeanne Wagner's poetry collection One Needful Song, winner of the 2024 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast poets.
Join us for an evening of literary readings from poetry, fiction, and nonfiction contributors to Catamaran.
Readers: Joseph Francia, Jason Friedman, Tobey Hiller, Charles Hood, Robert Hutchinson, Kathryn Jordan, Joe Johnson, and Addie Mahmassani
Reception: 6:00-6:30, Readings: 6:30-7:30, Museum Tour: 7:30-8:00
Please register at the button below. Our attendees may use code CATAMARAN to register for free
Join us for an evening of literary readings from poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction contributors to Catamaran. The reception from 5pm - 6pm will include full private access to museum galleries and the current exhibitions, as well as refreshments and snacks.
Readings by: Les Bohem, Robert Hutchinson, Addie Mahmassani, Roberto Osorio, and Lilly Tookey, Gail Tyson
Reception: 5:00-6:00, Readings: 6:00-7:00
Join us to celebrate Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s new nonfiction book The Life of Sanora Babb
Reception 6:00, Reading and Discussion with Iris Jamahl Dunkle 6:30-7:00, Book Signing 7:00
This event is part of the First Friday Art Walk at the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz
Join us to celebrate Chuck Rosenthal’s new novel Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest
Reception 6:00, Reading and Discussion with Chuck Rosenthal 6:30-7:00, Book Signing 7:00
This event is part of the First Friday Art Walk at the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz
Dinner at Gabriella Cafe in Santa Cruz followed by a presentation and discussion of Hybrid Writing in Fiction and Nonfiction with Suzanne Jill Levine and Zack Rogow.
Suzanne Jill Levine, renowned translator and recipient of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for lifetime achievement in translation, will team up with memoirist/poet/playwright Zack Rogow for this literary soirée. Jill and Zack will discuss hybrid writing, the innovative way authors tell an engaging tale by quilting together different kinds of texts, from narrative, to newspaper stories, to letters, to police reports. Jill will discuss her translations of the great Argentinian novelist Manuel Puig, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman, Heartbreak Tango, and The Buenos Aires Affair, among other groundbreaking novels. Zack will present his new memoir, Hugging My Father's Ghost, about his writer dad, Lee Rogow, who died when his son was only three years old. With sharp pathos and laugh-out-loud humor, Zack collages together his father’s confidential writings, vintage photos from World War II and the 1950s, and imaginary conversations between himself and his dad to solve the puzzle of the father he hardly knew.
Join us to celebrate Catamaran's Summer 2024 edition, our 45th issue of the quarterly magazine. This event will feature live readings from poets and writers published in the new edition of the magazine. We are very excited to share with you the continued excellence of our contributors.
Register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/c/issue45launch
Join us to celebrate Dion O’Reilly’s new collection of poetry Sadness of the Apex Predator.
This event is part of the First Friday Art Walk at the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz
Reception 6:00, Reading and Discussion 6:30-7:00, Book Signing 7:00-7:30
Reception: 6:00 - 6:30 pm
Readings: 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Tour: 7:30 - 8pm
Join us to celebrate Santa Cruz based poet Brad Crenshaw’s new collection of poetry
Chased by Lunacies and Wonders, winner of the 2024 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. This event will be a part of the First Friday Art Walk at the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz.
6:00-6:30 Reception
6:30-7:00 Reading and Discussion
7:00-7:30 Book Signing
Readings by:
David Hathwell, Kathryn Jordan, Veronica Kornberg
Joe Ortiz, Dorothy Steinicke, Patrice Vecchione
Join us to celebrate Brad Crenshaw's poetry collection Chased by Lunacies and Wonders, winner of the 2023 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast poets.
The ticket price includes a copy of the book.
5:00-6:00pm - Reception. Enjoy complimentary refreshments while you mix and mingle with Bay Area literati. Tour the San Francisco Historical Society Museum, located at the epicenter of San Francisco's historic core, on one of the city's oldest commercial streets. The building is the site of the first mint in the West. Peer into the underground vault were gold was stored prior to the 1906 earthquake.
6:00 - 6:30 - Live Poetry Readings by poets Alison Turner (2021 winner) and Brad Crenshaw (2023 winner).
6:30-7:00 - Book signings with Brad Crenshaw and Alison Turner
Event parking is available at Portsmouth Square Garage, off Kearny, is just a block away - $8
Readings by:
John Briscoe, Jeff Ewing, Steve Guittierez, Dan Haifley,
Dion O’Reilly, Yaccaria Salvatierra, Sean Stiny
The exhibition will open on First Friday, Oct. 6th with a reception from 5:00-8:00pm. Join us for refreshments, live music, and a chance to meet the artists.
The exhibit will be open for the month of October, and close on Sat. Oct. 28th with an artist talk at 1:00pm-5:00pm. Gallery hours are Thursday - Sunday from 1-5pm.
Blitzer Gallery hosts the First Friday art opening for the 2022 art exhibition
Featuring works by: Jack Chapman, Frank Galuszka, Elizabeth Geiger, Christine Hanlon, Nona Hershey, Paul Hotvedt, Ralph Joachim, Jim MacKenzie, Anne Austin Pearce, Harry Stooshinoff
Join us to celebrate the launch of our 42nd edition of Catamaran, our fall 2023 issue of the magazine, with a reception and contributor readings, at the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz
Reception: 6-7pm
Readings: 7-8pm
With readings by:
Christie Cochrell, Brad Crenshaw, Dan Haifley, Adela Najarro,
Jean McDonough, Dion O’Reilly, Craig Seip, Christine Waresak
Join us to celebrate our Summer 2023 issue in person at Book Shop Santa Cruz! The reception will begin at 6:30, with readings beginning at 7pm. Readings by:
Wallace Baine, Andrew Beierle, Michelle Bitting, Jessica Cohn, Maverick Pflueger, Yaccaria Salvatierra, Dakeya Sampson, David Allen Sullivan, and Barbara Tannenbaum
“I began to become aware of extinctions of various creatures.
Magical creatures like the dodo for instance. Where have they
gone? And why have they gone?”
