St. Louis Literary Calendar, Bestiary The St. Louis Literary Calendar is a free monthly listing of literary events in the bi-state area including readings, open mike nights, booksignings, book discussions, writing workshops, competitions, literary exhibits, and magazine submission information. Each July and August, the center publishes a double issue of the calendar called the St. Louis Literary Bestiary, a directory of more than 100 literary organizations and resources in the area. The Bestiary is available year-round. To be placed on the mailing list, contact the center . The International Writers Center will present A Day of Readings , a program featuring Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, German fiction writer Ingo Schulze, and English poet Lavinia Greenlaw on Saturday, April 28, 2001.
Admission is free of charge.
Since 1994 the International Writers Center has served as consultant for MetroLines, a poetry project of Arts in Transit, a division of Bi-State, the chief provider of public transportation in the metropolitan area. Along with the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club of East St. Louis, we feature poems from writers in the bi-state area for placement on bus and train lines. We also include poems from the public domain in the quarterly installments. The final quarter of each year is devoted to winners of a contest, open to grade school and high school students, and adults, which we administer. An exhibition of poetry placards from transit systems in cities around the world was mounted in January 1996.