What we’re about
We are a nonprofit literary forum that creates performance opportunities for writers through curated live and digital performances celebrating the spoken word. Formerly known as Read650, Writers Read™ is a high-quality platform for true personal stories—two pages and 650 words long, read aloud by the writer before an audience.
Writers Read™ places a strong emphasis on the craft of writing—word choices, sentence structures, the arc of the narrative. Our submission-based events are developed around broad themes that invite a wide range of expression. An editorial committee curates and sequences the content of each show and, where necessary, our editors collaborate with writers to further refine their work. If you love language and craft and enjoy a good story, you’ve come to the right place.
