Free Readings, Storytelling, Movie, and Jazz at Alphabet City

City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, located at 40 West North Avenue, is the permanent home for City of Asylum programming and the arts. It is a hub for Pittsburgh’s readers and writers, jazz and small-scale music and performance, and artistic experimentation. It is a home for diverse voices from around the globe – a place where Pittsburgh meets the world and the world meets Pittsburgh. To view a complete list of all scheduled events, visit the Alphabet City website.

Free Association Reading Series
Sunday, October 14 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm
Come to Alphabet City for an intimate evening of readings with exceptional writers during the Free Association Reading Series. Featured Writers of the night will be Maggie Messitt, author of The Rainy Season; Maureen McGranaghan, fiction writer, playwright, and poet; Kevin Haworth, author of The Discontinuity of Small Things; and Dakota R. Garilli, writer and community educator.  Founded in May of 2016, Free Association Reading Series is for established and emerging Pittsburgh writers of prose, poetry, and non-fiction.