There will be pie and there will be Kate Lebo, and there will be a celebration and reading for Kate's chapbook, A Commonplace Book of Pie. We'll start with pie at 6 p.m., then, at 7, fiction writer Sam Ligon and poet Elissa Ball will read their own pie writing, followed by Kate, who will read

Castalia is UW's monthly graduate reading series. This month will feature first-year poet Jess Holmes, second-year poet Kendra Bartell, first-year prose writer Lynn Stansbury, and second-year prose writer Morgayne O'Neill. Faculty member and fiction writer Shawn Wong and alumni Mischa Willett will also read.The bar will be open and the event is free.

Local minimalist literary journal Spartan is celebrating the release of a perfect-bound compilation of online prose from its first year of existence. Featured readers include Ann Teplick, Len Kuntz, Anne Leigh Parrish, Robert P. Kaye, Jon Lasser, and guests. The party will be hosted by editor Ross McMeekin, a 2013-14 Made at Hugo House fellow, who says