Wondering how you're going to reach 50,000 words this dark, dreary November? Surrounded by a group of equally driven writers of course! Get out of your daily grind and step into the energizing, fast-paced world of unfiltered drafting for the next 30 days. Join Molly Thornton, Seattle-based writer and writing coach and your fellow NaNo

Castalia is a monthly reading series featuring graduate students, faculty, and alumni from the University of Washington MFA program. Doors open at 7:45pm; readings begin at 8pm. Hear readings from Marianne Manzler (MFA student), Rachel Hill (MFA student), Piper Daugharty (MFA student), Tara Atkinson (alumna), and Peter Mountford (alumnus).

Eileen Myles reads from Evolution (Grove/Atlantic), their first all-new collection of poems since 2011's Snowflake/different streets–and following Afterglow (a dog memoir), as well as the volume of selected poems, I Must Be Living Twice. With Evolution, we find the eminent, exuberant writer at the forefront of American literature, upending genre in a new vernacular that enacts