The Inner Loop January Reading at Shaw’s Tavern – Washington, DC

Join us at Shaw’s Tavern on January 20th at 7 pm for The Inner Loop’s January Reading featuring Emily Mitchell alongside nine other local readers in poetry, nonfiction, and fiction!

Whether you’re a bookworm, an inspiring writer, or just enjoy listening to stories, The Inner Loop readings have something for everyone. Our mission is to create an inclusive writing community in DC, so we encourage you to grab some food, a drink, and meet other literature lovers. We can’t wait to see you there!

Learn more about our featured reader:

Emily Mitchell is the author of three published works of fiction, most recently the story collection The Church of Divine Electricity, winner of the 2023 Elixir Press Fiction Award and published in November 2025 by University of Wisconsin Press. Her short stories have appeared in Harpers’, Ploughshares, The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the New Statesman and Guernica. She serves as fiction editor of New England Review and teaches at University of Maryland. Her second novel, Far Ocean, about 18th century botanist and explorer Jeanne Baret, won the 2025 Big Moose Prize and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press.

Also Featuring:

In Fiction: Susan Buttenwieser, Jeanette Quick, Eman Quotah, Robert Uche, Lauren Woods

In Nonfiction: Jennifer Harris, John Kropf

In Poetry: Alex Markoff, Homa Mojadidi