Pencil This In: Leesa-Cross Smith, Megan Stielstra And More At City Lit Books

By Jaclyn Bauer in Arts & Entertainment on Jul 29, 2014 5:30PM

Leesa-Cross Smith photo courtesy the author

Don’t miss out on tonight’s reading at City Lit Books starting at 6:30 p.m. With a whole cast of notable authors, the event is sure to be brimming with literary steam.

Leesa Cross-Smith will be headlining the event with an excerpt from her breakthrough collection of novellas entitled Every Kiss a War. Cross-Smith was a finalist for both the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award and the Iowa Short Fiction Award, and her work is already being touted by critics.

Authors Megan Stielstra, Ben Tanzer, Paul Luikart, James Yates and Steve Karas will also be reading at the event.

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