This year's Lit Hop will feature a packed lineup of individual hour-long showcases, featuring over a dozen events at four venues in Deep Ellum for an evening of literary happenings curated by some of the best literary arts groups, reading series, and collectives in Dallas-Fort Worth, including Dallas Poetry Slam, Dark Moon Poetry & Arts, Verse & Rhythm, Mad Swirl, Poets on X+, DaVerse Lounge, Spiderweb Salon, Pegasus Reading Series, and more.

Serving as an exciting opportunity to showcase, celebrate and encourage a supportive, inclusive and dynamic literary scene, Lit Hop gives local literary talent a chance to make the spring event their own, to share and represent a cross section of what they do against the backdrop of a city that is coming alive with poetry, slam, fiction and other forms of literary storytelling.

Schedule of events

INDEPENDENT KITCHEN | REGAL ROOM

• 4-5 pm: DaVerse Lounge
• 5:30-6:30 pm: Mad Swirl

KETTLE ART GALLERY

• 4:30-5:30 pm: White Rock Zine Machine (MakeShift)
• 6-7 pm: Dancing Tongues
• 7:30-8:30 pm: Fiction Showcase (hosted by Sanderia Faye)
• 9-10 pm: Pegasus Reading Series

DEEP VELLUM BOOKS

• 5-6 pm: Lucha Dallas
• 6:30-7:30 pm: Spiderweb Salon
• 8-9 pm: Dark Moon Poetry & Arts
• 9:30-10:30 pm: Pandora's Box

DRUGSTORE COWBOY

• 4:30-5:30 pm: Dallas Poetry Slam
• 6-7 pm: Poetry Showcase (hosted by Caitlin Pryor)
• 7:30-8:30 pm: Poets on X+
• 9-10 pm Verse & Rhythm