October Riverfront Readings with Jenea Havener, Paige Webb, and Caroline Crew
Please join us October 9th for our reading at the Writers Place featuring Jenea Havener, Paige Webb, and Caroline Crew.
October 9th, 2026 @ 7:00 pm
The Writers Place
31 W. 31st Street
Kansas City, MO
* Parking is available in Ability KC’s parking lot on Main Street, just past 31st Street heading north. It is on the west side of the street. Parking is not available in the U-Haul parking lot.
Jenea Havener is a writer, editor, and teacher with a B.A. in English and history from the University of Kansas and an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. Her work has appeared twice in Narrative Magazine as a Story of the Week and is forthcoming from Cutleaf Journal. She was named a finalist in two Narrative story contests, won the Langston Hughes Award in Fiction in 2023, and was shortlisted for The Masters Review’s 2023 Winter Short Story Award. This year, her short story collection was shortlisted for the Iowa Short Fiction Award. She lives with her family in Lawrence, Kansas, where she teaches creative writing at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Paige Webb is a queer, neurodivergent poet-scholar. The aim of their work is to create space for curative touch with the creative vitality inherent in all beings. They are the author of the forthcoming collections Sundry Theatres (Lit Fox Books, 2027) and Living Environments: New Mess (YesYes Books, 2028), as well as the chapbook Tussle (dancing girl press). You can find their poetry in Anomaly, Blackbird, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, Poets.org, Poetry Northwest, Quarterly West, Vinyl, VOLT, The Volta, West Branch, among other venues. They are an assistant teaching professor at Rockhurst University.
Caroline Crew is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Central Missouri, where she serves as Editor in Chief of Pleiades: Literature in Context. Author of the essay collection Other Girls to Burn, winner of the AWP Prize, her next book is a poetry collection, Don’t Cut Your Own Bangs, from YesYes Books.