Lots going on today.

The Hugo House is hosting Write-O-Rama, "an eight-hour extravaganza of mini- writing workshops." It is also a fundraiser for the Richard Hugo House. Then, when Write-O-Rama is done, they'll host Voice Rising, a collection of "spoken word, hip hop, dance and drag performances" intended to celebrate gay pride.

At noon, Yasmine Galenorn reads at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop. Her book Demon Mistress is about fairies, which the author frustratingly decides to spell as "faeries." Fuck that shit. Four cookbook authors read at the U Village Barnes & Noble.

Elliott Bay Book Company hosts Kaya McLaren. In her novel The Divinity of Second Chances, a family falls apart and a pair of bagpipes are involved. Then, later, Barbara Olins Alpert also reads at Elliott Bay Book Company from The Creative Ice Age Brain: Cave Art in the Light of Neuroscience, a book that combines the Flintstones and the Jetsons in a big science-y orgy.

Janna Cawrse Esarey reads at Third Place Books. She and her "sail-mate" travel 17,000 miles across the seas in The Motion of the Ocean. This is a good title for a book. Esarey reads all over town next week, so don't feel bad if you miss her tonight.

And University Book Store hosts Mariel Hemingway, who reads from her new cookbook. This is as close, genetically speaking, as you'll ever be to Ernest Hemingway.

I'd have to say the Voice Rising event is the Reading of the Night. There haven't been many Pride-themed literary events so far this month.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.