Readings & Events
Upcoming - Grafting Book Tour
Grafting Book Launch: Rylan Hynes in Conversation with Gia Drew
Wednesday, June 3rd @ 6pm
Equality Community Center
Presented in Partnership with the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and EqualityMaine
Book Sales by Print: A Bookstore
Grafting — Rylan Hynes in Conversation with Shannon Bowring
Thursday, June 4th @ 6pm
Fiction Bookshop
Wiscasset, ME
Grafting — Reading with Rylan Hynes
Saturday, June 6th @ 5pm
Michel-Paul Cyr Artist Studio
Hallowell, ME
Presented in Partnership with the Hallowell Pride Alliance
Book Sales by Oliver & Friends Bookshop
Grafting — Rylan Hynes in Conversation with William Carpenter
Thursday, June 11th @ 7pm
Blue Hill Public Library
Blue Hill, ME
Presented in Partnership with the Blue Hill Public Library
Book Sales by Blue Hill Books
Grafting — Reading with Rylan Hynes
Thursday, June 25th @ 7pm
Women & Children First
Chicago, IL
Grafting — Rylan Hynes in Conversation with William Carpenter
Sunday, June 28th @ 5pm
Hidden Barn Books
Bar Harbor, ME
Grafting — Rylan Hynes in Conversation with Mo Drammeh
Thursday, July 9th @ 7pm
Book Space
Bangor, ME
Book Sales by The Briar Patch
Grafting — Rylan Hynes with Rebecca Turkewitz and Lewis Robinson
Wednesday, July 15th @ 6pm
Devaney, Doak and Garrett Booksellers
Farmington, ME
Presented in Partnership with the Longfellow Young Writers Workshop
Reading at To Sleep on the Same Pillow
(photo by Maya Williams)
Past
2/14/2026 To Sleep on the Same Pillow | A Queer Love Letter Reading Event @ Mechanics’ Hall
October 3rd - December 31st, 2025 Nonsense: Collaboration in Spontaneous Illustrations @ Portland Public Library
7/29/2025 Port Veritas @ Equality Community Center
7/1/2025 Horror & Hope: Writing Queer Lit in 2025 @ Print: A Bookstore
5/20/2025 Monster Beauties Book Launch @ SPACE| Trans Poetics Archive
3/18/2025 Come As You Are: A Community Resistance Event @ SPACE| Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Reading at Come As You Are
(photo by Nathan Conroy)