Max's Writers Cafe: Micro Poetry & Prose

This event is free, but does require registration via Eventbrite to attend. Click Register on this page to be redirected. All attendees should be ages 18+. Please note that these are inspiration sessions only; there is neither instruction nor critique.

Join us via Zoom on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, as we create short poetry (including prose poems) and flash fiction/vignettes. Host Max Gardner provides the prompts; you provide the creativity. Interested participants may have a chance to share their micro works, depending on time (but there is no obligation to do so).

Max Gardner (gardnercastle.com) coedited Dwarf Stars 2022 (the best speculative verse of 10 lines or less published in 2021): https://sfpoetry.com/ds/22dwarfstars.html

Halloween Hearts, Gardner's horror poetry book, is available from Jackanapes Press (often has seasonal discounts): https://www.jackanapespress.com/product/halloween-hearts

Muse Mansion, a collection of poems by Max and father Delbert R. Gardner, will be released soon by San Francisco Bay Press.

Max Gardner (he/they, gardnercastle.com) is a fiction writer & award-winning poet with a poetry collection, Halloween Hearts, published by Jackanapes Press and over 500 stories, poems, art, and articles in Analog, Asimov's (forthcoming), Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, PodCastle, Daily Science Fiction, and more. Gardner is a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, Poetry Society of Virginia, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, and Horror Writers Association, as well as a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Max serves as literary executor for father, mentor, and namesake Delbert R. Gardner.