Events
Opportunities
Meet the Moment: Writers Speak Out
- When:
- Thursday, February 26, 6:00pm
- Where:
- Wussow's Concert Cafe
Duluth, MN
Featuring Stanley Kusunoki, Julie Gard, Sara Sowers-Wills, Jess Morgan, Tina Higgins Wussow, Anastasia Bamford, Ryan Vine, Jayson Iwen and Carter Meland.
Besides featured writers, we will have an open mic. Do you have a poem, a manifesto, a story that meets the moment? We have a mic!
Brave of US 30 City Midwest Tour
from Immigrant Defense Network
The Immigrant Defense Network (IDN) – based in Minnesota is a growing, statewide network of 90+ nonprofits, grassroots groups, and advocates – developing new rapid response and movement building strategies through deep collaboration and coordination.
"The Immigrant Defense Network, alongside powerful partner organizations, is launching the Brave of US 30 City Midwest Tour—a bold, urgent call to action in a moment when immigrant communities are under direct attack.
"Across the Midwest, families are living in fear, neighbors are being targeted, and our constitutional rights are being tested. In response, Brave people are rising—showing up for one another, defending their neighbors, and refusing to be silent.
"This tour will bring communities together to build collective power, grow local leadership, and train Constitution Observers who are ready to respond, protect, and act. These are not just trainings—this is a movement grounded in courage, solidarity, and shared responsibility.
"Join us. Stand with immigrant communities. Be part of a growing network committed to defending dignity, safety, and justice for all."
Book the Vote
from National WDA
A national drive bringing together readers, writers, booksellers, publishers, and librarians to register voters
"Democracies die by foreign invasion, but they also die by homegrown authoritarian malignancies. That is happening now in the United States, and Writers for Democratic Action calls on YOU to stop it! Join us in protecting representative government with the most powerful weapon we still have: the Vote in 2026.
"WDA is launching BOOK THE VOTE, a drive to bring together readers, writers, booksellers, publishers, and librarians to register voters before the next elections. Books themselves are threatened now, which is no surprise since books have always been essential to democracy. The Bookstore and the Library can be the frontline of the campaign to rescue it."
National WDA Substack
Call for work from Writers for Democratic Action (national)
- Deadline:
- Ongoing
Writers for Democratic Action is thrilled to announce our Substack, created in partnership with the Youth Committee. Our new online publication is an opportunity to submit your writing on politics, society, and the world. We welcome and encourage diverse perspectives from across the US and abroad. No minimum publications or experience–we want powerful writing relevant to our time.
Whoever Tells the Story Writes History
from The OpEd Project
Check out the workshops and publication opportunities for those who like to write op-eds.
It Can’t Happen Here
Participate in a staged reading
The Minnesota chapter of Writers for Democratic Action seeks to bring a staged reading of Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here to local communities. We have the script. If you (as an individual or as an organization) would like to participate or partner with us, please write to hello@writersfordemocraticactionmn.org.
In 1936, It Can’t Happen Here, a stage adaptation by Sinclair Lewis of his own bestselling novel, opened simultaneously on 21 stages in 17 states across America one week before that year’s presidential election. It served as a warning against the rise of fascism in America.
It Can’t Happen Here – Again by Writers for Democratic Action is both an homage to the 1936 production as well as a call to action now. Since the return of Donald Trump in 2024, more than a hundred productions of this free, easily mounted script have been performed in theaters, living rooms, churches, bars - everywhere folks gather to say No! to the rise of Fascism in America.