Events

Ladies Night Out

Gather your girl squad and get ready for a fabulous Galentine’s Ladies Night Out on Thursday February 12 from 5-8pm! Celebrate your girlies in the bookshop with books, cats, and LOLs galore – plus, score a free goodie bag with every $25 purchase! (Psst… it includes a $5 Hyde Bros gift card!)

But the fun doesn’t stop at Hyde Bros! Enjoy a fun evening of shopping, dining, and deals during Galentine’s Ladies Night Out in Downtown Fort Wayne. Choose your own adventure or park once and explore the district with ease using the Downtown Fort Wayne FREE circulating shuttle (registration required for the shuttle via Downtown Fort Wayne’s website). Visit their website for a list of all of the participating locations!

We can’t wait to see you and your BFFs next week!

Ongoing Series: Last Thursday

Last Thursday at Hyde Bros Books on Thursday, February 26th at 7pm featuring readers James Curtis Cary, Steven Henn, and Kai

Hyde Brothers, Booksellers invites all fans of the written word to the 2026 season premiere of our literary series, Last Thursday! This free event occurs at 7pm on the final Thursday of each month and is hosted in-store. Each event features at least two local authors who read their original poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, etc. in 15-20 minute installments with a brief intermission between readers.

This month’s event is on February 26th at 7pm. Readers TBA.

Interested in becoming a reader? Visit our Last Thursday page to get started!

James Curtis Cary was born in Canton, Ohio. He first came to Indiana in 1961, arriving in Fort Wayne in 1967. He completed a stint in the Regular Army overseas, as well as studied history, German, and education at Ball State in the 70s. He later completed a Master’s in social sciences at State U. He is a retired City Letter Carrier of the United States Postal Service and a retired non-commissioned officer in the United States Army Reserve. A proud member of the National Association of Letter Carriers Summit City Branch #116, he is also active in the local Democratic Socialists of America and a trustee for the Fort Wayne Chapter of the A. Philip Randolph Institute. Since 2015, he has been writing and reading short stories at Craig Nix’s “COP-A-Story” sessions and more recently at the similar Short Fiction Saturday on the last Saturday of the month at the ACME in the East State Village. He lives in downtown Fort Wayne.

Steve Henn teaches high school English in northern Indiana. His previous books include Guilty Prayer (Main Street Rag, 2021) and Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year (Wolfson, 2017). He's proud of the children of himself and late American artist Lydia Henn. He roots for the Fighting Irish, played high school soccer, and gives poetry readings in all kinds of places, from Pittsburgh to Milwaukee to Long Beach, travel conditions and money conditions and time permitting. His new collection, Trying To Catch a Flame in this Windstorm at the End of the World (2025), is available now from Arroyo Seco Press and elsewhere online. Deep Cuts is due out from Wolfson Press in 2026. His favorite food is crab cakes, which are also a unit of value measurement for anything in the world (his website = 37 crab cakes).

Kylah Carter, who goes by the name of Kai in her creative works, is a creative writer and artist in the Fort Wayne area. She is currently a student studying psychology in hopes of becoming an art/grief therapist. Although it was not published, Kai finished writing her first book at the age of 14, which (if one were to dig deep enough) can be found online. She is currently working on her first book, "C Me:: A Concept." This book will be filled with creative essays, poetry, narratives, paintings, and photography from her.