Events

Ongoing Series: Last Thursday

Last Thursday at Hyde Brothers, Booksellers on Thursday, May 29th at 7pm featuring readers James Colson, Jo Trier-Walker, and Ash Weill

Hyde Brothers, Booksellers is thrilled to kick off another season 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.

The May reading will occur on Thursday, May 29 at 7pm. This month, we will welcome James Colson, Jo Trier-Walker, and Ash Weill.

For further information and updates, click the calendar icon above to be taken to our Facebook event page.

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

James Colson is a proud husband, father, and substitute teacher. In 2024, he entered the world of self-publishing with The Tale of Tiernan, fulfilling a lifelong dream of becoming a published author. His follow-up, The Legacy of Enid, continues the story and completes the duology as a conclusion to chapter one of his ongoing fantasy series. In addition to The Graelian Chronicles Book Three: Kingdom of Sand and Water, James has several other stories in the works including a sci-fi one-shot, a cozy mystery, and multiple novellas set in his fantasy world. When he isn’t writing, James enjoys spending time with his family, mountain biking, strength training, playing video games, and traveling.

Jo Trier-Walker is a mother, poet, yarb woman and herbalist, walker, dreamer, animal-lover, mushroom hunter, bassoon-maker, Star Wars and Lilith fan, and all-around odd person. She is the author of two chapbooks: Trembling Ourselves into Trees (Horse Less Press) and One Winter Night in the Pines (The Dandelion Review). Jo is the winner of the 2016 Permafrost New Alchemy Contest, and her work can be found in jubilat, New American Writing, Salt Hill, Tupelo Quarterly, and inter|rupture, among others. Her most recent project combats the paralysis and hopelessness of life under fascism by bringing together politics and current events with the truths of dreams, the body, and ancient wisdoms including astrology, magical practices, mythology, and the wisdom of animals, plants, mushrooms, and the land. Her aim is that the reader of this project can banish anxiety and feel moved to stand up and fight with their entire being, from heart to body to spirit to mind to soul and beyond, to our communities and environments we exist within.

Ash is a bubbly 26 year old who just self published her first book, Words that Glow in the Dark, last year. She likes to write about mental health, religion, and humorous topics. Ash is also an artist and she drew all the artwork for her book. In her book, she color-coded the poems into “potentially triggering” and “safe” to help readers understand mental risk before even reading one word. At the end of the day, Ash just wants to be everyone’s friend and she hopes you’ll join her for this event.