2023 Rose Garden Readings


These events are FREE & open to the public.

Readings occur in the Rose Garden's Garden Center (just west of the Shelter)
52nd Wornall, Kansas City, MO 64112   
These events are in partnership
with ​The Writers Place! 
Saturday, May 13, 2022  2p - 330p
Garden Center's Rose Room
  • Lisa Stewart, author of a horseback memoir, The Big Quiet - winner of the Thorpe Menn Award for literary excellence.
  • Meghan Craig, author of Writing is Gross, A Workbook for Children, and other children's books.
  • Plus, children who won the 2023 Rose Garden Contest, will recite their poems.

Saturday, July 8, 2022  2p - 330p
​Garden Center's Rose Room
  • Annette Billings, Poet
  • Pat Lawson, Short Story Author
  • Robert Stewart, Poet

Saturday, October 21, 2022  2p - 330p 
Garden Center's Rose Room
  • Tina Hacker, Poet
  • Shawn Pavey, Poet
  • Melvina Young, Humor Writer
Some of our fabulous readers who have presented to receptive crowds !