ShoutOut’s annual Halloween, Fright Night Reading with poets Amanda Gulia and Philip Levine, prose writers Jan Alexander and Toby Barna, and featuring award-winning suspense writer Jode Millman, Poughkeepsie author of Hooker Avenue and The Empty Kayak, of the Queen City Crime Series.

The evening will begin with announcements of the 2026-27 Susana Meyer Creative Arts Awardees.

Inquiring Minds will have books for sale and there will be light refreshments and bubbly available.