A Literary Salon with a puppet twist

Do you love going to literary readings and salons, hearing writers and poets read their poems, essays and fiction?
Do you love watching puppets? Have you ever wanted a puppet to read a poem to you?

Well this is the literary reading series FOR YOU! The evening includes writers & storytellers alongside special puppet guests sharing their new work.

Puppets & Prose started in 2020 as a national collaboration between Rogue, the LA Guild of Puppetry and PEN America which resulted in 39 short films that brought together visual artists and emerging writers across the country.

Open Submissions for April 2026 event!

If you have a presentation of puppetry, poetry, prose (or a combination there of) you’d like to share with an audience, we want to hear from you!

Submissions for April are due March 22 for the theme of "April Fools".

Submissions for May are due April 26 for the theme of "Mental Health Awareness/AAPI Heritage Month."

Presentations should be no longer than about 5 minutes

You can submit either a piece of literary work, or a planned puppetry interpretation