LITERATURE Events This Week HALLOWEEN SERIAL KILLER MYSTERY. Reader's Oasis. 3400 E. Speedway Blvd. 319-7887. Local author Richard Charles Hoyt reads from Thrust Home on Thursday, October 31 at 7 p.m. HAND SURGEON TALES. Reader's Oasis. 3400 E. Speedway Blvd. 319-7887. On Friday, November 1 at 7 p.m., local hand surgeon Arnold Arem, M.D., discusses his work and reads from his new book, Our Hands: A Hand Surgeon's Tales of the Body's Most Exquisite Instrument. LAMPLIGHT READING SERIES. Reader's Oasis. 3400 E. Speedway Blvd. 319-7887. Featured poets include Dlyn Fairfax Parra and David Mitchell and reading starts at 4 p.m. on Sunday, November 3. Open mic follows. POETS JAM #3. Land of the Pharoahs. 274 E. Congress St. Featured poets are Justice from Philly and Enjoube from San Francisco plus performances by Cosmic Touch on Saturday, November 2 at 8 p.m. Open mic follows. Call 808-0798 for details. RAPID-FIRE SCARY READING. Biblio. 222 E. Congress St. 624-8222. Reading starts at 7 p.m. on Friday, November 1 with MFA students from the UA. Celebrating All Saints Day and Halloween, they will adorn costumes and read from recent work. Free. UNCORSETING JANE AUSTEN. Westin La Paloma. 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. The Southern Arizona Region of the Jane Austen Society features a panel discussion about the author's work in contemporary contexts on Saturday, November 2 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is $28 and includes lunch. Call 325-3935 for details. VICTORIA ZACKHEIM READS. Reader's Oasis. 3400 E. Speedway Blvd. 319-7887. Reading from her new novel, The Bone Weaver, the author blends history into a story about three generations of women struggling through shetl life. Reading begins at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 6. She also appears at the Jewish Community Center Book Fair on Thursday, November 7. WOMEN AND CREATIVITY. Antigone Books. 411 N. Fourth Ave. 792-3715. Diane Ealy, author of The Woman's Book of Creativity and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spirituality in the Workplace, reads on Friday, November 1 at 7 p.m. Announcements ARIZONA MYSTERY WRITERS. HomeTown Buffet. 5101 N. Oracle Road. Meetings are on the second Saturday monthly from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Professionals from related fields share techniques. Beginners are welcome. $14 includes lunch. Call 544-4173 for reservations. CREATIVE WRITING INTENSIVE. By Heart is a workshop with poet and teacher T. Begley, co-author with Olga Broumas of Sappho's Gymnasium and co-translator of work by poet Odysseas Elytis. Begins Friday, November 1, 6 to 10 p.m. and continues Saturday, November 2, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday, November 3, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Cost is $250. For information, call Laura at 579-8043. ONE SHOT OPEN MIC. Epic Cafe. 745 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6844. To enlighten, entertain, impress, offend or disgust. Sign in on Thursdays from 5 to 7 p.m. Readings begin at 8 p.m. POETRY CONTEST. Win up to $1,000 in the Hollywood Famous Poet's Society contest. Send one poem of 21 lines or less to Free Poetry Contest, 1626 N. Wilcox Ave, #126, Hollywood, CA 90028. Deadline for entering is November 9. POETRY SUBMISSIONS. The Laughing Dogis accepting poetry submissions. Send up to three poems (no more than 30 lines each) with a SASE to: The Laughing Dog, 4740 E. Sunrise Dr. M.B.E. #326, Tucson, AZ 85718. No previously published poems or simultaneous submissions, please. POETRY WORKSHOPS. UA Poetry Center. 1216 N. Cherry Ave. 626-3765. Letting poetic forms free your verse is the subject of the next class taught by Emily Schaeffer. An introduction to formal poetry for beginners to intermediate poets takes place on Thursdays beginning November 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. and lasting for 6 weeks. Experiment writing villanelles, sestinas, pantoums, ghazals, sonnets and haikus. Fee is $150 plus $2 material fee. Call to register. REGIONAL POETRY CONTEST. Students and adults from Arizona and New Mexico are invited to enter this free contest. Over $2500 in prizes awarded to poets and $500 in grants to schools. Submit one original poem, 21 lines or less. The deadline is December 5. Submit your poem at www.poeticpower.com or mail to : Creative Communication, 90 N. 100 E., Logan, UT 84321. Call 435-713-4411 for more info. ROCKS AND WRITING WOMEN'S WORKSHOP. Indoor rock climbing (or watching) plus writing, improvisation, storytelling, theater games, drumming, a slumber party and more takes place on Saturday, November 2 beginning at 10:30 a.m. Hosted by Bloodhut Productions. Call 982-7540 for details.