The phrase "attending readings" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of being present at literary readings, poetry readings, or similar events where texts are read aloud to an audience.
Example: "I enjoy attending readings at the local bookstore to discover new authors and hear their work."
Alternatives: "participating in readings" or "going to readings".
She compares attending readings to getting off the escalator at Selfridges.
He moved in with Mayer in the mid-eighties, when he was in his twenties and the children were still small, after attending readings at the Poetry Project.
At the end of the poem, the bar erupts in to a chant which, in all my years of attending readings, I'm still waiting to experience first-hand: "More poems!
"When you read there, you're aware that just about every writer you've ever admired has gone before you," said the playwright Tony Kushner, who began attending readings at the Y as an undergraduate at Columbia in the 1970s.
Not long after his arrival in Paris, he was asked to take over from Ford Madox Ford the writing of The Tribune's literary column, "Rambles Through Literary Paris". During interviews and by attending readings, he met everyone -- James Joyce, Francois Mauriac, Andre Breton, Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis, Andre Gide -- and quickly became not only an observer but an actor in the Paris scene.
They have established themselves as clubhouses for Toronto's creatives — abuzz at all hours with locals attending readings and opining in discussions on topics like "Is There a Toronto Aesthetic?" To take a room at either hotel is, essentially, to go native.
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In addition to housing 35,000 volumes of poetry, "we need space to nurture poets," said Lee Briccetti, its executive director, "poets who come in to write, read the books, attend readings and workshops on writing and publishing poetry".
Sometimes 50 or 60 people attend readings, which are free and typically held in libraries.
Mr. Lally said he attends readings whenever he is asked, mostly because they help him sell books.
And guests can attend readings and acting classes with graduates of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art or sign up for lectures and seminars overseen by Oxford University.
