Events/News

Winter/Spring 2017 Events

February 21st, 2017

 

Literary Death Match

The Bell House, Brooklyn, 1/24, 7pm

with Roy Wood, Jr., Heben Nigatu, Akilah Hughes, Carson Kressley, Ashley C. Ford, Daniel Alarcón, & host Adrian Todd Zuniga

Dear Reader Live

ACE Hotel, Manhattan NY 1/29, 7pm

with other fellows/residents Tracy O’Neill, Alice Sola Kim, Jami Attenberg, Tyehimba Jess and Ioannis Pappos

https://www.acehotel.com/calendar/newyork/dear-reader-live-number-four

The Art of the Memoir 

Community Bookstore, Brooklyn NY 2/2, 7pm

with Jason Diamond, Leigh Stein, Mira Ptacin, & Michele Filgate

AWP Conference

Washington DC 2/8-2/12

several panels and events (please see schedule)

Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living anthology launch

PowerHouse Arena, Brooklyn 2/15 7pm

with editor Manjula Martin, Leslie Jamison, Emily Gould, and Maud Newton

The Rally Reading Series

Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY 2/23 6:30pm

with Leland Cheuk and Tracy O’Neill

Selected Shorts: A Celebration of Clarice Lispector

Symphony Space, Manhattan New York 3/1 7:30pm

Host Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story), Lynn Cohen (Sex and the City), Kate Burton (Scandal), Carolina Ravassa (The Affair), and more perform stories by one of Brazil’s greatest modern writers. With commentary by novelist and Lispector translator Idra Novey (Ways to Disappear) and essayist and fiction writer Porochista Khakpour (The Last Illusion)

http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/9307/Literature/selected-shorts-a-celebration-of-clarice-lispector-

Melissa Febos Abandon Me launch and dance party

ACE Hotel, Manhattan New York 3/2 7pm

with Melissa Febos, Tara Clancy, Nick Flynn, Amy Gall, Hafizah Geter, Syreeta McFadden, Shelly Oria and Gregory Pardlo (short readings on the theme of abandonment)

http://www.acehotel.com/calendar/newyork/ace-word-febos-abandon-me

Women of Letters NYC literary salon

Joe’s Pub, Manhattan New York 3/3 9:30pm

with host Sofija Stefanovic and Lauren Duca, Ophira Eisenberg, Jo Firestone, Nancy Whang, Ivy Woolf-Turk

(Proceeds will benefit the Millay Colony for the Arts.)

http://www.womenofletters.nyc/#events

Evergreen Review Re-launch Party

BIZARRE Bushwick, Brooklyn 3/4 8pm

with Dale Peck and guests

Bad Advice from Bad Women Series

The Wing, Manhattan NY 3/16 7pm

with Lori Adelman, Lauren Duca, Katie Kitamura, Morgan Parker, and Vanessa Willoughby

http://www.tigerbeepress.com/bafbw.html

University of Maine Series

Orono, Maine 3/30 events & times to be announced

UMass Amherst MFA Graduate Student Organization for Poets & Writers

Amherst Books, MA 4/14 7pm

“All About Books, ” NYU Journalism

Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, 7th Floor Commons, 20 Cooper Square, NYC 4/24 6pm

with

(moderated by Sylvan Solloway, director of career services at NYU Journalism)

City of Asylum International Fiction Series 

Alphabet City, Pittsburgh, PA 4/28 7pm

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Hudson Valley Writers Resist

Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale NY 5/20 2pm

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Writer

Johnson, VT 5/28-2/2

Yale Writers Conference

Session 1 Fiction Faculty

New Haven, CT 6/3-6/13

http://summer.yale.edu/academics/yale-writers-conference

NYPL Author Talks

“Periodically Speaking: Immigrant Voices” with Nicole Dennis-Benn,
Esther Lin, Jyothi Natarajan

New York, NY 6/13 6pm

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2017/06/13/periodically-speaking-immigrant-voices