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
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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
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The Art of the Memoir
Community Bookstore, Brooklyn NY 2/2, 7pm
with Jason Diamond, Leigh Stein, Mira Ptacin, & Michele Filgate
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AWP Conference
Washington DC 2/8-2/12
several panels and events (please see schedule)
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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
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The Rally Reading Series
Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY 2/23 6:30pm
with Leland Cheuk and Tracy O’Neill
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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-
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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
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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
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Evergreen Review Re-launch Party
BIZARRE Bushwick, Brooklyn 3/4 8pm
with Dale Peck and guests
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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
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University of Maine Series
Orono, Maine 3/30 events & times to be announced
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UMass Amherst MFA Graduate Student Organization for Poets & Writers
Amherst Books, MA 4/14 7pm
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“All About Books, ” NYU Journalism
Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, 7th Floor Commons, 20 Cooper Square, NYC 4/24 6pm
with
- Allison Lorentzen, executive editor at Viking Books and founding editor at n+1
- Jim Rutman, agent at Sterling Lord Literistic
- Nikil Saval, author of Cubed and editor at n+1
(moderated by Sylvan Solloway, director of career services at NYU Journalism)
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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
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Vermont Studio Center Visiting Writer
Johnson, VT 5/28-2/2
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Yale Writers Conference
Session 1 Fiction Faculty
New Haven, CT 6/3-6/13
http://summer.yale.edu/academics/yale-writers-conference
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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