June 8-14th
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Be sure to check out the Poets & Writers event calendar for listings of fiction and nonfiction readings in the city!
June 8 – Franklin Park Reading Series: Summer kickoff
FRANKLIN PARK BAR AND BEER GARDEN
618 St. Johns Place (between Franklin and Classon Avenues)
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Time: 8pm-10pm
We’re kicking off our summer season with a blockbuster reading featuring novelists Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings), Shya Scanlon (The Guild of Saint Cooper), and Mary-Beth Hughes (The Loved Ones), short fiction writer Jai Chakrabarti (Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Coffin Factory), and poets Adam Fitzgerald (The Late Parade) and Angel Nafis (BlackGirl Mansion).
The event features three contributors from the acclaimed Brooklyn-based magazine A Public Space — Mary-Beth Hughes, Adam Fitzgerald, and Jai Chakrabarti. Visit apublicspace.org for outstanding fiction, poetry, essays, and art.
Admission is FREE, beers $4, and we’ll have an awesome raffle for our authors’ books and A Public Space subscriptions and magazines.
Click here for Facebook Event Page and more information on the hosted authors.
June 10th – Women of Letters
Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater
425 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10003
Time: 7pm
Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire bring their bestselling Australian literary salon, Women of Letters to New York as a monthly event and celebration of a diverse range of strong female talent. New York’s best and brightest writers, entertainers and artists perform a reading of a letter they’ve written to the theme of the evening. Past guests included: MOLLY RINGWALD, EDIE FALCO, MARTHA WAINWRIGHT, JD SAMPSON, KRISTIN HERSH, SARA BENINCASA and MORE.
Event tickets are $20. Click here for event site.
June 11 – Women of Color Writers’ Reading at Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble
267 7th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Time: 6:30pm
This event is free.