NEXT EVENT ON APRIL 10: FICTION x THREE with Sheila Kohler, Barbara Ensor and Martin Kleinman

BROOKLYN READING WORKS is located at the Old Stone House in Park Slope. Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope. Take the F-train to Fourth Avenue or Union Street and walk. The R train to Union Street. Directions are here. For information or questions: 718-288-4290 (if you get lost or need better directions).

The Old Stone House is an old stone house inside JJ Byrne Park a small Park on Fifth Avenue and 3rd Street in Park Slope. For dinner try Belleville, Stone Park Cafe, Perch Cafe, Al Di La, LaVilla to name just a few.

FICTION SHEILA KOHLER, BARBARA ENSOR, MARTIN KLEINMAN Acclaimed South African author SHEILA KOHLER is the author of many novels including, The Perfect Place, Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness, Crossways, Children of Pithiviers and Cracks. About Crossways, J. M. Coetzee: There is a territory—fictional and psychological—that Sheila Kohler has now marked as her own. I am full of admiration." Kirkus Review: August 15, 2004 "Subtle and sharp, a marvelous portrait of the inner lives of two people trapped in an alien world..." San Francisco Chronicle: October "The hypnotic book, a combination of domestic drama and psychological thriller...hinting at unsettling secrets and later revealing them." O Magazine: November 2004 "Sheila Kohler's novel Crossways is the gripping, often terrifying story of a man who can't suppress his violent impulses" The wildly creative BARBARA ENSOR is the author of Cinderella (As If You Didn't Already Know The Story) and Thumbalina, Tiny Runaway Bride. MARTIN KLEINMAN is a fiction writer who lives in Brooklyn. Read his essay, Borough of Churches, Borough of Heart.

MAY 8, 2008 at 8 p.m.
BROOKLYN BLOGFEST at the BROOKLYN LYCEUM (4th Avenue and President Street in Park Slope) RMINED)

JUNE 12, 2008 at 8 p.m.
ANNUAL READING OF THE 808 UNION WRITER'S GROUP

PREVIOUSLY AT BRW:

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007 at 8 p.m.

RUDY DELSON with his new book, "MAYNARD AND JENNICA."

OCTOBER 18, 2007 at 8 p.m.

BROKEN LAND: POEMS OF BROOKLYN edited by Julia Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell. Michael Tyrell. Poets:  Phillis Levin, Andrea Baker, Patricia Spears Jones, and Tom Sleigh.

NOVEMBER 15, 2007 at 8 p.m.

POETRY PUNCH
LYNN CHANDHOK, CHERYL B, ZAEDRYN MEADE, MICHELE MADIGAN SOMERVILLE and Marietta Abrams.

Lynn Chandhok's book "The View from Zero Bridge" was published in September 2007.  Her poetry has appeared in The New Republic, Tin House, The Antioch Review, The Missouri Review, and Sewanee Theological Review.

Cheryl Burke a.k.a. Cheryl B., is writer, editor and literary series curator from NYC.

Zaedryn Meade is a queer butch writer working for subversion and joy. She has produced two chapbooks and one CD, and her work has been included in various anthologies and literary magazines, including The Seattle Review, Monkey Bicycle, Our Truths, Benthology, Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 and 2007, and others. 

Michele Madigan Somerville is the author of Wisegal from Ten Pell Books. Her verse has appeared in Mudfish, Puerto del Sol and Hanging Loose. She was the 2000 First Place Winner of the WB Yeats Society's poetry competition. She has a blog called Poetry Fresh Daily

Marietta Abrams, is a Brooklyn poet who runs the Go Green Initiative at PS 321.

DECEMBER 13, 2007 at 8 p.m.

JAZZ WRITING, WRITING JAZZ

ROY NATHANSON founded the Jazz Passengers and is a renowned jazz artist, spoken word poet and teacher of music at The Institute for Collaborative Education.

JASON WEISS will read from a new novel, Faces By the Wayside.  He is the author of Conversations with Steve Lacy and Writing At Risk: Interviews in Paris with Uncommon Writers (University of Iowa Press, 1991).

JANUARY 17, 2008 at 8 p.m.

PLAY READING
Side Street: a new play by Rosemary Moore.

JANUARY 31, 2008 at 8 p.m.

WORD GIRLS with poets published by Word Tech: BARBARA CROOKER, MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY, KIM GARCIA, ERIN MURPHY. OPEN MIC TO FOLLOW.

BARBARA CROOKER is the author of more than 575 poems published in over 1675 anthologies, books,  and magazines  She is the recipient of the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2004 Pennsylvania Center for the Book Poetry in Public Places Poster Competition, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, the 2003 "April Is the Cruelest Month" Award from Poets & Writers, the 2000 New Millenium Writing's Y2K competition, the 1997 Karamu Poetry Award, and others, including three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, twelve residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a prize from the NEA. A twenty-six time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Awards for her part in the audio version of the popular anthology, Grow Old Along With Me--The Best is Yet to Be (Papier Mache Press.

MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY'S collection of poetry, Fishing Secrets of the Dead, was a Word Press First Book Selection in 2005. Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Spillway, Bayou, Isotope, Gulf Stream, Margie, California Quarterly, the South Carolina Review, River Oak Review, and the Delmarva Quarterly as well as in the Literary House Press anthology entitled Here On The Chester. She is a contributing editor for Hunger Mountain and a book reviewer for Poetry International. She is also a musician who has performed in the U.S. and Ireland.

KIM GARCIA lives and writes in Boston. Her poetry collection Madonna         Magdalene was published by Turning Point books in the fall of 2006.         Her work has appeared in many publications and she is the recipient of an AWP Intro Writing Award, a Hambidge Fellowship and an Oregon Individual Artist Grant.         

ERIN MURPHY'S poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Field, Nimrod, The Paterson Literary Review, Literal Latte, Kalliope, and elsewhere. She received her M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she was a Poetry Fellow. Her awards, include the 2003 National Writers Union Poetry Award judged by Donald Hall; a Pushcart Prize nomination; and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award. She lives in Pennsylvania and teaches at Penn State-Altoona.

 

THE MEMOIR-A-THON is a marathon reading of memoir work. Each writer will read for 6 minutes (strongly enforced) so that it will be a quick paced and fun event with Paula Bernstein, Marian Fontana, Nica Lalli, Branka Ruzak, Elyse Schein, Carla Thompson, and Mary Warren and MORE...

PAULA BERNSTEIN & ELYSE SCHEIN are the authors of Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited,

MARIAN FONTANA is the author of A Widow's Walk, a memoir of 9/11. 

NICA LALLI is the author of Nothing; Something to Believe In, a memoir of growing up an athiest.

BRANKA RUZAK has been a writer, producer and editor for commercial and corporate advertising who spent many childhood hours listening to her father's stories and playing Croatian folk music. Always an avid traveler,her studies in Hindusthani classical music, as well as her enthusiasm for Indian novels, textiles and a good cup of chai have taken her to India and other destinations. She is currently working on a collection of essays about family, identity, culture and travel.

MARY WARREN is a freelance writer who teaches English at a local college. SHe has two blogs, Mrs. Cleavage's Diary and Eat, Drink, Memory.

CARLA THOMPSON writes a blog, "The Ride: Life Lesson for Those Who Can't Draw a Straight Line", which features her acerbic and sometimes witty musings on everything from politics to pop culture. Carla has also written a variety of articles for Women's eNews, Black Enterprise, AOL Black Voices and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution among other publications.  

KIM LARSEN'S feature story "Bad Blood," which reports on the reintroduction of DDT in the fight against malaria in Africa, is the cover story in the winter 2008 edition of OnEarth magazine. Her essay, "When the Middle is the End," about the untimely death of a close friend, appears this spring in the essay anthology, "The Oldest We've Ever Been," published by University of Arizona Press.  
 

MARCH 27, 2008 at 8 p.m.

FEBURARY 28, 2008 at 8 p.m.

INNER VOICES OUT LOUD: Readings from Regina McBride's Inner Lives Developing Characters intensive workshops.

APRIL 10, 2008 at 8 p.m.