Come celebrate the thriving Crown Heights literary scene with a reading and mingle hosted by four of the neighborhood’s most exciting arts organizations: The Franklin Park and Big Words, Etc. reading series. World Trans Forum Open Mic, and book-centered garden salon Hypothetical Books. Hear poetry and prose from local authors Simeon Marsalis, Sarah Madges, Cat Fitzpatrick, and Rachel Allen and enjoy happy hour specials at popular area bar and beer garden Franklin Park. Free Admission!

Location: Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden, 766 Franklin Avenue, 618 St Johns Place, 11238

https://www.franklinparkbrooklyn.com/reading-series/

I am hosting Elissa Bassist’s book party! There will be a life-changing reading, an intense conversation with Caitlin Kunkel (New Erotica for Feminists), an AMA with the audience, a soft dance party, a possible séance, and a guarantee to be home by 10pm. Drink and book purchases encouraged!!

Please come for a reading, a conversation with Jen Spyra (Big Time, Late Night with Stephen Colbert, The Onion), an AMA, a dance-off, photo booths, and some light witchcraft. Drink and book purchases encouraged.

Formerly known as the Sunset Soirée, the newly rebranded Birches Lit Fest is now a day-long literary extravaganza that includes a silent auction, live music, food trucks, wine tasting, and of course, powerful readings in a gorgeous barn setting.

Join us for this special summer celebration on Sunday, July 21, the last day of the Rhinebeck residency. It will feature readings from the Seventh Wave’s four residents and from Mickie Meinhardt and Sarah Madges of  Same Page Reading Series along with three of their series’ guest readers: Sincere Brooks, Aditi Natasha Kini, and Aurvi Sharma. New this year, the Lit Fest has been expanded so that events such as a children’s reading will kick off earlier in the day, at noon, with featured readings beginning at 4 p.m. and wrapping up by 7 p.m., so that guests have ample time to make their way back into the city if need be. There will be food and drinks provided by local sponsors, and live music to enjoy in the fresh upstate air.

In collaboration with Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics, Hafizah Geter, Glynn Pogue, and Sarah Madges will be taking the Pete's Candy Store stage on Thursday, June 6th!

The Rally continues its season with Guernica Magazine presenting three leading literary warriors of the resistance. Come see our terrific slate of readers perform, and offer them your questions, comments, and reactions. We're the heart of a march in the body of a reading series—a whole new helping of overtly political discourse.

Pete's Candy Store is located at 709 Lorimer Street in Williamsburg. Closest trains are the L/G at Lorimer/Metropolitan.

Check out more about our terrific lineup for this month's event:

Hafizah Geter
Born in Zaria, Nigeria, Hafizah Geter‘s poetry and prose have appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Narrative Magazine, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Longreads, among others. She is an editor for Little A and TOPPLE Books from Amazon Publishing and serves on the poetry committee for the Brooklyn Book Festival.

Glynn Pogue
Glynn Pogue is a 27-year-old writer from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. A graduate of The New School’s MFA program, Glynn has written for National Geographic Traveler, Vogue, Guernica and Jezebel, among others. Glynn is currently at work on a collection of essays on race, class, identity and traveling while black, topics she regularly sounds off on on her podcast, #BlackGirlsTexting. Follow her moves on Instagram @bedstuybrat, and find more of her work at glynnpogue.com.

​Sarah Madges
​Sarah Madges is a Brooklyn-based writer and copy editor at Guernica with an MFA from The New School, where she won the 2016 Chapbook Contest for Nonfiction. She has written for The Rumpus, The Seventh Wave, A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM Press 2017), and the Village Voice (RIP). When she isn't writing about rape culture, she co-runs Same Page Reading Series every second Wednesday at KGB Bar, and plays guitar in her band, Jury Duty.