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Patchwork Literary Salon: K-Ming Chang, Megan Milks, Maeve Barry

April 22, 2024

Patchwork, a feminist literary salon, brings together writers across genres and stages in their careers to create a colorful tapestry of radical, experimental, and intersectional feminist conversation and community. Join us monthly for readings, lively discussion, drink specials, books for sale, and an opportunity to mingle and connect with fellow feminist writers and readers!

DATE: Wednesday, May 8
TIME: 7:00pm doors; 7:30 start
LOCATION: SISTERS, 900 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11238

Patchwork is produced by the Feminist Press, the world’s longest-running feminist publisher. Founded in 1970 to diversify the literary canon, FP is proud to publish books that ignite movements and social transformation, and works to create a world where everyone recognizes themselves in a book. With Patchwork, Feminist Press aims to bring together a wide variety of writers to create an energetic, exciting space for feminist and independent literary community in New York.

🪡 ABOUT OUR READERS 🪡

K-MING CHANG is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize winner. She is the author of Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), Bone House (Bull City Press, 2021), Gods of Want (One World, 2022), and Organ Meats (One World, 2023). Her books have been New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selections, included on the New York Times Notable Books list, and considered for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She can be found at kmingchang.com.

MEGAN MILKS is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, named a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and Slug and Other Stories, both published by Feminist Press, as well as Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, published in Instar Books’ Remember the Internet series. With Marisa Crawford, they coedited We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers.

MAEVE BARRY is a writer living in Brooklyn. She has stories in/forthcoming from FENCE, the Sewanee Review, Post Road Magazine, Sleepingfish and other places. She is working on her first novel.

Patchwork is hosted by NADINE SANTORO. Nadine Santoro is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She works as the Publicity & Events Coordinator at the Feminist Press, leads retreats, and teaches on creative attention. Nadine is the co-host of the podcast Thinking Straight, a lesbian anthropological dig into the world of heterosexual romance novels, and writes The Doorway, a biweekly snail-mail newsletter. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.

Logo and graphics by Neeti Banerji. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Hive Mind Books. This programming is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.


Bodymuck: Three Readings

Readings start at 8pm

Full dinner menu available, seating is first come first serve

VIDA ADAMCZEWSKI is an award-winning disabled writer. Her lyric play, AMPHIBIAN, was commissioned for the Play Mill Festival in 2021 at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington. IN 2022, Vida received the UEA New Forms Award from the National Writing Centre for AMPHIBIAN. Vida performs regularly at live poetry events across London and is the founder of Yer Bard, a monthly poetry event in South East London. Her writing appears in The London Magazine, Mslexia, Document Journal, Ambit and Vittles. Vida’s debut collection of writing, Amphibian & Other Bodies, was published by Toothgrinder Press in November 2023.

CAOILINN HUGHES is the author of The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. She was recently the Oscar Wilde Centre Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.

YASMINE SEALE is a writer and artist whose work includes poetry, criticism, translation and printmaking. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton, 2021), described by the New Yorker as “an electric new translation”, and Something Evergreen Called Life, a collection of poems by the Sudanese writer and activist Rania Mamoun (Action Books, 2022). She is the co-author of Agitated Air (Tenement Press, 2022), a collaboration with Robin Moger responding to the visionary poet and metaphysician Ibn Arabi. She is currently a fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She also teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University.

 



Breadcrumbs Reading Series 5 YRS

February 19, 2020

https://www.facebook.com/events/546895792703663/

Join us on Wednesday, February 26th for our next Brooklyn reading! We’ll be celebrating our 5 year anniversary with a new batch of readers who have never read with us before. ♥

Poetry and fiction performers are:
Zev Torres
Eileen Ramos
Kofi Antwi
Alexandra Watson
Nate Waggoner
John Paul Infante
Matthew D. Rowe
Tsahai Makeda
Isabel Anreus
Matt Figgz

SISTERS BKLYN, 900 Fulton St
Near Atlantic Terminal

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Breadcrumbs Mag is an online literary & arts blog that acts as an exercise in motivation and shared inspiration, a chance to create when otherwise your professional life might not give you reason to, an outlet to plant the seeds of an idea and watch where they can go — through your own mind or someone else’s.