For the last few years, Vol.1 Brooklyn has been pleased to take part in Popsickle, an annual literary event bringing together readers and literary organizations from throughout the city. This year’s edition will take place at The Living Gallery (1094 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY) on the weekend of June 20th and 21st. Representing Vol.1 Brooklyn will be: Kashana Cauley Mensah Demary Ryan Sartor
If your taste in books favors ravaged landscapes, troubling futures, and oft-unsettling commentary on society, it’s a good time to be a reader. And as dystopian fiction goes through more and more permutations, we wanted to get some of our favorite writers together to discuss it. This panel will explore the current wave of dystopian fiction, how it mixes with other genres, where it’s going, and what it says about literature and society in general. Our panel will consist of: […]
This Must Be the Place is the first book from Sean H. Doyle. It’ll be released this May on Civil Coping Mechanisms, and we’re pleased to announce that we’ll be hosting a release party for it on Friday, May 15th at WORD Brooklyn. There will be readings from Sean H. Doyle, Natalie Eilbert, and D. Foy. Following the readings, Sean will be interviewed by Natalie and Jordan Ginsberg (of Hazlitt).
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be hosting Halle Butler this March at Unnameable Books. Her debut novel Jillian is one of our favorites of the year to date. Cari Luna has called it “a wry, smart portrait of two women set on separate courses of self-destruction.” Here’s one interview where Butler discusses the novel. For this event, Butler will be joined by a quartet of acclaimed writers; reading will be: Halle Butler Susan Hope Lanier Mike Lopez Sean H. Doyle Robb Todd
“[L]et us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.” – Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address Please join Words After War for a night of storytelling dedicated to service members, veterans, and military families at Housing Works Bookstore in New York City on February 25, 2015 at 7 pm. The evening’s writing will investigate issues of illness, injury, disability, and […]
For the latest installment in our 3-Minute Story series, we’ll be turning to a subject that has fueled many a novel, essay, short story, and song: love. There have been great works written about love in all of its forms (and in its absence), and the group of readers we’ve assembled for this one will explore numerous all aspects of it.
Words After War and Vol. 1 Brooklyn seek submissions for fiction stories and nonfiction essays (no longer than 2500 words) that engage topics of disability, illness, injury, caretaking, and healing in veterans and military families. We are looking for powerful storytellers that evoke vivid and meaningful experiences of the body via the written word. The winning author will join three other established writers—on-stage, virtually, or by proxy—for a night of storytelling dedicated to service members, veterans, and military families at […]
To close out this year of events, we’re happy to be co-presenting a reading featuring a quintet of writers from all over the US (and, in one case, Iceland.) Reading will be: Sean Madigan Hoen Justin Taylor Katherine Faw Morris Amanda Shapiro Andri Magnason Daniella Gitlin will host. This event will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 5th. Mellow Pages Library is located at 56 Bogart Street in Brooklyn. Facebook RSVP here.