Ditmas Lit Reading Series
Wednesday, July 26th
8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Ditmas Lit is a free reading series dedicated
to showcasing a diverse range of established and emerging writers in all genres. Four Brooklyn writers will read from their works at Hinterlands Bar on
Wednesday, July 26th, from 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Readings take place at Hinterlands on the third Wednesday of every month.
From Ditmas Lit:
Our July reading is HOT HOT HOT! Join us for readings from Rebecca Bengal (STRANGE HOURS), Marissa Castrigno (Barren, PANK Daily), Christopher Hermelin (So Many Damn Books), & LaToya Jordan (TO THE WOMAN IN THE PINK HAT).Rebecca Bengal is the author of the new collection Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists (Aperture) and a new short story, "Blood Harmony," in Kristine Potter: Dark Waters (also Aperture).Her fiction, essays, and other nonfiction have been published by the Paris Review, the New York Times, Southwest Review, Oxford American, Bookforum, Criterion Collection, and Vogue, among others. Originally from western North Carolina, she received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and lives in Brooklyn.Marissa Castrigno is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Barren, PANK Daily, Kissing Dynamite, and others; she was a 2021 Humor Finalist for the Missouri Review's Miller Audio Prize.She's currently Associate Editor Shenandoah and Nonfiction Editor at The Adroit Journal, and has previously worked with Oxford American and Ecotone. She earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at UNC Wilmington, and holds a BA in English from Wesleyan University.Christopher Hermelin is the mixologist and host of the podcast So Many Damn Books, has typewritten thousands of personalized short stories for strangers under the moniker The Roving Typist, and once had an inspirational quote printed on the side of a Starbucks cup. He’s still paying off the MFA he got in Fiction from the New School, and lives in Brooklyn.LaToya Jordan is a writer from Brooklyn, NY. Her novella, To the Woman in the Pink Hat, was published in March by Aqueduct Press. Her short fiction, poetry, and journalism have appeared in Anomaly, Literary Mama, MER, Raising Mothers, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, and more.Her flash story “Offering” was featured in Best Small Fictions 2021 and named Wigleaf’s Top 50. Her essay “The Zig Zag Mother,” appears in My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After and another essay, “After Striking a Fixed Object,” published by The Manifest-Station, was notable in Best American Essays 2016.She is also the author of a poetry chapbook, Thick-Skinned Sugar, and is currently working on a speculative short story collection about Black girls and women being mothered, mothering, or wanting to mother. She has an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Follow her on Instagram @latoyajordanwriter.
Location
Hinterlands Bar
739 Church Avenue
between E. 7th and E. 8th streetsKensington, Brooklyn
(718) 633-0550
hinterlandsbar@gmail.com