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WRITERS READ FROM THEIR WORKS IN THIS FREE READING SERIES

Ditmas Lit Reading Series

Wednesday, October 25th

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 writers will read from their works at Hinterlands Bar on Wednesday, October 25th, 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:

Celebrate spooky season with scary good readings by our October authors.

Jennifer Baker is a publishing professional of 20 years, the creator/host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, and a faculty member of the MFA program in Creative Nonfiction at Bay Path University and a writing consultant at Baruch College.

Formerly a contributing editor to Electric Literature, she received a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship and a Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant for Nonfiction Literature. Her essay "What We Aren't (or the Ongoing Divide)" was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2018. In 2019, she was named Publishers Weekly Superstar for her contributions to inclusion and representation in publishing.

Jennifer is also the editor of the all PoC-short story anthology Everyday People: The Color of Life (Atria Books, 2018) and the author of the YA novel Forgive Me Not (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2023). She has volunteered with organizations such as We Need Diverse Books and I, Too Arts Collective, and spoken widely on topics of inclusion, the craft of writing/editing, podcasting, and the inner workings of the publishing industry. Her fiction, nonfiction, and criticism has appeared in various print and online publications. Her website is: jennifernbaker.com.
Photo: Gaby Deimeke

Originally from the Hudson Valley in New York, Thea Brown is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently Loner Forensics (Northwestern University Press), which came out in May of this year.

Poems can be found in Oversound, Denver Quarterly, Pinwheel, the Iowa Review, LitHub, Vinyl, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore and teaches creative writing at the George Washington University.

Madison Jamar is a writer from Columbus, Ohio currently living and working in New York City. Her essays have appeared in Catapult, 68to05, Black Lipstick, The Common and more.

Uzodinma Okehi: A shadowy flight into the incomprehensible, sub-literary world of a dude, who does not exist.