Ditmas Lit
Wednesday, September 25th
8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The monthly reading series Ditmas Lit is dedicated to
showcasing established and emerging writers in all genres.
Four writers
will read from their work at this month's installment of Ditmas Lit on Wednesday, September 25th, from 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
From Ditmas Lit
Ditmas Lit is back, and in our new beautiful home, The Urbane Arts Club! Doors open at 7:30PM, show starts at 8PM.Colin Dickey is the author of five books of nonfiction, including Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, and, most recently, Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy.Ananda Lima is a poet, translator, and fiction writer born in Brasília, Brazil, now living in Chicago, IL. She's the author of the poetry collection Mother/land, winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Witness, and elsewhere. She has been awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. Craft: Stories I wrote for the Devil is her fiction debut.Lena Valencia is the author of the short story collection Mystery Lights (Tin House Books, 2024). Her fiction has appeared in BOMB, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, Epiphany, the anthology Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation grant and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is the managing editor and director of educational programming at One Story and the co-host of the reading series Ditmas Lit.Olivia Wolfgang-Smith is the author of Glassworks, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the forthcoming Mutual Interest. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Florida State University and lives in Brooklyn with her partner.
Location
Urbane Arts Club
1016 Beverley Road
between Coney Island Avenue and Stratford Road
Ditmas Park, Brooklyn