Ditmas Lit Reading Series
Wednesday, June 22nd, 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Ditmas Lit is a free monthly reading series in (and around) Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging and established writers. Sarah Bridgins and Lena Valencia are its hosts.
This month's edition of Ditmas Lit will feature authors Rachel Cantor, Megan Cummins, Jake Matkov, and Yoojin Na. They'll be reading at Hinterlands Bar on Wednesday, June 22nd, from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
From Ditmas Lit:
Rachel Cantor is the author of two novels: A Highly Unlikely Scenario (Melville House 2014) and Good on Paper (Melville House 2016).
More than two dozen of her stories have been published in venues such as the Paris Review, One Story, Ninth Letter, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. They have also been anthologized five times, nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and short-listed by Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, and Best of the Workshops.
She has written essays about fiction for National Public Radio, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and other publications and has received fellowships to numerous residencies, both in the U.S. and abroad.
She lives one block away in Brooklyn, New York.
Megan Cummins is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan (BA), UC Davis (MA), and Rutgers-Newark (MFA); and her work has appeared in A Public Space, Guernica, One Teen Story, Ninth Letter, Okey-Panky, and elsewhere.
Her debut story collection, If the Body Allows It (Nebraska), was awarded the 2019 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection.
She is the managing editor of A Public Space and serves on the governing board of the Bare Life Review.
Her next project is a YA novel called Aerosol.
Jake Matkov is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (Poetry, 2017) and Queer/Art/Mentorship (Literature, 2015).
Recent publications include glitterMOB, Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight, and Peach Mag, which nominated his poem "Battery Fright" for a 2020 Pushcart Prize.
He lives Brooklyn with his two cats, Milo and Rhoda, and works in the Diversity and Inclusion office at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Yoojin Na is a physician, a writer, and MFA student at Columbia. Her works have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Joyland, and others.
Jake Matkov photo by Felicita "Felli" Maynard for the 2020 Queer|Art Community Portrait Project.
Location
Hinterlands Bar
739 Church Avenue
between E. 7th and E. 8th streets
Kensington, Brooklyn
(718) 633-0550
hinterlandsbar @ gmail.com
