In early 2023, Brian Gresko, Sara Lippmann, and Amy Shearn co-founded the Writing Co-Lab , a writing cooperative. We spoke to Brian about founding the organization and what it means for students and teachers.
The Reading Series Census checks in with Side Quest, a speculative and fantasy focused reading series.
We talk with Catherine LaSota, founder of The Resort, a writing community based in Queens but available online and discuss balancing work, life, and writing, the challenges and benefits of building writing community, and how writing together helps make us all better writers.
In the latest Reading series census, we head out to Ridgewood, Queens.
The New York City Reading Series Census is an ongoing project to catalogue the contemporary literary scene. Any reading series curator in the New York area can take the survey here.
The Reading Series Census checks in with the Rogue Loon Reading Series in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The Reading Series Census crosses the Hudson to New York’s Sixth borough, Jersey City, to check in on the new reading series, Jersey City Reads Poems.
The New York City Reading Series Census is an ongoing project to catalogue the contemporary literary scene. Any reading series curator in the New York area can take the survey here.
Scott Alexander Hess is as prolific as they come, a natural storyteller who’s always plotting new ways to transport his readers to different eras and locations. For his new pair of novellas, The Root of Everything & Lightning, published on Rebel Satori Press, Hess presents authentic literary historical fiction with riveting LGBT+ themes. I caught up with Scott to ask about his choices, process, and personal connections to the vivid worlds he creates within both novellas.