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H.I.P. Lit is a quarterly event series based in Bushwick, Brooklyn that spotlights authors on the cutting-edge of the writing scene. We're making Lit Parties fun again because reading and dancing are NOT mutually exclusive.

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Sign up HERE to receive an invite to our next event, Tres Brooklyn on 9/15/15 in Bushwhick. Its an official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend event, and its gonna be TOO MUCH FUN. 

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A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Elwin Cotman is a performance artist, educator, activist, and the author of two collections of fantasy short stories. He has toured across North America doing readings, and has performed at venues such as Bluestockings, Artomatic, Quimby's, TerPoets, and the Interdisciplinary Writers Workshop. He currently lives in Oakland, CA, and is at work on his first novel.

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B.C. Edwards' work has appeared in Mathematics Magazine, Hobart, The New York Times, and others. His debut collection, The Aversive Clause, was a finalist for the 2013 Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize and the winner of the 2011 Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press. His debut collection of poetry, From The Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes, was released last summer, also from Black Lawrence Press. He is a 2014 Poetry Fellow of the New York Foundation of the Arts, attended the graduate writing program at The New School in New York and lives in Brooklyn. Follow him at bc-edwards.

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Paul Rome is a writer of fiction and performance literature.  His first novel, We All Sleep in the Same Room, was longlisted for the 2014 PEN/Bingham Prize for debut fiction.  He has also written for The Huffington Post, Bedford + Bowery, PEN America, The Minetta Review and Mercer Street.  Rome lives in Brooklyn where he manages the Wyckoff Starr coffee shop. paulrome

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Brian Gresko is the editor of When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood (penguinrandomhouse). His fiction has appeared on Joyland Magazine and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. His nonfiction has appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Salon, Guernica, The Brooklyn Rail, Glimmer Train Stories, and numerous other venues. You can find him at briangresko.com and here on Tumblr at briangresko.

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Maxwell Neely-Cohen was born and raised in Washington D.C., where he spent his teenage years skateboarding and DJing. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, he lives in New York City. His shorter work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Millions, and The New Inquiry. Echo of the Boom (abarnaclebook, rarebirdlit) is his first novel.

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REBECCA DINERSTEIN is the author of Lofoten, a bilingual English-Norwegian collection of poems, and The Sunlit Night (Bloomsbury, June 2015), her debut novel. She received her B.A. from Yale and her M.F.A. in Fiction from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Erika Swyler, a graduate of New York University, is a writer and playwright whose work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. Born and raised on Long Island's north shore, Erika learned to swim before she could walk, and happily spent all her money at traveling carnivals. She resides on Long Island, NY, with her husband and a petulant rabbit. THE BOOK OF SPECULATION (stmartinspress) is her first novel. She can beat nearly anyone at Whac-A-Mole.

Follow her at erikaswyler! 

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Sarah Gerard is the author of the forthcoming essay collection Sunshine State (harperperennial) and the novel Binary Star (twodollarradio), which NPR calls a "hard, harrowing look into inner space." Her chapbook, BFF, comes out this summer. Her personal essays, criticism, interviews, and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Music & Literature, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Joyland, BOMB Magazine, and elsewhere. Visit her at Sarah-Gerard.com. 

See Sarah Gerard live at H.I.P. Lit’s Cosmic Edition this Saturday, June 13th! 

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Ted Thompson's novel The Land of Steady Habits was published last year by littlebrown. It was a Barnes and Noble Discover pick, an Amazon Debut of the Year, and a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. His stories have appeared in thetinhouse, American Short Fiction, oneteenstory and Best New American Voices. He has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches at the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, and for Catapult/Electric Literature. He lives in Brooklyn with his family. You can visit him at tedthompson.net. 

Don’t miss Ted Thompson at The Cosmic Edition, happening next Saturday evening at Be Electric Studios in Bushwick!

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New York Times bestselling author MIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE has published three novels: Bittersweet (from crownpublishing​); The Effects of Light; and Set Me Free, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best book of fiction by an American woman published in 2007. A recipient of the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, she is also the creator of FriendStories.com. She lives and writes in Brooklyn and Vermont. 

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"I try to rob myself and then get hit by a train. I come up with a 'good' idea, but in fact I'm just wearing a cardboard box on my head and hauling candy from the bodega like an idiot." - Dolan Morgan (AKA: thenewephemera) on how he works

Read the full Third Degree interview at: http://bit.ly/1EHU9Bj.

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Join us for a full evening of cosmic fun at Be Electric Studios! The stars are aligning on Saturday, June 13th to bring you a super stellar party with readings from ERIKA SWYLER, TED THOMPSON, and SARAH GERARD, along with theater, palmistry, prizes, street art, music, and more. 

More details, here. 

Flyer illustration by Christopher Russell (herecomesselavy)

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Dolan Morgan lives and writes in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He is the author of That's When the Knives Come Down ( ap-apt, 2014) and an editor at The Atlas Review. Find his work in The Believer, Electric Literature, PANK, The Lifted Brow, Selected Shorts and elsewhere.

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Will Chancellor grew up in Hawaii and Texas. In order to research A BRAVE MAN SEVEN STOREYS TALL (from harper perennial​, harpercollins) he collaborated with conceptual artist Daniel Subkoff on a 14-foot clay sculpture for the New Museum, completed a two-month solo traverse of Iceland from westernmost to easternmost tip, impersonated a painter at Art Basel, joined a water polo team, wore an eyepatch for weeks at a time, and learned Ancient Greek. He is currently at work on his next novel, TO TEST THE MEANING OF CERTAIN DREAMS.

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Kelly Luce’s story collection, Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, won the 2013 Foreword Review’s Editors Choice Prize in Fiction. Her work has appeared in chicagotribune, salon, O Magazine, Electric Literature, and other magazines. She’s the editorial assistant for the O. Henry Prize anthology and editor-in-chief of batcityreview. She hails from Illinois and lives in Austin, TX. Follow her on Tumblr at: kellyluce.

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“I love when brutality and beauty clash.” - scottalexanderhess, author of The Butcher’s Sons (just out from Lethe Press), via The Third Degree. 

Join us in celebrating the launch of The Butcher’s Sons next Wednesday, May 6th, on the rooftop of Boxers in Hell’s Kitchen. You can find more details, here!