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Oh, Bernice! Reading Wednesday 4/12

Come out to Alewife in LIC to enjoy delicious refreshments and entertainment from the freshest reading series around! In addition to Alewife’s scrumptious food and drink menu, we’ll have an exciting lineup of readers to give a boost to your hump day. When: Wednesday, 4/12 at 7:00 pm Where: Alewife NYC bar, 5-14 51st Ave, Long Island City 11101 RSVP on Facebook Here are the readers: Ann…

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Reading: Lit and Booze with Oh, Bernice!

Climb out of your igloo and warm up with the Oh, Bernice reading series at the Alewife NYC gastropub on weds, Feb 15. Order a dark and stormy and sit back and enjoy our talented lineup of readers. These writers are sure to make you feel as good as the sun’s rays on your face, if you can remember what that feels like. The reading is free! Come by at 7pm, order some bar nibbles and enjoy the show!…

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Tonight: Ann Podracky hosts

Come hang with the charming Ann Podracky as she hosts the Bernice Special Holidaze Reading. Ann’s fiction and poetry have been published in numerous literary journals. Plus, she’s a riot behind the mic. 7pm, Alewife NYC in Long Island City RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1794776004116208/

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Tonight! 7pm: John Weir

Come out and see the great John Weir perform his fiction: 7pm Alewife NYC in Long Island City RSVP here. John Weir is the author of two novels, What I Did Wrong and The Irreverible Decline of Eddie Socket.

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12/14 reading: Jack Feldstein & Rivky Grossman

Also performing at tonight‘s Oh, Bernice reading: Jack Feldstein & Rivky Grossman Come see them at the gastropub Alewife NYC in Long Island City. RSVP here. Jack Feldstein’s playscripts including A House Like Any Other and Three Months with Pook have won prizes in Australia, Britain and the USA. His plays have been staged with many productions in Australia, New York and all over the USA.…

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Dec. 14: Jonathan Alexandratos

Jonathan Alexandratos writes plays and he’ll be reading at Oh, Bernice’s Dec 14 holidaze reading at 7pm! Most recently, Truant Arts gave Jonathan’s play PEAR & APPLE a staged reading. The Last Frontier Theatre Conference also selected his BREAKING/ORBIT to be performed in Valdez, Alaska in June. His comedy about the building of the atom bomb, CHAIN REACTION, was produced by Playsmiths as part of…

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Featuring Joe Okonkwo: Dec 14 7pm

Come listen to Joe Okonkwo read at Oh, Bernice! on Weds, Dec. 14 at 7pm at Alewife NYC in Long Island City. Joe Okonkwo’s debut novel Jazz Moon, set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and glittering Jazz Age Paris, was published by Kensington Books in 2016. His stories have been published in Shotgun Honey, Best Gay Stories 2015, Cooper Street, and Storychord. Upcoming work will appear…

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Dec 14: Deborah Fried-Rubin!

Deborah Fried-Rubin will be reading at Oh, Bernice! on Weds, Dec. 14 at 7pm at Alewife NYC in Long Island City. Fried-Rubin is pursuing her second MFA in Creative Writing at Queens College, CUNY, focusing on poetry and fiction after many years of practicing law, and is a recipient of Queens College’s Silverstein-Peiser Award for Poetry and a former writer-in-residence at the Louis Armstrong House…

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Oh, Bernice presents: A special holidaze reading

Come hang with Oh, Bernice! on December 14, 2016 at 7pm for a Special Holidaze Reading Featuring: John Weir Joe Okonkwo Jack Feldstein with Rivky Grossman Jonathan Alexandratos Deborah Fried-Rubin And your host-Ann Podracky *There will also be a Dollar Store Secret Santa. Bring your a wrapped dollar store present to join in on the fun.* Alewife NYC, 5-14 51st Avenue, Long Island City Come on out!…

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Wednesday, 10/12: Nicole Cooley

Introducing guest reader (and former mentor of many Bernicians) Nicole Cooley! Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans and is the author of seven books: five books of poems, a chapbook and a novel. Her collection of poems Girl after Girl after Girl is forthcoming from LSU Press in 2017. Her digital chapbook Frozen Charlottes, A Sequence, was published by Essay Press in 2016. Her work has…

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Wednesday, 10/12: Camila Santos

Introducing guest reader Camila Santos! Camila was born in Recife, Brazil. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation from Queens College, where she currently teaches in the English Department. She is working on a collection of stories about Brazilian immigrants living in the United States. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Podium, Three Percent, Words Without…

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Wednesday, 10/12: Steve Macone

Introducing guest reader Steve Macone! Steve Macone is a former headline contributor at The Onion. His essays, humor writing, and reporting have also appeared in the American Scholar, The New York Times, Atlantic Online, New Yorker, Boston Globe Magazine, Morning News, and Salon.com. His work has been featured on NPR, Longreads, and has received notable essay mentions in The Best American series.…

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Wednesday, 10/12: Jason N. Fischedick

Introducing former Bernician and now guest reader Jason N. Fischedick! Jason is a writer, teacher and soon to be the star of his very own reality show “Surprise! You’re Married.” When he’s not working on his unfinishable novel, he enters screen writing competitions (in which he placed as a finalist in the last contest he entered), pitches sitcoms to Amazon (he’s up to two rejections and…

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Wednesday, 10/12: Maura Lee Bee

We want to tell you about the wonderful readers joining us next Wednesday at Alewife NYC! First, introducing Maura Lee Bee. Maura is a queer writer based out of New York City. Her work has been published in the “How We See It, More Views of Our World” book series, as well as “Utopia Parkway,” “Revelations,” and “All in Your Head.” You can also find her work on Medium and Twitter. She also did a…

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Bernice brings on a new season

Bernicians know how to get down. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. We’ve set the schedule for the 2016 to 2017 season. We have a new venue, Alewife NYC, a cool bar/restaurant in Long Island City, and a new, weeknight time slot. Mark your calendars for this year: 7pm October 12 Ghost Stories 7pm December 14: What I Really Want for Christmas *With the annual dollar store Secret…

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Goodbye From John Rice

Friends, Another Bernice season has ended and, while a new one is still in the planning stages, I won’t be participating. After a lot of thinking, I’ve decided to leave Oh, Bernice! to pursue other projects. I’ve loved being part of your literary lives, bringing you literature and fun on a monthly basis, but running a reading series is incredibly hard work. There are no weekends, no lazy…

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