We’re kicking off the summer over at Erv’s with brilliant readings by four wonderful writers. Join host Madeline Stevens Sunday June 12th at 6pm, drink a cocktail and listen to the witty, heartrending, clever, occasionally disturbing, and always alluring words of Yahdon Israel, Syreeta McFadden, Karolina Manko, and Susan McCarty.
Yahdon Israel writes about race, class, gender and culture. He has written for Avidly, The New Inquiry, Guernica, ESPNW, and Brooklyn Magazine. He’s a contributing editor at LitHub. He recently graduated from The New School with his MFA in Creative Nonfiction and runs a popular Instagram page, which promotes literary culture as style with the hashtag#literaryswag. Not to mention, he keeps it lit.
Syreeta McFadden is a Brooklyn based writer, photographer and adjunct professor of English. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, BuzzFeed, NPR, The Nation and Storyscape Journal. She is the managing editor of the online literary magazine, Union Station and a co-curator of Poets in Unexpected Places. She is currently working on collections of short stories and essays.
Karolina Manko is a Polish-born immigrant hailing from New York. She was the 2012 recipient of the Esther Unger Poetry Prize as well as the David Markowitz Poetry Award. Her work has appeared in various journals, anthologies, and literary magazines including Calloused Hands, Wicked Banshee Press, Toasted Cheese, Freeze Ray Poetry, Yes Poetry, Magma Poetry, and DecomP MagazinE. When she’s not writing poems, she’s watching movies, perusing used book bins, or writing the next Great American Hip Hop album.
Susan McCarty’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the Utne Reader, The Iowa Review, Indiana Review, Conjunctions, The Collagist and other journals. Her short story collection, Anatomies, was published last June by Aforementioned Productions. When she lived in New York, Susan edited romance novels at Penguin Books. After that, she wrote obituaries in Iowa for a while. This fall, she will start a job as assistant professor of literature and creative writing at Oakland University in suburban Detroit.
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