Ditmas Lit
@ditmaslit.bsky.social
Monthly reading series at the Urbane Arts Club in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn hosted by Sarah Bridgins and Lena Valencia. https://www.ditmaslit.com/events
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/19! We’re excited to welcome readers @leahumansky.bsky.social, Laura Venita Green, @deenaelg.bsky.social, and Eve M. Kahn. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
November 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/19! We’re excited to welcome readers @leahumansky.bsky.social, Laura Venita Green, @deenaelg.bsky.social, and Eve M. Kahn. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Entertainment Weekly calls Anna Rasche’s novel The Stone Witch of Florence “A twisty, historical witchy escape.” www.harlequin.com/shop/books/9...
The Stone Witch of Florence - Harlequin.com
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October 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Entertainment Weekly calls Anna Rasche’s novel The Stone Witch of Florence “A twisty, historical witchy escape.” www.harlequin.com/shop/books/9...
Ditmas Lit is tonight! @nytimes.com raves that reader @kaileepedersen.bsky.social’s novel Sacrificial Animals, “Establishes Pedersen as a future master of speculative fiction.” www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/b...
3 New Horror Novels Full of Terrors That Are All Too Real (Published 2024)
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October 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Ditmas Lit is tonight! @nytimes.com raves that reader @kaileepedersen.bsky.social’s novel Sacrificial Animals, “Establishes Pedersen as a future master of speculative fiction.” www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/b...
Check out Oct. reader Tierney Oberhammer’s short story Marquis published in “swamp pink” swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/mar...
Marquise – swamp pink
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October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Check out Oct. reader Tierney Oberhammer’s short story Marquis published in “swamp pink” swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/mar...
Ditmas Lit is this Wed. 10/22! In their starred review, @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @megancummins.bsky.social novel Atomic Hearts “Impressive - works equally well as a gritty coming-of-age drama & an insightful story about the nature of writing.” www.publishersweekly.com/9780593875353
Atomic Hearts by Megan Cummins
Cummins’s impressive debut novel (after the collection If the Body Allows It) follows two lifelong friends who bonded while stru...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Ditmas Lit is this Wed. 10/22! In their starred review, @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @megancummins.bsky.social novel Atomic Hearts “Impressive - works equally well as a gritty coming-of-age drama & an insightful story about the nature of writing.” www.publishersweekly.com/9780593875353
The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. Oct. 22! We’re excited to welcome readers @megancummins.bsky.social, Tierney
Oberhammer, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, and Anna Rasche. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Oberhammer, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, and Anna Rasche. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit | The Urbane
A monthly reading series in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of emerging and established writers in all genres. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. Oct. 22! We’re excited to welcome readers @megancummins.bsky.social, Tierney
Oberhammer, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, and Anna Rasche. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Oberhammer, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, and Anna Rasche. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Thank you to our September readers Kerry Cullen, @cherrylousy.bsky.social, Allison C. Meier, and Patrick Ryan! We had a blast!
September 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Thank you to our September readers Kerry Cullen, @cherrylousy.bsky.social, Allison C. Meier, and Patrick Ryan! We had a blast!
Tonight! Join us at The Urbane Arts Club for our September show with readings by @cherrylousy.bsky.social, Patrick Ryan, Kerry Cullen, and Allison C. Meier. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
September 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Tonight! Join us at The Urbane Arts Club for our September show with readings by @cherrylousy.bsky.social, Patrick Ryan, Kerry Cullen, and Allison C. Meier. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 9/24! We’re excited to welcome Kerry Cullen, Patrick Ryan, Allison C. Meier, and @cherrylousy.bsky.social! RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit | The Urbane
A monthly reading series in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of emerging and established writers in all genres. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm.
www.urbanebrooklyn.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 9/24! We’re excited to welcome Kerry Cullen, Patrick Ryan, Allison C. Meier, and @cherrylousy.bsky.social! RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader Belle Ling’s poem This Little Fish in @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/this-...
This Little Fish by Belle Ling
Our faces in water bearing us like mirrors watchingfrom the depth of a void, where I hear a call:Here, I am here— Turning, my fish, her swirls and twines hardly break...
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July 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader Belle Ling’s poem This Little Fish in @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/this-...
Read an excerpt from @rubenwrites.bsky.social’s debut collection There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven in @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
BOMB Magazine | Alternate Histories of El Salvador or Perhaps the…
From the debut collection There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven , two pieces of flash fiction imagine new narratives for El Salvador.
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July 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Read an excerpt from @rubenwrites.bsky.social’s debut collection There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven in @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
Read Anthony Thomas Lombardi’s poem “God loves everybody, don’t remind me” in Salt Hill salthilljournal.net/god-loves-ev...
God loves everybody, don't remind me - Anthony Thomas Lombardi — Salt Hill Journal
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July 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Read Anthony Thomas Lombardi’s poem “God loves everybody, don’t remind me” in Salt Hill salthilljournal.net/god-loves-ev...
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 7/23! @electricliterature.com interviews reader Heather McCalden about her memoir The Observable Universe electricliterature.com/heather-mcca...
Heather McCalden on Using Fragments to Write About Loss, Viruses, and the Internet - Electric Literature
Her memoir "The Observable Universe" is an album of grief about orphanhood
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July 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 7/23! @electricliterature.com interviews reader Heather McCalden about her memoir The Observable Universe electricliterature.com/heather-mcca...
Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 7/23 at The Urbane Arts Club! We’re excited to welcome Belle Ling, Heather McCalden, @rubenwrites.bsky.social & Anthony Thomas Lombardi! RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
July 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 7/23 at The Urbane Arts Club! We’re excited to welcome Belle Ling, Heather McCalden, @rubenwrites.bsky.social & Anthony Thomas Lombardi! RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit is tonight! @autostraddle.bsky.social calls reader Mac Crane’s novel A Sharp Endless Need “ . . . vibrant and grimy and hot and poetic and aching.” www.autostraddle.com/a-sharp-endl...
'A Sharp Endless Need' Lives in the Intersection of Sex and Basketball
At their heart, great sex and great basketball rely on the same fundamental principles: trust, attention, collaboration, and a desire to create something with whoever you’re with.
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June 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Ditmas Lit is tonight! @autostraddle.bsky.social calls reader Mac Crane’s novel A Sharp Endless Need “ . . . vibrant and grimy and hot and poetic and aching.” www.autostraddle.com/a-sharp-endl...
Ditmas Lit is tomorrow Wed. 6/25! In their starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls @jeannethornton.bsky.social’s A/S/L “A dazzlingly creative and heartfelt novel.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
A/S/L | Kirkus Reviews
Three queer women discover that the internet really is forever.
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June 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Ditmas Lit is tomorrow Wed. 6/25! In their starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls @jeannethornton.bsky.social’s A/S/L “A dazzlingly creative and heartfelt novel.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
June reader Kristina Andersson Bicher interviewed in @amsterdamreview.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/writing-is-l...
Writing Is Like Finding Which Window to Open
Exilé Sans Frontières talks to Kristina Andersson Bicher about poetry, translating Marie Lundquist, and how her own writing comes to life.
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June 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
June reader Kristina Andersson Bicher interviewed in @amsterdamreview.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/writing-is-l...
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 6/25! Reader James Stewart III spoke with @chicagoreader.com about his debut novel Defiant Acts chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...
The defiant acts of the working class - Chicago Reader
Defiant Acts, the debut novel by James Stewart III, recounts fictionalized stories from the perspectives of his family members.
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June 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Ditmas Lit is Wed. 6/25! Reader James Stewart III spoke with @chicagoreader.com about his debut novel Defiant Acts chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...
The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. 6/25! We can’t wait to welcome @jeannethornton.bsky.social, Kristina Andersson Bicher, Mac Crane, and James Stewart III 📚🌈🌷 RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
June 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. 6/25! We can’t wait to welcome @jeannethornton.bsky.social, Kristina Andersson Bicher, Mac Crane, and James Stewart III 📚🌈🌷 RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Thank you to our May readers Andrew E. Colarusso, @leilataylor.bsky.social , @shayneterry.bsky.social, & @briangresko.bsky.social! We had a blast!
June 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Thank you to our May readers Andrew E. Colarusso, @leilataylor.bsky.social , @shayneterry.bsky.social, & @briangresko.bsky.social! We had a blast!
Leila Taylor’s Sick Houses published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social is “ . . . a must read for anyone who has ever looked at a house and sensed there might be something unsettling going on inside.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773360...
Sick Houses by Leila Taylor: 9781915672636 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Explores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home. Horror begins at home From family homes in Amityville to Go...
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May 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Leila Taylor’s Sick Houses published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social is “ . . . a must read for anyone who has ever looked at a house and sensed there might be something unsettling going on inside.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773360...
Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader and Taylor and Co. bookstore owner Andrew E. Colarusso’s book Black Body Index, published by @bookworks.bsky.social bookworks.org.uk/publishing/s...
Black Body Index | Book Works
Then there was the sculpture, a large lustrous black stone of alien provenance. Walking around it I realised that the sculpture had been placed so that upon entering one might see only its black…
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May 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader and Taylor and Co. bookstore owner Andrew E. Colarusso’s book Black Body Index, published by @bookworks.bsky.social bookworks.org.uk/publishing/s...
@shelf-awareness.com praises reader @shayneterry.bsky.social’s memoir Leave: A Postpartum Account, declaring it’s “. . . for any reader who has given birth, endured pain, or known someone who has (in other words: nearly everyone).” www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
Shelf Awareness for Thursday, January 16, 2025
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May 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
@shelf-awareness.com praises reader @shayneterry.bsky.social’s memoir Leave: A Postpartum Account, declaring it’s “. . . for any reader who has given birth, endured pain, or known someone who has (in other words: nearly everyone).” www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
Read an excerpt of May reader @briangresko.bsky.social’s new book You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing and Creativity in the @memoirland.bsky.social newsletter open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...
What Does It Mean to Be a Writer?
An excerpt from "You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing & Creativity"
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May 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Read an excerpt of May reader @briangresko.bsky.social’s new book You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing and Creativity in the @memoirland.bsky.social newsletter open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...
Ditmas Lit is 1 week from today, Wed. 5/28! We can’t wait to welcome @briangresko.bsky.social @shayneterry.bsky.social, Leila Taylor, and Andrew E. Colarusso!
May 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Ditmas Lit is 1 week from today, Wed. 5/28! We can’t wait to welcome @briangresko.bsky.social @shayneterry.bsky.social, Leila Taylor, and Andrew E. Colarusso!