We’re getting multi-genre-ational at the LIC Reading Series, with three amazing small press authors: Leland Cheuk (fiction), Heather Derr-Smith (poetry), and Adrian Shirk (memoir/essay). Join us!
FREE! Readings + panel discussion + prizes for the audience
Closest subway: 7/E/M/G to Court Square
About our readers:
A MacDowell Colony fellow, LELAND CHEUK authored THE MISADVENTURES OF SULLIVER PONG (CCLaP, 2015), a novel, and LETTERS FROM DINOSAURS (Thought Catalog, 2016), stories. His work has been covered in VICE, The Millions, and The Rumpus, and appears or is forthcoming in Salon, Catapult, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.
HEATHER DERR-SMITH is a poet with four books, Each End of the World (Main Street Rag Press, 2005), The Bride Minaret (University of Akron Press, 2008), Tongue Screw (Spark Wheel Press, 2016), and Thrust which just won the Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award and will be published by Persea Books October 10, 2017.
ADRIAN SHIRK is the author of And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy (Counterpoint Press, 2017), a hybrid-memoir exploring American women prophets and their theologies. Shirk was raised in Portland, Oregon, and has since lived in New York and Wyoming. She’s a columnist at Catapult, and her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, among others. Currently, she teaches in Pratt Institute’s BFA Creative Writing Program, and lives on the border of the Bronx and Yonkers with her husband, Sweeney, and Quentin the cat.
This event is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
More information: www.licreadingseries.com