2012 - 2013 BROOKLYN WRITERS SPACE READING SERIES SCHEDULE
The Brooklyn Writers Space Reading Series is held at BookCourt
163 Court Street between Pacific and Dean streets
F or G to Bergen Street
FREE
FRIDAY, MAY 31ST @ 7:00pm
*COURTNEY ZOFFNESS*
*DONNALDSON K. BROWN*
*MICHAEL WRYNN DOYLE*
*AMY BRILL*
COURTNEY ZOFFNESS' fiction has appeared in Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Washington Square, Tampa Review, Redivider, the international Fish Prize Stories, and elsewhere. The former managing editor of the United Nations-sponsored Earth Times, she's also published a range of nonfiction and reportage and worked as a ghostwriter. Zoffness has received fellowships or awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, the Dorot Foundation, and Yale University, among others and holds graduate degrees from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona. She has taught at more than a dozen universities in as many cities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Allegheny College, and the University of Freiburg in Germany. Currently she teaches at Drew University in New Jersey, and is a 2013 Emerging Writing Fellow at the Center for Fiction in New York.
DONNALDSON K. BROWN is currently working on her second novel, Nobody Else. She is also completing a stage adaptation of her work, The Gowanus Canal Anthology, which will be produced by Ego Actus this fall, directed by Joan Kane. A former screenwriter, Ms. Brown ran the New York office of Wildwood Enterprises, Robert Redford's film development company for several years and developed a documentary series on the environment for Sundance, entitled The Sundance Journal. Ms. Brown is also a trusts attorney. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son (and their two Welsh Corgis).
MICHAEL WRYNN DOYLE trained as an actor at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego and at Middlebury College before focusing his efforts on writing plays and short fiction. Currently, he is at work on his first novel, set in Poland where he spent a year on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship studying contemporary theatre. He is currently the Literary Manager of Project Y Theatre Company.
AMY BRILL is a writer and producer. Her articles, essays, and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous publications including Salon, The Common, Guernica, Redbook, Real Simple, and Time Out New York, and have been anthologized in Before and After: Stories from New York and Lost and Found. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has been awarded fellowships in fiction by the Edward Albee Foundation, Jentel, the Millay Colony, Fundacion Valparaiso, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation. In 2005, she was the Robert and Charlotte Baron Visiting Artist Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. The Movement of Stars (Riverhead Books) is her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two small daughters.
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ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for the 4th Quarter 2012
We are currently accepting APPLICATIONS for all three of our locations. Please keep in mind that we do have waiting lists for full-time memberships at our Park Slope and Carroll Garden locations. Click here to see our rates. PARK SLOPE 58 Garfield Place :: 24 desks in a 2000 square foot facility. Features include a roof-deck garden for peaceful contemplation, a kitchenette lounge for eating, a collection of eclectic books to inspire and a skylight in the writing room. CARROLL GARDENS 286 Court Street :: 18 desks in a 1200 square foot bright historic storefront just down the street from BookCourt. Comfortable lounging furniture in the writing room give you an alternative workspace. Kitchenette lounge has a a long maple wood eating bar. GOWANUS 168 7th Street, 3rd Flr :: Known as ROOM 58, this space is designed for writers seeking both a quiet space and a room to sit at a desk and take care of the business side of writing, whether it's interviews, working with a writing partner, or talking to your editor. This space is shared with visual artists in a 10,000 square foot 3rd Floor loft. The lounge is bright. There are eight desks in the quiet room and five desks in the business/phone room. Tours by appointment only, please contact scott AT brooklynwriters DOT com |
THE READER is a 411 page collection of voices and characters including gangsters, painters, weirdos, sad sacks, wanderers, musicians, activists, sexual healers, angels, stoners, hammer-wielding madmen, separated twins, and glenn gould that represent the 2007/2008 Brooklyn Writers Space Reading Series. THE READER includes novel excerpts, stories, plays, and screenplays all by the unique writer's community at the Brooklyn Writers Space.
CHECK OUT MADE IN BROOKLYN
This section features current and former members of the Brooklyn Writers Space. New books, DVD's and links added all the time. This list was lasted updated 11/16/2009.
