New Venue Alert for this Tuesday's Reading!
*Very important information about our event on Tuesday, May 13*
Hello dear memoir lovers,
We are here with a very important announcement regarding May’s reading this Tuesday. Due to a scheduling conflict this month, we had to look for an alternative venue, and May 13th’s reading will now take place at an event space in Union Square. The business is called Cariñito Tacos at 86 University Place.
You get to the event space through Cariñito’s, walk to the back of the restaurant and head upstairs. If you come hungry, you might want to grab some Michelin-rated tacos on your way to the reading. There is a bar upstairs to order drinks, but you’ll need to get food separately downstairs. We’re super excited about this space and look forward to hosting this month’s reading there!
Just a reminder, here are the incredible readers we have scheduled for this Tuesday. We hope to see you there!
♥️ ,
Krystal and Hope
May Lineup
Abeer Y. Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She likes fanny bags, Szechuan fried peanuts, and fresh starts. Her books include a coffee table book (The Long Way Home), a linked collection of stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers), and a memoir (Olive Witch). See more at olivewitch.com.
Molly Roden Winter is the author of the New York Times bestseller, MORE: A Memoir of Open Marriage. Her essays have appeared in Time, The Cut, Romper, and elsewhere. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her husband and two part-time roommates also known as her sons.
Freda Epum is a Nigerian American writer and artist. She is the author of two chapbooks, Input/Output and Entryways into memories that might assemble me, which won the Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Competition. She is the co-creator of the Black American Tree Project, an interactive workshop about the legacies of slavery in American society. Epum’s work has been published in The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Vol 1. Brooklyn, Entropy, Bending Genres, and others. She received her MFA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her work has been supported by Lambda Literary, the Tin House Workshop, VONA, the Ragdale Foundation, the Anderson Center at Tower View, and the Jordan-Goodman Prize. Originally from Tucson, she now lives in Cincinnati.
Hope Elizabeth Kidd lives in New York City with her husband, five children, and an assortment of pets. She enjoys writing about motherhood, mental health, and body image. She is working on a memoir about her childhood in Zimbabwe and recently completed her MFA in creative writing from the City College of New York. She has been published in MUTHA magazine, Halfway Down the Stairs, the Manifest Station, and a print anthology by Horns and Rattles Press. For two years, she worked as an editor on Promethean, City College’s literary journal. At any given moment, you can find her drinking a mocha or complaining about laundry.
Randee Dawn is the bestselling author of the "funny as hell" pop culture fantasy novel Tune in Tomorrow. She has three novels out in 2025: Dark Celtic musical fantasies The Only Song Worth Singing and Leave No Trace (ArcManor/Caezik) and the next funny foray into the "Tune-iverse," We Interrupt This Program (Solaris Nova). Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, including most recently Dark Spores: Stories We Tell After Midnight, Vol. 4. She is the co-author of The Law & Order: SVU Unofficial Companion. A veteran entertainment journalist for The LA Times, Variety and Today.com, Randee lives in Brooklyn.
Briallen Hopper is the author of Hard to Love: Essays and Confessions and Gilead Reread (forthcoming), and an editor at the online magazine Killing the Buddha and the independent press And Other Stories. She teaches creative writing at Queens College, CUNY and in the Yale Prison Education Initiative.
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