Ditmas Lit

Ditmas Lit is tomorrow Wed. 2/25 with @brendancbyrne.bsky.social, @theladyaye.bsky.social, Jonathan Dixon, Nhu An Do, and guest co-host @colindickey.com! RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Ditmas Lit is next Wed. 1/28 with readers Simona Blat, @carolinehagood.bsky.social, Francisco Márquez, and Keith Newton + guest host Ben Lasman! RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Tonight! Celebrating 9 years of Ditmas Lit! There might even be cupcakes 🧁👀 www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Tomorrow! It’s our 9th Anniversary! RSVP here www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

The 9th anniversary of Ditmas Lit is in 1 week, Tue. 12/16! We can’t wait to welcome back guest host Rachel Lyon, and readers Josh Boardman, Ry Cook, Xochitl Gonzalez, and Anne-E Wood! RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

American Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams Finally Gets the Recognition She Deserves But “do not feel sorry for her,” says biographer Eve Kahn in a new book about the revolutionary artist.

Nov. reader Eve M. Kahn interviewed in Vogue about her book Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams www.vogue.com/article/mary...

A Story of Family's Grief Set Against Political Upheaval in Egypt - Electric Literature In Deena ElGenaidi's "Dust Settles North," characters witness the crumbling of government and family systems

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Read an interview with @deenaelg.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com about her novel Dust Settles North electricliterature.com/a-story-of-f...

Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, August 12, 2025 Welcome to the Web site for Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade, the free e-mail newsletter dedicated to helping the people in stores, ...

@shelf-awareness.com calls Laura Venita Green’s Sister Creatures an “ . . . arresting, unnerving, and wise debut novel.” www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

A Conversation Between Melissa Fite Johnson and Leah Umansky Melissa Fite Johnson is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Midlife Abecedarian (Riot in Your Throat, 2024). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, HAD, Whale Road Rev…

Ditmas Lit is Wed! Read an interview with @leahumansky.bsky.social about her poetry collection On Tyrant in @adroitjournal.bsky.social theadroitjournal.org/2024/06/17/a...

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...

3 New Horror Novels Full of Terrors That Are All Too Real (Published 2024)

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

Four Ditmas Lit readers standing in front of a trompe l'oeil screen

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...

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.

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-...

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.

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...

God loves everybody, don't remind me - Anthony Thomas Lombardi — Salt Hill Journal

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...

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...

'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.

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/S/L | Kirkus Reviews Three queer women discover that the internet really is forever.

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...

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.

June reader Kristina Andersson Bicher interviewed in @amsterdamreview.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/writing-is-l...

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.

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...

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Four people standing in front of a trompe l'oeil screen

Thank you to our May readers Andrew E. Colarusso, @leilataylor.bsky.social , @shayneterry.bsky.social, & @briangresko.bsky.social! We had a blast!