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The Enclave Reading Series
Since 2006, THE ENCLAVE Reading Series has organized monthly readings
featuring established & emerging authors of both national & international recognition
JAC JEMC and ANDREW ZORNOZA at The Enclave…May 19!
It’s about that time…The Enclave is about to go on our spring “creative hiatus”, which usually involves closing up shop, taking our asses on the road, and partaking in some of our favorite vices…But not before we put on one more show to close the season!
Jac Jemc and one of our favorite authors, Andrew Zornoza, are reading from their newest works. So come on out and have some drinks with us…
Saturday…May 19…4 PM…Cake Shop…152 Ludlow Street…NYC
The Readers…
Jac Jemc’s first novel, My Only Wife, was published by Dzanc Books in April 2012, and her chapbook of stories, This Stranger She’d Invited In, sold out at Greying Ghost Press in March 2011. Jac’s writing has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her story “Women in Wells” was featured in the 2010 Best of the Web. She is poetry editor at decomP and member of the editorial team at Tarpaulin Sky. She has served as a guest editor of Little White Poetry Journal and and Hobart Web, and worked as a reader at Our Stories and The Means. In 2012 she was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Professional Development Grant. www.jacjmec.com
Andrew Zornoza is the author of the novel Where I Stay. His short fiction and essays have been featured at The Poetry Foundation, BOMB, Gastronomica, Confrontation, CapGun, and Matter Magazine, among many others. He teaches in the Design & Technology MFA program at Parsons in New York City and is a contributing editor to the arts journal HOW. www.andrewzornoza.com
Jac Jemc at the Enclave…May 19!
Saturday…May 19…4PM…Cake Shop…152 Ludlow Street…NYC
Jac Jemc’s first novel, My Only Wife, was published by Dzanc Books in April 2012, and her chapbook of stories, This Stranger She’d Invited In, sold out at Greying Ghost Press in March 2011. Jac’s writing has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her story “Women in Wells” was featured in the 2010 Best of the Web. She is poetry editor at decomP and member of the editorial team at Tarpaulin Sky. She has served as a guest editor of Little White Poetry Journal and and Hobart Web, and worked as a reader at Our Stories and The Means. In 2012 she was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Professional Development Grant
TODAY! Martha Cooley and Gabriel Brownstein at the Enclave!
4/28…4pm…Cake Shop…152 Ludlow…Come on out for a pair of great readers, and of course many, many drinks…
The Enclave is thrilled to announce a co-curated reading with The Common, one of our favorite literary journals. Martha Cooley and Gabriel Brownstein are on tap, so mark your calendars and plan to spend one of your spring evenings in the Enclave’s “Dungeon of Fiction”… 4PM…April 28…Cake Shop…152 Ludlow Street…NYC!
MARTHA COOLEY is the author of The Archivist, a national bestseller published in eleven foreign markets, and Thirty-Three Swoons. Her short fiction, essays, and translations of poetry have appeared in such journals as AGNI, A Public Space, West Branch, Consequence, and Bellevue Literary Review. She is associate professor of English at Adelphi University and also teaches fiction in the Bennington Writing Seminars.
GABRIEL BROWNSTEIN won the PEN/Hemingway Award for his book of stories The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt, 3W, and he is the author of the novel The Man from Beyond. He teaches English at St. John’s University in Queens, New York.
The Enclave’s 5 Year Anniversary will be Saturday March 31st!!!!
That’s right folks. Can’t believe we’ve been around for this long. To celebrate we’re having a reading at Cake Shop on Saturday March 31st from 4-6 featuring founders Jim Freed, Jason Napoli Brooks and Scott Geiger. Also we’ll have one special surprise guest that will be announced shortly. Put this shit on your calendars! We’ll put more details out soon. Hope to see you there…
Tomorrow at the Enclave…Daniel Polansky reads…and gives away free copies of his remarkable new novel Low Town (Doubleday). Shya Scanlon and J Adam Wall are also on the bill, so get your ass down the Enclave’s dungeon of bad ass-ness.
Shya Scanlon * Daniel Polansky * J. Adam Wall to read on Sat. Feb. 25th @ 4PM
You’re invited in…
The Enclave is pleased to announce that our first reading of 2012 will feature Shya Scanlon, Daniel Polansky and Jeremy Wall. It all goes down on Sat. Feb 25th @ 4PM at the Cake Shop (152 Ludlow).
SHYA SCANLON is author of the novel Forecast and the collection of poetry In This Alone Impulse. He’s book reviews editor at The Nervous Breakdown, and co-edits Monkeybicycle. Visit him at www.shyascanlon.com.
DANIEL POLANSKY was born in Baltimore. THE STRAIGHT RAZOR CURE is his first novel, and the first part of the LOW TOWN series. For more info go to www.danielpolansky.com
As a musician, J. ADAM WALL has played and/or recorded with the Temptations, Marc Brussard„ and Yarn, among others. He works as a teacher, lives in Brooklyn with his wife, and is currently completing his first novel.
Hope to see you Sat. Feb 25th at The Enclave!
John Haskell, Laurie Weeks, Mark Doten at the Enclave…12/17
December 17, 2011…4:30 PM…CakeShop…152 Ludlow Street…NYC…
We’ve put together a powerhouse line-up for our season closer. If you can think of a better to get the holidays started, we’re all ears.
JOHN HASKELL is the author of the novels Out of My Skin and American Purgatorio, and of the short-story collection I Am Not Jackson Pollock. A contributor to the radio program The Next Big Thing, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
LAURIE WEEKS’ fiction and other writings have been published in The Baffler, Vice, Nest, Index, LA Weekly, and Semiotext(e)’s The New Fuck You. A portion of this novel appeared recently in Dave Egger’s The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has taught in writing programs at UC San Diego and the New School, and has toured the US with the girl-punk group Sister Spit.
MARK EDMUND DOTEN ’s writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Guernica, The Collagist, The Believer, New York Magazine and benmarcus.com. A recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Columbia University, he is working with the composer Ted Hearne on an opera about Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, and is finishing work on his first novel, an update of Inferno populated with journalists, politicians and other figures from the George W. Bush years. He lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and is an editor at Soho Press. greenzonekidz.blogspot.com
NOVEMBER 19 The Enclave presents Keckler and Rhodes-Pitts!
We continue our fall season with another fantastic line-up of readers and performers. None other than Joseph Keckler and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts are on the same bill, so an amazing autumn afternoon is in store for you.
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