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 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-...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Leila Taylor’s Sick Houses published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social is “ . . . a must read for anyone who has ever looked at a house and sensed there might be something unsettling going on inside.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773360...

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader and Taylor and Co. bookstore owner Andrew E. Colarusso’s book Black Body Index, published by @bookworks.bsky.social bookworks.org.uk/publishing/s...

@shelf-awareness.com praises reader @shayneterry.bsky.social’s memoir Leave: A Postpartum Account, declaring it’s “. . . for any reader who has given birth, endured pain, or known someone who has (in other words: nearly everyone).” www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

Read an excerpt of May reader @briangresko.bsky.social’s new book You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing and Creativity in the @memoirland.bsky.social newsletter open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...

Ditmas Lit is 1 week from today, Wed. 5/28! We can’t wait to welcome @briangresko.bsky.social @shayneterry.bsky.social, Leila Taylor, and Andrew E. Colarusso!

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader Timothy Ree’s poem “Stations” in The Cortland Review www.cortlandreview.org/issue/68/ree...

@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls reader @joannanovak1986.bsky.social’s poetry collection Domestirexia “Propulsive . . . Thanks to Novak’s language, these pages overflow with life’s complexities, terrors, and fragmentations.” softskull.com/books/domest...

@therumpus.net calls April reader Anton Solomonik’s short story collection Realistic Fiction “Stellar . . . Solomonik spins fictions that feel like jokes before you realize you are devastated by them.” www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/reali...

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 4/23! Check out reader @dianemehta.bsky.social’s essay On Assignment, Virgil Rescues Dante From the Wilderness in Harvard Divinity Bulletin bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/on-assignmen...

Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 4/23! We’re excited to welcome Anton Solomonik, @dianemehta.bsky.social, @joannanovak1986.bsky.social, & Timothy Ree. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

. @electriclit.bsky.social calls reader Tyler Wetherall’s novel Amphibian “A coming of age story both tender and sophisticated. Amphibian deftly captures the in-between of girlhood and womanhood.” www.tylerwetherall.com

Ditmas Lit is tomorrow! Check out reader Niv Sekar’s comic The Future Saints www.nivsekar.com/futuresaints

@newyorker.com calls reader Tracy O’Neill’s Woman of Interest a “Dark, deeply funny memoir . . . Dashell Hammett meets Fleabag.” www.tracyoneill.net

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 2/26! Check out reader Holly Baxter’s essay “How to Write a Divorce Book When You’re Happily Married” in Elle Magazine www.elle.com/culture/book...

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 2/26! We’re so excited to welcome readers Tracy O’Neill, Holly Baxter, Niv Sekar, and Tyler Wetherall.

We had so much fun at our January reading! Thank you to Amanda Miller, @nicoletreska.bsky.social, Irvin Weathersby Jr, and Mateo Askaripour for sharing their work.

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader Amanda Miller’s essay Saving Astro in @the-thievingmagpie.bsky.social thievingmagpie.org/amanda-mille...

Ditmas Lit is tomorrow! @readbookpage.bsky.social calls reader Irvin Weathersby Jr.’s In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space “indispensable”. www.bookpage.com/reviews/in-o...

Kirkus Reviews calls January trader @nicoletreska.bsky.social’s memoir Wonderland “A poignantly affecting memoir about surviving and thriving.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Ditmas Lit is next Wed. 1/22! Kirkus Review calls reader Mateo Askaripour’s latest novel The Great Hemisphere “Propulsive . . . A page-turning vision of the future made all too plausible by our volitile present.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713716...

Our first show of 2025 is on Wed. Jan. 22nd! We’re excited to welcome @nicoletreska.bsky.social, Mateo Askaripour, Amanda Miller, and Irvin Weathersby Jr.

In their review of her debut novel, @nytimes.com calls reader Jenny Xie’s Holding Pattern “exquisite and wise”. www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/b...

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Kirkus Reviews calls reader Ledia Xhoga’s novel Misinformation “Thrilling . . . this debut novel explores the ways traumas of the past can impact how we experience the present.” www.lediaxhoga.com/home

Reader Joan Larkin’s 6th poetry collection Old Stranger was published in August by @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. Eileen Myles says, “There’s so much masterpiece here . . . this is why one is a poet all their life. To make this.” www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/ol...

We’re so excited for our 8th anniversary show this Wed. 12/18!In their starred review, Kirkus Review calls reader Nina St. Pierre’s memoir Love is a Burning Thing “An exhilarating, heart-rending, familial portrait.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

The 8th anniversary of Ditmas Lit is Wed. Dec. 18th! We’re excited to welcome readers Joan Larkin, Nina St. Pierre, Ledia Xhoga, and Jenny Xie ☃️❄️

Thank you to our fabulous November readers Jamie Kahn, Alana Saab, Say Madges, and Hyeseung Song!

We are so excited for Ditmas Lit tonight! Check out reader Say Madges’ essay Incel “Empowerment” over at The Seventh Wave www.theseventhwave.org/sarah-madges/

Ditmas Lit is tomorrow! Kirkus Reviews calls reader Hyeseung Song’s memoir Docile “A cleared look at navigating different cultures and expectations”. hyeseungsong.com/docile

The Urbane Arts Club’s very own Jamie Khan will be reading with us on Wed. Check out her story Ooh La La over at @loverseyepress.bsky.social www.loverseyepress.com/post/fiction...

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 11/20! Publishers Weekly calls reader Alana Saab’s novel Please Stop Trying to Leave Me “engrossing, affecting, and singular”. www.alanasaab.com

Join us for our November 20th reading, featuring writers Jamie Kahn, Say Madges, Alana Saab, and Hyeseung Song!🍂 Doors at 7:30, reading at 8. RSVP: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...