In the Lounge Guerrilla Lit Reading Series Featuring Leland Cheuk, Kaitlyn Greenidge & Jackie Corley

About This Show

The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series has hosted regular readings of emerging and established authors in New York City since 2007. Because the pen is mightier than the Kalashnikov (we hope).

Featuring Leland Cheuk, Kaitlyn Greenidge & Jackie Corley

Curated by Lee Matthew Goldberg, Marco Rafalá, Nicole Audrey Spector,
and Camellia Phillips

About the Authors

Leland Cheuk is the author of The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong. Cheuk has been awarded fellowships & artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony, I-Park Foundation & Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. Cheuk’s writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Heavy Feather Review, Necessary Fiction, Valparaiso Fiction Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Lunch Ticket & Pif Magazine. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University He lives in Brooklyn.

Kaitlyn Greenidge is originally from Boston. A graduate of Hunter College’s MFA Fiction program, she currently lives in Brooklyn. She has received scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference & is a 2016 NEA fellow in Literature. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kweli Journal, The Believer & Guernica. Her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, will be published by Algonquin Press in March 2016.

Jackie Corley is the founder and publisher of Word Riot & Word Riot Press. Her work has appeared in The Literary Review Online, Redivider, Fourteen Hills, 3AM Magazine & in various print anthologies. A short story collection, The Suburban Swindle, was published in 2008 by So New Press. She is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

About the Curators:

Lee Matthew Goldberg graduated with an MFA from the New School. His fiction has appeared in Essays & Fictions, The New Plains Review, Orion headless, Verdad Magazine, BlazeVOX, and on Amazon. His debut novel Slow Down is a neo-noir thriller published by New Pulp Press in January 2015.

Marco Rafalá is a writer and a nerd for narrative games. His short fiction has appeared in theBellevue Literary Review, and he is a contributing writer for The One Ring Roleplaying Game, an award-winning tabletop game based on the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. Marco holds an MFA in Fiction from The New School and has just completed his first novel.

Nicole Audrey Spector is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. She is a weekly contributor to the New Yorker’s nightlife section, and her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Guernica, theLondon Times, and Salon, among other publications that are arguably more compelling, likeGrocery Headquarters and Pet Elite. Her first novel, the parody Fifty Shades of Dorian Graywas published in 2013.

Camellia Phillips is a longtime grantwriter with social and economic justice organizations. Her fiction has appeared in CALYX Journal and Cream City Review, and her nonfiction has appeared in Voices of a New Generation: A Feminist Anthology (Allyn and Bacon). She holds an MFA from the New School and received a writing residency at Blue Mountain Center.

 

Wednesday, Apr. 27 at 7:30pm

Free Admission

Estimated Runtime
45 minutes

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Credits

Curated by
Lee Matthew Goldberg
Marco Rafalá
Nicole Audrey Spector
Camilla Phillips

Photo Credit
Gjoko Muratovski

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