Sundays @...Branded Saloon
A reading series presented by Bold As Love Magazine
Writers and Readers and Beer! Oh My!
Join us at our new location for Bold As Love Magazine's Brooklyn reading series! Inspirational, intriguing and provocative work from accomplished writers of color across a wide range of genres, all part of a progressive literary tradition. Curated by Bold As Love's books editor Bridgett M. Davis.
Sundays @...Branded Saloon
Come celebrate the Women's History Month edition of our series with:
- Bernice L. McFadden
- Marci Blackman
- Regina Porter
Donation kindly requested. Copies of McFadden's Loving Donovan and Blackman's Tradition and Po Man's Child will be available for sale.
Sunday, Mar 22, 2015, 04:30 PM
603 Vanderbilt Avenue, BK, NY 11238, United States
Marci Blackman
Marci Blackman is the author of three novels. Blackman’s first novel, Po Man’s Child, received the American Library Association’s Stonewall Award for Best Fiction and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best New Fiction. Tradition, Blackman’s second novel was noted in Band of Thebes as one of the Best LGBT Books of 2013. Her third novel, Elephant, will be published in 2016.
Blackman’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in the following anthologies: Black Like Us, Fetish, Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, Signs of Life: Channel Surfing through 90s Culture, Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapalooza ’94, and Brown Sugar.
Bernice L. McFadden
Bernice L. McFadden is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels including Sugar, Loving Donovan, Nowhere Is a Place, The Warmest December, Gathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), and Glorious, which was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. She is a three-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of three awards from the BCALA. McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Regina Porter
Regina Porter is an award-winning writer whose works have been presented at Playwrights Horizons, The Joseph Papp Theater, New York Stage & Film, The Woolly Mammoth Theater, and Horizons Theater Company. Ms. Porter has received commissions from The Women’s Project, The Actor’s Theater of Louisville, and Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis. Her plays have been anthologized in Plays from Woolly Mammoth by Broadway Play Services and Heinemann's Scenes For Women by Women. Ms. Porter’s writing has been profiled in Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in History & Criticism by University of Alabama Press. She recently completed her first novel.
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