2012 - 2013 BROOKLYN WRITERS SPACE READING SERIES SCHEDULE
The Brooklyn Writers Space Reading Series is held at BookCourt
163 Court Street between Pacific and Dean streets
F or G to Bergen Street
FREE
FRIDAY, JUNE 28th @ 7:00pm
*APRIL ECKFELD*
*HELEN MARKEWICH*
*MICHELLE JACKSON*
*CHRISTOPHER WALL*
APRIL ECKFELD is a writer, actor and former fashion designer from Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. She joined the Brooklyn Writer's Space in 2012. Recent work includes full length plays The Fan, and The End, which she is currently adapting to a feature length screen play. Short plays include Cocoon, Flutura, Florence, Brooklynitis, and I Love You, Patti Smith. Recent performances include the world premiere of French Waitress, a one act play by by John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck, Doubt) at the Gene Frankel Theater in NYC (Nylon Fusion Theater Collective), a 2013 National Honda commercial spot directed by Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Coffee and Cigarettes), and multiple award-winning short films including Welgunzer, and The Sirens. She produced the acclaimed documentary Bert Stern, Original Madman, and has directed, designed, and performed in original plays and web series. She is a graduate of fine arts from Otis College of Art & Design, has served as a mentor, advisor and juror to art, architecture, design and fashion students at UCLA, ArtCenter, and Southern Ca. Institute of Architecture. She competes in the Moth Story Slams in Los Angeles and NY, is a member of the Writer's Junction in Los Angeles, and resides in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
HELEN MARKEWICH's fate as a scientist was sealed at age thirteen when she saw a millipied flash frozen in liquid nitrogen (it crunched). Many years of science education at Georgia Tech and Cornell University honed her skills at writing dry, technical documents featuring such choice vocabulary words as "electron" and "ruminant". Today, Helen is a water quality scientist who spends much of her time outside of the lab reading and writing dry, technical documents. She is working on her first, and hopefully not dry, novel that will mention electrons.
MICHELLE JACKSON is a screenwriter and slam poet. She is a native of Southern California and moved to the east coast in 2005 to attend graduate school. She has studied the intersections of religion, race, gender, and sexuality and incorporates those intersections in her writings. Michelle is currently pursuing sketch writing at the Upright Citizens Brigade as well as working on spec TV pilots.
CHRISTOPHER WALL was a fellow in nonfiction at the Norman Mailer Center this summer and has published in Poets & Writers, The Missouri Review, and other magazines. His latest play, Dreams of the Washer King, debuted Off Broadway in 2010 and had its West Coast premier this past winter. More about him and his writing is available at www.christopherwall.org
ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for the 4th Quarter 2012
We are currently accepting APPLICATIONS for all three of our locations. Please keep in mind that we do have waiting lists for full-time memberships at our Park Slope and Carroll Garden locations.
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PARK SLOPE 58 Garfield Place :: 24 desks in a 2000 square foot facility. Features include a roof-deck garden for peaceful contemplation, a kitchenette lounge for eating, a collection of eclectic books to inspire and a skylight in the writing room.
CARROLL GARDENS 286 Court Street :: 18 desks in a 1200 square foot bright historic storefront just down the street from BookCourt. Comfortable lounging furniture in the writing room give you an alternative workspace. Kitchenette lounge has a a long maple wood eating bar.
GOWANUS 168 7th Street, 3rd Flr :: Known as ROOM 58, this space is designed for writers seeking both a quiet space and a room to sit at a desk and take care of the business side of writing, whether it's interviews, working with a writing partner, or talking to your editor. This space is shared with visual artists in a 10,000 square foot 3rd Floor loft. The lounge is bright. There are eight desks in the quiet room and five desks in the business/phone room.
Tours by appointment only, please contact scott AT brooklynwriters DOT com
The Reader, a Brooklyn Writers Space Reading Series Anthology still available, LIMITED copies left.
$15.00 plus tax/shipping
THE READER is a 411 page collection of voices and characters including gangsters, painters, weirdos, sad sacks, wanderers, musicians, activists, sexual healers, angels, stoners, hammer-wielding madmen, separated twins, and glenn gould that represent the 2007/2008 Brooklyn Writers Space Reading Series. THE READER includes novel excerpts, stories, plays, and screenplays all by the unique writer's community at the Brooklyn Writers Space.
Contributors to The Reader are: **Paula Bernstein**Andrew Boyd**Donald Breckenridge**Danielle Durkin**Jennifer Cody Epstein**Matt Everett**Paul Feldman**Marian Fontana**Yvonne Garrett**Ezra Goldstein**Sharon Guskin**Drew Haxby**Mark Jacobson**Martin Kleinman**Michael Lazan**Edmund Lee**Marcia Lerner**Lorraine Martindale**Robin Messing**Joan Minieri**Honor Molloy**Rosemary Moore**Wendy Ponte**Dominic Preziosi**Elyse Schein**Martha Schwendener**Josh Sohn**Rachael Stark**Albert Stern**Paul Takeuchi**Alex Tilney**Rachel Urquhart**
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MADE IN BROOKLYN
This section features current and former members of the Brooklyn Writers Space. New books, DVD's and links added all the time. This list was lasted updated 11/16/2009.
