Kimberly Torneis a Brooklyn based writer of children's books and artist. Under the pen name, Jamie Mae, she wrote the Isle of Misfit series for little bee books (2019). She is also an author of dark, twisty, and often very queer stories for teens. You can find her art and poetry on Instagram@tornepages. Powell Pittmanis a Southern […]
Diantha Parker is an award-winning reporter and audio producer whose career in radio and print journalism spans The New York Times, NPR, WBEZ-Chicago, BBC, CBC, and other outlets. Her reporting has most often focused on criminal justice and veterans affairs, although she is also a founding producer of NPR’s news quiz show, Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me! She lives […]
Roxanne Khamsi is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her articles have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, Popular Science, Scientific American, Slate, Nature, New York magazine, Wired News and the MIT Technology Review. Mandy Berman is the author of Perennialsand The Learning Curve. Perennials was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick of 2017 and named as a Best Book […]
In celebration of The Brooklyn Book Festival and the fall equinox, which is the start of everyone's most productive time of year, the Brooklyn Writers Space, creative home to writers of all disciplines, is opening its doors to the literary community from 4-7pm for a rooftop happy hour on Saturday, September 21st. This will also be the […]
Robert Levy's novel The Glittering World was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Shirley Jackson Award, while shorter work has appeared in Black Static, Shadows & Tall Trees, The Dark, The Best Horror of the Year, and The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction, and many more. Anaïs Nin at the Grand Guignol, an erotic dark fantasy/horror novella written in the style […]