Patchwork Literary Salon brings together authors across genres and stages in their careers to create a colorful tapestry of Brooklyn’s writing community. Curated and hosted by Nadine Santoro, this monthly reading series features brief readings, lively conversation, drink specials, and an opportunity to mingle and connect with fellow writers and readers! In January, we're excited to welcome Sabrina Imbler, e.jin, and Wei Tchou.

DATE: Wednesday, January 15
TIME: 7:00pm doors; 7:30 start
LOCATION: SISTERS, 900 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11238
FREE! Your RSVP is appreciated to help us gauge venue capacity, but not required.

Our series bookseller is Hive Mind Books, and a portion of book sale proceeds from each event benefit the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

🪡 ABOUT OUR READERS 🪡

SABRINA IMBLER is a staff writer for Defector, where they write about non-human life. Their memoir How Far the Light Reaches won a Los Angeles Times book prize in science and technology and their chapbook Dyke (geology) was selected for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. They live in Brooklyn with their partner, two cats named Sesame and Melon, and a school of fish.

E.JIN is an adoptee writer who lives in Flatbush. They have received nominations for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets, and their work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Nashville Review, The Margins, The Shade Journal, and others. They are a Roots. Wounds. Words., Lambda Literary, and Asian American Writers Workshop Margins Fellow. They write independent.study, a newsletter about learning how to write by reading.

WEI TCHOU's essays and reporting can be found in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Oxford American, among other publications. She likes to write about food, nature, and the complications of identity. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and has an MFA from Hunter College. Her debut memoir, Little Seed, was named a New Yorker Best Book of 2024, and was longlisted for the National Book Critic's Circle Award for Autobiography. She lives in New York City, where she is tending a lemon tree.

Patchwork is hosted by NADINE SANTORO. Nadine is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She works as the Publicity Director at Deep Vellum, leads retreats, and teaches on creative attention. Nadine is the co-host of the podcast Thinking Straight, a lesbian anthropological dig into the world of heterosexual romance novels, and writes The Doorway, a biweekly snail-mail newsletter. She lives in Brooklyn with her fiancée and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.

Patchwork, a feminist literary salon, brings together authors across genres and stages in their careers to create a colorful tapestry of radical, experimental, and feminist writing and community. Join us monthly for readings, lively conversation, drink specials, books for sale, and an opportunity to mingle and connect with fellow feminist writers and readers!

DATE: Wednesday, October 16
TIME: 7:00pm doors; 7:30 start
LOCATION: SISTERS, 900 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11238
FREE! Your RSVP is appreciated to help us gauge venue capacity, but not required.

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Hive Mind Books, with a portion of proceeds benefitting the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

Patchwork is hosted by NADINE SANTORO. Nadine Santoro is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She works as the Publicity & Events Coordinator at the Feminist Press, leads retreats, and teaches on creative attention. Nadine is the co-host of the podcast Thinking Straight, a lesbian anthropological dig into the world of heterosexual romance novels, and writes The Doorway, a biweekly snail-mail newsletter. She lives in Brooklyn with her fiancee and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Hive Mind Books, with a portion of proceeds benefitting the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

🪡 ABOUT OUR READERS 🪡

ALEC POLLAK is a writer, academic, and organizer. She is the winner of the 2023 Hazel Rowley Prize and the 2018 Ursula Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship for her work on a biography of Joanna Russ. Her writing appears in the LA Review of Books, the Yale Review, and various academic publications. She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University.

EMMA RAMADAN is an educator and literary translator from French. She was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Abdellah Taïa’s A Country for Dying, and has also received the Albertine Prize, two NEA Fellowships, and a Fulbright. Her other translations include Anne Garréta's Sphinx, Barbara Molinard's Panics, and Marguerite Duras's Me & Other Writing.

AMELIA POSSANZA (she/her) is a full-time book publicist and part-time writer. Her debut book Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives was named a Best Book of 2023 and received the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, The Millions, and NPR’s Invisibilia. She teaches creative writing to high schoolers through Lambda Literary’s Writers in School program, coaches swimming with Team New York Aquatics, and occasionally volunteers aboard the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. She currently lives in Flatbush with her cat.

Patchwork is hosted by NADINE SANTORO. Nadine is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She works as the Publicity & Events Coordinator at the Feminist Press, leads retreats, and teaches on creative attention. Nadine is the co-host of the podcast Thinking Straight, a lesbian anthropological dig into the world of heterosexual romance novels, and writes The Doorway, a biweekly snail-mail newsletter. She lives in Brooklyn with her fiancée and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.

Patchwork, a feminist literary salon, brings together authors across genres and stages in their careers to create a colorful tapestry of radical, experimental, and feminist writing and community. Join us monthly for readings, lively conversation, drink specials, books for sale, and an opportunity to mingle and connect with fellow feminist writers and readers!

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2024 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT

DATE: Monday, September 23
TIME: 7:00pm doors; 7:30 start
LOCATION: SISTERS, 900 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11238

Patchwork is produced by the Feminist Press, the world’s longest-running feminist publisher. Founded in 1970 to diversify the literary canon, FP is proud to publish books that ignite movements and social transformation, and works to create a world where everyone recognizes themselves in a book. With Patchwork, Feminist Press aims to bring together a wide variety of writers to create an energetic, exciting space for feminist and independent literary community in New York.

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Hive Mind Books, with a portion of proceeds benefitting the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

Patchwork is hosted by NADINE SANTORO. Nadine Santoro is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She works as the Publicity & Events Coordinator at the Feminist Press, leads retreats, and teaches on creative attention. Nadine is the co-host of the podcast Thinking Straight, a lesbian anthropological dig into the world of heterosexual romance novels, and writes The Doorway, a biweekly snail-mail newsletter. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.

🪡 ABOUT OUR READERS 🪡

JULIA BARTZ is the New York Times bestselling author of The Writing Retreat, a practicing therapist, and a creative coach. Her fiction writing has appeared in The South Dakota Review, InDigest Magazine, and more. She lives in Brooklyn. Connect with her on social media @JuliaBartz.

K. M. ENRIGHT is a Filipino-American writer of fantasy romance. When not writing, he can be found playing too many video games, cooking, or listening to Broadway musicals. He currently lives in New Jersey with his husband and their black cat, Zuko.

ELLE GONZALEZ ROSE is a writer from New York who’s better at writing love stories about short, queer Latinas than she is at writing bios. Her dog thinks she’s okay. She is the author of several novels for teens including Caught in a Bad Fauxmance, and 10 Things I Hate About Prom—Elle, not the dog.

MARGARET KILLJOY is a storyteller who keeps audiences rapt with her speculative, fantasy, and horror fiction, and her radical history podcast Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. She has published the novellas The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion and The Barrow Will Send What It May with Tor.com, Escape From Incel Island, and short fiction collections including A Country of Ghosts and We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow. The Sapling Cage, the first book in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, is forthcoming from Feminist Press in 2024.

Logo and graphics by Neeti Banerji. This programming is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2024 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT

Patchwork, a feminist literary salon, brings together authors across genres and stages in their careers to create a colorful tapestry of radical, experimental, and feminist writing and community. Join us monthly for readings, lively conversation, drink specials, books for sale, and an opportunity to mingle and connect with fellow feminist writers and readers!

DATE: Tuesday, July 16
TIME: 7:00pm doors; 7:30 start
LOCATION: SISTERS, 900 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11238

Patchwork is produced in partnership with the Feminist Press, the world’s longest-running feminist publisher. Founded as a press of recovery in 1970, FP is proud to publish books that ignite movements and social transformation, and envisions a world in which everyone recognizes themselves in a book. Through this programming, we aim to bring a wide variety of authors from various presses, magazines, and journals together and create an energetic, exciting space for feminist and indie literary community in New York.

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Hive Mind Books, with a portion of proceeds benefitting the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

🪡 ABOUT OUR READERS 🪡

AMBER DAWN is a writer and educator living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, Canada). Her debut novel Sub Rosa (2010) won the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction and the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize. Her memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir (2013) won the Vancouver Book Award. Her sophomore novel Sodom Road Exit (2018) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and a Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her collection of long poems My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems (2020) was a finalist for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. Her third poetry collection, "Buzzkill Clamshell" is forthcoming in Spring 2025.

CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House, the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."

Her essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the former Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

ALICE SOLA KIM's writing has appeared in The Cut, McSweeney's, Lightspeed Magazine, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and other publications. She is a 2016 Whiting Award winner and the recipient of grants from MacDowell and the Elizabeth George Foundation.

Patchwork is curated and hosted by NADINE SANTORO. Nadine Santoro is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She works as the Publicity & Events Coordinator at the Feminist Press, leads retreats, and teaches on creative attention. Nadine is the co-host of the podcast Thinking Straight, a lesbian anthropological dig into the world of heterosexual romance novels, and writes The Doorway, a biweekly snail-mail newsletter. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.

Logo and graphics by Neeti Banerji. This programming is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Patchwork, a feminist literary salon, brings together authors across genres and stages in their careers to create a colorful tapestry of radical, experimental, and feminist writing and community. Join us monthly for readings, lively conversation, drink specials, books for sale, and an opportunity to mingle and connect with fellow feminist writers and readers!

DATE: Monday, June 3
TIME: 7:00pm doors; 7:30 start
LOCATION: SISTERS, 900 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11238

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Hive Mind Books, with a portion of proceeds benefitting the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

Patchwork is produced in partnership with the Feminist Press, the world’s longest-running feminist publisher. Founded as a press of recovery in 1970, FP is proud to publish books that ignite movements and social transformation, and envisions a world in which everyone recognizes themselves in a book. Through this programming, we aim to bring a wide variety of authors from various presses, magazines, and journals together and create an energetic, exciting space for feminist and indie literary community in New York.

🪡 ABOUT OUR READERS 🪡

CHLOÉ CALDWELL is the author of four books: the essay collection I’ll Tell You in Person, the critically acclaimed novella, Women, Legs Get Led Astray, and The Red Zone: A Love Story. Chloe’s next book, TRYING, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2025. Her novella Women will be reissued by Harper Perennial on June 4th, 2024.

Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Bon Appétit, New York Magazine’s The Cut, The Strategist, Romper, Buzzfeed, Longreads, Vice, Nylon, Salon, Medium, The Rumpus, Hobart, The Sun, Men’s Health, and half a dozen anthologies including Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NYC and Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, and the forthcoming, Sluts. Chloé lives in Hudson, New York.

NAOMI KANAKIA is the author of the novel The Default World as well as three YA novels and a nonfiction book, What’s So Great about Great Books. Her stories, poetry, and essays have been published in American Short Fiction, Asimov’s, Gulf Coast, LitHub, and others. She has an MFA from Johns Hopkins and received the Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellowship in 2016. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and daughter.

GABRIEL CARLE is a writer and academic researching queerness, race, migration, and the environment in Caribbean literatures and cultures. They completed a BA in Escritura Creativa at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University. They are based in New York City. Bad Seed is their first book.

AISHVARYA ARORA is a poet, cultural worker, and double Taurus from Queens. They have received support from the Fulbright Program and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where they were a Poetry Coalition Fellow. Their work is featured in Harana Poetry and Apogee, and is forthcoming in The Margins and Poetry Northwest. Find them on instagram @cool_slug_.

Patchwork is curated and hosted by NADINE SANTORO. Nadine Santoro is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She works as the Publicity & Events Coordinator at the Feminist Press, leads retreats, and teaches on creative attention. Nadine is the co-host of the podcast Thinking Straight, a lesbian anthropological dig into the world of heterosexual romance novels, and writes The Doorway, a biweekly snail-mail newsletter. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.

Logo and graphics by Neeti Banerji. This programming is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Patchwork, a feminist literary salon, brings together authors across genres and stages in their careers to create a colorful tapestry of radical, experimental, and feminist writing and community. Join us monthly for readings, lively conversation, drink specials, books for sale, and an opportunity to mingle and connect with fellow feminist writers and readers!

DATE: Wednesday, May 8
TIME: 7:00pm doors; 7:30 start
LOCATION: SISTERS, 900 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11238

Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Hive Mind Books, with a portion of proceeds benefitting the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

Patchwork is produced in partnership with the Feminist Press, the world’s longest-running feminist publisher. Founded as a press of recovery in 1970, FP is proud to publish books that ignite movements and social transformation, and envisions a world in which everyone recognizes themselves in a book. Through this programming, we aim to bring a wide variety of authors from various presses, magazines, and journals together and create an energetic, exciting space for feminist and indie literary community in New York.

🪡 ABOUT OUR READERS 🪡

K-MING CHANG is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize winner. She is the author of Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), Bone House (Bull City Press, 2021), Gods of Want (One World, 2022), and Organ Meats (One World, 2023). Her books have been New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice selections, included on the New York Times Notable Books list, and considered for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She can be found at kmingchang.com.

MEGAN MILKS is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, named a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and Slug and Other Stories, both published by Feminist Press, as well as Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, published in Instar Books’ Remember the Internet series. With Marisa Crawford, they coedited We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers.

MAEVE BARRY is a writer living in Brooklyn. She has stories in/forthcoming from FENCE, the Sewanee Review, Post Road Magazine, Sleepingfish and other places. She is working on her first novel.

Patchwork is curated and hosted by NADINE SANTORO. Nadine Santoro is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She works as the Publicity & Events Coordinator at the Feminist Press, leads retreats, and teaches on creative attention. Nadine is the co-host of the podcast Thinking Straight, a lesbian anthropological dig into the world of heterosexual romance novels, and writes The Doorway, a biweekly snail-mail newsletter. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.

Logo and graphics by Neeti Banerji. This programming is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.