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.