Ditmas Lit: January Edition!
Schedule
Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
The Urbane Arts Club | New York, NY
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Simona Blat is a writer living in Brooklyn and the owner of Black Spring Books, an independent used bookshop and social space in Williamsburg. Caroline Hagood is the author of eight books, most recently Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster, Death and Other Speculative Fictions, and Goblin Mode: A Speculative Memoir. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Creative Nonfiction, LitHub, the Kenyon Review, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Salon, and Elle. Caroline Hagood is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing, and Publishing and Director of Undergraduate Writing at St. Francis College.
Francisco Márquez is a Venezuelan poet with work in The Yale Review, Poetry London, Best American Poetry, and The Slowdown podcast. The recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, UCross, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he lives in Brooklyn.
Keith Newton is the author of the poetry collection Revolutions Among Us, forthcoming from Winter Editions, as well as a short work of prose from Essay Press, A Week of Kindness, based on the collages of Max Ernst. His writing has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, Typo, and 1913, among others, and he edits the online literary magazine Harp & Altar. He is also one of the filmmakers behind the forthcoming documentary series The Fourth Wall, which premiered at the Tribeca Festival in 2023. He lives in Brooklyn.
Guest host Ben Lasman’s fiction has been published in Granta, Tin House, Wired, Zyzzyva, The Iowa Review, and Harp & Altar. He is online manager for Library of America.
Doors open at 7:30, show starts at 8. RSVP at https://www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-details-registration/ditmas-lit-16.
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The Urbane Arts Club, 1016 Beverley Road,New York, New York, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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