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CYNTHIA CRUZ’s most recent collection of poems, Hotel Oblivion (Four Ways Books, 2023), won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. Her other publications include Steady Diet of Nothing (Four Ways Books, 2023), Back to the Woods (Four Ways Books, 2023), Guidebooks for the Dead (Four Way … Read more
On July 5th, join us for the Berlin book launch of the much awaited FREAKSLAW by Jane Flett! Doors open at 19:00 @ Lettretage (Veteranenstrasse 21, 10119) It’s the summer of ’97 and the Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change. Enter the Freakslaw – a travelling funfair populated by deviant queers, a contortionist witch, … Read more
On June 28, join us at Lettretage for a listen of what Reader students have been working on this past year! We’re back! And we too can hardly believe that it’s already been a fall and a spring of workshops and writing! But all these poems have been composed, essays envisioned, and fiction imagined. … Read more
Join us and the Embassy of Canada in Germany as we host the Berlin book launch of TWO Nature Writing Books: Dispersals by Jessica Lee and Utter, Earth by Isaac Yuen at Lobe Block at 18:30 In Dispersals: on Plants, Borders, and Belonging, prize-winning memoirist and nature writer, Jessica Lee turns to the … Read more
On May 10th, join us for the Berlin book launch of the much awaited, Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson! Fourteen-year-old Pumkin Patterson lives in a two-room house in Kingston Jamaica with her devoted grandmother, her beloved Aunt Sophie, and a mother who could not care less about her. When her conniving estranged father … Read more
Spring is springing – and so is our next Open Mic in April!👏 Where: Das Gift, Donaustrasse 119 (U-bahn Rathaus Neukölln) When: Tuesday, April 23; Doors open at 18:30. (https://www.facebook.com/events/7687495231284198?ref=newsfeed) Sign up for a 5-minute reading slot at the door (starting at 18:30) OPEN MIC begins at 19:00. — There’s no better practice for your … Read more
What kind of stories do you want to tell, and what is the best way of telling them? Open to writers of all levels, this seven-week workshop will allow you to experiment with and develop your own writing, with an eye to generating stories that are efficient, loaded, and urgent. In the first half of … Read more
This is a generative 7-week class for writers whose imaginations need a kick in the ass – it does not include a workshopping element. The Craft of Fiction will cover a mixture of creative exercises and explorations of elements of craft, with readings, assignments, games, and discussions designed to help you hone your process and … Read more
This is a generative 7-week class for writers whose imaginations need a kick in the ass – it does not include a workshopping element. The Craft of Fiction will cover a mixture of creative exercises and explorations of elements of craft, with readings, assignments, games, and discussions designed to help you hone your process and … Read more
🎉 Happy 2024! 🔥The OPEN MIC – by The Reader Berlin – is back! Where: Das Gift, Donaustrasse 119 (U-bahn Rathaus Neukölln) When: Wednesday, January 10; Doors open at 18:30. Sign up for a 5-minute reading slot at the door. OPEN MIC begins at 19:00. — There’s no better practice for your writing than reading … Read more
Personal Essays: An Intensive 8-Week Workshop email sanders@thereaderberlin.com to sign up! Personal essays, a vital and vibrant contemporary genre, can be as unique and heterogenous as each of us. Able to draw on the techniques of fiction, the forms of poetry, and the conceptual argumentation of an analytic essay, these essays can take whatever shape … Read more
The Short Story What are the possibilities of the short story form, and how do short stories work? Open to writers of all levels, this five-week workshop will feature 1–2 stories each week by authors like Donald Barthelme, Joy Williams, Edward P. Jones, and Ottessa Moshfegh, which we’ll discuss and then use as a jumping … Read more
