Torn Page hosts the 25th anniversary issue launch party of Fence Magazine, featuring readings by contributors Radhiyah Ayobami, Lee Ann Brown, Meghan Maguire Dahn, Edgar Garcia, Anton Ivonov, Mengyin Lin, Garrett Phelps, and Kyra Simone.

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Wells College welcomes writer and editor Kyra Simone to the spring Visiting Writers series. Simone will offer a masterclass in innovative forms, writing under constraint, and experimental practices in small press publishing, followed by a presentation and reading from her series of short works, Palace of Rubble.

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Sunday, August 13th, the Endless Summer Reading Series at Fiction Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn hosts readers from Futurepoem, Fence and other small presses. Featuring Ben Fama, Kyra Simone, Valerie Werder, and Terry Nguyen.

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Join Kyra Simone, winner of the 2022 ILS/Fence Magazine Fiction Contest for a virtual literary salon, as she reads from recent work and discusses her experience at the ILS writing workshop program in Lamu, Kenya, in conversation with Mariya Gusev and Heather McShane.

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Join these four writers for a summer solstice reading at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn.

Islet invites you to a North Oakland backyard on June 2nd at 6pm to hear readings by Jerrold Shiroma, John Coletti, and Kyra Simone.

Join us for an evening of writing by two authors working in both prose and poetry, as Kyra Simone and Lucy Ives read from their recent projects at Great Barrington’s beautifully curated bookshop, Familiar Trees. This will be the first event at the bookstore’s new location down the street.

Join Kyra Simone and Anna Moschovakis at Stories Bookstore & Cafe for the LA book launch of Simone’s story collection PALACE OF RUBBLE and Moschovakis’ new novel PARTICIPATION. See here for more details.

Join Tenement Press authors Kyra Simone and SJ Fowler as they present their new books Palace of Rubble and MUEUM at London’s 2022 Small Publishers Fair. Both titles will be available for purchase at the Tenement Press booth at Conway Hall. More info here.

Wonder Books presents an October reading at Mood Ring in Bushwick, Brooklyn, featuring readings from recent work by Kyra Simone, Hannah Lamb-Vines, and Caelan Ernest.

Please join us for the first edition of Sunset Social, a new literary salon hosted by the Yafa Cafe in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, featuring Kyra Simone, as she presents her new book PALACE OF RUBBLE. The reading will be followed by a Q&A, along with an open mic of offerings from members of the audience and voices from the community. More info here.

KGB Bar presents an evening hosted by Drift(less) Literary, with readings by authors Kyra Simone, Emmalea Russo, Carolyn Kuebler, Ashton Politanoff, and Amanda Parrish Morgan.

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Black Sun Lit presents the launch of Róbert Gál’s Naked Thoughts, featuring a bilingual + interactive performance by the author and readings by Vestiges contributors Anna Gurton-Wachter, Nicola Masciandaro & Kyra Simone.

Conjunctions celebrates the release of its spring issue, Conjunctions:70, Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue, with a reading by contributors Madeline Kearin, Maria Lioutaia, and Kyra Simone, and an introduction by longtime Conjunctions contributor Alexandra Kleeman, at KGB Bar (85 East 4th Street, NYC).

This was a monthly reading series featuring both established and emerging writers, hosted on the second Sunday of each month at Erv's on Beekman in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.

Sunday’s Black Clock Issue 15 launch at McNally Jackson was packed with people and plastic fold-out chairs despite two lit-event anomalies: it was a Sunday afternoon and there was no booze. The second surprise was explained by the first, and the amount of people by the quality of the magazine, which has published scruffy old literary voices with fresh and squeaky new ones since its debut eight years ago. The theme of Issue 15 was alternative histories of cinema.