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Live from New York City
After more than a year under lockdown, Read650 is back!
With New York City and the state opening up, Read650 has been invited to present a one-hour program in the Bryant Park Reading Room!
Our first live show since January 2020 at Lincoln Center takes place 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 7 in Bryant Park directly behind the New York Public Library. The one-hour performance will feature a cast of talented writers performing audience favorites we’ve featured on stage and in our print anthologies.
Scheduled to Appear
Jennifer Rawlings • David Masello • Ann Levin • Steven Lewis • Barbara Chen • Minnette Coleman • Annabel Monaghan • Anthony Murphy • Malachy McCourt
The event is free and open to the public, but we need your help to serve our mission to promote writers.
With your support and through partnerships with organizations like Carnegie Hall, The National Arts Club, and Vassar College, Read650 has featured Pushcart and Pulitzer Prize winners alongside grad students and grandparents to read their own original short works—stories we now feature every week on the Read650 podcast!
You help bring those performances to a wide audience via the internet; with your help, we'll soon return to theaters and other venues with events that bring community together and inspire other writers.
Your gift today will help support our long-term mission to promote digital and live performances celebrating the spoken word. You make everything we do possible, and we can't do it without you!
New Podcast: “Pride”
In honor of Pride Month, this week's Read650 podcast features straight—but not narrow—LGBT perspectives with five minute spoken word true stories from John Gredler, Kathryn Mayer, and John Pielmeier. Plus, a "Between the Lines" observation on the writing life from Deborah Batterman. New episodes are available every "Writer Wednesday" at 6:50 PM eastern time.
Submissions Wanted
The audience for our popular weekly podcast is growing, and we want to hear from you! Do you have some thoughts, observations, or hard-earned wisdom to share about writing—or about not writing, and the many ways you’ve discovered to procrastinate? About developing your writer voice? About some sage advice from a mentor? The struggle to have something published? Why—and how—you write? And why writing matters? In 400 words or less, please share those thoughts for the show's “Between the Lines” segment. Listen to some examples from recent shows.
I'm so grateful for your continued encouragement and support. Please follow our podcast, and share this message with your friends. Tell the writers you know about Read650, and help spread the word about the spoken word!
