Patchwork, a feminist literary salon, brings together authors across genres and stages in their careers to create a colorful tapestry of radical, experimental, and feminist writing and community. Join us monthly for readings, lively conversation, drink specials, books for sale, and an opportunity to mingle and connect with fellow feminist writers and readers!
DATE: Monday, June 3
TIME: 7:00pm doors; 7:30 start
LOCATION: SISTERS, 900 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11238
Patchwork is produced by the Feminist Press, the world’s longest-running feminist publisher. Founded as a press of recovery in 1970, FP is proud to publish books that ignite movements and social transformation, and envisions a world in which everyone recognizes themselves in a book. Through this programming, we aim to bring a wide variety of authors from various presses, magazines, and journals together and create an energetic, exciting space for feminist and indie literary community in New York.
🪡 ABOUT OUR READERS 🪡
CHLOÉ CALDWELL is the author of four books: the essay collection I’ll Tell You in Person, the critically acclaimed novella, Women, Legs Get Led Astray, and The Red Zone: A Love Story. Chloe’s next book, TRYING, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2025. Her novella Women will be reissued by Harper Perennial on June 4th, 2024.
Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Bon Appétit, New York Magazine’s The Cut, The Strategist, Romper, Buzzfeed, Longreads, Vice, Nylon, Salon, Medium, The Rumpus, Hobart, The Sun, Men’s Health, and half a dozen anthologies including Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NYC and Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, and the forthcoming, Sluts. Chloé lives in Hudson, New York.
NAOMI KANAKIA is the author of the novel The Default World as well as three YA novels and a nonfiction book, What’s So Great about Great Books. Her stories, poetry, and essays have been published in American Short Fiction, Asimov’s, Gulf Coast, LitHub, and others. She has an MFA from Johns Hopkins and received the Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellowship in 2016. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and daughter.
GABRIEL CARLE is a writer and academic researching queerness, race, migration, and the environment in Caribbean literatures and cultures. They completed a BA in Escritura Creativa at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University. They are based in New York City. Bad Seed is their first book.
AISHVARYA ARORA is a poet, cultural worker, and double Taurus from Queens. They have received support from the Fulbright Program and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where they were a Poetry Coalition Fellow. Their work is featured in Harana Poetry and Apogee, and is forthcoming in The Margins and Poetry Northwest. Find them on instagram @cool_slug_.
Patchwork is hosted by NADINE SANTORO. Nadine Santoro is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator. She works as the Publicity & Events Coordinator at the Feminist Press, 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 girlfriend and their two senior dogs, Knives and Young Neil.
Logo and graphics by Neeti Banerji. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Hive Mind Books. This programming is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.