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Monthly gathering of exiles
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10/23 @ 8PM (MOLASSES)

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We had so much fun at our Orion Pity Party this month that we decided to do it AGAIN at Molasses this Friday 10/23 🙌 thank you so much to our 10/14 readers (three of them literally joined on eight hours before the reading due to our other three readers being out sick) you were frickin incredible 👏👏 we literally had a long lost friendship reunited at this one…

@emmasheinbaum
Salvo
@noortannir
@jayboogywiththehoody

We will see you all at the second anthology release 10/23 at Molasses!!!

— @sophie_eve00 & Pity Party Team

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#readingseries #bushwick #writers #poets #readings taken in Orion Bar by @pitypartyreadings

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OUR SECOND ANTHOLOGY RELEASE IS HERE! Next Friday, October 23rd, gather with us @molassesbooks , snag a copy of the anthology, and hear from four of our favorite readers 👏

@budsmith
@mactaggartjewel
@victorjonesmusic
@kingfergus

We can’t wait to see you all 😍

— Pity Party
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14TH @orionbarbk we welcome in the fall: the fall of summer, and the fall of humanity, and the fall of currencies because we bring to you a totally free, professional poetry reading 🙌🫟 we are so excited for our readers this month:

@axsalvo
@cityskyandsea
@suuuhailll
@matarose

Can’t wait to see you all there!
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14 days ago

Submissions to our fall anthology close in just a few days! Be sure to email us your work by 11:59pm ET on Wednesday, September 30th. Accepted works will be printed in our fall anthology and published on our website🙌

If you’ve read with us before, feel free to email us or DM us with work you’d like to share by October 7th…

Love you all 😘

— @sophie_eve00

P.S. Thank you for all of the applications to be a part of Pity Party! We’ve received enough applications and will be responding to everyone shortly.

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#submissions #litmag #writers #poets #prose by @pitypartyreadings

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23 days ago

Join us at @unnameablebooks for an evening of poetry and fiction, yearning and delight, featuring authors working with @girlsandqueerstothefront: Sophie Ewh, Aleksandra Kamińska, Eileen Myles, Katie Naughton, Monika Zaleska.

GQTTF is a small press based in Poland, publishing bilingual collaborative zines, short fiction, and poetry in dialogue with visual artists. Since 2015, GQTTF has been shaping and archiving how DIY ethos and feminist-queer cooperation defined the last decade of print and activist practices in Poland, while building transnational alliances. The evening brings together New York- and Warsaw-based writers.

We’ll be celebrating the new issue of the GQTTF zine as well! It’ll be sexy, and it will be sad. Don’t miss this 💋

Monday, September 21st, 7 pm
Unnameable Books
615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY taken in Unnameable Books by @pitypartyreadings

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Alas, I did not take a group photo from our September reading… so here is a candid without context! See what you miss when you don’t come to in person events and only like the Instagram post 🤨

September was such an incredible lineup!!! Thank you to our readers 🙌🥰🎉

@vambam
@ry_p_cook
@_roughdraft
@sampsonstarkweather

Be sure to check out Mansi’s upcoming book Women in Marigold out with @stillhousepress on September 22nd AND the mysterious new @sampsonstarkweather collection out in October…

See you all OCTOBER 14th for the next one at Orion Bar! And be on the lookout for a special October 23rd reading/celebration extravaganza at Molasses 😈

Much love 💕
— @sophie_eve00

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#readingseries #bushwick #literary #poets #writers taken in Orion Bar by @pitypartyreadings

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SCHOOL IS BACK IN SESSION, FOLKS!!! Yet all work and no antics sends golden geese off to the rendering plants… so another Pity Party is due! This Wednesday, September 9th, we’re welcoming four incredible readers to @orionbarbk and celebrating two new books!

@vambam (@thelosangelesreview )
@ry_p_cook (Freak of Nature, @choochoopress )
@_roughdraft (Women in Marigold, @stillhousepress )
@sampsonstarkweather (Poem Like Nobody’s Watching, @food.etc.food )

Come out to hear a selection from Mansi’s new book and browse chaps from Ry and Sampson! Plus you’ll get to try some of the DELICIOUS food @orionbarbk by @yooeating

Can’t wait to see you all…

— @sophie_eve00 & @noahmezzacappa & @peacockcookie

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#readingseries #bushwick #poetry #writers #nycpoetry taken in Orion Bar by @pitypartyreadings

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Last week, I traveled to Brooklyn to read for the @pitypartyreadings at @orionbarbk in celebration of Whole, Holy, Hot! ❤️‍🔥

What a treat to read with @marisa_crawford again after sharing a stage with her in Baltimore this spring—and to read with @chase.elodia and @yooeating. (Fun fact: @yooeating is the chef and owner of Orion—as well as a James Beard Award winner. She finished the orders, stepped out of the kitchen to read her gorgeous work, then went right back to cooking.)

Thank you to @sophie_eve00 and @peacockcookie for bringing us all together! I hope to be back in NYC for another reading soon!

(Swipe to enjoy me gesturing wildly while telling a dramatic poem anecdote.) by @pitypartyreadings

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Submissions are now open for the second Pity Party anthology! 🙌 Email us up to 5 poems or 3,000 words of prose (fiction and nonfiction) at pitypartysubmissions@gmail.com. Accepted submissions will be published in our print zine and on our website; NYC writers will be invited to read at one of our monthly outings. Our first anthology included writers such at Matthew Rohrer, Marisa Crawford, Gina Myers, and Edmund Berrigan.

Submit by September 30th! 🌋🥵

PS If you’re interested in working with us, we’re looking for volunteer Readings Coordinators, Prose Editors, and Art Editors. Probably a 2 hour weekly commitment, but a priceless, metaphorical Rolodex of community writers 🥰

— @sophie_eve00 @noahmezzacappa @peacockcookie

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THANK YOU TO OUR AUGUST READERS & @orionbarbk for welcoming us for the first time!!! It was incredible to hear @yooeating reading from her own book in her own bar/restaurant, while creating a space for other writers to share their work as well. A huge round of applause for

@chase.elodia
@yooeating
@marisa_crawford
@chrissympoet (go check out Whole, Holy, Hot, out with @writebloodypublishing 🙌)

Once again, for those of you who didn’t see the last post, we’re moving to @orionbarbk every second WEDNESDAY of the month while keeping a quarterly reading at Molasses!

May the city bless you in all the ways it’s blessed us 🫡

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#readingseries #nycliteraryevents #poets #writers #bushwickevents by @pitypartyreadings

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August’s Pity Party will be this WEDNESDAY @orionbarbk (157 Suydam) where we’ll celebrate “Whole, Holy, Hot” by @chrissympoet and out with @writebloodypublishing 🙌🥵🙏 she’ll be joined by

@chase.elodia (The Atlantic)
@yooeating (“Soju Party,” James Beard Award Winner)
@marisa_crawford (“Diary,” @spuytenduyvilpublishing )

We can’t wait for this reading to welcome in a new space, new vibes, and a new book 🥰 for anyone nosing into the caption, we’re still going to have a quarterly reading series at Molasses, but as our Pity Party family/vision expands, we wanted to keep our monthly reading series going to bring as many cool poets and writers to the community as possible. Keep an eye out for a few announcements regarding our website/submissions coming soon 👀

— @sophie_eve00 & @peacockcookie & @noahmezzacappa

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“Amy Winehouse Movie” by @marisa_crawford

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“The Shape of Water” by Alexandre Desplat

Availble to read on our website and in our one-year anthology :D

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