M E N A C E Magazine - Readings from the 'Literary Weird'

Menace invites you to a night of readings by its past and upcoming contributors.

Join us for stories and poems that celebrate the speculative, the dark, the transgressive, and the gross.

Readers include: Julian Jaffe, Birch Wiley, c. rivera, Adrielle Munger, Erin Hoskins, Imogen Ma, Anna Hundert, and Sophia Carroll

About the readers:

Julian Jaffe (he/him) is an autistic, Jewish trans man writing music and poetry in Brooklyn, NY. Poet Aditi Machado has described his writing as “richly, eclectically sensory, full of wit and wonder and lusty delight in language…flexible and formally inventive.” He has won awards with The Academy of American Poets, The University of Cincinnati, and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. His work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets, Writer’s Foundry Review, and Short Vine Literary Journal.

Birch Wiley is a transsexual writer living in New York. Their work can be found in Pleiades, Voicemail Poems, and Querencia Quarterly, among others. Their debut poetry collection, Mythweaver, was published by new words {press}. You can learn more about them at birchwiley.com.

c. rivera (they/she) is a queer disabled poet & food writer from NYC. They were named a Brooklyn Poets Fellow, a prize winner for Eavesdrop Magazine’s Queer Joy issue, and in Fruitslice's issue on Repair. You can follow them on IG @crystal.e.rivera.

Adrielle Munger (she/her) is an editor of academia and writer of fiction. She works with MIT Horizon, Sulit Press, the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, the College Board, the New York Public Library, and others. She lives in New York City.

Erin Hoskins (she/her) is from Oregon and currently attends the MFA Creative Writing program at George Mason University, where she is the Art & Blog Editor for the university's intersectional feminist journal, So to Speak. Erin's work has appeared in Fiction Alley, OxMag, and elsewhere. She primarily writes about women's rights and women's wrongs.

Imogen Ma is a writer, illustrator, and repentant computer scientist from Greater Boston.

Anna Hundert is a fiction and nonfiction writer based in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, the Ploughshares blog, and elsewhere both online and in print.

Sophia Carroll (she/they) ​​is a writer and the editor-in-chief of M E N A C E. Her work appears in SmokeLong Quarterly, wildness, Maudlin House, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, I think we should be louder at Dyke March, is available from Bottlecap Press.