Midwinter Reading: Unpublished Fiction

Registration for this event is not required; however, in the case of a full event, your registration will reserve your seat.

Join us on Tuesday, December 16 in Remington for a midwinter reading of unpublished fiction from Baltimore writers!

FEATURING

Clarence Harlan Orsi’s fiction and essays have been published in journals including, The Believer, Kenyon Review, New England Review, n+1, and others. You can find him working his way through a Les Mills class at a YMCA near you, and by the time of this introduction, he either will or will not have cooked the timpano pastry main dish featured in the 1996 Stanley Tucci film Big Night, which will give him something to talk about when he gets onstage. Today, Clarence will be reading from his novel, Somebody Else's Child.

Emily García holds an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts and was born and raised in Oakland, California, though she now lives in Baltimore. Her work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Hobart, The South Dakota Review, 34TH PARALLEL, Wallstrait, and BmoreArt. Today, Emily Garcia will be reading from her novel, Leonard Cohen's House.

Heather McDonald is an award-winning, widely-produced playwright with a passion for and commitment to teaching. She is Professor of Theater and Film at George Mason University. Her plays have been presented nationally, internationally, on Broadway, and in alleyways. She can make a play for $100 out of a suitcase or one starring Kevin Bacon. Some of her plays are An Almost Holy Picture, Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, and Dream of a Common Language. Her work has been honored with a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize and several National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Playwriting Fellowships. Having moved 26 times, she is grateful to now call Baltimore Home. She will be reading from Baleen - an American Lamentation, both a book and piece for the stage.

Elise Herrala is a sociologist of art and culture and the author of Art of Transition: The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia. She is interested in the entanglement of culture and capitalism, which she is exploring in a financial crisis-era campus novel titled Arts and Letters, which she will be reading from today. She lives in Baltimore and teaches at Haverford College.

Jess Schreibstein is the Head of Content and Social at Bose where she leads social media and brand creative. Since 2020, she's run Book Club for the Planet, a book club dedicated to the climate crisis, now hosted by Greedy Reads. In 2023, she earned her graduate certificate in Sustainability from Harvard. She lives just a couple blocks from Greedy Reads, which she has credited with single-handedly rekindling her love for reading and writing (thanks GR!). She is an unpublished writer and is currently working on her first novel, The Last Glacier, which she will read from today. Find her writing about writing at ursulafanclub.substack.com.

Marian Crotty is the author of the short story collections Near Strangers, which won the 2023 Autumn House Fiction Prize, and What Counts as Love, which was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her short stories have appeared in venues such as the Kenyon Review, The Sun, Ploughshares, and Best American Short Stories 2020. She is a Professor of Writing at Loyola University Maryland. Marian will be reading from her novel, The Next Right Thing.