KGB Bar

Fictionaut is pleased to announce its first-ever New York City reading, at KGB Bar on Oct. 17, 7 PM - featuring Ben Greenman, Matthew Salesses, and Terese Svoboda

Fictionaut (http://fictionaut.com) is an innovative literary community that is opening exciting new possibilities for short fiction and poetry. Part self-selecting magazine, part social network, Fictionaut is a way for readers to discover new voices and for writers to share their work and connect with their audience. Since its public launch last year, Fictionaut has attracted a thriving community of established and up-and-coming authors, including Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Marcy Dermansky, James Robison, Kim Chinquee, Robert Olen Butler, Mary Gaitskill, and tonight’s readers.

Ben Greenman is an editor at the New Yorker and the author of several acclaimed books of fiction, including What He’s Poised to Do, Celebrity Chekov, and Corresspondences. His fiction, essays, and journalism have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Paris Review, Zoetrope: All Story, McSweeneys, and Opium, and he has been widely anthologized.

Poet, novelist and essayist Terese Svoboda’s most recent book is Pirate Talk or Mermalade, a novel in voices about two brothers who meet a mermaid, fall into pirating, and end up in the Arctic. She has also published three books of poetry, one book of translation from the African language, Nuer, and three novels. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Spin, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal.

Matthew Salesses is the author of Our Island of Epidemics (PANK) and The Last Repatriate (forthcoming from Flatmancrooked), as well as a nonfiction chapbook, We Will Take What We Can Get (Publishing Genius). His short fiction has been published in Glimmer Train, Witness, Pleiades, American Short Fiction, The Literary Review, and over forty others, and has received awards from Glimmer Train, Mid-American Review, PANK, HTMLGIANT, The University of New Orleans, and IMPAC. He earned his MFA from Emerson College.
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fiction director Suzanne Dottino contact: Suzanne@kgbbar.com

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,