It’s Winter, and there’s no turning back. If this isn’t the season for reading, writing, and putting all that hot, Summer-in-Philly inspiration to good use, we don’t know what is.

In that spirit, pile into our garage brewery/bar to hear some of the top writers in town read from their published and unpublished work. Afterward, stick around for the open mic, where neighbors share their own writing. It’s a safe space for first-timers and repeat readers, alike. Print it out, read from your cell phone, just read to us.

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FEATURED READERS:

ROYCE DRAKE

Royce Drake holds an MFA from Temple University and has been a resident at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA. He teaches creative writing in Philadelphia. He is currently working on his first novel.

Dr. UDDIPANA GOSWAMI

Uddipana Goswami teaches critical writing in feminist, peace, identity and South Asian studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her early poetry, collected in We Called the River Red: Poetry from a Violent Homeland (Author's Press 2010), was mostly about political violence. Interactions with women during the course of her fieldwork for her academic monograph, Conflict and Reconciliation: The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam (Routledge 2013), sensitized Uddipana to the gendered nature of violence. This was followed by No Ghosts in This City (Zubaan 2014), a short story collection from India's leading feminist publishing house. Uddipana’s second poetry collection, Green Tin Trunk (Authors Press 2014), was included among the best poetry of the year in India by Scroll and The Sunday Guardian. This was subsequently her concern in her Fulbright postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania from 2016 to 2018.

BRYON MACWILLIAMS

Bryon MacWilliams is writer of the books With Light Steam and The Girl in the Haystack. A former foreign correspondent based in Moscow, his journalism, essays, poetry, and literary translations have appeared in anthologies and publications including: The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Literary Review, B O D Y, Solstice, Nature, and Science.

JENNIFER RAPHAEL

Jennifer Raphael is a copywriter, a former journalist and former staff writer for Philadelphia Magazine. Jennifer’s articles have appeared in Glamour, Mademoiselle, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan. Her short story, Fortress, won an honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writer’s Contest. Jennifer lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two sons. She’s working on her second novel.