Save the date! On September 22nd, Sunday Salon kicks off the fall season with a stellar lineup of talented writers reading from their debut novels and fresh collections of prose and poetry! What’s more? Leslie-Ann Murray, the newest member of the incredible Sunday Salon team, brings her joyous presence to the mic, and the beloved DJ DubSix returns to spin the perfect beats. You won’t want to miss this! 5pm at Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St.
Chiwan Choi
Chiwan Choi is the author of five books of poetry: The Flood, the Daughter Trilogy—Abductions, The Yellow House, my name is wolf—and Sky Songs. He also wrote, presented & destroyed the novel Ghostmaker throughout the course of 2015. Chiwan is also a partner at the non-profit literary lab Writ Large Projects.
Charlee Dyroff
Charlee Dyroff is a writer from Boulder, Colorado. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Slate, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Southwest Review, and more. One of her essays was selected for The Best American Food Writing of 2019. LONELINESS & COMPANY is her debut novel.
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier’s debut novel, Off the Books, earned positive reviews from The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Bustle, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and others, and was included in Bustle’s “Most Anticipated” roundup. Her essays and interviews are featured in People Magazine, Electric Literature and Literary Hub. Soma relocated from California, where she was a San Francisco Library Laureate, to New York, for a professorship in creative writing and digital storytelling at SUNY Oswego.
Annell López
Annell López is the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the author of the short story collection I’LL GIVE YOU A REASON (Feminist Press). A Peter Taylor Fellow, her work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Common, Brooklyn Rail, Refinery29 and elsewhere. López received her MFA from the University of New Orleans. She is working on a novel.
Soraya Palmer
Soraya Palmer is the author of The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts. She is a Flatbush-born-and-raised writer and licensed social worker who has done organizing and advocacy work on the issues of gender-based violence, criminalized survivorship, gentrification, and police brutality. She has been awarded a residency at Blue Mountain Center in upstate NY and the Nawat Fes Residency in Fes, Morocco. She is a 2024 Fiction NYFA fellow. She teaches Fiction at the MFA program at CUNY City College and Writing Magical Realism for the Center for Fiction. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Nicholas.