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Sunday Salon witnessed the work of over 600 emerging and established writers, poets, and artists to include Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, American Book Award winners. Join us.
A literary community built by writers and poets, Sunday Salon is sustained by literary enthusiasts like you. Our mission is to feature emerging and established writers and poets at monthly readings. To share and celebrate marvelous stories, essays, and poetry. To entertain. To inspire.
Sunday Salon has welcomed to the mic:
Pulitzer Prize Winners
Tyehimba Jess
Gregory Pardlo
Yusef Komunyakaa
mAN bOOKER PRIZE WINNER
american book award Winners
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Jessica Hagedorn
Marlon James
LeAnne Howe
Natalie Diaz
Emily Raboteau
PEN AMERICAN LITERARY award Winners
Lisa Ko
Crystal Hana Kim
Saeed, Jones
Mia Alvar
Gina Apostol
Nina McConigley
Mark Doty
Minal Hajratwala
Monique Truong
Whiting award Winners
Jeffery Renard Allen
Alexander Chee
Edward C. Corral
Mark Doty
Kaitlyn Greenidge
Major Jackson
Mitchell Jackson
Tyehimba Jess
Alice Sola Kim
Rickey Laurentiis
Roger Reeves
Jess Row
Vu Tran
Joshua Weiner
Phillip B. Williams
Distinguished Readers
Marlon James
Marlon James is the author of John Crow’s Devil (2005), The Book of Night Women (2009), A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, and Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019).
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger.
Ivelisse Rodriguez
Ivelisse Rodriguez’s short story collection, Love War Stories (Feminist Press, 2018), was a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist.
Jessica Hagedorn
Poet, novelist, playwright, and multimedia artist Jessica Hagedorn was raised and lived in the Philippines until she moved to San Francisco in her teens. She is the author of five books, including the novel Dogeaters (1990), finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
Reese Okyong Kwon
R.O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel, The Incendiaries, is published by Riverhead (U.S.) and Virago/Little Brown (U.K.), and it is being translated into five languages.
Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky is the author of The Narrow Door (a New York Times Editors’ Choice), Unbuilt Projects, The Burning House, Famous Builder, and Lawnboy.
Illustrious Alumni
We love our alumni. Come be a part of a special group that reads at Sunday Salon.
Suzanne Wise
Suzanne Wise is the author of the poetry collection The Kingdom of the Subjunctive. More recently, her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in the anthologies Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century
Robert Yune
As a Navy brat, Robert Yune moved 11 times by the time he turned 18. After graduating from Pitt, he lived in Pittsburgh for the next 15 years. In the summer of 2012, he worked as
Laura Tanenbaum
Laura Tanenbaum studied comparative literature at NYU and is currently Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College. In 2006, she was a selected finalist in the Summer Literary Seminars fiction contest, and studied at
Lisa Ferber
Neo-screwball wit Lisa Ferber is a prolific story writer, playwright and lyricist. She has read at KGB, Dirty Laundry, Mad Hatters/Rogue Scholars Ball, Satchmo’s, and Barbes Brooklyn. Published stories, including “Bed of Plastic Bags and
Onduko Bw’ atebe
Onduko bw’ Atebe emerged on the literary scene late 2005 with the publication of his book: The Verdict of Death. In 2006, the book was nominated and went on to win the biggest prize in
Anne Landsman
Anne Landsman (annelandsman.com) is the author of the novel, The Devil’s Chimney (Soho, 1997; Penguin trade paperback, 1999), nominated for four awards including the PEN/Hemingway Award for a distinguished first book of fiction. Originally from
Hirsh Sawhney
Hirsh Sawhney edited and contributed a short story to Delhi Noir, an anthology of brand-new fiction published by Akashic Books. The book will be released by HarperCollins in India, Asphate in France, and Metropoli d’Asia
Nick Antosca
Nick Antosca’s writing has appeared in The Barcelona Review, Identity Theory, Nerve.com, The New York Tyrant, The Antietam Review, Hustler, Opium, elimae, and others. His first novel, Fires, was published in 2007 by Impetus Press.
Ronna Wineberg
Ronna Wineberg (www.ronnawineberg.com) is a writer and editor in New York. Her collection of short stories, Second Language, won the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Literary Competition, dedicated to discovering the best new writing,
