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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.
Andy Friedman
Andy Friedman has been touring the nation’s music, art, theater, literary and drinking venues as a “Slideshow Poet” for almost three years. After the publication of his first book, Drawings & Other Failures in 2001,
Melissa Petro
Melissa Petro graduated from Antioch College in 2002 with a degree in Self, Society and Culture, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at The New School. The first chapter of her memoir
Reed Dickson
Reed Dickson is a professionally obsessive amateur guitarist who occasionally lets himself sing his mind, when in drop-D tuning. When not directing a teacher training program at Teachers College, Columbia University, Reed composes pieces for
Kinyanjui Kombani
Kinyanjui Kombani is a graduate of Kenyatta University. His book, The Last Villains of Molo was born out of Kinyanjui’s experiences both at Molo and Ng’ando, the Nairobi slum he lived in for 5 years,
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.
Doreen Baingana
Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan writer and author of Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005, Harlem Moon/Doubleday, 2006). The book won the Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Award in
Carol Novack
Carol Novack is a re-emerging writer, a lapsed criminal defense and constitutional lawyer with a Masters Degree in Social Work (community organizing). A book of her poems, Living Alone Without a Dictionary, was published in
Tara McCarthy
Tara McCarthy’s first novel, Love Will Tear Us Apart, was published in September. She is also the author of a memoir, Been There, Haven’t Done That (Warner Books), and her work has appeared in magazines
Jeffrey Renard Allen
Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of two collections of poetry, Stellar Places (Moyer Bell 2007) and Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell 1999), and two works of fiction, the widely celebrated and influential novel, Rails
