Lampblack Lit reading and fundraiser for Independent Bookstore Day
with Naomi Jackson, Brittany Allen, and Simeon Marsalis
Independent Bookstore Day is right around the corner! We are so lucky to celebrate the right way with the incredible @thewordischange in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. Join us next Saturday, April 27th at 3pm — featuring readings by @thenaomijackson, @amazongenue, and @etherealsimon. You can view their work in previous editions of Lampblack Magazine (we’ll have copies available)✨
ABOUT THE AUTHORS🌿
Naomi Jackson is the author of a novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill (Penguin Press). Jackson studied fiction at the lowa Writers’ Workshop. She traveled to South Africa on a Fulbright scholarship, where she received an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. A graduate of Williams College, Jackson’s writings have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, and The Washington Post. She is the recipient of residencies and fellowships from MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Camargo Foundation, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Jackson is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.
Brittany K. Allen is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer. Her prose appears or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Catapult, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Kenyon Review Online, among other places, and her short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A MacDowell fellow, her award-winning stage plays have been produced and developed in New York, Portland, Kansas City, and Minneapolis. She is currently working on her first novel.
Simeon Marsalis is a writer from New Rochelle, NY, who earned a BA with honors from the University of Vermont for his thesis on Jazz and American Nationalism and an MFA in 2019 from Rutgers University-Newark, where he was the Henry Rutgers Fellow. As Lie Is to Grin, his first novel was published by Catapult in 2017 and was on the shortlist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. His short story, “The Exterminator”, appeared in the Fall 2021 Founder’s Issue of Lampblack, a magazine and literary organization he helped to co-found. Marsalis is working on his second novel entitled, End Times, and is currently a part-time lecturer in the English Department at Rutgers University-Newark.