New York’s Lit Crawl was conceived by alumni organizers of San Francisco’s prestigious literary festival LitQuake. This east-coast, sister festival involves literary publishers, authors and artists in a performative bar-crawl through various neighborhoods in New York City. Now in its fifth year, Lit Crawl is no longer contained in Manhattan’s Lower East Side and East Village, but has expanded to include the borough of Brooklyn.

This year’s Brooklyn Lit Crawl will take place this Saturday, May 18th from 5:00 – 8:00 pm beginning at A Public Space on Dean Street, and ending at an after party hosted by Bergen Street’s 61 Local. Each location on the Lit Crawl offers a unique event, focused on literary practices.

Our gallery will be hosting Queens Transfer, a series of readings by the MFA candidates at Queens College, during the third phase of the Lit Crawl (7:15 – 8pm). Queens Transfer will include a selection of short-stories, poetry and translation works, which Lit Crawl describes as both a”literary and geographic expanse…from New York to the Czech Republic, from Charles Darwin to the folktales of Mozambique.” The readers of Queens Transfer are Mike Baugh, Faye Sakellaridis, Olivia Mammone, Gabriel Cabrera and Eric Becker.

The Brooklyn Lit Crawl  provides opportunity for curators and literary publications such as BOMB Magazine, the Paris Review, Words Without Borders and promotes emerging authors through sponsorships and outreach.

So see a complete schedule, including locations and event listings, be sure to visit the Lit Crawl website.