The Inspired Word Presents We Heart NYC Writers Night + Open Mic in The Gallery at LPR.
 
This is a celebration of New York City writers of all types – poets, novelists, journalists, short story writers. Shows will feature as many as five carefully selected readers and a 7-slot open mic (5-minute time limit).
 
Newly released signed books will be available for purchase – a great chance to show local literary love.
 
Please share this event on social networks with the hashtag #SupportLocalWritersNYC. It’s good karma.
 
Produced by Mike Geffner Presents The Inspired Word
 

Ellie Pyle holds a MFA in Performing Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a BS (seriously) in Playwriting and Screenwriting from Drexel University. A four time winner of Virginia’s state playwriting competition, New Voices for the Theater, she has had over 15 plays and adaptations read and preformed in New York, Philadelphia, Richmond and Savannah and her one woman show Blood Brides has been published internationally. She currently lives in NYC and edits comic books. Her two novels, Southern Girls with Big Vocabularies and The Men in Between, are available for purchase here.

A native of East Tennessee, Verless Doran now lives and writes in New York with his wife and 2 daughters. His prose and poetry has been published in The Smoking Poet, Dogzplot Literary Journal, Riverbabble Review, The Thirteenth Warrior Review, and many others, as well as the anthologies “Heroin Love Songs” and “The Better Bombshell.” He is the author of the short story collection “The Tinker of Canaan” and “Some Dark Holler, the Appalachian Poems,” available from Sugar Hollow Press.

Allison Sylvia is a digital poet. Although her epic poem, Scroll, is ‘all language, no body’ – she has deep respect for the physical thing. She has spent this past year leaving hand sewn chapbooks on benches and subways and reciting her manifesto in the Washington Square fountain. From guerilla style street art to behind a microphone – she is honored to have any opportunity to perform and commune. Her website can be found here.

Bryan Ogilvie is a Queens-based author of How to Conquer Yourself: Discipline & Willpower for the Conscious, Creative Thinker. He is the owner of DoTheKnowledge.com, a former musician, social activist-turned-writer, a public speaker and personal consultant. He coaches aspiring artists and creative professionals on how to succeed in their respective career paths. His book can be found on Amazon.

Megan DiBello founded Poetry Teachers NYC in 2010. She holds a M.F.A from Naropa University, in Writing & Poetics and a B.A. from Marymount Manhattan College. She has been published in Fact-Similie, Flanour Foundry, The Bathroom, & Monkey Puzzle Press. Megan has performed at the White Box Gallery, The Bowery Poetry Club, The HOWL Festival, The Socrates Sculpture Park, The Center of Book Arts, Metropolitan Pavilion, Columbia University, and the DUMBO Arts Festival. Her first hybrid book is entitled, Voyeur Without A Title.

 
Poetry Teachers NYC official site
@poetryteachnyc
@megandibello