I’ve always aspired to be a “woman of letters,” so I’m pretty excited to report that I’ll be appearing at Housing Works Bookstore in SoHo this Wednesday 27th March, from 7.00pm at New York’s first Women of Letters Literary Salon.
It’s official! In an effort to help revive the nostalgic art of correspondence, I’ll be reading a letter to “the person I misjudged”, which is the theme for the inaugural New York installment of the popular Melbourne-born series established by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire three years ago.
When a Melbourne-based friend of mine found out I was a late addition to the lineup, she wrote:
I go all the time in Melbourne and it’s such a brilliant event. Has massive cult following in Melbs and it’s hard to get tickets. Wish I was seeing the Manhattan version.
I find myself in fine company on Wednesday, when I’ll be joining this pretty impressive lineup:
Founder of The Hairpin and contributing writer to the New York Times magazine EDITH ZIMMERMAN
The ‘Michael Bay of business’ and founder of MakeLoveNotPorn, TED superstar CINDY GALLOP
Author of smash hit books The Year Of Yes and Queen of Kings MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY
Post-punk goddess (The Flying Lizards, Chantage) and music journalist VIVIEN GOLDMAN
Young adult novelist and creator of the Gemma Doyle trilogy LIBBA BRAY
And founder of The Citizens Band, filmmaker and trapeze artist SARAH SOPHIE FLICKER.
If you’re in the city and at a loose end – god knows there’s never anything to do in New York City – please come along.
Suppose it’s time to get on with writing polishing my letter. And practicing to read it so I don’t race through it on the night like the terrified person I’ll be.
