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The Café & Bar Presents EXHIBIT B IN NYC: A Reading

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Saturday, 5:00 pm EDT June 3, 2023

The Center for Fiction Café & Bar

RSVPs are optional and drink purchases are gently requested. Guests will be admitted on a first-come, first-seated basis.


EXHIBIT B IN NYC: A Reading highlights outstanding authors with a focus on queer and trans writers and writers of color. We aim to bring established and emerging writers into the same events, conversations, and readership. Join host and Emerging Writer Fellowship alumna Claire Oleson for an evening of readings featuring Edward Ongweso Jr., Nat Mesnard, Jen Lue, and Gyasi Hall at The Center for Fiction Café & Bar.

In collaboration with Exhibit B and Unbound Edition Press.

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Featuring

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    Edward Ongweso Jr.

    Edward Ongweso Jr.

    Edward Ongweso Jr. is a freelance writer based in New York City who writes about technology, finance, and labor. He co-hosts This Machine Kills, a podcast on the history, politics, and economics of technological development. He also runs The Tech Bubble, a newsletter on the same subject, with his two cats.

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    Gyasi Hall

    Gyasi Hall

    Gyasi Hall (they/them) writes stuff and is from Columbus, Ohio. Their essays “Alas, Poor Fhoul” and “Eminem Drop-Kicked Me in This Dream I Had” were both nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and their debut poetry chapbook, Flight of the Mothman: An Autobiography, was published by The Operating System in Spring 2019. Their work can be found or is forthcoming in Longreads, Guernica, the Iowa Review, the Black Warrior Review, Brink, and the 68to05 Project. They received their MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa, and they are currently working on a book about Black people and comics.

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    Jen Lue

    Jen Lue

    Jen Lue is an alumna of The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship and a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA fiction finalist. Her work has been featured in the Margins, Sepia Journal, BOMB magazine, and Joyland.

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    Nat Mesnard

    Nat Mesnard

    Nat Mesnard writes fiction, teaches storytelling, and designs games. They are faculty at Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts, and co-founded the independent storytelling game publishing collective Scryptid Games. Nat has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Brink, Cartridge Lit, Autostraddle, Bodega, Blackbird, Kenyon Review online, and elsewhere. New games include a print tabletop RPG zine, Ball of the Wild, and a short RPG titled Adventurer’s Respite forthcoming in the 2023 Level 1 Anthology.

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    Claire Oleson

    Claire Oleson

    Claire Oleson is a queer writer and 2020 Emerging Writer Fellow at The Center for Fiction. She is a 2019 graduate of Kenyon College where she studied English and Creative Writing. Her work has been published by the Kenyon Review online, the LA Review of Books, Guesthouse, and Foglifter. Her chapbook of short stories, Things from the Creek Bed We Could Have Been debuted in May 2020 from Newfound Press. She is represented by Eloy Bleifuss at Janklow & Nesbit.