Issue #24

Thanks for making Line Break #24 so compelling!

A gigantic thanks to everyone who turned out for the twenty-fourth regular episode of Line Break this past Saturday, at beautiful Q.E.D. in Astoria, Queens. You were a tiny crowd, perhaps due to the date change and the New York...  read

Meet our readers: Stephanie Laterza

We regret that Sarah Riccio is unable to appear today, but we're pleased and grateful to welcome Stephanie Laterza. Stephanie Laterza is the recipient of a SU-CASA 2018 artist-in-residence award from the Brooklyn Arts Council, and is the author of...  read

Reminder: Line Break #24 is this Sunday afternoon!

Just a reminder that Line Break, the eclectic monthly live literary magazine, returns this Sunday afternoon in a special Special Sunday Edition in Astoria, Queens. At every show, live-lit veteran William Shunn brings a wild assortment of writers together on...  read

Meet our readers: Sarah Riccio

UPDATE: We regret that Sarah will be unable to appear due to unforeseen circumstances. Sarah Riccio studied writing at Brooklyn College. After a storied career slinging beer in Astoria, she now writes for an online sleep resource about bedding and...  read

Meet our readers: Oscar Sanders

Oscar Sanders was born and raised in the Bronx, NY. The former jazz/funk/rock guitarist has garnered awards for shorts, features, documentary films, and a political crime novel, Final Hearing, which won the 2016 NYCHA–NAACP Just READ Award. His creative writing...  read

Meet our readers: Susana H. Case

Susana H. Case is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Erasure, Syria, from Recto y Verso Editions, and Drugstore Blue, from Five Oaks Press, as well as four chapbooks. Her first collection, The Scottish Café, from Slapering...  read

Meet our readers: Eleanor Lerman

Eleanor Lerman is the author of numerous award-winning collections of poetry and short stories, along with several novels. She is a National Book Award finalist, winner of the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and...  read

Line Break #24: Sunday, November 4, 2018

Line Break is here again! It's the eclectic monthly live literary magazine where poetry meets prose, fact meets fiction, and high-brow meets low-brow, this time in a special Special Sunday Edition in Astoria, Queens. At every show, live-lit veteran William...  read
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Line Break is an eclectic monthly reading series showcasing a mix of fiction, poetry and essays. We are currently on hiatus.