Friday, January 24, 2020

2019 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize Finalists







The following are the essayists who have been selected as the 2019 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize Finalists.






Mark Berger               -  “Power to the People” 

Melissa Matthews   -  “I’m Not a Kid Anymore”
 
Wayne Judge -               “Julie’s New Chevy”

Israela Margalit                   “Relic of the Future”

Loretta Masullo Comfort  -  “ 4th Street Memoir”

Bill Teitelbaum         “The Abduction of Carmela Branca” 
             
Cheryl Abel         -   “Tony Versus the Lemons”

Dallas Itzen           -    “Prompted”

Rebecca Kreiser –-  “A Tomato Grows in Brooklyn”

Jim Loughead      “Memories of Brooklyn and the Bottle”

Phyllis DeMarco    “The French CafĂ©”

Mel King               - “Bergen Street”

Bill McKitty        -  “An Afternoon in Flatbush”

Kierra Watson    -   “Afflicted Sun”
 
Gregg Willard        -      “MHW

Matthue Roth            -   Reasons for Restaurants” 

Sarah Xerar Murphy – “Rubble and the Sparkler: A Brooklyn Story

  Colin McGinnis       -  “Where art thou Brooklyn”

Thursday, January 23, 2020

2019 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize Finale at St. Francis College on January 24th, 2020


                               Bridge Painters on Brooklyn Bridge Cables, October, 1914           

2019 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize Finale at St. Francis College on January 24th, 2020



The Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival in partnership with St. Francis College will present the 2019 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize finale on Friday, January 24th, 2020 at St. Francis College.

Twelve essayists who are competitors for the 2019 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize's $500 annual writing award will read excerpts from their submissions. The writers will share their very real and personal stories about their own Brooklyn experiences in the 2019 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize finale event titled, “Brooklyn Life.”  This program begins at 7:00 pm Friday, January 24th, 2020 in the Maroney Theater at St. Francis College located at 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights, New York, 11201. This event is Free and open to the General Public.

Speakers include Dr. Athena Devlin, Chair of the English Department of St. Francis College, Alfred Kohler and Holly Fuchs of the Society of Old Brooklynites.

The St. Francis College English Department is an event sponsor.
https://www.sfc.edu/newsevents/events/details/~occur-id/680121