KICKSTART YOUR WRITING Stockholm!

The Reader is going on tour! This May we’ll be landing in beautiful Stockholm to host a Kickstart Your Writing workshop with The English Bookshop Stockholm. Perfect for struggling writers and complete beginners, this workshop will get your creative juices flowing and help you to generate a body of new work! Further information here, to sign-up … Read more

Mikaella Clements

MIKAELLA CLEMENTS is the co-author of The View Was Exhausting, a modern love story interrogating celebrity, identity and privacy which she wrote with her wife Onjuli Datta, due out in July 2021 from Grand Central Publishing and Headline Review. Her fiction has also appeared in Catapult, Hazlitt and Overland Literary Journal, and she was shortlisted in the 2019 Galley … Read more

Kyomi Wade

KYOMI WADE is a British writer and digital marketer based in Berlin, with over 8 years experience in content and performance marketing. She is also the founder of WADED—an educational, lifestyle and creative brand for the modern marketer. Facebook ads marketer by day, and writer by night and weekends, Kyomi, also known as Wading Wade, … Read more

Leah Dworkin

Leah Dworkin

LEAH DWORKIN is a writer based in New York City. Her writing practice combines her interests: visual art and oral storytelling, holistic eating and food intuition, music and sonics, memory, dreamwork, movement, mysticism, somatics and magic. Her stories have been published in Fence, BOMB, Hotel, LitroUS, Best American Experimental and elsewhere. She’s worked as an associate editor at Conjunctions and is currently the … Read more

MARCH 19th and 20th – BERLIN WRITING WEEKEND

Lately, when people ask you how your writing is coming along, do you laugh hollowly and put your head in your hands? This spring why not reinvigorate your muse and move into summer 2016 inspired and unblocked… On March 19th and 20th, join Jane Flett and Victoria Gosling for a whole weekend devoted to feverish scribbling. Covering the basics of … Read more

Sunday Salon #2: ‘Venus’

erotic workshop

Our second Sunday Salon asked you to ditch date night, skip the box of chocolates and think twice about that bunch of flowers. Instead we gathered at the Galander Bar in Kreuzberg to indulge in an evening dedicated to Venus, goddess of love and lust.

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Sunday Salon #1 ‘Belonging’

For those of you who couldn’t make it, here is an edited podcast from our inaugural Sunday Salon back in November. It features author Tod Wodicka, writer and pianist Polly Trope and the Reader’s own Victoria Gosling. The theme was ‘Belonging, a home or a lack of one’, not an untopical subject in current times.

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A Monkey On A Horse by James Carson

James Carson reads from his fantastic story ‘A Monkey on a Horse’. James came all the way from Scotland to take part in the book launch of our Streets of Berlin anthology. He really read beautifully, you’re in for a treat. We’re sorry about the sound quality, but get 50 people in a cellar and … Read more