
It’s a new year – and an exciting time to kick off a new literary season!
The Reader Berlin is delighted to celebrate
the launch of Fatin Abbas’ debut, Ghost Season: A Novel.
Just in time for the darkest days of winter – the last Open Mic of 2024!👏 Where: Das Gift, Donaustrasse 119 (U-bahn Rathaus Neukölln) When: Tuesday, December 10; Doors open at 18:30. Emceed again by the amazing Will Buckingham – back in Berlin! Sign up for a 5-minute reading slot at the door (starting at … Read more
On November 22nd, join us for the Berlin book launch of The Salt Flats by Rachelle Atalla! Doors open at 19:00 (starts at 19:30) @ Lettretage (Veteranenstrasse 21, 10119) Martha and Finn’s marriage is hanging by a thread. Martha, crippled by paralyzing climate anxiety, finds herself at odds with Finn, who steadfastly refuses to confront … Read more
Join us November 13th at 19:00 for the Berlin Book Lunch of Feast While You Can By Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta at Keith Bar (Schillerpromenade 2, 12049 Berlin) in Neukölln. Jane Flett will be moderating and Marc Yates will do the opening reading. ‘A truly monstrous romance’ JULIA ARMFIELD, AUTHOR OF OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA … Read more
🎤 Get ready to rock the mic at our next OPEN MIC Night! 🎉 This time, emceed by the one and only Will Buckingham—screenwriter, reader tutor, and all-around story wizard. 🪄✨ Where: Das Gift, Donaustrasse 119 (U-Bahn Rathaus Neukölln) When: Tuesday, Sept. 10 Doors open at 18:30, Sign-ups start at the door (first come, first … Read more
On July 5th, join us for the Berlin book launch of the much awaited FREAKSLAW by Jane Flett! Doors open at 19:00 @ Lettretage (Veteranenstrasse 21, 10119) It’s the summer of ’97 and the Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change. Enter the Freakslaw – a travelling funfair populated by deviant queers, a contortionist witch, … Read more
On June 28, join us at Lettretage for a listen of what Reader students have been working on this past year! We’re back! And we too can hardly believe that it’s already been a fall and a spring of workshops and writing! But all these poems have been composed, essays envisioned, and fiction imagined. … Read more
The Reader Berlin invites you to the Berlin book launch of THE SHINING MOUNTAINS with author Alix Christie in conversation with writer, publisher and journalist Joachim Zepelin. Accompanied by short fiction from Donovan Dennis. When: 11 December, 2023 Doors open at 19:00 and readings will start at around 19:30. Where: Lettrétage (Veteranenstrasse 21, Mitte) … Read more
When: Saturday, September 16, 2023 Where: Lettrétage (Vetranenstrase 21, Berlin-Mitte) Doors open at 19:00/ Readings begin at 19:30 Admission is free of charge. https://www.facebook.com/events/1514121302458805 An evening moderated by Sanders Isaac Bernstein. Our writers in Berlin have been penning personal essays, spinning out speculative flash fiction, writing poetry for the first time, trying out comedy writing, … Read more
The Berlin Book Launch of NOTES ON HER COLOUR by Jennifer Neal On July 4th, The Reading in collaboration with Daddy Magazine present the launch of One of Electric Literature’s Books by Women of Color to Read This Year! Florida kitsch swirls together with magical realism in this glittering debut novel about … Read more
The Berlin book launch of OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA by Julia Armfield: with Mikaella Clements and Lizzy Yarwood When: Wednesday, May 31, 19:00 Where: Lettrétage (Veteranenstrasse 1, Mitte) “Part bruisingly tender love story, part nerve-clanging submarine thriller” (The Times). OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA is Julia Armfield’s chilling and tragic debut novel. Miri thinks … Read more
Where: Das Gift, Donaustrasse 119 (U-bahn Rathaus Neukölln) When: Tuesday, April 25; Doors open at 18:30. Sign up for a 5-minute reading slot at the door. OPEN MIC begins at 19:00. Cost: Free https://www.facebook.com/events/229553252919203?ref=newsfeed The next OPEN MIC – by The Reader Berlin – is back! — Our first OPEN MIC in February brought in 21 (!) … Read more

It’s a new year – and an exciting time to kick off a new literary season!
The Reader Berlin is delighted to celebrate
the launch of Fatin Abbas’ debut, Ghost Season: A Novel.