Alpha Beta Blah - The Party Scene

The 2025 AAWW Margins fellows present “Alpha Beta Blah”, a new reading series that invites writers to come frat out with the fellows.

The inaugural reading will take place on July 31st at 7 pm ET. Readers must submit a sample in advance that speaks to the theme “the party scene” - send us a piece of that campus novel, give us meet cutes at a rave, submit a cocktail of sonnets, take us to the house party that ruined a friend group.

Submit your sample to ZXZlbnRzIHwgYWF3dyAhIG9yZw== by July 25th to be considered for the lineup.

This reading series is a part of the AAWW Margins fellowship program.

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M Lin is a Chinese writer living in the US. Born and raised in Beijing, she writes in English as her second language; her mother tongue is Mandarin, which she favors in speech. Her short story collection, The Memory Museum, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in April 2026.

Paolo Iacovelli is a French-Italian-Colombian writer born and raised in New York City. He received his MFA from Columbia’s School of the Arts. The King of Video Poker is his debut novel.

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The event will be live streamed on Zoom with auto captioning for those who cannot join us in person. For those joining us in person, we are located on the 18 West 21st Street, Suite 900, there is an elevator that will take you directly to our office. Masks are strongly encouraged for audience members for all AAWW events; if you forget yours, one will be provided for you. We have two commercial grade air purifiers. We highly encourage all in person guests to take a COVID test at home prior to the event. If you have had COVID or have had known contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID in the 10 days prior, we ask you tune in for the live stream instead. Please reach out to bXNhbGVoIHwgYWF3dyAhIG9yZw== for additional accessibility requests, including ADA accessible bathrooms, chairs with added back support, and beyond. This space is for YOU!

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