Dear Bronx Loaf community,
It's been a long time since we've done what we do best: gather together to share our writing, revel in friendship, and break bread with one another. But, the wait is over. Bronx Loaf is back. The "voice of the city" will sing once more.
Yours,
Christian Clarke
Founder & Program Director
It's been a long time since we've done what we do best: gather together to share our writing, revel in friendship, and break bread with one another. But, the wait is over. Bronx Loaf is back. The "voice of the city" will sing once more.
Yours,
Christian Clarke
Founder & Program Director
At Bronx Loaf you will find…
Workshops…
“Bronx Loaf allows you to get feedback on both your strengths and weaknesses as a writer from both a professional and other readers, enabling you to augment your skills.”
Community…
“It’s a great place to meet creative, like minded people. You learn a lot, you think, you make friends…it’s really a positive experience!”
Professional Writers…
“The one-on-one conferences are BEYOND insightful and helpful.”
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Caits Meissner’s poems, comics, essays and curation have appeared in The Creative Independent, The Rumpus, [PANK], Harper’s Bazaar, Adroit, Literary Hub, Split This Rock, Bust Magazine, The Normal School, Hobart, and The Guardian, among others. She is the Director of Prison and Justice Writing at PEN America where she edited The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison (Haymarket, January 2022). She has enjoyed a couple of little New York lives. |
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Willie Perdomo is a Puerto Rican poet and children's book author. He is the author of The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a National Book Critics Circle Awards finalist, Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, Postcards of El Barrio, and Smoking Lovely, which received a PEN Beyond Margins Award |
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Mercy Tullis-Bukhari is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer who finds inspiration from being a Bronx-bred Afro-Latina American, Honduran, and Garifuna of Jamaican descent |
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Noel Quiñones is an educator, writer, performer, and community organizer born and raised in the Bronx. He is currently completing an MFA at the University of Mississippi |
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Candice Iloh is a first generation Nigerian-American writer, dancer, and author of the 2020 National Book Award finalist and 2021 Printz Honoree, Every Body Looking. They have performed their work around the country, most notably at Nuyorican Poets Café in New York City; the Women in Poetry & Hip Hop celebration at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore; and as part of the Africa In Motion performing arts series at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. Competitively, Iloh has advanced to the final rounds of the Graffiti DC Slam, Beltway Poetry Slam, and 11th Hour Poetry Slam.
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Jenny McPhee is the author of The Center of Things, No Ordinary Matter, and A Man of No Moon, and co-authored Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits. Her translations from the Italian include books by the authors Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, Anna Maria Ortese, Curzio Malaparte, Paolo Maurensig, and Pope John Paul II. |
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Gabrielle Hamilton is an American chef and author. She is the chef and owner of Prune, a restaurant in New York City, and the author of Blood, Bones, and Butter, a memoir. |
Sharing of words…
“If you love writing, want to be a better writer, enjoy words of any form you should just join. Never be afraid to share something you have created. Attending this conference will make you view your work differently and feel proud of it.
…And a chance to publish YOUR work!
“It was an extremely wonderful feeling seeing my work in a published book”