Boundless Tales Reading Series

Thanks as always for joining us for our first reading of the season – great to be back!

Excited to celebrate everyone’s favorite or least favorite holiday… LOVE SUCKS!

February 20th at 7:30pm at Waltz-Astoria, featuring:

Christian Diaz  
Jodi Sh. Doff 
M. Leona Godin
KC Trommer 

And our very own founder, Aida Zilelian-Silak reading some of her work.

Find out more about them on the readings page.

Till next time!

- The Boundless Tales Entourage

Just a quick update and a BIG thanks to everyone who has submitted their work thus far for our 2014 season!

Here is an update for submissions – please keep sending us your work for April, May, and June, and join us for upcoming readings:

January: Why I don’t talk to you / Why you don’t talk to me – host: Aida Zilelian-Silak
February: Love sucks – SUBMISSIONS CLOSED – host: Aida Zilelian-Silak
March: It was all my fault – SUBMISSIONS CLOSED – host: Sweta Srivastava Vikram
April: I was dominated / I dominated
May: Things I never said
June: Regrets

We’ll see you tomorrow (Thursday!) at Waltz-Astoria for our FIRST reading of the season!

Another great reading – thanks to everyone who packed Waltz-Astoria for Newtown Literary Journal’s issue #3 launch! If you’d like to support and check out a diverse collection of local authors, please pick up a copy of the journal online or at the Astoria Bookshop.

We just wanted to thank you all for a wonderful 2013, and for helping us to keep this reading series going strong! Our new themes have been posted – please check our SUBMISSIONS page if you’re interested in reading in 2014.

We’ll be back at Waltz-Astoria on January 16th, and we’re excited to feature:

Elizabeth Hulick
Donna Hunt
Malini Singh McDonald
Marianna Nash
Alan Semerdjian
Chandra Steele

Find out more about them HERE.

Happy Holidays from us at Boundless Tales and best wishes for a Happy New Year!

Our next reading is Friday, December 13th @ 7:30pm at Waltz-Astoria. We’re celebrating the third issue launch of Queens’ own Newtown Literary Journal, and we will be hearing from selected readers published in the issue:

Lauren Hale Biniaris
John Crain
Jacqueline Anne de Dios
Richard Portilla
Jackie Sherbow
Michael Stahl

Read more about them here.

Newtown Literary Journal’s third issue is ON SALE NOW online and in the Astoria Bookshop, and we will of course have issues for sale at the reading.

Our regular themed readings will be back in January!

If you see a theme you’d like to read for, please submit your work! We are scheduling 2014 readings now.

2014 THEMES!

January: Why I don’t talk to you / Why you don’t talk to me
February: Love sucks
March: It was all my fault
April: I was dominated / I dominated
May: Things I never said
June: Regrets

Thanks for your wonderful support and fantastic readings.

Looking forward to reading and hearing your work soon!

-The Boundless Tales Entourage

Thank you to our fantastic readers for “departures” in October! We’ve been having such a great time with the themed readings.

This month we have “when we were young” hosted by Mr. Devin Doyle on November 14th @ 7:30pm at Waltz-Astoria (23-14 Ditmars Blvd), featuring:

John “Chance” Acevedo
Nancy Agabian
Christine Kendall
Honor Molloy
Anna Voisard

Find out more about them here.

Next month we’re excited to be celebrating Queens’ own Newtown Literary‘s 3rd issue launch, but please keep submitting your work! January’s theme is “Why I don’t talk to you”/”Why you don’t talk to me” and we’ll have more themes for 2014 soon.

Thanks everyone!

Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate our third anniversary with us! What a wonderful, diverse reading and interpretation of “my private war” – hope to see you all again!

Our next reading is on October 17th @ 7:30pm at Waltz-Astoria (hosted by Audrey Dimola) with the theme of “departures,” and featuring:

Jeff Bakkensen
Rosebud Ben-Oni
Vickie Byron
Jared Harel
Karen Levy

Find out more about them here.

As always, if you’d like more info or would like to submit your work to be considered for a future reading, click here!

**Special note** Boundless will be represented at the first ever Queens Literary Town Hall event, as part of Queens Council on the Arts’ new 3rd Space series, on October 18th in Astoria. RSVP and find out more here!

Looking forward to the first reading of the 2013-2014 season:

Thursday, September 19th @ 7:30pm at Waltz-Astoria!

We’re excited to welcome our September writers to Boundless:

M Leona Godin
John Gorman
Andrew J. Peters
Joanna Valente
Thomas Fucaloro

Find out more about them here.

If you’re interested in submitting your work for upcoming readings, please do so here – submissions are on a rolling basis. Please pass the word on and support Queens lit!

We’d also like to let you know that Queens’ own literary journal, Newtown Literary, is now offering fall classes and workshops! Please check them out and sign up here.

In addition, we’ve put together a page of Queens lit resources just for you! Get involved and stay updated on all the literary happenings in our borough.

Thanks for your support and see you soon!