About Back Room Readings
Back Room Readings started with Nancy Johnston, Katie Letcher Lyle, and Amy R. Biddle in 2015. We wanted a place to read our work, and The Lexington Coffee Shop opened its doors! We had so much fun that Nancy began organizing similar events for other writers, and Amy offered support when she could at events, but mostly lent a hand with the technical end of things. Every reading was different, because authors and writers had complete control of their event. It was an informal opportunity for anyone to share writings, published or unpublished, finished or unfinished. We closed in April of 2019 when the workload got too great. But you can always check out the authors who shared their writing with us, below.
Previous Back Room Readers...
Katie Letcher Lyle: readings from Friends in High Places, a spiritual autobiograpby
Nancy L. Johnston: readings from My Life as a Border Collie, a fun and inviting look at the serious topic of codependence
Amy R. Biddle: readings from The Atheist's Prayer, a dark comedy about a suicide cult
Barbara Lachman: on the journals of Hildegard Bingen
Sara M. Roinson: poetry columnist for Southern Writers Magazine
Julie Campbell: excerpts from The Horse in Virginia: a rich history book
Gordon Ball: excerpts from a new short story collection
K.E. Lanning: excerpts from A Spider Sat Beside Her
Jon D'Amore: excerpts from The Boss Always Sits in Back
Freddy Fuentes: novel excerpts
Anoindt: poetic rapoetry & hip-hopoetry
Stan Galloway: poetry book Just Married
Joanna Lee: poetry book The Somersaults I Did as I Fell
Off the Chart: poetry by Molly O'Dell
Jonathan Musgrove by Jonathan Musgrove: Selected poems
Margo Solod: poetry from Washed up in the Waves
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu: new and selected poems from I Scrape the Window of Nothingness
Cynthia Atkins: poetry from In the Event of Full Disclosure
Seth Michelson: Poetry by Seth Michelson: poetry from Eyes Like Broken Windows
Lesley Wheeler: poetry from The Receptionist and Other Tales
Katie Letcher Lyle: readings from Friends in High Places, a spiritual autobiograpby
Nancy L. Johnston: readings from My Life as a Border Collie, a fun and inviting look at the serious topic of codependence
Amy R. Biddle: readings from The Atheist's Prayer, a dark comedy about a suicide cult
Barbara Lachman: on the journals of Hildegard Bingen
Sara M. Roinson: poetry columnist for Southern Writers Magazine
Julie Campbell: excerpts from The Horse in Virginia: a rich history book
Gordon Ball: excerpts from a new short story collection
K.E. Lanning: excerpts from A Spider Sat Beside Her
Jon D'Amore: excerpts from The Boss Always Sits in Back
Freddy Fuentes: novel excerpts
Anoindt: poetic rapoetry & hip-hopoetry
Stan Galloway: poetry book Just Married
Joanna Lee: poetry book The Somersaults I Did as I Fell
Off the Chart: poetry by Molly O'Dell
Jonathan Musgrove by Jonathan Musgrove: Selected poems
Margo Solod: poetry from Washed up in the Waves
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu: new and selected poems from I Scrape the Window of Nothingness
Cynthia Atkins: poetry from In the Event of Full Disclosure
Seth Michelson: Poetry by Seth Michelson: poetry from Eyes Like Broken Windows
Lesley Wheeler: poetry from The Receptionist and Other Tales