A longtime journalist and lifelong music lover, Jacinta Howard resides in the Atlanta area with her daughter and husband. She finds happiness in the pages of a great novel, on the beach, listening to good music and hanging with her family. She is the author of women's fiction and contemporary romance, a USA TODAY Must-Read Author and a two-time RONE Award nominee.

Michael B. Jordan is an Atlanta-based writer and editor. His work has been published at Thrillist, American Way magazine, Creative Loafing, The Huntsville Times and more (see more at MuckRack). His 20 years of experience includes working with Cox Media Group, InterContinental Hotels Group, Splash, Eventbrite, Cumulus Media and LaFace Records. He lives in the Atlanta area with his wife Jacinta Howard and their daughter.

You can find out more about Lit Atlanta and Books, Booze & Beats at www.litatlanta.com.

Molly Brodak is the author of A Little Middle of the Night (University of Iowa Press, 2010) and Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir (Grove Atlantic, 2016). Her work has appeared recently in Granta, PENAmerica, Gulf Coast, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016.

You can follow her wonderous baking at www.kookiehouse.com.

This Thursday!

Lit & Bruised presents RESOLVE: Stories of Unbreakable Courage & Determination — with readings from Theresa Davis, Nick Tecosky, Gina Rickicki, and Mike Jordan

Thursday, February 1st | 8pm Doors | 8:30pm Resolve Begins | Highland Inn Ballroom Lounge | FREE

Special Musical Guest

Atlanta Instrumental act Crispin Wah, whose founding member Monochrome Sweatsuit provided the theme song for the Lit & Bruised podcast, will play a stripped down performance.

Highland Inn & Ballroom Lounge

644 N Highland Ave NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30306

Jared Yates Sexton is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Politico, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere. His book The People Are Going To Rise Like The Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage is available from Counterpoint Press. Currently he serves as an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia Southern University.

The booked for our first season has come. We're going to be taking a little break until early next year but we have a lot planned for next season. 

John and Matt highlight what to be on the lookout for next year from Lit & Bruised and we play a recording of Cris Gray (of Dad's Garage) from Dashboard Light from 2016 and Molly Brodak reading her poem "Triumph" in a field recording from her backyard. 

Thanks everyone for listening as we figured this out with no plans on stopping. Atlanta's literary scene is like no other and with a hustle to match. 

Be on the lookout for more archived readings and exclusive content in the meantime.

Jason Mallory is a writer and show-runner in Atlanta, GA. He co-produces the live talk show "Modugno & Mallory Present" with Julian Modugno every month and publishes comedy articles featuring local contributors on Scene and Song. He lives in Cabbagetown next to a big statue of a La Croix can.

Happy Halloween! What better way to celebrate than with scary stories read by Kelley Outler, Jason Stanaland, Derek Prall, and Gina Rickicki. Ghoulish music provided by Bruther Brown and Monochrome Sweatsuit of Crispin Wah.

Adam Robinson runs Publishing Genius, an award-winning small press, and Real Pants, a website about literature and the new literary community. He works as a publishing consultant and has taught publishing courses in the MFA program at University of Baltimore and presented at numerous other colleges and publishing programs.

His first book, Adam Robison and Other Poems, was nominated for the Goodreads Poetry Award, and he self-published his second book, Say Poem, in 2010. He is also the editor of Our Primary Focus, an e-book about small press culture as described in interviews with writers, book sellers and publishers.

Laura Relyea is the former Executive Editor of ArtsATL. Her essays, reviews, poems, and features have been published in Oxford American, The Bitter Southerner, Thought Catalog, Monkey Bicycle, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere.

Alex Gregor is a writer, editor, and teacher currently living in Rome, Italy. He is one of the founding editors of OOMPH! Press. His chapbook, FAUCET, was selected as a finalist for The Atlas Review Chapbook Series.

His work has appeared in Queen Mob’s Tea House, NOÖ, DELUGE, Entropy, Real Pants, Fanzine, Deer Bear Wolf Magazine, Muse /A Journal, LOTUS-EATER, and elsewhere. Follow him online at www.marginalcomets.com.

Tom Cheshire is a poet and singwriter. He recently put out a collection of poems last year called "Unevenly Yolked" and has a record coming out called "Bad with Names, Good with Faces" on December 1st with his band West End Motel.