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Get Your “Prom Queens” Tickets!

Sep 17 2025 @ 7:00PM

Tickets are available for our PROM QUEENS show. Get your tickets here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For this Bookend Event, four contributors to the forthcoming Prom Queens: Celebrating Prom Poems & Stories by Queens Writers anthology from Poets of Queens will step into each other’s prom stories.

Storytellers

  • Vegas K Jarrow
  • Tim Lindner
  • Ricki Richards
  • Jane Salvador

Creative Team

  • Pichchenda Bao
  • Zach Rothman-Hicks
  • Erika Iverson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plus, artwork by Olena Jennings and A. King McCarty, special reading by Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons from her memoir After After Prom, and story trivia for fun literary prizes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2025 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT.

This project is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.

This organization is funded in part by the Howard Gilman Foundation administered by Flushing Town Hall

Event Information

Sep 17 2025 @ 7:00PM

Grove 34 (31-83 34th St, Queens, NY 11106)

Next Show: NYTI “Prom Queens” 9/17

Save the date for our next show: 9/17. This is going to be a super fun one! Get your tickets here.

  • No, YOU Tell It! “Prom Queens” is AN OFFICIAL 2025 BOOKEND EVENT, part of a week of literary events across all five boroughs leading up to the 20th anniversary of the Brooklyn Book Festival.
  • YES! The show is in Queens at Grove 34 in Astoria and features contributors to our forthcoming Prom Queens: Celebrating Prom Poems & Stories by Queens Writers anthology from Poets of Queens.
  • Our own Tim Lindner is stepping up as a storyteller for the first time!
  • NYTI Alums Olena Jennings and A. King McCarty are creating original artwork.
  • Kelly Jean is reading from her memoir After After Prom.

Plus, other PROM QUEENS surprises! Save the date and see you in September.

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THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2025 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT.

This project is made possible (in part) with public funds from the
Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.

This organization is funded in part by the Howard Gilman Foundation
administered by Flushing Town Hall