Queer Author Events & Community Events at Hive Mind Books
Hive Mind Books hosts queer & trans community and author events at our bookstore at 219 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn. Masks are strongly encouraged at all of our events. Masks are available on site if you need one.
If you have an idea for an event or would like to use our bookstore space, please send an email to Julie:
julie [at] hivemindbooks.com
Work In Progress: A Queer Literary Open Mic
Writers of all genres, join us as we turn up the party lights for Hive Mind’s monthly open mic night. This mic is specifically for queer and trans writers. All genres are welcome.
Bake Sale for Black Trans Travel Fund
Bake That! a community-led, monthly bake sale with 100% of proceeds donated to mutual aid funds supporting reproductive and gender-affirming care, is popping up at Hive Mind Books!
Creature Comfort: A Trans Poetry & Ritual Event
Creature Comfort's February event features poets Heather Glynis, Forest Smotrich-Barr, and M. Ezra Zhang reading at Hive Mind Books.
Queer Book Club
The Hive Mind Books Queer Book Club meets once a month to discuss a different book by a queer and/or trans writer.
Book Launch: Shawn Stewart Ruff - Days Running
Join us for a book launch and signing to celebrate Shawn Stewart Ruff and his new novel, Days Running
Queer Film BK Coffee & Co-work
Queer Film BK connects queer individuals working in film, or aspiring to work in film, or who really want to make creative magic together.
Labor Library Book Club
The Labor Library is a local in-person book club to counter apathy and develop agency through learning and conversing about the systems we exist in. It meets monthly.
Queer Writing Night
Dedicated writing time in a chill & cozy bookstore. No critiques or readings, just writing in queer community. Masks are required at this event.
Poetry Reading: Rose Zinnia - Togethering
Poetry reading in celebration of Togethering, with Rose Zinnia, imogen xtian smith, Lisa Hiton, jason b. crawford.
Author Event: Margie Sarsfield presents Beta Vulgaris, with Zefyr Lisowski
Author Margie Sarsfield speaks about and signs her new novel, BETA VULGARIS, in conversation with writer Zefyr Lisowski
Community Coffee Tasting
Join us at Hive Mind Books in Bushwick for a free Community Coffee Tasting with our coffee roaster, East One.
Making It: Queer & Trans Writers, Publishers & Book Workers on Art, Craft and the Business of Books
Join Hive Mind Books for a conversation with writers Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, Temim Fruchter, and Amelia Possanza. They’ll discuss the art and craft of writing and researching historical fiction, and how to market your book and find an audience as a novelist.
Alex Krokus Book Event: Loud & Smart in Color
Book event: cartoonist Alex Krokus speaks about and signs Loud and Smart In Color!
Queer Film BK Coffee & Co-work
Queer Film BK connects queer individuals working in film, or aspiring to work in film, or who really want to make creative magic together.
Author Event: Ariel Gore - Rehearsals for Dying
Ariel Gore speaks about and signs her new memoir, Rehearsals for Dying, about her wife’s experience with breast cancer and the industry that profits from treatments.
Susan Stryker & McKenzie Wark In Conversation
Join us as Susan Stryker and McKenzie Wark appear in conversation about When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader.
Book Launch: Lisa Ko & Griffin Hansbury
Join us for a joint paperback launch with Lisa Ko and Griffin Hansbury!
Queer Writing Night
Dedicated writing time in a chill & cozy bookstore. No critiques or readings, just writing in queer community.
Confessions of Love Reading & Launch Party
Active Chapter is collaborating with Hive Mind Books to launch Active Chapter’s very first journal: Edition 0, Confessions of Love.
Queer Film BK Coffee & Co-work (Copy)
Queer Film BK connects queer individuals working in film, or aspiring to work in film, or who really want to make creative magic together.
Hive Mind Reading Room
Enjoy an hour of quiet reading time in our cozy bookstore. BYOB (bring your own book) and read in community.
"Blackout" Screening & Fundraiser
Join Bushwick in Power for a screening of the film “Blackout,” about the 1977 New York City blackout. This event is a fundraiser. Free admission, donations accepted.
Book Launch: Mia Tsang - Fragments of Wasted Devotion
Brooklyn writer Mia Arias Tsang launches her new book, Fragments of Wasted Devotion, at Hive Mind Books with a talk and book signing.
Queer Writing Night
Dedicated writing time in a chill & cozy bookstore. No critiques or readings, just writing in queer community. Masks are required at this event.
Making It: Queer & Trans Writers, Publishers & Book Workers on Art, Craft and the Business of Books
Join Hive Mind Books for a conversation with writers Denne Michele Norris and Christina Cooke, and editor Alicia Kroell about the writing and publishing life.
Queer Film BK Coffee & Co-work
Queer Film BK connects queer individuals working in film, or aspiring to work in film, or who really want to make creative magic together.
Write Club NYC Mixer
Hive Mind Books is hosting the next Write Club NYC Mixer & film screening.
CANCELLED: Design A Book Cover with Jedidiah Dore
Learn the foundation of great book cover design for all genres. You will have a completed cover design in full color by the end of class.
Queer Book Club
The Hive Mind Books Queer Book Club meets once a month to discuss a different book by a queer and/or trans writer.
Hive Mind Reading Room
Enjoy an hour of quiet reading time in our cozy bookstore. BYOB (bring your own book) and read in community.
Book Launch: Delilah McCrea - Book of Flowers
Join us for the New York City launch of Book of Flowers, the debut poetry collection by writer Delilah McCrae. She’ll be joined for a reading by Lara Atallah & Chase Berggrun at Hive Mind Books, 219 Irving Avenue in Bushwick.
Work In Progress: A Queer Literary Open Mic
Writers of all genres, join us as we turn up the party lights for Hive Mind’s monthly open mic night. This mic is specifically for queer and trans writers. All genres are welcome.
Queer Writing Night
Dedicated writing time in a chill & cozy bookstore. No critiques or readings, just writing in queer community. Masks are required at this event.
Wonderful Watercolors Workshop
This stand-alone class introduces the fundamentals of watercolor. You will have a completed watercolor painting by the end of class.
Hive Mind Reading Room
Enjoy an hour of quiet reading time in our cozy bookstore. BYOB (bring your own book) and read in community.
Queer Writing Night
Dedicated writing time in a chill & cozy bookstore. No critiques or readings, just writing in queer community. Masks are required at this event.
Queer Writing Night
Dedicated writing time in a chill & cozy bookstore. No critiques or readings, just writing in queer community.
Tarot Readings with Patricia
Stop by Hive Mind Books between 3pm and 6pm today and sit down for a personal, one-on-one tarot reading with Patricia.
Author Event: Vera Blossom
Writer Vera Blossom speaks about and signs her new collection of essays, How to Fuck Like a Girl at Hive Mind Books.
Hive Mind Reading Room
Enjoy an hour of quiet reading time in our cozy bookstore. BYOB (bring your own book) and read in community.
Lavender Relations PR Holiday Party
Join Lavender Public Relations for their first annual holiday party, with readings by Brooklyn authors!
Queer Writing Night
Dedicated writing time in a chill & cozy bookstore. No critiques or readings, just writing in queer community. Masks are required at this event.
Hive Mind Reading Room
Enjoy an hour of quiet reading time in our cozy bookstore. BYOB (bring your own book) and read in community.
Queer Writing Night
Dedicated writing time in a chill & cozy bookstore. No critiques or readings, just writing in queer community.
Hive Mind Reading Room
Enjoy an hour of quiet reading time in our cozy bookstore. BYOB (bring your own book) and read in community.
BQ FLEA
Brooklyn Flea is an open-air flea market in Dumbo, under the magnificent archway of the Manhattan Bridge. Come browse books (from us), vintage clothes, housewares, and much more. It’s a scene.
Wine & Pine Volume 13
Wine and Pine is a reading series focused on explorations of desire. Each month at Ten Degrees Bar, three readers present their work. We’ll be there with a micro pop-up shop of books!