Brittany K. Allen is a New York-based writer and performer. Her prose has been published or is forthcoming in Longreads, Catapult, the Toast, Shondaland and elsewhere. Her fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and she was a 2017 Van Lier playwriting fellow at the Lark Play Development Center. Brittany’s other covens include the Sewanee Writers Conference (where she works on staff), Youngblood, the emerging playwrights group at Ensemble Studio Theatre (of which she is a member), and the Public Theatre’s Emerging Writers Group (ditto).
Mar/Apr 2019
Saints and Poets and Everyone Else
When I was a child, I had a bad influence—and she once goaded me to hang back after choir for a “secret feast.” In candlelight we palmed the sanctified like […]