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We Read a Fly Girl Mixer comes to Atlanta with an all-star lineup of black girl magic

Published

8 years ago

October 18, 2017

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Delphine Legacy Media

We Read a Fly Girl Mixer is a traveling event that brings readers face-to-face with their favorite authors and bloggers. The events are set in different cities across the country offering readers a chance to enjoy food, music, empowerment panels, and an intimate social with writers. It has become a well received, out-of-the-box way to showcase literary artists.

Past experiences have featured reality stars, celebrity authors, popular bloggers and socialites. This edition will be no different with a great blend of fashionistas, novelists, and leading voices that entertain and inspire readers. The format is an interactive panel of boss chicks with a mixer and book signing following the discussion. The panel is moderated by Talia O. journalist from The Shade Room.

This free event features an all-star lineup that includes NY times best-selling author Mary B. Morrison, creator of the AAMBC Awards Tamika Newhouse, self-made millionaire of urban fiction Myss Shan, and global brand builder and ghost-writer Legendary LaQuita.

Presented by AAMBC, a nonprofit organization that advocates for literacy, and hosted at the Auburn Ave. Research Library, hundreds of ladies will gather for relationship chatter, boss talk, and it will all be centered around books. A book signing and artists fellowship will conclude the evening as guest will be able to snap shots on the red carpet, partake in the social media fun, and take pictures with their favorite writer.

Where:

We Read: A Fly Girl Panel and Live Discussion

Sat Oct 28th

3:00 – 4:00pm

Auburn Ave Research Library (Amphitheater)

We Read: Breakout Session & Book Signing

Sat, Oct 28th

4:00 – 5:00

Auburn Ave Research Library (1st Floor Gallery)

RSVP at HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/atlanta-we-read-a-fly-girl-mixer-tickets-36401129759

For social media engagement use: #FlyGirlsRead #AAMBCAwards

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Caitlin Cook’s Musical Bathroom Odyssey Hits the UK

Published

1 week ago

May 9, 2025

Joni Jones

What do cowboy dicks, milk pistols, and public toilet walls have in common? They all find a strange kind of poetry in The Writing on the Stall, the wildly inventive musical comedy from US performer Caitlin Cook, landing in the UK this summer. After sold-out runs Off-Broadway, at Edinburgh Fringe, and in London, the New York Times Critic’s Pick returns for a short UK tour—playing Brighton’s Komedia (31 May & 1 June) and Soho Theatre, London (4–7 June).

Set entirely in a public bathroom, The Writing on the Stall is anything but private. In this whip-smart and wickedly funny one-woman musical, Cook dives into the scrawled messages and mysterious wisdom etched on cubicle walls and turns them into something bold, bizarre, and unexpectedly moving. The songs are catchy, the jokes are razor-sharp, and the show isn’t afraid to get its hands dirty—literally.

Armed with a guitar and a knack for digging gold out of the obscene, Cook crafts a genre-defying hour that’s part stand-up, part cabaret, and all catharsis. This is confessional comedy with clever hooks, pitch-perfect melodies, and enough surprises to keep your eyebrows permanently raised. Expect satire, sincerity, and some surreal props—rumour has it a pair of slingshotted knickers makes a cameo.

Caitlin Cook isn’t your average musical comic. She’s Oxford-educated, New York-hardened, and streaming in the tens of millions. She’s also collaborated with some of comedy’s finest, directed offbeat hits, and performs as one-half of the musical duo 2/3rds of a Threesome. With this new UK run, she’s not just touring a show—she’s building a movement that blurs the lines between comedy, theatre, and performance art.

If you missed her during her Edinburgh frenzy, this is your chance to catch the musical everyone’s been whispering about in pub toilets and shouting about in five-star reviews. You might come for the laughs, but you’ll stay for the songs that (fair warning) may live rent-free in your head for months.