<p>Featuring Steven Lewis, Dan Zevin, Malachy McCourt, David Masello. Fathers leave indelible marks on their children that last a lifetime. For today’s show &#8220;On Fathers,&#8221; we’ve selected three pieces we recorded at Read650&#8217;s very first live event. It took place at Nancy Manocherian’s The Cell, on Manhattan’s west side.</p>

LGBTQ Pride

Writers Read™ is a literary forum promoting established and emerging writers through curated live and digital performances celebrating the spoken word. It’s a high-quality platform for true personal stories—two pages and 650 words long, read aloud by the writer before an audience. Read650 places a strong emphasis on the craft of writing—word choices, sentence structures, the arc of the narrative. Our submission-based events are developed around broad themes that invite a wide range of expression. An editorial committee curates and sequences the content of each show and, where necessary, our editors collaborate with writers to further refine their work.