Please join us on Friday, May 8, 2020 at 8:30pm EST (5:30pm PST) via Zoom for The Freya Project’s first digital reading.

In light of the international COVID-19 crisis, we are shifting our events online. Pour a glass of wine, steep some tea, and get cozy for five readings about a time things didn’t go according to plan.

This event is free, but we encourage donations to abortion funds in states where access to this essential care is threatened.

Readings by Chelsea Bieker, Genevieve Hudson, Tracy O'Neill & Rufi Thorpe

Hosted by Jerrika Hinton

All of the readers featured in this event have had events cancelled because COVID-19.

We aren’t charging for this event, but we encourage attendees to consider making a contribution to abortion funds.

As coronavirus spreads, abortion access comes under threat. By considering abortions "nonessential procedures," some states have effectively banned abortion during the crisis. In many states, abortion clinics are holding on by a thread, and the pandemic might put them under.

Patients cannot wait until the crisis is over to receive safe medical care. Supporting abortion funds right now helps people across the country gain access to this essential medical care.

Our map of abortion support organizations represents a network of reproductive rights champions who work tirelessly to ensure that their clients have access to the healthcare they need. Please give generously as you are able.

Meet Our Readers

These five writers will share essays, poems, or short stories responding to a time things didn’t go according to plan.

Chelsea Bieker is the author of the novel GODSHOT and the forthcoming story collection, COWBOYS AND ANGELS (2022). Her writing has been published by The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and others. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and a MacDowell Colony fellowship. Originally from California’s Central Valley, she now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children where she teaches writing.

Genevieve Hudson is the author of the novel Boys of Alabama and the story collection Pretend We Live Here. Her work has appeared in McSweeney's, Bookforum, Catapult, Bitch, and other places. She's received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, and Caldera Arts. She lives in Portland, OR. 

Tracy O'Neill is the author of The Hopeful, one of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2015, and Quotients, forthcoming May 12th from Soho Press. In 2015, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize, and was a Narrative Under 30 finalist. In 2012, she was awarded the Center for Fiction's Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her short fiction was distinguished in the Best American Short Stories 2016 and earned a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2017. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, the New Yorker, LitHub, BOMB, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Literarian, New World Writing, Narrative, Scoundrel Time, Guernica, Bookforum, Electric Literature, Grantland, Vice, The Guardian, VQR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Catapult. She attended the MFA program at the City College of New York and the PhD program in communications at Columbia University. While editor-in-chief of the literary journal Epiphany, she established the Breakout 8 Writers Prize with the Authors Guild.

Rufi Thorpe received her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2009. She is the author of Dear Fang, with Love and The Girls from Corona del Mar, which was long listed for the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize and for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Her third novel, The Knockout Queen, is now out with Knopf. A native of California, she currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and sons.

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