Thank you to everyone who came out on June 3rd to Roulette in Brooklyn for the One Story Literary Debutante Ball! We had a great night celebrating One Story Alum Leigh Newman and seven One Story authors who have published their debut books in the past year:

• Aamina Ahmad, The Return of Faraz Ali, author of OS #259, “The Red One Who Rocks”
• Lydia Conklin, Rainbow Rainbow, author of OS #285, “Sunny Talks”
• Kate Folk, Out There, author of OS #235, “Pups”
• Omer Friedlander, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, author of OS #287, “The Miniaturist”
• Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark, author of OTS #29, “Spit”
• Arinze Ifeakandu, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things, author of OS #256, “The Dreamer’s Litany”
• Gwen E. Kirby, Shit Cassandra Saw, author of OS #240, “Mt. Adams at Mar Vista”

After our debs walked down the aisle with their mentors, honoree Leigh Newman gave an amazing speech full of advice for these debut writers about what it truly means to be a “real writer.”  You can read it over at LitHub.

Want to see some pictures of the event? Here’s a link to an album. We’ve also posted a slideshow below. Photo Credit: Aslan Chalom.