The Union Writing Group is having a 10th year anniversay reading on Monday June 11 at 8 p.m. It’s at the Old Stone House on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets.

Did I mention that there will be cocktails? Come listen. Hang out. Party. It’s a great group of writers, many of whom have been meeting every Tuesday night for ten years.

Kevin McPartland, a novelist who grew up in Park Slope, went to Viet Nam and worked for Ma Bell for 30 years, will read from “Brownstone Dreams,” his un-published novel about Park Slope in the early 1960’s. It’s West Side Story meets Scorsese. This is pre-gentrfied Park Slope with a vengence and McPartland lived it first hand.

A must hear, must read for everyone — especially for those interested in powerful fiction and Brooklyn in the early 1960’s when it was a vastly different place. The other writers are:

–Louise Crawford reading from a story called, “Halloween Blonde.”
–Mary Crowley reading a set of beautiful poems.
–Wendy Ponte reading a section from her novel about a woman in search of her Portugese identity.
–Rosemary Moore presenting two scenes from a new play.
–Barbara Ensor reading from her forthcoming “young adult book, Thumbelina, Tiny Runaway Bride.”
–Kevin McPartland reading from Brownstone Dreams, a novel about gangs in Park Slope in the early 1960’s.
–Marian Fontana reading from her hilarious new memoir about dating.