Rally Reading Series

Rally Reading Series is a live literary gathering staged at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg, where writers bring new work to the room in real time. The series favors short sets and a mixed bill, often placing emerging voices beside more established authors to show how NYC’s reading culture keeps renewing itself. In a city with a long history of barroom and backroom literature—from Beat-era stages to indie bookstores—Rally sits in that lineage without imitation. Its quiet strength is the emphasis on listening as a social act.