The official book launch for The Seaplane on Final Approach. An in-person reading and a conversation with Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties and In The Dream House at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. You can get tickets here. The event will also be broadcast free live here.
In an in-person event presented by the Free Library of Philadelphia, I'll be reading and chatting with Annie Liontas, author of Let Me Explain You and co-editor of the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors. The event is free, but you need to register beforehand—you can do that here.
I'll be reading and chatting with Angela Flournoy, the author of The Turner House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. The novel won the VCU Cabell First Novel Prize and was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and an NAACP Image Award.
I'll be reading and chatting with Asali Solomon, the author of The Days of Afrekete, Disgruntled, and Get Down: Stories, which earned her a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor, and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Solomon teaches fiction writing and literature of the African Diaspora… Continue reading Minneapolis: Reading and Conversation with Asali Solomon (Virtual)
In an in-person event presented in partnership with ZYZZYVA, I'll be reading and chatting with Oscar Villalon, the managing editor at ZYZZYVA. His writing has appeared in Freeman’s, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, Literary Hub, and other publications. Masks required for in-person attendance—or you can watch online by registering here!