May is Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month, but true diversity and inclusivity is so much more than a heritage month. Join authors Gayatri Sethi, Celeste Mohammed, […]
Join the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival's Support Caribbean Writers Tour with writer Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016) celebrating Pleasantview. The tour runs June 06 -16 at various venues in Brooklyn and one stop […]
Join the 5th annual Bronx Book Festival! Thursday, June 9th celebrates the 2nd annual virtual Educator Day; Friday, June 10th is the kickoff with the Bookish in the Bronx party; […]
Join Vermont author Benjamin Roesch (Fiction, January 2016) on Zoom to celebrate the release of his new young adult novel, Blowin' My Mind Like a Summer Breeze. Registration is free, but book purchases […]
Celebrate the talented local writers in Chattanooga! The Chattanooga Author Showcase will feature nine authors and their published works in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, essay, memoir, short story, young adult, and […]
Sunday, August 28, will be the 67th anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till. The Faraday Publishing Company, in collaboration with Cherry Castle Publishing, will be holding a reading that […]
Join Cindy House (Fiction, June 2017) at Atticus Bookstore Café for an evening discussing her memoir Mother Noise.
Join The Silver Unicorn Bookstore as they host award-winning author Sara Farizan (WFYP, MFA Faculty, January 2012) and her newest release Dead Flip, and New York Times bestselling author Karen M. McManus and her newest release Nothing More […]
Writers Flock presents a virtual event celebrating the work of Celeste Mohammed (Fiction, June 2016), Trinidadian author of novel-in-stories, Pleasantview, winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and the American CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction in 2022. Join Strange Birds host and Bahamian-born writer Christi Cartwright in an hour-long conversation and readings with […]
Join AAPI Communities in Conversation for their next event on Tuesday, September 6, 2022, at 1:00 pm ET with Andrea Wang (WFYP, June 2011), author of The Many Meanings of Meilan in conversation with librarian Crystal Chen, New York Public Library.
Why a Lab and not a Workshop? Because this class is an opportunity to play “mad scientist” with your poems, to experiment in free-writing and to discover your voice through revision. Each of our 8 sessions will start off with a brief reflection on the craft of writing poetry, as well as a poem to […]
Ready to get the stories in your head onto paper? If there’s a story you want to tell, but you have no idea where to begin (or you need a refresher), this course is for you. Over six weeks, you will learn the essentials of fiction and put them into practice by starting to write […]