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SUMMARY:SALT THE WATER | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Author Candice Iloh (WFYP\, June 2017) will be joined by conversation partner Ebony LaDelle and special guest Rasheed Copeland. Copies of the book will be available for purchase before and after the event\, and Candice will be signing following the program. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to all. The program begins at 6:00 pm\, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of SALT THE WATER will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is IN PERSON and will NOT be livestreamed. \n\n\n\nGuests should RSVP in order to receive direct updates about the event from Busboys and Poets Books. \n\n\n\nCandice Iloh is a first-generation Nigerian American writer whose books center home. They are from the Midwest by way of Washington\, DC\, and Brooklyn\, New York. They are a proud alumna of the Rhode Island Writers Colony\, and their work has earned fellowships from Lambda Literary\, VONA\, and Kimbilio Fiction and a residency with Hi-ARTS\, where they debuted their first one-person show in 2018. Candice became a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and\, in 2021\, a Printz Award Honoree for their debut novel\, Every Body Looking. Salt the Water is their third novel. \n\n\n\nEbony LaDelle is the author of Love Radio—which was People magazine’s best book of the summer\, Apple Books’s best book of 2022\, an Amazon’s Editor Pick\, and featured on the Today show. Prior to being an author\, Ebony was a brand marketing director in book publishing and worked at Penguin Random House and HarperCollins\, among others. Born in Michigan\, awoken at Howard University\, and cultivated in Brooklyn\, Ebony can usually be found eating out somewhere or being the undisputed Mom Friend of any group. You can visit her online at EbonyLaDelle.com and follow her on social at @EbonyLaDelle. \n\n\n\nRasheed Copeland is a native of Washington\, DC. He is a father and author of Mud Jubilee (Self-published\, 2021) and The Book of Silence: Manhood as a Pseudoscience (Sergeant Press\, 2015). He is a multiple recipient of the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities Fellowship Award and has performed and facilitated writing workshops across the country and internationally. He placed 2nd in the world at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam. His work has been featured in online publications such as Poets.org\, Split This Rock\, and the Crab Orchard Review.
URL:https://cambridgecommonwriters.org/calendar/salt-the-water-a-busboys-and-poets-books-presentation/
LOCATION:Busboys and Poets\, 450 K Street NW\, Washington\, District of Columbia\, 20001\, United States
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