As part of the 2021 Kweli International Literary Festival, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers will be in conversation with Angela Jackson Brown discussing Jeffers' The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of five critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently, The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan, 2020), which won the 2021 NAACP Image Award and was long-listed for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry. Her first novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, is forthcoming from Harper on July 27, 2021. Love Songs has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist, and BookPage has called her “a writer to watch.” Jeffers is Professor of English at University of Oklahoma, where she has taught since 2002.

Angela Jackson-Brown is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who teaches Creative Writing and English at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. She is a graduate of Troy University, Auburn University and the Spalding low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing. She has published her short fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and poetry in journals like The Louisville Journal and the Appalachian Review. She is author of Drinking From a Bitter Cup, House Repairs, and her latest novel, When Stars Rain Down. In April of 2021, the Alabama Library Association awarded her the Alabama Authors Award in poetry.

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In this workshop, Larissa will share a variety of approaches to writing from images and visual art, and through fragment, weave essayistic creative nonfiction from stellateing points of observation and relationality. Participants are encouraged to arrive at the workshop with an image (like a personal snapshot, family or archival photograph) or piece of art (like a drawing, painting, sculpture, or piece of architecture) to work from.

Cost: $100

This workshop is exclusively for BIPOC writers.

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This course will take place online via Zoom. Participants will receive instructions for access prior to the start of class.

Dantiel W. Montiz is the recipient of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, the Cecelia Joyce Johnson Emerging Writer Award by the Key West Literary Seminar, and a Tin House Scholarship. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat, is an Indie Next Pick and has been hailed as "must-read" by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzefeed, Elle, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, One Story, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and elsewhere. Moniz is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is a 2020 Lannan Fiction Fellow and the author of the novel House of Stone, winner of a 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and the 2019 Bulawayo Arts Award for Outstanding Fiction and listed for the 2019 Orwell Prize, the 2019 Dylan Thomas Prize, the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize, and the 2020 Balcones Fiction Prize. She has been invited to give public lectures about House of Stone at the University of Oxford, the Nordic Africa Institute, and Vassar College. She has taught fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and serves as an assistant professor of fiction at Emerson College.

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Estella Gonzalez was born and raised in East Los Angeles which inspires her writing. Her work has appeared in Kweli Journal, The Acentos Review and Huizache. Her fiction and poetry have been anthologized in Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature by Bilingual Press and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse by Lost Horse Press. She received a Pushcart Prize “Special Mention” and was selected a “Reading Notable” for The Best American Non-Required Reading. Her debut short story collection, Chola Salvation, was published April 30, 2021 by Arte Público Press.

Ivelisse Rodriguez’s debut short story collection Love War Stories is a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She has published fiction in the Boston Review, Obsidian, Kweli, the Bilingual Review, Aster(ix), and other publications. She is a contributing arts editor for the Boston Review, where she acquires fiction. She was a senior fiction editor at Kweli and is a Kimbilio fellow and a VONA/Voices alum. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College and a Ph.D. in English-creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. To learn more about Ivelisse, visit: www.ivelisserodriguez.com.

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