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The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Ayokunle Falomo

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Up Next: AYOKUNLE FALOMO, author of Autobiomythography of .

AYOKUNLE FALOMO is Nigerian, American, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books, 2024), AFRICANAMERICAN’T (FlowerSong Press, 2022—finalist for Texas Institute of Letters’ Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry), two self-published collections and African, American (New Delta Review, 2019; selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review’s 8th annual chapbook contest). A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell, and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry, his work has been anthologized and widely published.

Free

Writing Gifts – A Workshop with Naomi Shihab Nye

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Welcome! Our four-hour virtual poetry/paragraph workshop will focus on writing as a gift - to us, and from us to others. What do we already have in our vast realms of material? What new knowledge has been given to us during these past strange seasons? What have we left untouched for a long time? Where might we find a new treasure in what we thought we knew?

$150

Sifting and Sorting: Developing Fiction from Family Anecdotes with Diane Gonzales Bertrand

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In this class, you’ll explore a family anecdote of your own with a fiction writer’s imagination. You’ll learn how to pursue essential details; add character, setting, sequence and thematic elements; and amplify color, action, and motive as the characters move through the world you build.  Come to class with 1-2 anecdotes you want to reinvent as your next fiction project.

$125

Creative Journeys: A Book Launch for jo reyes-boitel’s chapbook mouth and Group Poetry Reading with C.L. “Rooster” Martinez, Noël Bella Merriam, and Eric Cruz

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Join us for a celebration of jo reyes-boitel’s chapbook, mouth, winner of the Neon Hemlock Press 2021 Chapbook Prize and hot off the press! Reyes-boitel will read from her new book along with an uber-talented line-up of San Antonio poets:  C. L. “Rooster” Martinez, Noël Bella Merriam, and Eric Cruz. A Q&A follows—on the creative life, the art of teaching, and the ways each of these poets have balanced both and sustained their artistic practice. A book giveaway of jo’s award-winning chapbook will be a part of the night!

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