video archive of past events - 2021

June

Virtual Conversation with Karen Russell

June 1 • 6PM CT / 7PM ET / Hub City Bookstore
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Afrofuturism as Expression: Literature, Dance, and Black Abstraction 

June 3 • 7PM-8:30PM CT / 8PM - 9:30 PM ET
Virtual Conversation with Deborah Goffe and André Zachery, moderated by  DK Nnuro @ University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art. WATCH VIDEO for this timely and trenchant panel below:

AUTHORS ON TAP: VIRTUAL conversation with alexia arthurs

June 9 • 7PM CT / 8PM ET @ Exile in Bookville
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Virtual Conversation with Jack Wang, Emilio Fraia, moderated by Anderson Tepper

June 15 • 7PM-8:30PM  ET
Brooklyn Public Library  

VCCA Fellows Fireplace Series

June 17 • 6:30PM CT / 7:30PM ET
With David Ebenbach / Hosted by Cliff Garstang
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Virtual Conversation with Yaa Gyasi 

June 23 • 6 PM PT / 8 PM CT / 9PM ET @ Book Soup
WATCH VIDEO below for the sometimes glitchy visual / at all times audible and awesome conversation:

Writers on the rise reading series -VIRTUAL EVENT

June 24 • 6PM CT / 7PM ET
Vermont Studio Center
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July

VIRTUAL Conversation with PULITZER PRIZE WINNER Andrew Sean Greer

July 9 • 6PM ET
Politics and Prose
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AUGUST

VIRTUAL Conversation with NOvUyo Rosa Tshuma

Aug 3 • 5PM CT / 6PM ET @ Greenlight Bookstore Watch FULL VIDEO of this lovely convo below:

art Talk Dialogues with atim oton

July 19 • 7PM ET
Calabar Gallery
Watch me sing Dolly Parton songs, in the VIDEO of this event below: 

VIRTUAL Conversation with Naomi Jackson

Aug 6 • 6PM PT / 8PM CT / 9PM ET ELLIOTT BAY BOOK COMPANY

SEPTEMBER

In-Store Book Signing and Talk

Sept 9 • 5:30 PM CT @ Ernest & Hadley Booksellers

african book club @ Moad

Sept 26 • 5-630 PM PT / 7-8:30 PM CT
Museum of the African Diaspora
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october

First Books Conversation with Nana Nkweti and Poet Leila Chatti (VIRTUAL)

Oct 5 • 7 PM ET @ Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts

virtual panel with zakiya dalila harris

Oct 25 • 12 PM CT @ Six Bridges Book Festival
EVENT VIDEO below:

NOVEMBER

In Person | Reading, Discussion, and Q&A with Nana Nkweti, Brenda Peynado, and Vinod Busjeet

Nov 21 • 6 PM - 7:30 PM @ Miami Book Fair