Laura Joyce-Hubbard is a fiction editor at TriQuarterly and a Northwestern University MFA candidate. Her nonfiction and poetry appear or are forthcoming in The Sewanee Review, The Rumpus, Boulevard, Ninth Letter, Hippocampus, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Ragdale Foundation with a Janecek Fellowship and 2021 residency and by the National
The University of Maine at Presque Isle will present writer and Maine native Cynthia Anderson as the first speaker in its 2022-2023 Libra Distinguished Lecture…
The University of Maine at Presque Isle will present writer and Maine native Cynthia Anderson as the first speaker in its 2022-23 Libra Distinguished Lecture Series on Thursday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. in the Campus Center. During her talk “What We Write, and Why,” Anderson will discuss her latest book “Home Now” and the work of fiction writing. The event is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
Princeton University Professor and Birmingham-native Imani Perry’s acclaimed book South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Harper Collins: 2022) will be the first title in a new yearlong citywide literary program, Birmingham Reads, sponsored by PEN America and its Birmingham chapter, to engage readers through one title relevant to the city and its history. The reading and book club discussion program begins Sept. 2 with a celebratory event at 7 p.m. at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, featuring poetry readings, African drumming, and dancing. The public is invited free of charge.