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SPARK: Using Form To Explore Universal Truths
Saturday October 26, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
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Dawn Tripp is the acclaimed bestselling author of the biographical novels Jackie and Georgia, finalist for the New England Book Award and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. Praised by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and...
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K. Iver was born in Mississippi. Their debut collection Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions, selected by Tyehimba Jess. Short Film is a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award...
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Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer, and translator, author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books,2024) and Mother/land(Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in four chapbooks, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press, 2020), and...
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Joan Wickersham’s new book is No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck. Her memoir The Suicide Index was a National Book Award Finalist and appeared on “best books of the year” lists including The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, The Week, Salon, and The Washington...
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12:30pm EDT
SPARK: The Suspenseful, Speculative, and Surreal
Saturday October 26, 2024 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
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Whitney Scharer holds a BA in English from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. Her first novel, The Age of Light, was a Boston Globe and IndieNext bestseller, People Pick, and Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read," and was chosen as...
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Juliet Grames is the best-selling author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna and The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Real Simple, Parade, and The Boston Globe, and she is the recipient of an Ellery Queen Award from the Mystery Writers...
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Margot Livesey grew up on the edge of the Scottish Highlands and has taught in numerous writing programs including Emerson College, Boston University, Bowdoin College and the Warren Wilson low residency MFA program. She is the author of a collection of stories and nine novels, including...
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Ruben Reyes Jr. is the son of two Salvadoran immigrants and the author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard College, his writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications...
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2:00pm EDT
SPARK: The Call to Adventure
Saturday October 26, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
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Whitney Scharer holds a BA in English from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. Her first novel, The Age of Light, was a Boston Globe and IndieNext bestseller, People Pick, and Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read," and was chosen as...
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Mark Cecil is host of The Thoughtful Bro show, for which he conducts interviews with an eclectic roster of award-winning and breakout storytellers. Formerly a journalist for Reuters, he is Head of Strategy for literary social media startup A Mighty Blaze and has taught writing at...
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Crystal King is an author, culinary enthusiast, and marketing expert. Her writing is fueled by a love of history and a passion for the food, language, and culture of Italy. She has taught classes in writing, creativity, and social media at Harvard Extension School, Boston University...
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Stephen McCauley is the author of eight novels, including national bestsellers My Ex-Life, The Object of My Affection, and Alternatives to Sex. His fiction, reviews, and columns have been widely published, and he was named a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French...
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3:30pm EDT
Poetry Off The Page
Saturday October 26, 2024 3:30pm - 4:15pm EDT
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Amanda Shea is a two-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word Artist. Shea is an artist, performer, educator, artivist, publicist, host, and curator. She co-founded and curated six iterations of Activating ARTivism, a community festival to amplify POC through art, activism, and...
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Parker-Vincent Alva is a student and writer from Boston, MA. He writes poetry and prose centering on the intersection of desire and identity. A 2023 YAWP Teen Fellow and the 3rd Youth Poet Laureate of Boston, he aims to increase public appreciation of literature and push the boundaries...
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Essmaa Litim is a multi-disciplinary artist and activist from Boston, Massachusetts who uses her voice as her medium to distribute a wealth of information from both a social and political lens. She is the author of the memoir/biography Speechless, which centers her family’s journey...
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Princess Moon is a Cambodian-American poet and multidisciplinary artist based in Boston, MA. Her work is a juxtaposition between life, death, joy, tragedy, and the complexities of healing. As the daughter of refugees, her artistic process is influenced by the Cambodian Civil War and...
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D.Ruff is a 2022 Boston Music Award Spoken Word Artist Of The Year nominee. D is a Roxbury-bred artist, performer, educator, artivist, and host. He co-hosted "if you can Feel It, you can Speak It" Open Mic movement for fourteen years. “Feel it, Speak it” is the only monthly Nonelitist...
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A poet and 2024 graduate in the greater Boston area, Maria Zaki works with MassPoetry to speak volumes through her writing and bring the craft to a larger youth audience. Her focus is on spoken word and its outreach beyond the page, stage, building, and city. She recently went to...
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