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Sat, Jun 08
|Cafe con Libros, Bk
Roots. Wounds. Words. Reading | Counterpult Reading Series
The Roots. Wounds. Words. Reading showcases some of the dopest emerging storytellers in & around NYC. This showcase is for Us. Us poverty-born. Us black. Us brown. Us felons. Us formerly incarcerated. Us queer. Us trans. Us womynx. Us brazen. Us.
Time & Location
Jun 08, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Cafe con Libros, Bk, 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA
About the Event
About the Host...
Nicole Shawan Junior (Smith College BA | Pace University MST | Temple University JD) is a counter-storyteller who was born & bred in the bass-heavy beat & scratch of Brooklyn, where the Bed-Stuy cool of beautiful inner-city life barely survived the crippling caused by crack cocaine. She is a black, queer and hood-born womynxst, felon and former police prosecutor. Her writing has appeared in For Harriet, The Feminist Wire and Rigorous Magazine, to name a few. Her work has received support from the Hurston/Wright Foundation, African Voices, Black Film Space, the Black TV & Film Collective, Wildacres Writing Residency, Vanessa Martir's Writing Our Lives, and Nicole Dennis-Benn's Stuyvesant Writers Workshop. Nicole is a future Lambda Literary Emerging Voices Fellow and future SAFTA Fellow (summer 2019). She is a 2018 Brooklyn Arts Nonfiction Prize finalist. She's also the creator of the Roots. Wounds. Words. Writing Workshop. Learn more by visiting www.NicoleShawanJunior.com