How we’d love for you to join us this Saturday, December 13th at 1pm PT for a reading featuring contributing writers of the highly anticipated and award nominated anthology, Accra Noir.
Including editor and contributor, Nana-Ama Danquah.
Please register for the event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwucOirpj8rEtT1JfQYI8maR89Z_742ZMjq
Each contributor will read briefly from their story and then we can take questions from the audience.
Kwame Dawes has published over thirty-five books, most recently the novel Bivouac. He was born in Ghana, grew up in Jamaica, and is considered one of the Caribbean’s leading writers. Dawes is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, an honorary FRSL, and programming director of the Calabash In-ternational Literary Festival. At the University of Nebraska, he is the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, Chancellor’s Pro-fessor of English, and director of the African Poetry Book Fund.
Anna Bossman was born in Kumasi, Ghana. She obtained a degree in law and political science from the University of Ghana, Legon, and was admitted to the bar in 1980. She headed Ghana’s Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, and directed the Integrity and Anti-Corruption Department of the African Development Bank. Bossman has been writing short fiction since childhood and also writes poetry. Since 2017 she has been Ghana’s ambassador to France.
Ernest Kwame Nkrumah Addo graduated with a BA and MPhil from the University of Ghana, Legon. He has taught English at the University of Professional Studies, Ac-cra, and has worked for the presidency as a speechwriter. Addo is currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University of South Africa.
Eibhlín Ní Chléirigh is a writer who left Dublin, Ire-land, over thirty years ago; first to Malawi, then Zimbabwe, before settling in Ghana in 1994. Her background is design and communications, but she has always had a love of story- telling and the rich, vibrant oral traditions of both Ireland and Ghana. She has written a number of short stories and essays.
Nana-Ama Danquah was born in Accra and raised in the US. She is the author of Willow Weep for Me and editor of the anthologies Becoming American, Shaking the Tree, and The Black Body. Her work has been widely anthologized. Publications she has written for include Essence, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, and the Los Angeles Times. She has taught at Otis College of Arts and Design, Antioch College, and the University of Ghana.
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