Join us for readings by Edgar Kunz, Naima Yael Tokunow, Ndinda Kioko, Tyler Barton, Tasha Coryell, Madison McCartha, and other writers from the pages of Bat City Review and Black Warrior Review.
Contact: Leah Hampton
[from AWP’s offsite events schedule]
Join Black Warrior Review and Bat City Review for an offsite AWP reading, featuring:
Tyler Barton
Edgar Kunz
Madison McCartha
Tasha Coryell
Naima Yael Tokunow
Vi Khi Nao
& more, TBA
We hope to see you there!
About the readers:
Madison McCartha is a black poet whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, DREGINALD, The Fanzine, Full-Stop, The Journal, jubilat, Yalobusha Review and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and held a residency at The Millay Colony for the Arts.
Vi Khi Nao is the author of Sheep Machine, of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of
Torture, which won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016, the novel, Fish in
Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016), and the poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, which won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes and Feldman Prizes in fiction and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award in poetry.
Naima Yael Tokunow (née Woods) is an educator, writer and editor, currently living in New Mexico. Her work (and life) focus around interrogating black femme identity & privilege, social justice and black futurity. She is the author of the chapbook, MAKE WITNESS, published in 2016 by Zoo Cake Press. She is a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a TENT Residency Fellow & has attended The Home School workshop in Miami. She proudly edits the Black Voice Series for Puerto del Sol and the Scarlet blog for Jaded Ibis Press. New work is published in or forthcoming from DATABLEED, bone bouquet, Bayou, Winter Tangerine, Nat. Brut, juked, Diagram, and elsewhere. More information is available at naimaytokunow.com. She is blessed to be black and alive.
Tasha Coryell teaches at the University of Alabama, where she got her MFA alongside writer Zach Doss. Her debut collection of short stories, Hungry People, was published by Split Lip Press in 2018.
Tyler Barton is a cofounder of FEAR NO LIT, the organization responsible for The Submerging Writer Fellowship. His flash fiction chapbook, The Quiet Part Loud, won the Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest and was published this winter in Split Lip Press. Find his recent stories in Kenyon Review, Subtropics, Gulf Coast, and Kenyon Review. Find him at @goftyler or tsbarton.com.
Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collection Tap Out (Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). A 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow and former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, his poems appear widely, including in Ploughshares, New England Review, The Sewanee Review, and, most recently, in U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s podcast The Slowdown. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he teaches at Goucher College and in the MFA program at Salve Regina University.
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