L30: Black Literature News
North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color to Hold Public Book Reading and Signing.
PLATTSBURGH, NY (07/06/2010)(readMedia)– The North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color will sponsor a public reading and book signing from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 9, in Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus.
Both Marita Golden and Ernesto Quiñonez will read.
Golden is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. Her memoirs, “Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons” and “Don’t Play in the Sun,” are all widely used in colleges and universities. Her novel, “AFTER,” won the fiction award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She has taught fiction and nonfiction at Virginia Commonwealth University George Mason University as well as at many writing conferences and workshops in the United States and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Europe. She is president emeritus and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
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Posted on July 8th, 2010 at 5:27 am by KTibbs
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