A Darker Wilderness Community Reading
A community reading celebrating A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars featuring writer/editor Erin Sharkey and a selection of young writers, performers, and activists from Just Buffalo, Ujima Theatre, and Massachusetts Avenue Project.
Free and open to the public. Burning Books will have the anthology on sale at the event!
Date
- Thursday, May 25, 2023
- Expired!
Time
- 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
- 468 Washington St., 2nd Floor, Buffalo, NY
Featured Artist
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Erin SharkeywriterErin Sharkey is a writer, arts and abolition organizer, cultural worker, and film producer based in Minneapolis. She is the cofounder, with Junauda Petrus, of an experimental arts collective called Free Black Dirt and is the producer of film projects including Sweetness of Wild, an episodic web film project, and Small Business Revolution (Hulu), which explored challenges and opportunities for Black-owned businesses in the Twin Cities in the summer of 2021. Sharkey has received fellowships and residencies from the Loft Mentor Series, VONA/Voices, the Givens Foundation, Coffee House Press, the Bell Museum of Natural History, and the Jerome Foundation. In 2021, Sharkey was awarded the Black Seed Fellowship from Black Visions and the Headwaters Foundation. She has an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and teaches with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
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