Please join us for a special event at The Englert Theater, featuring Jacqueline Woodson in conversation with Alexia Arthurs. Woodson will be reading from and discussing her two new books for middle grade and young readers, Harbor Me and The Day You Begin, illustrated by Rafael López. Woodson and Arthur will discuss timely issues that affect childrens' lives and education, noting the power literature has to keep them hopeful in stressful times. Jacqueline Woodson is the National Ambassador for...

Writers’ Workshop graduates Alexia Arthurs and Ruth Joffre will read from their fiction debuts. Alexia Arthurs will read from How to Love A Jamaican. “In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once: some cultivated, some simple, some wickedly funny, some deeply melancholic. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith  Arthurs has been published in Granta, The Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Vice, and The Paris Review, which awarded her the Plimpton Prize...

Writers’ Workshop graduate Stephen Markley will read from his new novel, Ohio. On one fateful summer night in 2013, four former classmates converge on the rust belt town where they grew up, each haunted by regrets, secrets, and lost loves. “[A] standout debut ... Markley’s novel is alternately disturbing and gorgeous, providing a broad view of the anxieties of a post-9/11 Middle America and the complexities of the humans who navigate them.” —Publishers Weekly Stephen Markley is the author of...

Mitchell L. H. Douglas and Heather Derr-Smith will read from their poetry. Mitchell L.H. Douglas will read from his recent collection, dying in the scarecrow’s arms. “ Douglas depicts the assault on people of color in America’s increasingly divided Heartland. A devotee of American popular culture, from rock ’n’ roll to Star Wars to Marvel comic books, Douglas is a poet of “scrutinizing intellect, imagination, and soul.” — Terrance Hayes Mitchell L. H. Douglas is also the author of  \blak\ \al...