Black Writers in the Storm's Wake: A Reading for Hurricane Disaster Relief
Mon, Oct 21
|Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
Authors local to the DC area, Ethelbert Miller, Shannon Sanders, Chantal James, and Kelsey Norris will read from the published work for the community at Sankofa Books at 6:30pm on October 21 as a benefit to raise funds for mutual aid that brings critical disaster relief. Moderated by Lydia Curtis


Time & Location
Oct 21, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Chantal JamesÂ
Chantal James lives in Washington, DC, and has been published across genres—as a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and book reviewer—in such venues as Catapult, Paste Magazine, Harvard’s Transition Magazine, The Bitter Southerner, Obsidian, Callaloo, and more. Her honors include a Fulbright fellowship in creative writing to Morocco, and a finalist position for the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction prize from the North Carolina Literary Review for 2019. She was nominated for the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book from the National Book Critics Circle, chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of their ten most anticipated fiction books of the year, selected by the American Book Sellers’ Association for its Indie Next List, and selected by writers Deesha Philyaw, Kiese Laymon, and Robert Jones, Jr. for their inaugural Lit 16 reading series for her debut novel None but the Righteous published by Counterpoint Press. For over…