UWM’s creative writing program welcomes Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for a very special visit this fall. She will deliver a craft talk on Thursday, October 24, 2024 at 3:00pm and a reading at 7:00pm in Curtin Hall 175 (3242 N. Downer Ave.). Both events are free and open to the public.
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Ph.D., is the author of three books: Big Girl, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize and the Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel; The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora, winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the MLA; and the short story collection, Blue Talk & Love, winner of the Judith Markowitz Award from Lambda Literary. She has earned honors from Bread Loaf, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, the Mellon Foundation, the Center for Fiction, the NEA, and others. She is Professor of English at Georgetown University.
Livestream links:
Craft Talk (3:00pm):
https://mediaspace.wisconsin.edu/media/Creative+Writing%27s+Visiting+Writer+Craft+Talk+Fall+2024/1_yx2u8vvv
Reading and Q&A (7:00pm):
https://mediaspace.wisconsin.edu/media/Creative+Writing%27s+Visiting+Writer+Reading+Q%26A+Fall+2024/1_kdpm5shj
This event is made possible with the support of the Boudreaux Foundation and is co-sponsored by Boswell Book Company, African and African Diaspora Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, and Women’s & Gender Studies.
