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Environmental Writers’ Conference, Translators’ Conference, and Writers’ Conference.

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Thanks to @sjsuenglishdepartment for hosting a Super Steinbeck reading yesterday with 10 (!) fellows who had debut books in the past year. I was lucky enough to appear in person with the talented@amandarizkalla and @alexia_nader but others Zoomed in. I loved all the Steinbeck-mobilia. I guess I need to finally read East of Eden now…

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As @drewtheepicurean and I make our way home, felt like the perfect time to pick up this perfect novel — we listened to it during the New Mexico leg. Simply breathtaking. Love on your pack every chance you get. So grateful for mine @breadloafwriter ❤️#etna #paulyoon

@plentybookshop is a treasure of a bookshop — wonderfully curated books, beautiful nooks abound to lose yourself in the glory of words, and the cutest coffee counter ever. Oh, and dogs aplenty!

Friday writers workshop 💗💗💗

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Take me back!! THIS IMPOSSIBLE LIFE releases in under 2 months, Chike is back to school, and I’m back to work but @breadloafwriter owes me nothing! I had an amazing time connecting with these writers across genres, across continents, across lived experiences. Same time next year?

Oh and preorder my book! Link in bio:)

About the novel:

From the acclaimed author of Under the Udala Trees, a profoundly moving, unforgettable new epic following the aftermath of one catastrophic moment in the lives of two siblings.

Eleven-year-old Alohan and his four-year-old sister Ivie are the children of a rainmaker, who performs elaborate rituals to bring or hold back the rain. One day, the rainmaker’s luck runs out: it pours on the wrong person’s wedding, and the repercussions for him and for his wife who accompanies him to the wedding are deadly.

Orphaned and alone, Alohan is quickly forced into an early adulthood, charged with providing for and protecting Ivie. The two siblings become each other’s entire worlds, bound by loss and loyalty. But just as they begin to build a life for themselves, a lapse of judgment leaves them entangled with a wealthy couple’s nefarious scheme. The two are set on drastically different paths, constricted by the ruthlessness of those who hold great power and privilege, and those who are underfoot – who must, and will, do anything merely to survive. What unfolds is an incredible journey of crime and betrayal, misunderstanding and misfortune, spanning continents and decades: from Nigeria to the United States to Italy, and from the homes of the wealthy elites, to those of the destitute—crossing paths, at each turn, with those who steal, con, and traffic in lives.

At the novel’s heart is the love between Alohan and Ivie. Told with captivating force, insight, and compassion, This Impossible Life is a gripping saga of two siblings’ survival, and of whether the love that binds them will be enough to overcome the most unforgiving of fates.

#thisimpossiblelife #chinelookparanta #undertheudalatrees #blackbooks #africanliterature

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merch idea: I Survived the Bread Loaf Hayride™️

everyone talks about the magic of the mountain, but i couldn’t have imagined it until i experienced it. this year was @breadloafwriter’s 100th anniversary, and i felt so lucky to write and play and learn in this sacred place, with its legacy of literary luminaries (joan didion smoked in these chairs! julia child cooked in this kitchen! toni morrison taught at this podium!) and, even more special to me, this year’s cohort of brilliant writers and teachers. to be guided by my generous workshop leaders @tonijenseniswriting and @notyourjenji, have my brain re-wired by lectures and readings from @marie.helenebertino and @gabbat, take craft classes with @paul_lisicky and @hyeseungs, meet new friends, reunite with old ones, eat maple creamees, spiritually meld with this meadow, party in the laundry room, and get whacked in the face so hard during the hay ride i thought i’d need medical attention? magic.

i don’t know if it was the head injury or the magic of those ten days (or both!) but i left the mountain with a profound new understanding of why we write: it is, as @elizmccrack put it, as a practice of “looking for ways to love the world.”

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The perfect bite of Brooklyn: Celebrating birthday girl and honorary little sister @anminor3, brunch and the best conversation with @pennyscientist, and a @breadloafwriter reunion in the park with @leannemawrites @mimimwong @kristen_surya and guest star @megha.maj! Swipe for Laura’s paparazzi-style capture of deep, literary conversation 👀

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Hope this gives you some ideas if you’ve been trying to build or grow your writing community 🐸🌱 (also hi, welcome to this one)

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A decade in the making. Standing room only launch @island_booksellers in August. Sold out at @breadloafwriter this summer. Virgin Islands Noir now comes to Atl! Please come support this ground breaking work. Calling all #booknerd #caribbean #bvi #usvi #books and readers in general. See you tonight at the event space for @asmallplacebookshop. Some support the book and this special Black and woman owned book store! Can’t wait to see you.

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Looking back to: August events at Phoenix Books!

Thank you to all of the readers and writers who made August such a great month for Phoenix Books. We are looking forward to a very events-full fall!

#phoenixbooks #phoenixbooksevents #independentbookstore #bookstoreevents #vtbookstore

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Thank you to Printers Row Book Fest and Exhibit B for having me as a featured reader. Jim Stewart is a Chicago cultural treasure. I got to see my Bread Loaf roommate and connect with some U of Cincy PhD alums. Thanks Chicago!

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It’s Labor Day and writing is labor. As if it’s not enough of a challenge to get words on a page, we are expected to also handle the selling part? On top of a day job? Family obligations? Join the League of Vermont Writers at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on Saturday, September 12th for a day of learning how to market your writing without losing your mind.

Link to learn more/register in bio.

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August ended. Didn’t see it coming. // 📸: @bella.tahat @steakandmeggs @anitav_k

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We are excited that Heather Roberts of 1852 Media will be joining our esteemed team of panelists at LVW's educational and networking event: "A New World of Marketing your Writing" on September 12th from 10am -3pm at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, VT.

Link to register in bio. 🎉

The League of Vermont Writers will bring writers, publishers, and booksellers together for a day long program exploring how authors can find readers in a rapidly changing publishing landscape. 📕 ✍🏻The event will open with a presentation by Helen Whybrow, award winning author of Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life. 🐑 There will be plenty of time for mingling and book browsing over morning coffee and midday lunch provided by the Grapevine Grill. 🍇
Bring plenty of questions for our afternoon panel discussion with experts in the field including Heather Roberts of 1852 Media, Samantha Kolber of Rootstock Publishing, Pat Goudey O’Brien of The Tamarac Press, and Barbara Ebling of The Bookstore in Brandon. ✍🏻

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