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Join us for an intimate conversation with Leilani Garrett, author of After the Burn! This stunning novel dives deep into resilience, healing, and self-discovery. 🔥✨

Come hear Leilani share the inspiration behind her powerful main character, her writing journey, and what it truly means to rise from the ashes. Comment RSVP to get a link sent straight to you so you reserve your seat & signed copy!

📅 April 6th
⏰ 1-3 PM
📍 Da Book Joint – 6900 S. Stony Island Ave

Don’t miss this special opportunity to connect with the author and fellow book lovers! See you there! 📚✨

Fuller Award for Harriette Gillem Robinet Tuesday, March 14, 2023 — Harriette Gillem Robinet, the acclaimed author of 12 historical novels for young adults, will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame's Fuller Award at a ceremony on Tuesday, March 14. The ceremony will take place…

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064509418/bell-hooks-feminist-author-critic-activist-died

Trailblazing feminist author, critic and activist bell hooks has died at 69 The prolific author, poet, cultural critic, feminist and professor, who wrote more than three dozen wide-ranging books, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Ky.

Chicago Quarterly Review: An Anthology of Black American Literature (A Reading) - Crowdcast The Book Stall, an indie bookstore in Winnetka, is partnering with the Chicago Quarterly Review to present an online reading featuring some of the contributors to issue 33.

Congratulations!

GOOOOD Afternoon fam. We are jumping up and down with excitement as our official celebration is in sight! Some of our faves are partying with us and we can’t wait for y’all to meet them as we officially give thanks for our National Harbor. Have your books ready (you know we’ve got you covered). All the big day deets are in our bio. See you A7.
1pm Kwame Alexander
2pm Christine Platt
3pm Tiffany Aliche aka The
4pm Jason Reynolds
5pm David Crownson

Finally get to share the cover of my first children’s book!! I wrote “Change Sings” as a children’s anthem to remind young readers that they have the power to shape the world. The poem is illustrated by the incredible , the artist behind Barack Obama’s children’s book Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to my Daughters, and I could not be more humbled by the beauty he brought to my words. It will be released by this September.
👉🏿📚Pre-order it at the link in bio to be the first to own it!🔗🔗

P.S.
I felt strongly that the book should come out in 2021, when children would be facing the results of the 2020 election and whatever those would be, I wanted them to know they were the leaders of the future. I had no idea that around the same time I myself would be named the youngest inaugural poet at that time! So I am too learning and living the lesson of “Change Sings” ☺️

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634480/change-sings-by-amanda-gorman-illustrated-by-loren-long/?ref=PRHB67C865468&aid=48842&linkid=PRHB67C865468

Well deserved!

Angela Jackson to Serve as Fifth Illinois Poet Laureate | Chicago Defender Angela Jackson is the fifth Illinoisan to hold the title, Poet Laureate, selected by a committee of experts and appointed by the Governor.