An Evening with Vanessa Saunders | The Flat Woman

Name: An Evening with Vanessa Saunders | The Flat Woman
Start: 2024-11-15T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Vino Fine Wine & Spirits

Schedule

Fri Nov 15 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Vino Fine Wine & Spirits | New Orleans, LA

Join us Friday, November 15th at 6:30 pm to celebrate the launch of Vanessa Saunders’ debut novel, The Flat Woman.
Indulge in this unique experience as Vanessa's book is paired with a carefully selected wine enhancing the flavors and themes of "The Flat Woman."
The event will include a reading by Annell Lopez.
Vanessa will be in conversation with Blue Cypress Books' Event Specialist, Rayna Nielsen.
The discussion and reading will be followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing.
$5 tickets include entrance to this engaging conversation + one glass of wine curated by Vino.
$25.75 tickets includes entrance + one glass of wine + signed copy of The Flat Woman.

"With deft efficiency, Vanessa Saunders lets a mini-matrix of motifs and characters mirror a society's worth of ecological, political, and personal crisis. A beautifully constructed work of feminist realism." - Nell Zink, author Avalon
In The Flat Woman, women exclusively are blamed for the climate crisis. Seagulls drop dead from the sky, and the government, instead of taking responsibility, scapegoats a group of female ecoterrorists. When a girl's mother is incarcerated for climate crimes, she is forced to raise herself alone. As a young woman, she begins a romance with an environmental activist whose passion makes her question her own role in the world. By turns hilarious, deadly serious, and completely absurd, The Flat Woman asks who gets the right to call themselves a good person in a world ripe with disaster.

About the authors:
Vanessa Saunders is a writer from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her feminist experimental novel, The Flat Woman, won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. She is currently a Professor of Practice at Loyola University New Orleans. Her writing has appeared in Seneca Review, Passages North, Los Angeles Review, PANK, as well as other journals.
Annell López is a Dominican immigrant. She is the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the author of the short story collection I’LL GIVE YOU A REASON from the Feminist Press. A Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops, her work has also received support from Tin House and has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. López received her MFA from the University of New Orleans. She is working on a novel.