Author Aisha Sabatini Sloan & Editor Mensah Demary—In Conversation
Schedule
Thu Apr 25 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
UNCW Kenan Hall, 601 S College Rd, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28403 | Wilmington, NC
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WILMINGTON, N.C.— Aisha Sabatini Sloan—UNC Wilmington visiting writer and professor at University of Michigan—and Mensah Demary—UNC Wilmington visiting editor and editor in chief of Soft Skull Press—will be in conversation at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, in Kenan Hall, KE 1111.Aisha Sabatini Sloan writes about swimming pools, road trips, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s obsession with Grey’s Anatomy, glaciers, and the anxiety of seeking chiropractic treatment. She writes through the fractured lens of art, film, tv, and pop culture. Her family believes in ghosts and the tv show Succession made her want to re-read the works of Shakespeare. She is the recipient of a 2017 CLMP Firecracker award, the 1913 Book Prize, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing, a 2021 National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction, and the 2022 Jean Córdova Award for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction. aishasabatinisloan.com
Mensah Demary is editor in chief of Soft Skull Press. Previously he was executive editor of the Catapult Book Group. He co-wrote the New York Times bestseller Let Love Have the Last Word: A Memoir with rapper/actor Common. His writing has appeared in Vice, Slate, Salon, The Common, Medium’s Unruly Bodies, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn with his family. regulargenius.co
This event is free and open to the public. For further information on UNCW’s programs and events in creative writing, please contact the Department of Creative Writing at 910.962.7063 or [email protected].
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UNCW Kenan Hall, 601 S College Rd, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28403Event Location & Nearby Stays:
