Authors Nakia Hill and Sharon Dodua Otoo in Conversation

An open conversation on approaches to supporting Black authors in Boston and Germany

Join authors and activists Nakia Hill and Sharon Dodua Otoo for an open conversation on approaches to supporting Black authors in Boston and Germany. Hill and Otoo present from their own experience with creating formats and platforms for Black writers and then invite the audience to join in an open dialog. The aim is to create an inclusive and welcoming space post election for reflection and support.

Nakia Hill is a writer poet journalist and educator. She is the author of Water Carrier a book of poetry  I Still Did It an intergenerational anthology on resilience and the newly released anthology How We Take Up Space focused on spatial justice. A proud native of Roxbury Hill was named an artist-in-residence by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture in 2018 and a GrubStreet  Teaching Fellow in 2023. She is a recipient of multiple awards and honors for her work. She is committed to using her skills and expertise to inspire inform and empower others through the power of storytelling.

Sharon Dodua Otoo is a novelist and political activist. Otoo won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016 with the text "Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin". Her first novel "Adas Raum" was published by S. Fischer Verlag in 2021 and has been translated into several languages including two English language versions "Ada's Realm" (MacLehose Press 2023) and "Ada's Room" (Riverhead Books 2023). In collaboration with the Ruhrfestspiele one of the oldest largest and most renowned theatre festivals in Europe she curates the Black German-language literature festival "Resonanzen".

Host or Publisher Goethe-Institut Boston