Wilde Readings With Hannah V. Sawyerr & Ronald L. Smith

Schedule

Tue, 14 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Queen Takes Book | Columbia, MD

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We are delighted to welcome you to our early Fall Wilde Readings event featuring authors Hannah V. Swayerr, Ronald L. Smith and you!
Host: Laura Shovan
Hannah V. Sawyerr
Hannah V. Sawyerr was recognized as the Youth Poet Laureate of Baltimore in 2016. Her debut novel in verse All the Fighting Parts was recognized as a Morris Debut Award finalist, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, a Rise Feminist Book Project Top Ten Title, and a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. Truth Is is her sophomore novel.
Ronald L. Smith
Ronald L. Smith is an award-winning author of middle-grade novels including Black Panther: The Young Prince Trilogy, Hoodoo, Gloomtown, Where the Black Flowers Bloom, Project Mercury and more. He has also contributed to the anthologies The Hero Next Door, Hope Wins, and RECOGNIZE: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life. A former advertising writer, he lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.
Please spread the word - bring your friends, family, and students. All are welcome. We encourage you to participate in the open mic. Please prepare no more than five minutes of performance time/two poems.
Light refreshments will be served. Books by both featured authors and open mic readers will be available for sale.
#Fiction. #Poetry, #hocomd #openmic #novelist #HoCoPoLitSo
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Queen Takes Book, 6955 Oakland Mills Rd, Columbia, MD 21045-5849, United States

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