St. Paul – In Our Words: MN BIPOC Writers Series Launch with David Mura, Carolyn Holbrook, Danez Smith, & Anthony Ceballos

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Image by SpiritFolk Join us for an engaging evening with Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, celebrating their new radio series, In Our Words: MN BIPOC Writers, with guests Danez Smith and Anthony Ceballos. Following the panel discussion between the authors, audience members are invited to participate in a Q&A session with the featured speakers. Light refreshments will be provided, copies of books from all authors featured in the In Our Words: MN BIPOC Writers series will be available for purchase, and the evening will finish with book signings. This event is presented in partnership with AMPERS and the University of Minnesota Press. SubText Bookstore will be on site selling books from all featured authors in this series. In Our Words: MN BIPOC Writers is a new radio series highlighting Minnesota’s Black, Indigenous and people of color authors, thinkers and activists, hosted by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura. In conversations with authors across genre, region, and career, Carolyn and David explore these writers’ lasting legacy and emerging work, and how they’ve bent the arc of justice in Minnesota and across the country. In Our Words is produced by AMPERS, with support from the Minnesota Humanities Center and the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund. Authors featured in the first season of In Our Words: MN BIPOC Writers are: Alexs Pate, Anthony Ceballos, Bao Phi, Carl Gawboy, Crown Sheperd, Heid Erdrich, Danez Smith, Jokeda “JoJo” Bell, Kennedy Gisege, Marcie Rendon, Marian Hassan, Rebecca Nichloson, Sarah Warren, Sun Yung Shin, and Swati Avasthi. The Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations (AMPERS) is the largest statewide association of community radio stations in the United States. AMPERS supports 17 stations through revenue generation, training, member convenings, and original news, arts, and culture programming, such as In Our Words. View Carolyn Holbrook’s Bio Carolyn Holbrook is founder and Director of More Than a Single Story.…

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