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SUMMARY:Writing | Improve Your Writing Craft
LOCATION:Snellville Branch\nSnellville Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Learn how to improve your writing craft with award-winning aut
 hor and Emory University creative writing professor Tiphanie Yanique..\nht
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Tiphanie Yanique is a Caribbean-American f
 iction writer\, poet\, and essayist. Her novel and short story collection\
 , <em>Monster in the Middle</em>\, explores intimacy through a generationa
 l\, historical\, and societal lens. It provides a rare look into coloniali
 sm in America\, as well as the experience of being Black in America and th
 e Caribbean over the past 50 years. It was a finalist for the Lambda Award
  for Bisexual Fiction and the Atlanta Writers Club's Townsend Prize&nbsp\;
 for the Best Book in Georgia in 2023\, selected as the <em>Best American S
 hort Stories of 2021\,&nbsp\;</em>and published in <em>The New York Times\
 , The New Yorker\, The Harvard Review </em>and the <em>Yale Review.</em></
 p>\n<p>Yanique along with more than 30 acclaimed writers&mdash\;including 
 diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni\, David Omotosho Black\, Natasha Tre
 thewey\, Barry Jenkins\, Jacqueline Woodson\, Tayari Jones\, and Angela Fl
 ournoy&mdash\;reflect on their experience and expertise in the craft of wr
 iting that focuses on the Black creative spirit in the anthology\, <em>How
  We Do It: Black Writers on Craft\, Practice\, and Skill.</em></p>\n<p sty
 le="text-align: center\;">Registration is requested.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p style=
 "text-align: center\;">Books will be available for purchase and signing by
  <a href="https://www.thebookcellar.shop/">The Book Cellar.</a></p>\n<p st
 yle="text-align: center\;"><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-i
 mages/events/gwinnettpl/Book_Cellar_logo.jpg" width="57" height="109" alt=
 "" /></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"></p>\n<p style="text-align: lef
 t\;">*Presented by Adult Services.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://gwinnettpl
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