Join us for a moderated conversation with Find Your Story&rsquo\;s signature speaker\, Denne Michele Norris. Norris will discuss her debut novel When the Harvest Comes\, a story about a youn g Black gay man\, estranged from his father\, must confront his painful pa st&mdash\;and his deepest desires around gender\, love\, and sex.
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Denne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literat
ure\, winner of the 2022 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. She is the first
Black\, openly trans woman to helm a major literary publication. A 2021 O
ut100 Honoree\, her writing has been supported by MacDowell\, Tin House\,
and the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction\, and appears in McSw
eeney's\, American Short Fiction\, and ZORA.
Her short story Last Rites appears in Everyday People: The Color of Life\, an anthology publish ed by Atria Books in 2018\, and her story Daddy's Boy appears in the new a nthology Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction. Her fiction has twice been n ominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and her story Where Every Boy is Known and Loved was a finalist for the 2018 Best Small Fictions Prize. She is a 201 9 Peter Taylor Fellow at The Kenyon Review Fiction Workshop.
\nShe i s the former Fiction Editor for both Apogee Journal and The Rumpus\, and i s co-host of the critically-acclaimed podcast Food 4 Thot. Her debut novel \, When The Harvest Comes.
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\nMahoga ny S. Thomas\, moderator\, rooted in Missouri and now a Washingto nian\, advocates for marginalized communities at the intersection of socia l justice and radical hospitality. As Chief Program Officer at Bread for t he City\, Rev. Mahogany fosters equitable futures. An ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the United Church of Christ (UCC)\, she previously served as executive minister at Peoples Congregational UCC in D.C. With a Master of Divinity from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts in Religiou s Studies from Westminster College\, Missouri\, she&rsquo\;s an acclaimed public speaker. As Scholar in Residence at Adas Israel Congregation\, she delved into Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.&rsquo\;s teachings and Womanis t Theology. As Womanist Theologian in Residence at Calvary Baptist Church\ , she bridges academia and the church\, fostering alternative dialogues.\n
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\nA Day of Writing and Comm unity at MLK Library Celebrating DC&rsquo\;s LGBTQ Writers.
\nFind Your Story. ..Writing with Pride \;will be a day of workshops\, presentations\ , and author talks focused on DC&rsquo\;s writing community. For World Pri de the event will have special focus on LGBTQ writers in the DC area. The day will include panel discussions\, informal writing workshops\, and a de dicated poetry stage.
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