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Wednesday October 16, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
In Percival Everett’s novel Erasure and its film adaptation American Fiction, the character Monk hopes to write novels that represent the human experience, but he is advised by his publisher to “write something ‘Blacker.’” For Monk, the push and pull of artist and audience results in a rueful depiction of familial and professional lives, but at its heart, his story asks the question: what is a writer of color permitted to write about? In this panel, Pia Chatterjee, Vanessa Hua, Dominic Lim, and Yalitza Ferreras explore the question of writing beyond race in traditional publishing. FREE, $10–15 suggested donation
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Authors and Participants
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Pia Chatterjee

Pia Chatterjee is a writer, essayist, and a member of the SF Writers Grotto. Pia's novel in progress, ALL THE HAPPY FAMILIES was a finalist for Tin House's 2023 submissions for debut novels. Pia has won the Ledge Prize for fiction, was named the Emerging Fellow at San Francisco Writers... Read More →
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Yalitza Ferreras

Yalitza Ferreras is a recent Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State University. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories... Read More →
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Vanessa Hua

Vanessa Hua is the author of the national bestsellers A River of Stars and Forbidden City, as well as Deceit and Other Possibilities, a New York Times Editors Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award... Read More →
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Dominic Lim

Dominic Lim’s debut novel, All the Right Notes, has been named a 2023 best book by over 20 publications, including USA Today, Library Journal, Goodreads, and Entertainment Weekly, who called it “a swoony, joyful rom-com to take readers into a love story worthy of a Broadway stage... Read More →
Wednesday October 16, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Clio's (353 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94610, USA)

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