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Friday April 18, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT
Join visiting Recovery in Practice speakers and Richmond Community members for a special reading of poetry, memoir and short story excerpts.  
Speakers
avatar for Carvell Wallace

Carvell Wallace

Writer
Carvell Wallace is a writer and podcaster who has contributed to The New Yorker, GQ, New York Times Magazine, Pitchfork, MTV News, and Al Jazeera. His debut memoir, Another Word For Love (MCD, 2024), explores his life, identity, and love through stories of family, friendship, and... Read More →
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Samuel Ace

Writer and Sound Artist
Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer writer and sound artist. He is the author most recently of I want to start by saying (Cleveland State University Poetry Center), Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish), Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna* Germinal... Read More →
avatar for Chase Berggrun

Chase Berggrun

Writer
Chase Berggrun is a trans woman poet and educator. She is the author of R E D (Birds LLC, 2018), and the chapbook Somewhere a seagull (After Hours Editions, 2023). Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, Poem-A-Day, The Nation, and elsewhere... Read More →
avatar for Chris Brunt

Chris Brunt

Syracuse University, Professor
Christopher Brunt is the author of the poetry collection WAR AT HOME (Saturnalia Books, 2024), a finalist for the Alma Book Prize. His poetry, fiction, and essays have been featured in Ploughshares, The Nation, Oxford American, Fugue, Meridian, Copper Nickel, the Cincinnati Review... Read More →
avatar for K. Iver

K. Iver

Writer
K. Iver (they/them) is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry from Milkweed Editions. Short Film won the Wisconsin Book Award and was shortlisted for the L.A. Times Book Prize... Read More →
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Sarah Shotland

Director of Madwomen in the Attic, Carlow University
SARAH SHOTLAND is the author of the novel Junkette, and the nonfiction project Abolition is Everything. Her writing for the stage has been performed in theaters nationally and internationally. Sarah co-founded Words Without Walls in 2009, which brought creative writing workshops to... Read More →
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Erin Williams

Professor, Parsons School of Design and Hunter College
Erin Williams is the author and illustrator of ten books, including What's Wrong? Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine, Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame, How to Take Care and the Big Activity Book series (250k+ in print). Her writing and art have also... Read More →
avatar for Alex Watson

Alex Watson

Writer
Alexandra Watson is a fiction writer and poet from Syracuse, NY, currently based in Newburgh, NY. She’s the executive editor of Apogee Journal, a publication providing a platform for marginalized artists and writers to explore identity and its intersections. For her work with Apogee... Read More →
Friday April 18, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EDT
Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University 601 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220, USA

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