Training School for Negro Girls with Busboys and Poets Books
Date and Time
Oct 17, 2018 6:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Oct 17, 2018 6:30 pm
14th & V
Join Busboys and Poets Books as we welcome author Camille Acker for a discussion on her debut short story collection, Training School for Negro Girls. This book is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who's never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, a teacher caught up in the mayoral race. These characters navigate life's "training school"—with lessons in gentrification and respectability—and fight to create their own sense of space and self. The author will be joined by acclaimed novelist Marita Golden to discuss her new book, as well as the possibilities of literature to shatter monolithic depictions of black womanhood and make space for new stories.
Camille Acker holds a BA in English from Howard University and an MFA in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University. Her writing has appeared in Hazlitt and VICE, among others. Raised in Washington, DC, she currently lives in Philadelphia.
The co-sponsor for this event is the Feminist Press, an educational nonprofit organization founded to advance women's rights and amplify feminist perspectives. They publish classic and new writing from around the world, create cutting-edge programs, and elevate silenced and marginalized voices in order to support personal transformation and social justice for all people.
