Prose, poetry, and spoken word Open Mic at The Writer’s Center, featuring a special reading by current [link id=’2107218′ text=’TWC Compass Fellow’] Cecily A. Duffie! All writers are welcome to come and share 4-5 minutes of their latest work. Limited space. In-person signup starts at 6:45, and readings begin promptly at 7.
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Hosted by Javed Jahangir. Sponsored by Poet Lore, America’s oldest poetry magazine.
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Cecily A. Duffie is a Miami native. Currently, she’s a Ph.D student in English Literature at Howard University. She graduated Howard with a Master’s of Arts in English and has a B.A. from the University of Florida in African-American Studies. Her work has been published in The Miami Herald and Pedagogy and she has participated in the Wesleyan Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Tin House Work Shop. Currently, she is working on a Tudor-era novel about the Duke of Norfolk, Anne Bolyen’s uncle; a cycle of short stories about women; and some pieces of southern black gothic fiction.
Javed Jahangir’s fiction has been published in LUMINA Literary Journal (Sarah Lawrence College), HIMAL Magazine, Smokelong Journal, LOST Magazine, Bengal Lights Journal, Six Seasons Review, Daily Star, Bangladesh and others. He was on the 2011 panel of judges for the RISCA (Rhode Island State Council Arts) Fiction Fellowship award. He was part of Jenna Blum’s Master Class at Grub Street. He has contributed to, and been editor-in-chief for The Grub Street Writers’ 10 year Anthology, and has been a reader for the Harvard Review. His novel, Ghost Alley was published by Bengal Foundation Publishing, and debuted at the Hay Festival in 2014. Ghost Alley was reviewed in Wasafiri Journal. He is currently working on a second novel, and a collection of short stories.