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An Evening with Tananarive Due
The Beverly Theater 515 S 6th St,, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesPlease join us for an evening with Tananarive Due, award-winning author, screenwriter, and scholar. This program is co-presented by the Program on Race, Gender, and Policing at the William S. Boyd School of Law, as part of their Black Legal Futurism conference. Tananarive Due Bio: (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and […]
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How to Craft a Book Proposal with Nicole Chung, Amy Brady, and Tajja Isen (Virtual Event)
This virtual panel will bring together three nonfiction writers to discuss the craft of book proposals. It will cover subjects that include the sections and conventions of a book proposal, how the goals of the form are different from those of a manuscript, and the ways a project might (and will!) evolve between pitch […]
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Your Writing, Live!: The Reading
Majestic Repertory Theatre 1217 S. Main St., Las Vegas, NV, United StatesYou are invited to the fabulous Your Writing, Live!: The Reading! Join BMI to cheer the students of Your Writing, Live!: The Workshop! These will perform original work to demonstrate what they have learned from Shearing Fellow Julián Delgado Lopera and Vegas Drag Queen Lexùs Chandeliér. The festivities start at 5:30 with light bites from Soul Belly, followed […]
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Your Writing, Live!
Majestic Repertory Theatre 1217 S. Main St., Las Vegas, NV, United StatesYou are invited to the fabulous Your Writing, Live!: The Reading! Join BMI to cheer the students of Your Writing, Live!: The Workshop! These will perform original work to demonstrate what they have learned from Shearing Fellow Julián Delgado Lopera and Vegas Drag Queen Lexùs Chandeliér. The festivities start at 5:30 with light bites from Soul […]
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The Dysfunction of Food: On Food That Isn’t Beautiful or Comforting or Delicious with Kim Foster
Kim Foster, James Beard Award-winning Author of the forthcoming The Meth Lunches: The Care and Feeding of a Drug Addict, St. Martin’s Press. In this lecture, Kim Foster will examine the ways food can signify and complicate dysfunction in Las Vegas, for both individuals and communities – those with empty tables, and those with full plates. […]
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Their Divine Fires Book Launch with Wendy Chen
Join BMI and the UNLV Department of English as we celebrate Creative Writing faculty member Wendy Chen for her debut novel, Their Divine Fires. A captivating and intimate story interwoven with folktale and myth, the book is shaped by love affairs of three generations of Chinese women across one hundred years of revolutions, both political and […]
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Surface Tension: A Salon hosted by Black Mountain Institute
West Las Vegas Library 951 W. Lake Mead, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesJoin Black Mountain Institute, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District for Surface Tension: A Salon, an evening of art and community at the West Las […]
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Fall 2024 Poetry Workshops at the Left of Center Art Gallery
Left of Center 2207 W Gowan Rd., N. Las Vegas, NV, United StatesCalling all beginning and advanced poets! Join Left of Center and the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for three free poetry workshops designed to engage both beginning and experienced writers in “ekphrastic poetry.” Ekphrastic poems are written in response to works of visual art, and these three workshops will utilize Left […]
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The State of Comics Publishing with Eric Reynolds, Megan Kelso, and Diana Schutz
VirtualThis panel features Eric Reynolds, VP/associate publisher of premier comics and graphic novel publisher Fantagraphics Books; Megan Kelso, author and comics conference organizer; and comics legend Diana Schutz. They will discuss the past, present, and future of comics in the U.S., in a conversation moderated by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Writing Program alum, […]
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Maryam Ala Amjadi: A Reading + Conversation
Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL), UNLV 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesMaryam Ala Amjadi is an Iranian writer, translator, and researcher. She is the author of two poetry collections, a poetry chapbook, and the translator of a selection of Raymond Carver’s poems […]
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Libros & Chisme – Our Share of Night: A Novel by Mariana Enriquez
The Writer's Block 519 S 6th Street #100, Las Vegas, NV, United StatesJoin us at The Writer’s Block starting in October for Libros & Chisme (formerly the Latinx Book Club), a book club hosted by BMI associate director of development Kim Treviño. Here is the reading list: Oct. 3, 2024 @ 6 p.m. | Our Share of Night: A Novel by Mariana Enriquez Dec. 12, 2024 @ […]
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Fall 2024 Poetry Workshops at the Left of Center Art Gallery
Left of Center 2207 W Gowan Rd., N. Las Vegas, NV, United StatesCalling all beginning and advanced poets! Join Left of Center and the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for three free poetry workshops designed to engage both beginning and experienced writers in “ekphrastic poetry.” Ekphrastic poems are written in response to works of visual art, and these three workshops will utilize Left […]
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