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Today, 9/20
Angie Chuang

reading at Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room

6-7:30 PM

(see details at right)

Sunday, 9/21
Angie Chuang

reading at BookBound

3 PM

(see details at right)

Wednesday-Saturday, 9/24-9/27
Furious Flower Conference w/Randall Horton, Reggie Flood, Derrick Harriell, Curtis L. Crisler, Adrienne Christian, and Kelly Norman Ellis
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA

Monday, 10/6
Aquarius Press' 15th Anniversary
Stop in to say hello on our Facebook page!

Friday, 10/10
Cardamon and Memory: An Evening of Poetry with Elmaz Abinader
Arab American National History Museum,
Dearborn, Michigan
6-8 PM

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www.WillowLit.net

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READING TONIGHT!

6-7:30 PM

ANGIE CHUANG

@ Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Angie Chuang will be reading from her bestselling The Four Words from Home on Saturday, Sept. 20 at Crazy Wisdom from 6-7:30 p.m.

About The Four Words for Home, Grand Prize Winner of the Willow Books Literature Award for Prose:

Angie Chuang takes on an assignment to "find the human face of the country we're about to bomb" weeks after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Her five-year journey into the lives of the Shirzai family transports her far beyond journalism.

Angie Chuang is a writer and educator based in Washington, D.C. Her work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Asian American Literary Review, and multiple editions of The Best Women's Travel Writing. She has received fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, Jentel, and others. She is an Associate Professor of Journalism at American University's School of Communication.

Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room

114 South Main Street

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

(between Washington & Huron)

Bookstore - 734.665.2757 Tea Room - 734.665.9468

READING TOMORROW!

3 PM

ANGIE CHUANG

@ BookBound!

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Angie Chuang will be reading from her bestselling The Four Words from Home on Sunday, Sept. 21 at BookBound starting at 3 p.m.

Praise for The Four Words for Home, Grand Prize Winner of the Willow Books Literature Award for Prose:

"This serious and lovely experiment from Angie Chuang deserves your attention. If you are serious about reading news about kinship, the rigors of family, the by-blows of war, the way to making peace piecemeal (the only way for most of us), this is a book you need."

-Alan Cheuse, Fall Out of Heaven: An Autobiographical Journey and book commentator for National Public Radio

"As Angie Chuang journeys from Portland to Kabul to Taoyuan and back again, first as witness, then as family, she paints a deft and moving portrait of the walls we erect and shows us how they crumble in the face human complexity and enduring love."

-Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Hiroshima in the Morning

BookBound

1729 Plymouth Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
(734) 369-4345

WILLOW BOOKS POETS SELECTED FOR FURIOUS FLOWER!

Held only every 10 years, the Furious Flower Conference celebrates the best in African American poetry and recognizes emerging stars. We are proud to have so many of our authors selected.

Congrats to Cedric Tillman,

the first recipient of the Willow Books Emerging Poets & Writers Fund!

The fund provides professional development opportunities for Willow authors to further their careers in the publishing industry. Opportunities include resources for training, travel stipends, and mentorships with established Willow authors.

Cedric will be using his award to attend the Furious Flower Conference at James Madison University next week.

Praise for Lilies in the Valley:

"Cedric Tillman's Lilies in the Valley is poetic scripture. Rooted in culture, family, love, and the word, Tillman proves that sacredness can drive verse and keep it fresh like newly baked biscuits. This is modern poetry but grounded in the past. It is hip-hop and Sunday morning, church dinner chatter, love and happiness, Carolina shouts and sermons, a new voice ready to testify and do so in a way that no one has yet done before."

~Brian Gilmore, author of We Didn't Know Any Gangsters

2015 WILLOW BOOKS LITERATURE AWARDS

WILLOW BOOKS LITERATURE AWARDS

Prose Grand Prize:

$1,000, book contract, and sponsored reading

Poetry Grand Prize:

$1,000, book contract, and sponsored reading

The Willow Books Literature Awards recognize literary excellence in prose and poetry by writers from culturally diverse backgrounds. The 2014 Grand Prize winners are David Garvin and Rachelle Linda Escamilla.

The submission deadline for entries is Monday, December 1, 2014. Four Finalists will be announced on February 6, 2015. The Grand Prize winners will be announced April 3, 2015.

SUBMIT HERE:

https://aquariuspress.submittable.com/submit

BOOKS TO WATCH FOR IN EARLY 2015 from our current GRAND PRIZE WINNERS!

White Sun: Stories from Hispanoamerica by David Garvin