Women Writers of the Diaspora presents

Jacqueline Bishop

Thursday, February 18, 2016, 6:00-7:15 pm

Calabar Imports Harlem

2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at 134^th St.)

Harlem, NY 10030

JACQUELINE BISHOP is an award-winning photographer-painter-writer born and raised in Jamaica, who now lives and works in New York City (“Jamaica’s 15th Parish”). She has twice been awarded Fulbright Fellowships, including a year-long grant to Morocco; her work exhibits widely in North America, Europe and North Africa. She teaches in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University; is the founding editor of Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Art & Letters; and author of The River's Song, a novel about growing up in Jamaica. The Gymnasts & Other Positions: Stories, Interviews, Essays is forthcoming in the fall from Peepal Tree Press.

WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA is a reading/discussion series created and moderated by DR. CELESTI COLDS FECHTER, Exec. Director of Education Success Services and Prof., Org. Behavior, King Graduate School, New Rochelle.  WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA features poetry, prose, memoir, essay, reportage, urban writing by African and African diasporan women.

Be sure to mark your calendar for Amber Atiya, Mar 3; Yvette Louis, Mar 17; Farah Jasmine Griffin, Apr. 21; Stephanie Renee Payne, May 5; Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, May 19;  Cynthia Manick, June 9; Celeste Rita Baker, June 23.  

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The venue, CALABAR IMPORTS HARLEM, is provided by ATIM ANETTE OTUN.  The series is also co-sponsored by MOSAIC LITERARY MAGAZINE.

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