CRAFT 2024 Spring Salon
CRAFT 2024 Spring Salon
Please join us for an hour of readings by award-winning authors!
Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 4 p.m. PDT / 7 p.m. EDT on Zoom
The event is free and open to all interested,
but please register via Submittable to receive the link!
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Featured Reader: Deesha Philyaw
Author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,
2020 National Book Award Finalist
Guest Judge for the
CRAFT 2024 Short Fiction Prize
Additional virtual salon readers
will include recent contributors:
Dana Brewer Harris
Introduced by Jahzerah Brooks,
Flash Fiction Associate Coeditor
Starr Davis
Introduced by Shara Kronmal,
Longform Creative Nonfiction Associate Editor
Tim Raymond
Introduced by Rowena Leong Singer,
Short Fiction Associate Coeditor
Editor in Chief Courtney Harler will moderate the event.
Additional details provided upon registration.
Our Featured Reader:
DEESHA PHILYAW is the author of the debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, which won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church, and is being adapted for television by HBO Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing. Deesha is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and a Baldwin for the Arts Fellow. Her debut novel, The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, is forthcoming from Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 2025. Find her on Twitter @DeeshaPhilyaw.
