CRAFT 2025 Winter Salon
CRAFT 2025 Winter Salon
Please join us for an hour of readings by award-winning authors!
Thursday, February 20, 2025, at 4-5 p.m. PST / 7-8 p.m. EST on Zoom
The event is free and open to all interested,
but please register via Submittable to receive the link!
Featured Reader: ’Pemi Aguda
Author of Ghostroots, Finalist for the National Book Award
Guest Judge for the CRAFT 2025 Novelette Print Prize
Additional virtual salon readers
will include recent contributors:
H. B. Asari
Introduced by Teal Hall,
Short Fiction Editorial Assistant
Jen Colclough
Introduced by Kyle Cochrun,
Creative Nonfiction Editorial Assistant
Catherine McNamara
Introduced by Jahzerah Brooks,
Flash Fiction Associate Coeditor
Editor in Chief Courtney Harler will moderate the event.
Additional details provided upon registration.
Our Featured Reader:
’PEMI AGUDA is from Lagos, Nigeria. She has an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her writing has been published in Granta, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, and One Story, among others, and won O. Henry Prizes. Her novel-in-progress won the 2020 Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award. She was a 2021 Fiction Fellow with the Miami Book Fair, a 2022 MacDowell Fellow, and is the current Hortense Spillers Assistant Editor at Transition Magazine. Her collection of stories, Ghostroots (Norton, 2024), a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction, is her first book. Find her on Instagram @pem.i.
