Word Thursdays Online
32nd SEASON OPENER
February 22, 2024
at 7 PM EST
on Zoom and Facebook Live
featuring Cheryl Clarke and Breena Clarke
Celebrating Black History Month
We’re excited to usher in Bright Hill’s 32nd WORD THURSDAY program.
Word Thursdays Online featuring Cheryl Clarke and Breena Clarke will broadcast live on Thursday, February 22 at 7 PM EST in celebration of Black History Month.
To attend the event, Bright Hill's 31st season opener on February 22, please click this link just before 7 PM EST:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746
Or visit Bright Hill's Facebook page at 7 PM EST to view the live stream.
RSVP to the event on Facebook here.
Suggested donation is $3, and free to students.
Donations to Bright Hill are gratefully accepted via Paypal by visiting this link, https://paypal.me/brighthillpress, by check made out to Bright Hill Press Inc, and mailed to 94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY 13846, or by credit card by personal appointment by emailing info@brighthillpress.org.
Virtual "donation jar:"
https://paypal.me/brighthillpress
PLEASE JOIN US AND SUPPORT BRIGHT HILL PRESS. Founded by Bertha Rogers and the late, Ernest Fishman, Bright Hill is, like the Hobart Festival of Women Writers, an organization that supports and celebrates the literary arts in The Catskills.
FEATURED WRITERS
Cheryl Clarke's new collection of poetry, ARCHIVE OF STYLE: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED will be released from Northwestern University Press in August. She is the author of six previous poetry collections, in addition to the critical study AFTER MECCA: WOMEN POETS AND THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT (2004) and THE DAYS OF GOOD LOOKS: PROSE AND POETRY, 1980-2005 (2006). Clarke is one of seven organizers of the annual Hobart (N.Y.) Festival of Women Writers, now in its 11th year, to be held the weekend of June 7, 8, 9.
Breena Clarke is the author of four novels, most recently published, Alive Nearby, a gently ruminative, epistolary work that explores characters in Angels Make Their Hope Here, Clarke's 2014 novel set in an imagined mixed-race community in 19th century New Jersey. Breena Clarke's debut novel, River, Cross My Heart, was an October 1999 Oprah Book Club selection and was named by Publisher's Weekly as one of the seven essential books about Washington, D.C. Her critically reviewed second novel, Stand The Storm, was named one of 100 Best for 2008 by The Washington Post. Her short fiction has appeared in Washington Post Magazine, Kweli Journal, Stonecoast Review, Nervous Breakdown, Mom/Egg review, The Drabble, Catapult, Solstice, and Now, The Hobart Festival of Women Writers online magazine. She is co-founder of The Hobart Festival of Women Writers, an annual three-day celebration of the work of diverse women writers. She has been a member of the fiction faculty of Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing at The University of Southern Maine. Breena Clarke is co-editor of NOW, an online journal of the Hobart Festival of Women Writers.
DONATE FOR THE LOVE OF WORDS
To be considered for open mic please email info@brighthillpress.org
For love of words.
Donations made by check made payable to
Bright Hill Press, Inc.
accepted gratefully via mail to:
Bright Hill Press
94 Church Street
Treadwell, NY 13846
or via Paypal:
https://paypal.me/brighthillpress
About Bright Hill
Bright Hill Press & Literary Center of the Catskills literary programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts. To learn more about activities and programs, click here:
https://www.brighthillpress.org
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