OutWrite 2023 KEYNOTE: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Washington, DC's LGBTQ literary festival.  2020 is our ten year anniversary.   July 31 to  August 2.

OutWrite DC

Join our keynote speaker Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for a brief reading from Big Girl followed by a discussion.

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the author of Big Girl, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and a Best Books pick from Time, Essence, Vulture, Ms., Goodreads, Booklist, Library Reads, and SheReads.com. Her previous books include The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2021), winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association, and the short story collection, Blue Talk and Love (2015), winner of the Judith Markowitz Award for Fiction from Lambda Literary. She is an associate professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington, D.C. M﻿ecca will be in conversation with 2023 OutWrite Chair Emily Holland.This event will feature live ASL interpretation.

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