Letters of Love and Family During the Civil War
Letters of Love and Family During the Civil War
Thu, Feb 9, 7:00 PM
Gwinnett County Public Library - Duluth Branch • Duluth, GA
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Saturday Night Event—2022 Letters Festival
The Saturday Night Event will feature a play by Tramaine Brathwaite & readings by Allegra Hyde, Mathias Svalina, and marcus scott williams!
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680 Murphy Ave SW #2095 680 Murphy Avenue Southwest #2095 Atlanta, GA 30310
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Tramaine Brathwaite is a Guyanese-American playwright and writes about topics that are honest, uncomfortable, and sometimes taboo. Some of her written and produced plays include: Unnerving Stains, Last Train to Glen Echo, Point…Blank…Period!, and Count It All Joy. She also wrote/produced a short film entitled Unheard. Tramaine was a 2015-2016 Horizon Theatre Company Apprentice, 2016-2017 Working Title Playwrights Rhame Scholarship recipient, a 2017-2018 Atlanta Women in Theatre Mentorship recipient, and a member of The Dramatist Guild. In 2017, Tramaine was published in The Louisville Review No. 81. Tramaine is a Maryland native currently residing in Atlanta, GA.
Allegra Hyde is the author of ELEUTHERIA, as well as the short story collection, OF THIS NEW WORLD, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. A recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, Hyde's writing has also been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. Hyde has received fellowships and grants from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Elizabeth George Foundation, the Lucas Artist Residency Program, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at Oberlin College.
Mathias Svalina is the author of seven books, most recently The Depression, a collaboration with the photographer Jon Pack published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2020. His book Thank You Terror is forthcoming in 2023. Svalina was a founding editor of Octopus Books & has led writing workshops in universities, libraries, community spaces, & in prison. Since 2014 he has run a dream delivery service, traveling around the country to deliver dreams to subscribers. With the Dream Delivery Service he has worked with the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, the Poetry Foundation, & the University of Arizona Poetry Center, among other organizations.
marcus scott williams is a writer and artist whose works include “Sparse Black Whimsy: A Memoir” (2fast2house 2017) and “damn near might still be is what it is” (Noemi 2022). he loves and appreciates you.
We will also project video work by filmmaker Daniela Rodriguez.
