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Upcoming
events: Conversations with Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu and Sifiso Mzobe,
and a reading with Catalyst founder and author, Jessica Powers
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An Afternoon with Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Friday, April 9, at 2:00 pm EDT
Mercer University welcomes Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu for
a reading and discussion of her book The Theory of Flight. The Theory of Flight is an
award-winning novel set in an unnamed country in southern Africa.
With the lightest of touches and an overlay of magical-realist
beauty, this novel sketches, through the lives of a few families
and the fate of a single patch of ground, decades of national
history from colonial occupation through the freedom struggle.
The South African release of the novel
earned Siphiwe the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize, and in a starred
review, Publishers
Weekly praised the novel,
writing, "This transcendent and powerful testament to the
indomitable human spirit is not to be missed."
Event information | Order The Theory of Flight
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An Evening with Jessica & Matthew Powers
Friday, April 16, at 6:00 pm MST
Catalyst publisher/founder Jessica Powers and her
co-author (and brother!) Matthew Powers read from their book Broken Circle (Akashic
Books) as part of Cochise College's Community Creative Writing
Celebration. The reading will be followed by a Q&A and open
mic.
Event information | Order Broken
Circle
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Writers Speak Wednesday with
Sifiso Mzobe
Wednesday, April 21 at 7:00 pm EDT
Sifiso Mzobe appears as part of Stony Brook
University’s Creative Writing and Literature series Writers Speak
Wednesday. The event will be live stream on the University’s
YouTube channel.
Sifiso is the author of Young Blood, a coming-of-age novel set in Umlazi, a township
on the outskirts of Durban, South Africa. It centers on 17-year-old
Sipho who drops out of school and finds himself deep in Umlazi’s
criminal underworld as part of a carjacking ring. Candid and
unapologetic, Young
Blood is the story of the
intricate balance of circumstance and choice, swift gain and
incredible loss, as Sipho finds out how far he can push his luck
before the damage is irrevocable—and the consequences deadly. The
novel has won several awards including the prestigious Wole Soyinka
Prize for Literature in Africa. Young Blood
releases on April 13.
Event Information | Order Young Blood
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