Submitted by: Sarah Brackett, sbrackett1@uca.edu on 10/30/2024
Author and scholar Mecca Jamilah Sullivan joins us for a residency as part of UCA’s Artists in Residence program. She will have four events on campus: an interview with Creative Writing graduate students; a Master Class with graduate students; a public reading and book signing; and a craft talk with Creative Writing students. The dates, times, and locations of these events can be found on the accompanying photo as well as the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences website, https://uca.edu/cahss/artists-in-residence/ .
Writer/scholar Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the author of three books: the novel Big Girl (2022), a New York Times Editors’ Choice and winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award for First Novel and the Balcones Fiction Prize; the short story collection Blue Talk and Love (2015), winner of the Judith Markowitz Award from Lambda Literary; and her contribution to literary theory The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora (2021), winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association. Sullivan will be in-residence on November 6th and 7th, 2024.
Residencies are funded by the UCA Arts Fee with additional support from Engage Management and Pyramid Art, Books, and Custom Framing.
https://uca.edu/cahss/artists-in-residence/
