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Six Bridges Book Festival

Regina Porter
2024-09-26 12:00:00 2024-09-26 13:00:00 America/Chicago Six Bridges Book Festival Regina Porter, a graduate of the MFA program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is an award-winning playwright and the author of The Travelers, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Political Fiction Prize. Virtual -

Thursday, September 26
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-09-26 12:00:00 2024-09-26 13:00:00 America/Chicago Six Bridges Book Festival Regina Porter, a graduate of the MFA program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is an award-winning playwright and the author of The Travelers, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Political Fiction Prize. Virtual -

Regina Porter, a graduate of the MFA program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is an award-winning playwright and the author of The Travelers, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Political Fiction Prize.

A novel set in Brooklyn in 2020 against the pulse of an ever-changing city, The Rich People Have Gone Away connects the lives of ordinary New Yorkers to tell a powerful story of hope, love, and inequity in our times.

Moderator: Sonia Brown

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Virtual | Literature & Language |

TAGS: | SixBridgesBookFestival | 6B24-Virtual | 6B24-5 |

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