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Orison Books’ 2024 Fundraiser Featuring Jacinda Townsend
August 3, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
$35.00
Orison Books, a non-profit literary press based in Asheville, will be holding a fundraising event featuring award-winning novelist Jacinda Townsend at NC Stage Company on Saturday, August 3rd. Poets Bruce Beasley and Christian Detisch, as well as singer-songwriter Thomas Kozak, will also perform.
Jacinda Townsend is the author of three novels: Trigger Warning (forthcoming 2025); Mother Country, recipient of The Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence; and Saint Monkey, recipient of The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and The James Fenimore Cooper Prize, and named the 2015 Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She teaches in the MFA program at Brown University.
Orison Books, founded by local poet Luke Hankins, has a unique focus on literary work that engages the life of the spirit from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives. Their books have won national awards and have been featured in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Poets & Writers, Foreword Reviews, Booklist, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, and many other venues.
A number of Orison Books titles will be available free of charge to attendees, and Malaprop’s Bookstore will be on hand to sell Townsend’s books.
Tickets are required and are available at https://bit.ly/3Q12SfK.
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