Print and online publicity campaign. Authors pitched for literary and short story festivals. Social media campaign networking all authors. Mailings to schools (A-Level Literature) and universities (Modern Literature courses).
Aminatta Forna: Aminatta Forna is a fiction writer and essayist
and the award-winning author of the three novels The Hired Man, The
Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and the memoir The Devil that
Danced on the Water. She is winner of a Windham Campbell Prize and
the Commonwealth Writers Best Book Prize among others, and a
finalist for the Orange Prize, IMPAC, Samuel Johnson, BBC Short
Story Prize and Neustadt Prizes. She is currently a Lannan Visiting
Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Edwidge Danticat: Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books,
including Breath, Eyes, Memory (an Oprah Book Club selection),
Krik? Krak! (a National Book Award finalist), The Farming of Bones,
The Dew Breaker, Create Dangerously and Claire of the Sea Light.
She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the
Haitian Dyaspora in the United States,Best American Essays
2011,Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2. Shehas written fivebooks foryoung
adults and children Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The
Last Mapou and Mama's Nightingale as well as a travel narrative,
After the Dance. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007
finalist for the National Book Award and a2008 winner of the
National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.She is a 2009
MacArthur fellow. Her most recent book is Untwine, a young adult
novel.
Viet Thanh Nguyen: Viet Thanh Nguyen's first novel, The
Sympathizer, has been listed as one of the best or most notable
books of 2015 nearly twenty times, including in the New York
Times,Publishers Weekly,Amazon.com, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian,
the Washington Post, andLibrary Journal. He is the author ofRace
and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America and the
co-editor ofTranspacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field. His
latest book isNothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
(Harvard University Press, 2016).He is an associate professor of
English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of
Southern California.
Desiree Bailey: Desiree Bailey was born in Trinidad and Tobago and
grew up in Queens, NY. She has a BA from Georgetown and an MFA in
Fiction from Brown University. She has received fellowships from
Princeton in Africa, the Norman Mailer Center, and Callaloo
Creative Writing Workshop. She is a recipient of the 2013 Poets and
Writers' Amy Award. Her work is published or is forthcoming in
Callaloo, Best American Poetry, Muzzle, Blackberry and other
publications. She is currently the fiction editor at Kinfolks
Quarterly.
Okwiri Oduor: Okwiri Oduor was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Her short
story My Father's Head won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing
as well as Short Story Day Africa's Feast, Famine and Potluck story
contest. She was a 2014 MacDowell Colony Fellow. She is currently
at work on her debut novel and pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing
at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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