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Town Hall Seattle and Clarion West present
Clarion West Summer Reading Series
Featuring Carmen Maria Machado
Note: Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.
Acclaimed essayist, poet, and critic Carmen Maria Machado discusses her literary repertoire and process.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, among others. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, The Believer, Guernica, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.
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The Clarion West Summer Reading Series will be held in person and streamed live in a hybrid session each week during the Six-Week Workshop.
Clarion West supports emerging and underrepresented voices by providing writers with world-class instruction to empower their creation of wild and amazing worlds. Through conversation and public engagement, they bring those voices to an ever-expanding community. Read more about their work here.
This reading series has been made possible by King County 4Culture, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, the Sherman Family Foundation, the Seattle Public Library, Hugo House, Third Place Books, and the Elliott Bay Book Company.
Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Clarion West.
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