Venita Blackburn’s debut story collection, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, is a finalist for the 2018 Young Lions Fiction Award and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2016 she received the Prairie Schooner book prize in fiction and was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in 2014 and three Pushcart prize nominations. Her stories have appeared in Pleiades, Madison Review, Bat City Review, Nashville Review, Smoke Long Quarterly, Café Irreal, Santa Monica Review, Faultline, American Short Fiction, Devil’s Lake Review, Bellevue Literary Review. She is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at Fresno State.

October 03, 2018
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October 04, 2018
Lectures
Visiting Writers Series: Venita Blackburn
Open to the Public
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October 03, 2018 -
October 04, 2018
2018-10-03 19:30 2018-10-04 20:45
Lectures
Visiting Writers Series: Venita Blackburn
The Forum
9045 Lincoln Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045
Open to the Public
This event is free!