Contact
Jay Mwamba, CCNY, 917.892.0374, jmwamba@ccny.cuny.edu
Who
Kedon Willis, professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literature at The City College. His research largely focuses on how contemporary queer authors of Caribbean heritage are complicating depictions of queer lives within the Antillean region.
Maisy Card, Jamaican-born author of “These Ghosts are Family,” which won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the LA Times Book Prizes Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.
Naomi Jackson, author of “The Star Side of Bird Hill,” which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and the International Dublin Literary Award. The Black Caucus of the American Library Association named Jackson’s novel an Honor Book for Fiction.
Jamaica Kincaid, 2021 Langston Hughes Medalist.
In addition, other notable guests include:
Journalist Linda Villarosa;
Poet Lauren K. Alleyne;
Author Joanne C. Hillhouse; and
Musician Helado Negro;
What
Award-winning author and scholar Jamaica Kincaid receives the 2021
Langston Hughes Medal from The City College of New York in a virtual
ceremony. The award presentation will be preceded by a virtual
symposium featuring noted Caribbean authors and scholars celebrating
Kincaid’s legacy.
When
The online symposium starts at 12:30 p.m., Thurs. Nov. 18, 2021. Click here to register.
The award ceremony is at 6 p.m., Nov. 18. Click here to register.
Where
Two online events from The City College of New York.
