BLR BookTalk with Venita Blackburn

Thursday, March 27 at 7 pm (online)

BLR BookTalks bring together writers and editors for wide-ranging conversations about craft, creativity, and life. Our latest BookTalk features Venita Blackburn and Suzanne McConnell, who first connected fourteen years ago when Suzanne edited Venita’s story “String Theory,” which appeared in BLR‘s 10th anniversary issue. In the years since, our editors have watched Venita’s writing career take off with the publication of two prize-winning collections of short stories — Black Jesus and Other Superheroes and How to Wrestle a Girl — and a debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California. 

Join us on March 27 to hear more about Venita’s novel, which has been called “the work of a gifted writer who understands love bonds, family, death and inevitability, but also has a sense of humor about all of the above.” (Naomi Elias, KQED review)

(RSVP even if you can’t make the exact time of the event. We’ll send you an email the next day with the link, which will stay active afterward.)