Recording: Office Hours with Asali Solomon
In this 60-minute pre-recorded seminar, you’ll learn about award-winning novelist Asali Solomon’s career, her book The Days of Afrekete, the writing process, mythologizing Philadelphia, and more. The conversation was moderated by Blue Stoop board member and local writer Warren Longmire.
After purchasing this video, you’ll receive an email with a link to the file on Google Drive, viewable for 60 days. This is a manual process, so there may be a slight delay. Please email info@bluestoop.org if you have not received access within 48 hours.
Asali Solomon’s latest novel, The Days of Afrekete has been called “a feat of engineering” by The New York Times. She is also the author of the novel Disgruntled and Get Down: Stories. She has been the recipient of a Pew Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor long, long ago. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Essence, The Paris Review Daily, McSweeney’s, on NPR, and in several anthologies including The Best Short Stories of 2021: The O. Henry Prize Collection. She is the Bertrand K. Wilbur Chair in the Humanities at Haverford College, where she teaches literature of the African Diaspora and directs Creative Writing.
Warren Longmire is a writer, technologist, and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and founder of _mixlit productions. Warren’s work has been published in journals including Cartridge Lit, the Cleveland Review of Books, The Painted Bride Quarterly, and The American Poetry Review. He was featured in the Best American Poetry 2021, edited by Tracey K. Smith and will be featured in the anthology A Black Philadelphia Reader: African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS) in June 2023. His latest book Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop] (BUNNY Presse) was released in Nov. 2022. Warren will be attending the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in the Fall of 2024.
In this 60-minute pre-recorded seminar, you’ll learn about award-winning novelist Asali Solomon’s career, her book The Days of Afrekete, the writing process, mythologizing Philadelphia, and more. The conversation was moderated by Blue Stoop board member and local writer Warren Longmire.
After purchasing this video, you’ll receive an email with a link to the file on Google Drive, viewable for 60 days. This is a manual process, so there may be a slight delay. Please email info@bluestoop.org if you have not received access within 48 hours.
Asali Solomon’s latest novel, The Days of Afrekete has been called “a feat of engineering” by The New York Times. She is also the author of the novel Disgruntled and Get Down: Stories. She has been the recipient of a Pew Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor long, long ago. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Essence, The Paris Review Daily, McSweeney’s, on NPR, and in several anthologies including The Best Short Stories of 2021: The O. Henry Prize Collection. She is the Bertrand K. Wilbur Chair in the Humanities at Haverford College, where she teaches literature of the African Diaspora and directs Creative Writing.
Warren Longmire is a writer, technologist, and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and founder of _mixlit productions. Warren’s work has been published in journals including Cartridge Lit, the Cleveland Review of Books, The Painted Bride Quarterly, and The American Poetry Review. He was featured in the Best American Poetry 2021, edited by Tracey K. Smith and will be featured in the anthology A Black Philadelphia Reader: African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS) in June 2023. His latest book Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop] (BUNNY Presse) was released in Nov. 2022. Warren will be attending the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in the Fall of 2024.
In this 60-minute pre-recorded seminar, you’ll learn about award-winning novelist Asali Solomon’s career, her book The Days of Afrekete, the writing process, mythologizing Philadelphia, and more. The conversation was moderated by Blue Stoop board member and local writer Warren Longmire.
After purchasing this video, you’ll receive an email with a link to the file on Google Drive, viewable for 60 days. This is a manual process, so there may be a slight delay. Please email info@bluestoop.org if you have not received access within 48 hours.
Asali Solomon’s latest novel, The Days of Afrekete has been called “a feat of engineering” by The New York Times. She is also the author of the novel Disgruntled and Get Down: Stories. She has been the recipient of a Pew Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honor long, long ago. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Essence, The Paris Review Daily, McSweeney’s, on NPR, and in several anthologies including The Best Short Stories of 2021: The O. Henry Prize Collection. She is the Bertrand K. Wilbur Chair in the Humanities at Haverford College, where she teaches literature of the African Diaspora and directs Creative Writing.
Warren Longmire is a writer, technologist, and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and founder of _mixlit productions. Warren’s work has been published in journals including Cartridge Lit, the Cleveland Review of Books, The Painted Bride Quarterly, and The American Poetry Review. He was featured in the Best American Poetry 2021, edited by Tracey K. Smith and will be featured in the anthology A Black Philadelphia Reader: African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS) in June 2023. His latest book Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop] (BUNNY Presse) was released in Nov. 2022. Warren will be attending the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in the Fall of 2024.
