Join us for an evening of conversation with fiction and nonfiction writer, Thomas Glave. Attendance and participation are free and open to all.
As part of the event, Thomas Glave will talk about the work he is doing interspaced with readings from the works.
Glave will also share thoughts and reflections on what works of literature add to the conversation taking place at a familial, community, national, continental and international level on African migration and on Africans on the continent, in the diaspora and on the move.
The conversation and readings will be followed by a Q&A session with all present.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Thomas Glave is the author of four books, including The Torturer's Wife (City Lights Publishers, 2013) and Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh (Akashic Books, 2013), and editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (Duke University Press Books, 2008). The recipient of two Lambda Literary awards and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize nomination, Glave is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, an honorary visiting professor at the University of Liverpool and professor of English and creative writing at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has been Martin Luther King Jr Visiting Professor at MIT, Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick, and a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He is a trustee of Writing West Midlands and Peepal Tree Press, and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Transition and Wasafiri. His most recent work appears in the anthology Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years (Supernova Books, 2024).
ABOUT THE AFRICA MIGRATION REPORT POETRY ANTHOLOGY SERIES
Organised by Forced Migration and The Arts in collaboration with CivicLeicester and Regularise, the Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series draws inspiration from the 2nd Edition of the Africa Migration Report, jointly published by the African Union Commission (AUC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in March 2024. Through poetry, the anthology series explores multifaceted narratives surrounding African migration, capturing personal, familial, community, national and international histories and experiences of African migration. Because every day is Africa Day, our call for submissions is open 365 days a year.
Forced Migration and The Arts is an international network that brings together people with lived experience of forced migration, refugee and non-refugee artists, academics and art spaces for conversation looking at work taking place at the intersection where forced migration and the arts meet. Developed with support from the University of Manchester’s Humanities Global Scholars Fund, the network hosts monthly indabas or discussion forums on the last Thursday of each month and encourages mutual support and collaboration.
Regularise is a migrant-led collective founded in late 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The collective aims to address the years of sustained hardship that undocumented migrants experience in the UK and continues to organise and campaign for justice and for the rights of undocumented migrants.
CivicLeicester is a community publisher that uses print and digital technologies, social media platforms, the arts, and online and in-person events to highlight conversations of transnational interest and significance. Books we have edited and published include Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World (2023), Poetry and Settled Status for All: An Anthology (2022) and Bollocks to Brexit: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction (2019).
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