Third Annual Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas February 22-23, 2019 at Austin Central Library
The Third Annual Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas is sponsored by KAZI Book Review, hosted by the Austin Public Library and supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department and PEN America. It is also supported by sponsors HEB, Capital Metro, Travis County Commissioner Jeffrey Travillion, Austin Spurs, Velva Price. and Walter Muse. Special thanks to the Austin Revitalization Authority for their support.
ALL EVENTS WILL BE HELD AT AUSTIN CENTRAL LIBRARY SPECIAL EVENTS CENTER
710 W. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, Texas
February 22, 2019 – RSVP For Friday
7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Diverse Literary Voices of Texas Presents: An Evening With Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Leonard Pitts, Jr.
Author of the new historical black novel set during World War II, THE LAST THING YOU SURRENDER, and nationally syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald
Moderator: Hopeton Hay, Host and Producer, KAZI Book Review; Founder, Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas
February 23, 2019 – RSVP For Saturday
10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Registration and Book Sales
10:30-11:15 a.m.
Zora Neale Hurston’s BARRACOON: The True Story of One of the Last Known Survivors of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Jennifer Baker, editor, EVERYDAY PEOPLE: The Color of Life—A Short Story Anthology, and host of Minorities in Publishing Podcast
Daina Ramey Berry, Professor of History at UT Austin and author of THE PRICE FOR THEIR POUND OF FLESH
Moderator: Julie Hudson, Assistant Professor of English, Huston-Tillotson University
11:20-12:05
From Roots to Bloom: Deconstructing Latinidad
Carrie Fountain, author, I’M NOT MISSING
Jasminne Méndez, author, NIGHT-BLOOMING JASMIN(N) e: Personal Essays & Poems
ire’ne lara silva,author, CUICACALLI/House of Song poetry collection
Moderator: Natalia Sylvester, author, EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME
12:10-12:55 p.m.
Everyday People: Diversity In Fantasy, Young Adult, and Short Story Fiction
Jennifer Baker, editor, EVERYDAY PEOPLE: The Color of Life—A Short Story Anthology, and host of Minorities in Publishing Podcast
Nicky Drayden, author, TEMPER
Jacob Grovey, author, THE DIFFERENTERS (YA)
Moderator: Billy Carr, KAZI 88.7 FM
12:55 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Book Sales
1:15-2:15 p.m.
Voter Suppression and Role of Press in Safeguarding Democracy
Carol Anderson, author, ONE PERSON, NO VOTE: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy and Professor of African American Studies, Emory University
Gary Bledsoe, President, Texas NAACP and Interim Dean, Texas Southern University School of Law
Leonard Pitts, Jr., nationally syndicated columnist, Miami Herald, and author, THE LAST THING YOU SURRENDER
Moderator: Alberta Phillips-Bledsoe, Austin writer and journalist
2:30-3:15 p.m.
Violence Against Black Slaves/Prisoners and Ethnic Mexicans in Texas: From South Texas to Sugar Land
Diana Ramey Berry, author, THE PRICE FOR THEIR POUND OF FLESH: The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave in the Building of a Nation
Monica Munoz Martinez, author, THE INJUSTICE NEVER LEAVES YOU: Anti-Mexican Violence in the Texas Borderlands
Moderator: John Moran Gonzalez, Director, UT Austin Center for Mexican American Studies
3:30-4:15 p.m.
The Depiction of Immigration in Fiction and the Media Bots, Trolls, and Truth
Moderator: Douglas Criss, Digital Trending News Writer, CNN
Leonard Pitts, Jr., nationally syndicated columnist, Miami Herald, and author, THE LAST THING YOU SURRENDER
Chaitali Sen, author, THE PATHLESS SKY
Natalia Sylvester, author, EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME
4:15-5 p.m.
Book Sales
State Farm
