The Wilkes University English Department will host the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with second guest artist Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25, in the Kirby Hall Salon, 202 South River Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Adjei-Brenyah, an internationally-renowned fiction author, was raised in Spring Valley, New York, and now lives in the Bronx. His debut collection, Friday Black, was a New York Times bestseller, won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. His first novel, Chain-Gang All-Stars, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, winner of the Inside Literary Prize, shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Books Are My Bag Awards, and selected as a New York Times Top Ten Books of the Year. Adjei-Brenyah is a National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ honoree.
Adjei-Brenyah will perform a reading of his work, followed by a question and answer session. The event is free and open to the public.
The series features writers and scholars, from across all genres and backgrounds, as they come to campus to present readings from their works and participate in question and answer sessions with the audience.
The series will conclude on Tuesday, April 14, with literary scholar Lauren Klein.
For more information, visit wilkes.edu/dickson.