Call and Response: a Conversation Between Authors
Join Celeste Williams, former Indiana Writers Center Board President, as she joins in a virtual conversation with author Angela Jackson-Brown and her mentor and friend, author Crystal Wilkinson. Both authors have a deep love and appreciation of each other’s work. They will spend the hour discussing how their work is different from each other, and how their works sit in conversation with one another in a kind of “call and response.”

This event will include a short reading from both Angela’s forthcoming novel WHEN STARS RAIN DOWN and a selection from Crystal Wilkinson’s recent novel THE BIRDS OF OPULENCE.

*Signed copies of Angela Jackson-Brown’s book WHEN STARS RAIN DOWN are available for purchase from Irvington Vinyl & Books. Pre-order WHEN STARS RAIN DOWN from Irvington Vinyl & Books and receive 10% off! Make the subject line of your order form Opal’s Lemon Squares to receive the 10% discount. Order WHEN STARS RAIN DOWN.

Spring into Writing

This event is part of our week of writing, Spring into Writing. The week also features a four-genre workshop bundle to help you kick start your writing. You can try out different classes in four different genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting. Save 10% by purchasing the Spring into Writing workshop bundle.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
ANGELA JACKSON-BROWN is an award-winning writer, poet and playwright who teaches Creative Writing and English at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. Her play, Anna’s Wings, was selected in 2016 to be a part of the IndyFringe DivaFest and her play Flossie Bailey Takes a Stand was part of the Indiana Bicentennial Celebration at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. She also wrote and produced the play “It Is Well” and she was a co-playwright of the play Black Lives Matter (Too) with Ball State graduate Ashya Thomas. In 2018, Angela co-wrote a musical called Dear Bobby: The Musical that was part of the 2018 OnyxFest in Indianapolis. She is the author of Drinking From a Bitter Cup (WiDo Publishing, 2014), House Repairs (Negative Capability Press, 2018), and the soon to be released novel, When Stars Rain Down (Thomas Nelson/Imprint of HarperCollins, April 13, 2021).

CRYSTAL WILKINSON is the award-winning author of The Birds of Opulence (winner of the 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence), Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. Nominated for both the Orange Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, she has received recognition from The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Kentucky Arts Council, The Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and is a recipient of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including most recently in the Oxford American and Southern Cultures. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky where she is Associate Professor of English in the MFA in Creative Writing Program.