117 South Pineapple Ave.
Sarasota
Florida 34236
“Moonrise Over New Work”
with Hermitage Fellow Jamila Minnicks
Presented in partnership with Bookstore1
Jamila Minnicks’ Hermitage Residency generously sponsored by Georgia Court and Robin Radin.
Thursday, March 13 at 6pm
Bookstore1 (entrance at 117 South Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, Florida 34236)
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Registration is required. $5 per person.
Hermitage Fellow Jamila Minnicks’ debut novel Moonrise Over New Jessup won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, the 2024 Black Caucus for the American Library Association First Novelist Award, and the 2023 Southern Literary Review Book of the Year. The novel boldly questions the value of integration and acceptance if it means losing the comfort that separation has created. Hear selections from this incredible story, read by the author, and get a taste of where this gifted writer will take you in her next work as she works to complete it in residence.
Hermitage Fellow Jamila Minnicks‘ debut novel Moonrise Over New Jessup won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and the 2024 BCALA First Novelist Award, and was a finalist for the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Jamila’s short fiction and essays are published in Ploughshares, The Sun, and elsewhere, and beyond the Hermitage Artist Retreat, her work has been supported by the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Jamila is a graduate of the University of Michigan, the Howard University School of Law, and the Georgetown University Law Center.