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Shambaugh House Reading: Edson Incopté and Fátima Villalta
Oct 21, 2022
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
430 North Clinton Street, Iowa City, IA 52245
Join us in person at the Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St, Iowa City) or online via Facebook or Zoom for a reading by two IWP 2022 Fall Residency writers, Edson Incopté and Fátima Villalta. For those who are present in person, light refreshments will be provided.
Edson Incopté (fiction writer, poet, journalist, activist; Guinea-Bissau) has an extensive résumé as organizer and activist in the areas of youth, civic development, and equity, and is the Secretary of PEN Guinea-Bissau and the Writers Association of Guinea-Bissau. His own publications are comprised of a volume of poetry and one of prose; he has co-edited anthologies of new Guinea-Bissau authors and contributes columns for magazines and radio. He participates courtesy the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.
Fátima Villalta (fiction writer, researcher; Nicaragua) is the author of Danzaré sobre su tumba [I will dance on his grave] (2011), which won the Nicaraguan Writers Center Narrative Prize and is on its 5th edition. Currently a Mexico-based researcher, she is preparing a book of stories about fictional moments in Nicaragua’s history. Her participation is courtesy the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.
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