A reading to celebrate a new anthology from Catapult, edited by Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters.

What is desire? And what are its rules? In this daring collection, award-winning and emerging female writers share their innermost longings, in turn dismantling both personal and political constructs of what desire is or can be.

Including pieces by Angela Cardinale, Sonia Maria David, Tara Conklin, Torrey Peters, Camille Dungy, Melissa Febos, Lisa Taddeo, Elisa Albert, Merritt Tierce, and others, these candid and insightful essays tackle the complicated knot of women’s desire.

Contributors Angela Cardinale, Sonia Maria David, and Merritt Tierce will be joined in conversation by editor Margot Kahn.

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Join the Whiting Foundation for readings in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and drama by the ten talented winners of the 2019 Whiting Awards! The writers will be introduced by Alexander Chee, Whiting 2003 fiction winner and author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Wine and cheese will be served throughout the evening.

The Whiting Foundation provides support for writers and scholars who astonish us by expanding the boundaries of art and understanding. Since 1985, the Foundation has supported creative writing through the Whiting Awards, given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. The awards are based on early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come.

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SoundCloud recording of reading.

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With Matt Bell, Naomi Jackson and Lincoln Michel.

With Phil Klay and Jeffery Renard Allen.

With Phil Klay, Jack Livings, Molly Antopol, and Cynthia Bond.

With Jenny Molberg, Tim Cloward, and Shannon Hardwick.

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Live from Prairie Lights audio recording