In this video, Thierry Kehou, director of Programs & Partnerships at Poets & Writers, hosts a celebratory reading by the 2023 fiction cohort of Get the Word Out, a publicity incubator for early career authors. Introduced by publicist May-Zhee Lim, readers include Christina Cooke, Alisa Alering, Kathya Alexander, Esinam Bediako, Marissa Higgins, Parul Kapur, Bruna Dantas Lobato, Jessie Marshall, Lynn Stansbury, and Lena Valencia.
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