Genre: Creative Nonfiction

Aminah Robinson Writer/Scholar/Researcher Residency

The Aminah Robinson Writer/Scholar/Researcher Residency, sponsored by the Columbus Museum of Art, offers a three-month residency from May through July to a poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer at the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson home and studio in the Shepard neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The resident is provided with a $15,000 stipend and lodging in Robinson’s former bungalow-style home, which includes two bedrooms, two bathrooms, an art studio, a writing room, and other living spaces. The resident also has access to Robinson’s art, archive, and library.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
June 12, 2026
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
June 12, 2026
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
June 12, 2026
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Aminah Robinson Writer/Scholar/Researcher Residency, 480 E. Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215. (614) 221-6801. Deidre Hamlar, Director.

Deidre Hamlar
Director
Contact City: 
Columbus
Contact State: 
OH
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
43219
Country: 
US

The New Nonfiction 2024 Virtual Reading

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In this virtual reading and conversation, Poets & Writers Magazine features editor India Lena González introduces the five debut authors featured in “The New Nonfiction 2024” in the September/October issue: David Martinez, author of Bones Worth Breaking (MCD, 2024); Wei Tchou, author of Little Seed (A Strange Object, 2024); Zara Chowdhary, author of The Lucky Ones (Crown, 2024); Lydia Paar, author of The Exit Is the Entrance: Essays on Escape (University of Georgia Press, 2024); and Neesha Powell-Ingabire, author of Come by Here: A Memoir in Essays From Georgia’s Geechee Coast (Hub City Press, 2024).

Showing Up

10.3.24

In the 2022 film Showing Up directed and cowritten by Kelly Reichardt, a sculptor who works as an administrative assistant at her alma mater art school in Oregon prepares for her art show opening while contending with troubles and complications of varying degrees involving her landlord neighbor, and artist rival, as well as her mother, father, brother, pet cat, and a feral pigeon. When asked about the meaning of the film’s title in an interview published in Slant Magazine, Reichardt prefers to leave it up to interpretation, but mentions it can mean, “showing up to work. Showing up for your friends, your family. It’s all the ways.” Write a personal essay that revisits different examples from your past of “showing up.” How have you shown up for others and how have others shown up for you? In what ways do you show up for your own creative work?

Dionne Brand: Salvage

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“It’s an ongoing interrogation of how we think about narrative. It’s my ongoing interrogation of history.” In this Toronto Public Library event, poet and novelist Dionne Brand speaks about how her new nonfiction book, Salvage: Readings From the Wreck (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), wrestles with the ways novels from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries sustain and reproduce colonialism in a conversation with David Chariandy.

An Evening With the Institute of American Indian Arts

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In this Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event at Books Are Magic, the Institute of American Indian Arts presents readings by students, alumni, and faculty of the program, including program director Deborah Jackson Taffa, m.s. RedCherries, Lily Philpott, and Julianne Warren.

Banned Books Week: Ana DuVernay

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In this virtual event, Banned Books Week honorary chair and award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay joins youth honorary chair Julia Garnett, a student activist who fought book bans in her home state of Tennessee, for a conversation about advocacy and fighting censorship.

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