West Oakland to West Africa

Literary Event

Thursday, October 22, 2020, 12:15 – 1pm PDT
Mills College Sponsored Online Event

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West Oakland to West Africa

Presented by the Contemporary Writers Series through the Creative Writing and Literature program at Mills College. 

This special event welcomes poets and alumni of the Mills MFA in Creative Writing program where this international exchange first began and celebrates the new anthology Our Spirits Carry Our Voices. As the mission statement describes, “West Oakland to West Africa provides a sustained exchange to connect members of the African diaspora and Africa through creative writing. Our core values are to create a safe place for the transparent healing and growth of Black people; to deliver innovative and authentic forms of writing and to engage the medium of spoken word to shape and define the narratives of the diaspora; to allow a visceral and uncensored critique of social systems through artistic expression.”