The NEOMFA Visiting Writers Series feat. Brian Broome
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Friday, Oct 27, 2023 7pm
Location
The Nightlight
30 N High St
Details
The Nightlight is pleased to host the NEOMFA visiting writer series with special guest Brian Broome this Friday, 10/27, at 7 p.m. Brian will be reading from his latest book Punch Me Up To The Gods, copies of which will be for sale at the theater courtesy of Elizabeth's Bookshop & Writing Center. Registrations are not required to attend.
Brian Broome, a poet and screenwriter, is the author of Punch Me Up to the Gods. He is K. Leroy Irvis Fellow and instructor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Broome has been a finalist in The Moth storytelling competition and won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University’s Martin Luther King Writing Awards. He also won a VANN Award from the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation for journalism in 2019. Broome lives in Pittsburgh.
