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True Lit: Write Like a Kid *

Seeing the World Through Your Inner Child to Write Young

2024-10-17 17:30:00 2024-10-17 18:30:00 America/Chicago True Lit: Write Like a Kid * Greg Neri will help you learn to leave your adult brain behind and see the world through your inner child. Fayetteville Public Library - Ziegler Reception Room

Thursday, October 17
5:30pm - 6:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-10-17 17:30:00 2024-10-17 18:30:00 America/Chicago True Lit: Write Like a Kid * Greg Neri will help you learn to leave your adult brain behind and see the world through your inner child. Fayetteville Public Library - Ziegler Reception Room

Fayetteville Public Library

Ziegler Reception Room

Greg Neri will help you learn to leave your adult brain behind and see the world through your inner child.

Printz Award-winning author G. Neri explores how to leave your adult brain behind so you can recapture the feeling of first time experiences: first friendships, first loves, first dangers, first rebellions.

G. Neri is the Michael L. Printz and Coretta Scott King award-winning author of such books as "Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty" and "Ghetto Cowboy", which was made into the movie, Concrete Cowboy, starring Idris Elba. His books have been translated into multiple languages in over 25 countries. They include "My Antarctica", "Safe Passage", "The Collectors", "Tru & Nelle", "Grand Theft Horse", "Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrap the World", "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash" and "Chess Rumble". In 2017, he was awarded the first of two National Science Foundation grants that sent him to Antarctica; he is currently co-chair of the Antarctic Artists and Writers Collective. In 2023, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from SUNY for his literary and Antarctic outreach. He writes full-time while living on the Gulf Coast of Florida with his wife and daughter. You can find him online at www.gneri.com.

True Lit is in collaboration with the Fayetteville Public Library, Fayetteville Public Schools, Fayetteville Public Education Foundation, and University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation.

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Author Talks & Lectures |

TAGS: | True Lit | #truelit |

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