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A Conversation with Writer at Risk Uchenna Awoke *

Join us for a conversation with the Artist Protection Fund Fellow and Arkansas International Writer-at-Risk Uchenna Awoke.

Uchenna will discuss the story and elements of his writing with an in-depth discussion of a chapter in his upcoming novel, The Liquid Eye of a Moon. The novel is expected in 2024 from Catapult and Scribe Publishing.

Attendees will be provided with a copy of the first chapter before the event.

Registration is required. 

About Uchenna Awoke 

Artist Protection Fund Fellow and Arkansas International Writer-at-Risk, Uchenna Awoke is a fiction writer from Nsukka, Nigeria. He has been awarded an IIE Artist Protection Fund Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center, and was a 2019 Graywolf Africa Prize finalist. His short stories have appeared in Transition, Elsewhere Lit, The Evergreen Review and other journals. His first novel, The Liquid Eye of a Moon, has been described as a Nigerian Catcher in the Rye, narrated by a teenage boy whose desire to pull his family out of poverty takes him to Lagos, where he deepens his knowledge of social segregation, and reckons with his anger at the systems that have oppressed his family. It is forthcoming in 2024 from Catapult in the US and Scribe in the UK.

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