BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Writer's Garret - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://writersgarret.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Writer's Garret REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250315T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250315T120000 DTSTAMP:20260604T040734 CREATED:20250124T225438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250124T233302Z UID:15685-1742032800-1742040000@writersgarret.org SUMMARY:Lyceum Series: Maya Golden Bethany – What’s My Line? Selecting the Through Line in Personal Essays & Memoir DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the lyceum.\nThese free\, monthly workshops are held on the third Saturday of the month\, and offer writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn\, experiment and develop their craft. We hope you’ll join us!\nLife is complex and so are our experiences. We endure multiple defining moments in our lifetimes\, but how do we weed through our personal or family histories to determine which stories are right for the page? Every event that shapes us is significant\, but you don’t have to tell it all in one work. In this generative workshop\, Maya will help writers narrow their focus and select the through line for the story they are trying to tell in personal essay or memoir. \nCallynth Photography \nMaya Golden Bethany is an Associated Press winning and Emmy-nominated freelance journalist in Tyler\, Texas where her foundation\, 1 in 3 Foundation\, serves survivors of sexual trauma with little to no income. Her memoir\, The Return Trip\, will re-release in hardcover edition on March 4\, 2025 from Rising Action Publishing. Her first novel\, a political thriller\, The Senator\, will release April 15\, 2025\, also through RAPC. Maya has written for Newsweek\, Salon\, Insider and BlackGirlNerds.com. Maya recently received the Parent Writer Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University. \n  \n  \n  \nRSVP (Required)\n\n\n \n \n \n \n CommentsThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.Name(Required)\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n How many in your party?(Required)12345678Zip Code(Required) \n \n \n \n Please Enter Your Home Zip Code URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/lyceum-series-maya-golden/ LOCATION:The Writer’s Garret\, 215 S. Tyler St.\, Dallas\, TX\, 75208\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://writersgarret.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/LS-M-Bethany-169.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250322T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250322T120000 DTSTAMP:20260604T040734 CREATED:20250214T225648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250321T215914Z UID:15730-1742637600-1742644800@writersgarret.org SUMMARY:Community Conversation: Racism\, the (Un)Making of Dallas\, and Repairing the Damage with Dr. Michael Phillips DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with the SMU Department of Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Studies\, Community Conversations provide a forum for local discussion of relevant contemporary topics in the larger literary dialogue. Each conversation will feature a  guest scholar who will facilitate the conversation\, as well as contextual readings available prior to the event. \nFor its inaugural conversation\, the series is focusing on Dallas itself\, how racism has influenced the development of the city\, and how we move forward together to build a more connected\, equitable future. Guest scholar Dr. Michael Phillips will lead the conversation\, and Dallas Poet Laureate Mag Gabbert has selected a set of poems to supplement. \nNatasha Trethewey: “History Lesson” \nRoger Reeves: “Cymothoa Exigua” \nClaudia Rankine: Citizen: “You are in the dark\, in the car…” \nTerrance Hayes: “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Probably twilight makes blackness dangerous]” \nMarilyn Nelson: “Arachis Hypogaea” \n\nDr. Michael Phillips is a scholar of American race relations\, Texas history\, right-wing politics\, and apocalyptic religions.  His dissertation at the University of Texas was published in 2006 as White Metropolis: Race\, Ethnicity and Religion in Dallas\, 1841-2001.  White Metropolis was awarded the 2007 Texas Historical Commission’s prize for best book on Texas history. His next book\, co-authored with longtime journalist Betsy Friauf\, is The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas.  It will be published by the University of Oklahoma Press June 3\, 2025. \n  \n  \n  \nFill out my LGL Form! URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/community-conversation/ LOCATION:Apprentice Creative Space\, 919 Morrell Ave. #110\, Dallas\, TX\, 75203 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://writersgarret.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Community-Conversation-169.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250326T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250326T203000 DTSTAMP:20260604T040734 CREATED:20250214T230000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T142758Z UID:15733-1743015600-1743021000@writersgarret.org SUMMARY:Ralph Ellison: The Soul Of A Marxist – A Talk By Quraysh Ali Lansana DESCRIPTION:Ralph Ellison\, author of what many consider to be the greatest American novel of the 20th Century\, was a complicated man. Brilliant\, yet complex. Born in 1914 in the deeply segregated neighborhood of Oklahoma City known as “Deep Deuce\,” Ellison experienced the poverty and struggle of racism before he could read and experienced profound tragedy at two-years of age.  A multi-talented\, curious boy into young manhood\, Ellison was immersed in both the second-hand welfare and first-hand rage of White people. As Ellison experienced success he possessed a seriousness\, a soberness\, and what some in the Black Arts Movement considered a pompous disposition. How could Ralph Ellison be both a socialist and an elitist at the same time? \nScholar and poet Quraysh Ali Lansana visits Dallas for a talk on the tension between Ellison’s private thoughts and history and his public success and renown. Read his interview on Ellison. \nQuraysh Ali Lansana is author of over twenty books in poetry\, nonfiction and children’s literature. Lansana is currently a Tulsa Artist Fellow and a Visiting Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa. He was formerly a Lecturer in Africana Studies at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa where he also served as Director of the Center for Truth\, Racial Healing & Transformation. Lansana is Executive Producer of KOSU/NPR’s Focus: Black Oklahoma monthly radio program\, which is a recipient of a 2022 duPont-Columbia Award\, a 2022 NAACP Image Award\, a 2022 Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists Award and was a Peabody Award nominee. Lansana is also the recipient of a 2022 Emmy Award\, a 2022 Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters Award and a 2022 National Educational Telecommunications Association Public Media Award for his roles as host and consultant for the OETA (PBS) documentary film “Tulsa Race Massacre: 100 Years Later.” Lansana is a three-time International Regional Magazine Award-winning Contributing Editor for Oklahoma Today magazine. A former faculty member of both the Writing Program of the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago
and the Drama Division of
The Juilliard School\, Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center
for Black Literature and
Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2012 and was Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing there until 2014. His most recent books include Killing the Negative: A Conversation in Art & Verse (with Joel Daniel Phillips)\, Opal’s Greenwood Oasis\, the skin of dreams: new and collected poems\, 1995-2018\, The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience & Change Agent) and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop. \nForthcoming titles include a children’s biography of Ralph Ellison\, a memoir on the last decade of his mentor\, Miss Gwendolyn Brooks\, and a series of books on the Black Rodeo. Lansana’s work appears in Best American Poetry 2019. He is a founding member of Tri-City Collective and serves on the Board of Directors of the Philbrook Museum of Art\, Oklahoma Humanities and the Tulsa Press Club. Lansana is a Curatorial Scholar for The Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art and a Curatorial Board Co-Chair for the Ragdale Foundation. He is a Cave Canem Fellow and a member of the first cohort of the Culture of Health Leadership for Racial Healing Fellowship. \nRSVP for Ralph Ellison: The Soul Of A Marxist URL:https://writersgarret.org/event/ralph-ellison/ LOCATION:Bishop Arts Theatre Center\, 215 S. Tyler St.\, Dallas\, TX\, 75208\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://writersgarret.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Ellison-169r1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR