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September 24, 1896
f. scott fitzgerald
birthday celebration

FEATURING:
Alexandra Mitchell & Jennifer Nolan

Sunday, October 13th, 2024, 5:00 – 6:30

This program will introduce participants to the periodical world that Fitzgerald published in, demonstrate his understanding of his place in this market, and reveal how our understanding of Fitzgerald is enriched by returning to the popular magazines of his day.

Free Zoom Session  from 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86142652648?pwd=TG5aT0JZSm5NVjBia1JyTUZ4N0djUT09

Throughout the 1920s, with audiences in the millions, popular magazines served as one of the most influential forms of mass media entertainment, and savvy writers and artists, like F. Scott Fitzgerald, could find both fortune and fame by publishing regularly in them. Fitzgerald’s ability to read the Jazz Age magazine market just as adeptly as he read the Jazz Age itself was fundamental to his success as an author in his own time and to his enduring significance today.
It is this fact that underpins the Complete Magazine Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a book series that seeks to reprint all of Fitzgerald’s magazine stories in the versions and order that they appeared in the American literary marketplace, along with analysis of and visual materials from the magazines where he published.
“Entertaining Millions:
F. Scott Fitzgerald & Jazz Age Magazines”

Alexandra Mitchell & Jennifer Nolan

FEATURING:
Susan Muaddi Darraj  & Chet’la Sebree

Friday, september 27th, 2024

This free event will Be An Evening of Tributes to Jesmyn Ward
f. scott fitzgerald
writer center event
“An Evening of Tributes to Jesmyn Ward”

                                           Susan Muaddi Darraj  & Chet’la Sebree

Susan MUADDI Darraj

Susan Muaddi Darraj is an award-winning writer of books for adults and children.

She won
an American Book Award, two Arab American Book Awards, and a Maryland State Arts
Council Independent Artists Award. In 2018, she was named a USA Artists Ford Fellow.

Her
books include her linked short story collection, A Curious Land, as well as the Farah Rocks
children’s book series. She lives in Baltimore, where she teaches creative writing at Harford
Community College and the Johns Hopkins University.

Her new novel, Behind You Is the Sea,
was published in January 2024 by HarperVia. It received praise from The New York
Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Ms Magazine, and it was named a Best Book of
2024 by The New Yorker and Apple Books.

Chet’la Sebree

Chet’la Sebree is the author of Field Study (FSG Originals, June 2021), winner of the 2020
James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

She is also the author
of Mistress, selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the 2018 New Issues Poetry Prize and nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry (2020)

She is currently working on her debut essay collection about her relationship to home, heritage, and belonging through domestic and international travel; it’s forthcoming from The Dial Press in 2025. She is an assistant professor of English at George Washington University.

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