Late Night Debut, hosted by Amber Keller
Tonight’s episode features conversations with the judges of our 2016 Debut-litzer Prize contest.
Act 1: I speak with judge Chantel Acevedo about Naomi Jackson’s debut novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill.
Act 2: Jon Boisvert speaks with judge Iain Haley Pollock about Raoul Fernandes’s debut poetry collection, Transmitter and Receiver.
Tune in to Late Night Conversation later this week to hear conversations with the authors of the winning books!

 
Purchase The Star Side of Bird Hill from IndieBound
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ABOUT OUR JUDGES:
Chantel Acevedo’s novels include Love and Ghost Letters (St. Martin’s Press), which won the Latino International Book Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book of the Year, Song of the Red Cloak, a historical novel for young adults, A Falling Star (Carolina Wren Press), winner of the Doris Bakwin Award, and National Bronze Medal IPPY Award, and The Distant Marvels, (Europa Editions). Her fiction and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Prairie Schooner, American Poetry Review, North American Review, and Chattahoochee Review, among others.
Iain Haley Pollock lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, where he is the Cyrus H. Nathan ’30 Distinguished Faculty Chair for English. His first collection of poems, Spit Back a Boy (University of Georgia, 2011), won the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Pollock earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Haverford College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University. He is a Cave Canem Fellow.
ABOUT MY CO-HOST:
Jon Boisvert grew up in southeastern Wisconsin & now lives in Oregon. He’s a graduate of the Independent Publishing Resources Center‘s certificate program, & of other programs, too. His first book, Born, is forthcoming on Airlie Press. You can sometimes see his new poems & drawings & stuff at www.jonboisvert.com.