Late Night Conversation, hosted by Amber Keller
Tonight’s episode features conversations with the winning authors of our 2016 Debut-litzer Prize contest.
Act 1: Amber speaks with Naomi Jackson, author of the debut novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill.
Act 2: Jon Boisvert speaks with Raoul Fernandes, author of the debut poetry collection, Transmitter and Receiver.

 
Purchase The Star Side of Bird Hill from IndieBound
Purchase Transmitter and Receiver from IndieBound
 
 
 
 
 
 
ABOUT OUR WINNING AUTHORS:

Naomi Jackson is author of The Star Side of Bird Hill, published by Penguin Press in 2015. The Star Side of Bird Hill was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Debut Fiction and long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. It was named an Honor Book for Fiction by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and was selected for the American Booksellers Association’s Indies Introduce and Indies Next List programs.
 
 

Raoul Fernandes lives and writes in Vancouver, BC. His first collection of poems, Transmitter and Receiver (Nightwood Editions, 2015) won the Dorothy Livesay Award and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry. He has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including the Best Canadian Poetry 2015 and is an editor for the online poetry magazine The Maynard.
 
 
ABOUT OUR GUEST 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.