An Anthology from Another Bunch of Writers You Never Heard Of: The Humboldt Street Writers Group in Action

This first-of-its-kind collection looks at how a long-term writers group forms and builds working intimacy and trust. You as reader get to move inside the mind, instincts and emotions of each of these writers as you journey through their writings and the group-inspired feedback and artistic relationships that shape them. The resulting works sprout challenging characters and voices from situations as varied and gritty as urban and rural life can be: a hilarious lottery winner; a raucous raccoon hunt through the night woods in rural California; a pilgrimage that begins at a suicide resort in coastal Japan; a very unempathetic fireman making an emergency run for a Lakota street-person who informs him she’s Sitting Bull’s grand-daughter; a Jewish mystic caught, post-Covid, in a dangerous yet darkly humorous cab ride; a revealing, history-making conversation between a descendant of Enslaved Africans and a descendant of slave traders. It’s also an intimate, privileged view into member Ken Grimes’ last years as he created his final stories. One of Denver’s top Black playwrights and directors, Ken, embraced by his writers group, wrote continuously into the years and months of his struggle through a fatal illness. The inner lives of these authors and their intertwined creative shapings pen written pathways into a diverse web of human story and the weaving of a hope-filled future.
ASIN: B0DKBG19KM
VSKU: BVV.B0DKBG19KM.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Engelken, David|Grimes, Kenneth|Sciaky, Carla|Treat, Jane|Garber, Lewis|White, Kathryn|Kaplan, Susan|Johnson, Norma|Donnelly, Kate
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use