Welcome Table Talk - The Sacred & The Secret: Writing the Women of the Black Church

Join us for the next Welcome Table Talk - The Sacred & The Secret: Writing the Women of the Black Church, featuring Dr. Latorial Faison and Deesha Philyaw. Moderated by Ashley M. Coleman.

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Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, the LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Deesha is a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, a Baldwin for the Arts Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, and co-host of two podcasts, Ursa Short Fiction (with Dawnie Walton) and Reckon True Stories (with Kiese Laymon). She is currently at work developing TV shows based on her short fiction. Deesha’s debut novel, The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, is forthcoming…