First Sunday Prose Reading & Open Mic

Adam Henze is a doctoral candidate in the Literacy, Culture, and Language Education program in the School of Education, and works at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community. He is one of the founders of Slam Camp, a summer writing academy for teenage poets, and hosts The Power of a Sentence, a poetry writing course at the Indiana Women’s Prison. Adam is the Vice President of Southern Fried Poetry, Inc., and is the official poet of the Indianapolis 500. He has one book of poetry, “Written in the Dish Pit,” published by Chatter House Press. Photo of Adam by Eric Rudd

Julia Karr is the published author of two young adult novels, various essays, and a small amount of poetry. Her love of words started at a very young age, and has never stopped. When she was in elementary school, one of the things she was known for was reading the dictionary – for fun. She still does that. She shares her home with a goofy dog, and two cats – one of whom may be the devil incarnate. She is currently working on edits on an historical middle grade novel and several young adult novels.

Darja Malcolm-Clarke writes speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, and the Guardian’s Academics Anonymous blog, among other places, and is forthcoming in See the Elephant. She attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop, holds master’s degrees in Folklore and in English, and is an editor at Indiana University Press. She is currently writing a novel and working on a poetry collection. Someday (she’s certain) she’ll realize her lifelong dream of becoming a bog body.

We will be in the public library auditorium.