Writer, filmmaker, award-winning author MK Asante to present at Georgia Southern
Georgia Southern University’s Department of Writing and Linguistics will host award-winning author, rapper, filmmaker, artist and professor MK Asante on campus Oct. 14-15 for a book signing, reading and reception.
A book signing and reception featuring Asante will be held in the Zach S. Henderson Library room 1300 on Wednesday, Oct. 14, from 5-6:30 p.m. A book reading and signing will take place on Thursday, Oct. 15 in the College of Education room 1115 from 7-8 p.m.
Asante, professor of creative writing and film at Morgan State University, will focus on his books Buck: A Memoir, and It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop. His work has been praised by Publisher’s Weekly, poet Maya Angelou and other well-known figures. Asante is a Sundance Feature Film Fellow and winner of five international film festival awards.
Books will be available at both events, which are free and open to the public.
Asante’s reading is sponsored in part by South Arts, the Campus Life Enrichment Committee, the Department of Writing & Linguistics, The Peter Christopher Fund, the Department of Literature and Philosophy and Henderson Library.
For more information about the event, contact Laura Valeri at lvaleri@georgiasouthern.edu.
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