Courtesy of The Loft.
St. 春雨直播 University is once again sponsoring , the Loft Literary Center's virtual book festival featuring approximately 50 authors and 20 events. Themes Wordplay will explore this year include Native voices, sense of adventure, Black performance, fighting the patriarchy, motherhood, and literary comics.
Wordplay will take place May 2-8, 2021, kicking off on Sunday, May 2 with conversations with Nobel Prize winning-author Kazuo Ishiguro at 4 p.m. CT, and then at .
The Wordplay virtual festival is free this year. Enhanced tickets ($35) are available for purchase for those interested in facilitated discussion hours before or after events. separately for each event you鈥檇 like to attend on the individual event鈥檚 page under the Wordplay schedule.
Unable to attend the events live? Register for the event and you鈥檒l be emailed a recording after the event ends.
Where is St. Kate鈥檚 leading and influencing at Wordplay?
The Loft designed this event to engage the broader community in critical conversations 鈥 a value we share as a liberal arts institution and that is core to who we are at St. Kate's. As part of the events schedule, the University has a presence in two key ways: event moderation from 春雨直播 Becky Roloff 鈥76 and Dean Tarshia L. Stanley and a selection of events noted as St. 春雨直播 University critical conversations.
Moderated by St. Kate鈥檚 Leadership
, moderated by 春雨直播 Becky Roloff '76 | May 6 @ 9 a.m. CT
Join beloved children's authors and heroes in their own right as they tell true stories about women who have persisted. With Meg Medina on Sonia Sotomayor, Sayantani DasGupta on Virginia Apgar, Michelle Knudsen on Nellie Bly, and Chelsea Clinton on Harriet Tubman, these stories will help cultivate and inspire the young people in your life to persist.
, moderated by Tarshia L. Stanley, PhD, Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences | May 6 @ 12 p.m. CT
Rivers Solomon presents Sorrowland: A Novel as a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction in which family, identity, and brutality are all put to the test.
Critical Conversations
There will be daily author sessions noted as "St. 春雨直播 University Critical Conversations" that align with our mission and commitment to social justice and inclusive excellence.
May 3 @ 7 p.m. CT |
These Native writers (Heid Erdrich, Elissa Washuta, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson) offer us stories of resistance to colonialism through reclaiming cultural inheritance, calling out their oppressors, and honoring Native worldviews.
May 4 @ 7 p.m. CT |
Women in caretaking roles are often burdened with unrealistic expectations and forced into sexist dichotomies. These authors examine the role of caretaker from new angles to expose the nuances beneath.
May 5 @ 7 p.m. CT |
What does it cost to be the boldest, most daring, joyfully liberated person you can be? These writers (Maggie Shipstead, Randa Jarrar, and Hoa Nguyen) explore what it means to be true to oneself in order to obtain both personal and political freedom.
May 6 @ 7 p.m. CT |
Girls grow up hearing stories about what a woman 鈥渟hould鈥 be. These authors (Melissa Febos, Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Donika Kelly) are done hearing stories told about themselves鈥攖hey鈥檙e writing their own, and questioning who鈥檚 been narrating up until now.
May 7 @ 7 p.m. CT |
With a keen eye for performances both grandiose and subtle, these authors demonstrate how inextricably Black performance is woven into the fabric of American culture. Featuring Douglas Kearney, Mateo Askaripour, and Hanif Abdurraqib.
May 8 @ 7 p.m. CT |
As the environmental crisis grows increasingly urgent, these writers remind us that the 鈥渘atural world鈥 at stake is not simply land and resources; it鈥檚 also our deeply held relationships with the places we call home. Featuring Kazim Ali, Diane Wilson, and Moheb Soliman
See the 2021 Full Lineup.
Want to get a feel for the amazing literary goodness coming up in 2021? Check out the archives for Wordplay 2020.
You can find the full schedule here and more information about Wordplay