On April 16th, Libretto Publishers host Jumoke Verissimo, in the third Literary Session. The first woman to be a guest on our Author’s Literary Hangout and Interview Series. The hour-long session, to be hosted live on Google Meets, will be centered on UNBOWED & UNBROKEN: THE DAWN OF AFRICAN WOMEN’S LITERATURE.
About Jumoke Verissimo:
Jumoke Verissimo is a poet, writer and teacher. She has published two award-winning collections of poems, I am memory (Dada Books 2008) and The Birth of Illusion (Fullpointe 2015). Her novel, A Small Silence (Cassava Republic Press 2019) won the Aidoo Synder Book Prize and was nominated for the Ondaatje Prize. Her most recent work is a co-edited work, Sorosoke (Noirledge 2022). Her children’s book, Aduke, Grandma and the Secret in the Moon will be released in Spring 2022.
The virtual event will be live streamed in Google meets in Nigeria.
Date: Saturday, April 16th, 2022.
Time: 4:00 PM (West African Time)
Venue: Google Meets (Virtual)
Video call link: http://meet.google.com/uad-hkfj-nds
In regards to this, we are inviting y’all to a live e-conference on Google meets. If you are interested, be with us on Saturday, April 16, 2022. You can purchase the book “The Birth of Illusion”, a poetry collection at Libretto bookstores, here