This year, FLOW continues to expose you to cutting edge, award winning literary stakeholders who are available to you for four hours of conversations and workshops, from 12 noon to 4:15 pm, including:

• Pump Up Your Prose with Poetic Techniques, presented by Tony Medina

• World Building and Speculative Fiction, presented by Sheree Renée Thomas

• Revision Strategies for Poets, presented by Marty McConnell

• Screenwriting, presented by Shahari Moore

This conference is for writers of all levels and interests. For a nominal fee of $35, writers can participate in the entire program or cherry-pick which workshops to attend based on interests and schedules. Q&A follows each presentation.

REGISTRATION LINK. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RHHiJd1KRwuqXvpIn4lr0g

CONFERENCE DECEMBER 4, 2021

FEE $35

Tony Medina is a poet, scholar, and children’s book author. Born in the South Bronx, Medina earned a BA from Baruch College and an MA and a PhD in African American and American literature and creative writing from the State University of New York, Binghamton. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books for adults and young readers.

Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and Mississippi Delta conjure. Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books, May 2020) is her fiction debut and she edited the World Fantasy-winning groundbreaking black speculative fiction anthologies, Dark Matter (2000 and 2004) and is the first to introduce W.E.B. Du Bois’s science fiction short stories. 

Marty McConnell’s work blurs the lines between autobiography and personae to comment on and illuminate what it means to live and love outside the lines in 21st century America. She is the co-creator and co-editor of underbelly, a web site focused on the art and magic of poetry revision and a seven-time poetry slam team winner..

Shahari Moore is a writer/director from Chicago. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Chicago State University. Her films include Swimmin’ Lessons, B Love, Brooks People, and Chicago Guy and have been screened worldwide, garnering numerous awards. A common thread woven throughout her work is transcendence. In 2019, she was named one of the “Top 10 Black Filmmakers” by Diversity in Cannes’.