Writers Night Out – Featured Reader Julia McKenzie Munemo
February 4, 2020 @ 7:00 am - 9:00 pm
OPEN MIC & FEATURED READER
Every month we host a different guest Author to be our evenings Featured Reader. The Featured Reader reads from their writing and shares their experience as a Writer.
THE BASEMENT – 21 Center Street, Northampton, MA
If you’d like a chance to read, place your name in the hat up until 7:10. Ten names will be randomly selected. The reading starts at 7:15, and each reader will have five minutes. Admission is free; participants are encouraged to buy a drink in support of the venue.
Please join us!
Julia McKenzie Munemo went to Bard College before earning a master’s in education at Harvard. After building a career as a freelance writer, she earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Stonecoast Program at the University of Southern Maine.
Munemo won the Bridging the Gap Competition for nonfiction at the Slice Literary Writers’ Conference in 2016; was a 2016-2017 fellow at the Oakley Center for Humanities; and was selected as the nonfiction reader for the Stonecoast MFA Alumni Reunion in 2017 and as the Stonecoast alumni teaching assistant in 2018. She currently works as the interim director of the Williams College Writing Workshops and as a writer for the Williams College Magazine. She teaches courses in creative nonfiction.
The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy is her first book. She lives in Williamstown, Ma. with her husband and sons.