Event with Clint Smith
The Long Island Writing Project at Nassau Community College will welcome award-winning author and journalist Clint Smith on Thursday, February 9, 2023, at 7 p.m. EST. via Zoom. Please register in advance: https://ncc-zoom.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqf-6tqjwpHNWEBa8eGUihQtWnBjkbKrn9
In this special event, Smith will read excerpts from his books and explore the intersectionality of history, family, race, and identity. We urge you to submit your questions in advance via the zoom registration.
Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America,” which was a number one New York Times Bestseller and a 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Nonfiction. He is also the author of the poetry collection “Counting Descent,” which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award.
For more information, please contact Darshna Katwala: Darshna.katwala@ncc.edu
This event is free, open to the general public, and made possible through the generous support from the National Writing Project and the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Building a More Perfect Union Grant. Special thanks to Nassau Community College
