2020 is The Offing’s fifth birthday and Apogee’s ten-year anniversary! Come celebrate with six authors (all joint contributors) who are writing what’s possible for literatures to come. We’ll dream up what our communities need for ten more years of extraordinary publishing—writing for us and by us, another decade at the outermost. Free and open to all. Food and drinks for sale by The Cherrity Bar, just a mile from the convention center. On the ground floor, wheelchair-accessible. We’re expecting a full house, so come through early. * * * Quenton Baker is a poet, educator, and Cave Canem fellow. His current focus is black interiority and the afterlife of slavery. He is the author of This Glittering Republic (Willow Books, 2016). S. Brook Corfman is the author of Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, and the forthcoming collection My Daily Actions, or the Meteorites, chosen by Cathy Park Hong for the Fordham POL Prize, as well as three chapbooks including Frames (Belladonna*). Born in Chicago, they now live in a turret in Pittsburgh. Claudia Cortese‘s debut full-length, Wasp Queen (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), won Southern Illinois University’s Devil’s Kitchen Award for Emerging... Read More