About the BookĪ dazzling collection that examines race, class, community, family, and the meaning of home
Johnson’s essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Hunger Mountain, Callaloo, and many other publications. She is a two-time winner of the Humanitas Prize for her screenplays Ruby Bridges, for Disney, and Crown Heights, for Showtime Television. Toni Ann Johnsonis the author of Homegoing, a novella, and the novel Remedy for a Broken Angel, which earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author. We encourage you to order a copy of the book from your local, independent bookseller or online from the publisher. FREE and open to the public, all times Eastern. RSVP below to receive login information (our virtual events are held via Zoom). Toni Ann will be in conversation with Zach Powers, novelist and Artistic Director at The Writer’s Center. The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual chat about the craft of fiction! We’re joined by novelist and story writer Toni Ann Johnson to discuss her new story collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award, selected and edited by Roxane Gay. Publishers that Accept Unagented Submissions.Curated Conversation(s): a Latinx Poetry Show.