In-person Event: THE ANCHORED WORLD by Jasmine Sawers

Join us for an in-person event celebrating THE ANCHORED WORLD by Jasmine Sawers. For this event Jasmine Sawers will be in conversation with Timothy Moore.

Please note: Pre-registration for this event is required. By pre-registering, you are verifying that you are fully vaccinated and will wear a mask throughout the entirety of the event.

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A goat begins to grow inside a human heart. The rightful king is born a hard, smooth seashell. Supernovas burst across skin like ink in water. Heartbreak transforms maidens into witches, girls into goblins, mothers into monsters. Hunger drives lovers and daughters, soldiers and ghosts, to unhinge their jaws and swallow the world. Drawing inspiration from a mixed heritage and from history—from the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen to the ancient legends of Thailand, from the suburbs of Buffalo, New York to the endless horizon of the American Midwest—Jasmine Sawers invents a hybrid folklore for liminal characters who live between the lines and within the creases of race and language, culture and gender, sexuality and ability. The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore is equal parts love letter to the old tales and indictment of their shortcomings, offering a new mythology to reflect the many faces and voices of the twenty-first century.

Jasmine Sawers is a Kundiman fellow and Indiana University MFA alum whose work has appeared in such journals as Foglifter, AAWW’s The Margins, SmokeLong Quarterly, and more. Their fiction has won the Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest and the NANO Prize, and has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize. Sawers is proud to serve as an associate fiction editor for Fairy Tale Review. Originally from Buffalo, Sawers now teaches creative writing and pets dogs outside of St. Louis.

Timothy Moore is a Korean American writer and instructor living in Chicago. He has work published in McSweeney's, Entropy, Midnight Breakfast, and Apogee, among others. He is a Kundiman and Luminarts Fellow, and has had a Hinge Arts Residency. He has worked at a number of independent bookstores and universities and has his MFA in Creative Writing from Roosevelt University.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Women & Children First, 5233 North Clark Street, Chicago, United States