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Craving some great reads with your pumpkin spice latte? Join us for Wilde Readings on October 13.Our featured authors are Caroline Bock and Nishi Chawla. Ricky Jones and Laura Shovan will emcee the event. Bring questions for the featured-author Q&A and something to read at the open mic (2 poems or 5 minutes, max).
About our features:
CAROLINE BOCK
Caroline Bock is the author of The Other Beautiful People, a workplace love story, inspired by her two-decade career in cable television, notably at AMC, Bravo, and IFC. She is also the author of the young adult novels Lie and Before My Eyes, as well as the short story collection Carry Her Home. She is the co-president and prose editor at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House based in Washington, DC. The Other Beautiful People (Regal House Publishing, 2026) is her first novel for adults.
NISHI CHAWLA
Dr. Nishi Chawla is an academic, a writer and a filmmaker. She has published eleven plays, three novels, and eight collections of poetry and written and directed four award-winning art house feature films. She co-edited two global anthologies of poetry Greening the Earth and Singing in the Dark. Dr. Chawla has taught English Literature for forty years at the University level. She is one of the few Indian playwrights to have two plays in Manhattan, NY and has appeared on the U.S. Library of Congress program “The Poet and the Poem.”
All are welcome. We encourage you to participate in the open mic. Please prepare no more than five minutes of performance time/two poems. Sign up when you arrive.
Books by both featured authors will be available for sale through Queen Takes Book. Wilde Readings is a program of HoCoPoLitSo.
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Queen Takes Book, 6955 Oakland Mills Rd, Suite E,Columbia,MD,United States
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