Name: Pure Products November Reading
Start: 2025-11-13T17:30:00-06:00
Location: Black Warrior Brewing Co.

Join Pure Products for our an evening of literary wonder, featuring original writing from talented local authors John Miller, Julia Brock, and Chinaecherem Obor.
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Chinaecherem Obor is a writer from Abakaliki, Nigeria. His nonfiction appears in Selves: An Afro Anthology of Creative Nonfiction, Saraba Magazine, Mizna and Bellevue Literary Review. He was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction at Bellevue Literary Review. He has also been shortlisted for the 2024 Bridport Short Story Prize and named a finalist in the 2023 Ninth Letter Fiction Contest. He is the current Editor-in-Chief at Black Warrior Review
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Julia Brock is a public historian with a special interest in museums, digital history, oral history, and community-driven research. Her scholarly focus is the history of the post-Civil War U.S. South, yet public history work moves her through time and across geographical boundaries. She is author of Closed Season: The Transformation of Hunting in the Modern South (UNC Press 2025), described by New Books Network as "a unique and personal exploration.. trac[ing] the dizzying array of factors—propaganda, racial tensions, organizational activism, and federal involvement—that led to effective game and fish laws in the South."
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Another Untidy Pilgrim from coastal Alabama, John Miller grew up toting a dictionary to supper. His poems have appeared in Poetry South, Rockvale Review, Susurrus and elsewhere. Paper Nautilus Press published his chapbook, Heat Lightning, in 2017. How my Father Became a Boat is Miller’s first book-length collection.