Spoken Black Girl Her Story Open Mic @ Zuri NYC

Welcome to the Women's History Month Open Mic @ Zuri NYC! Join us at Zuri for a night of celebrating women's voices and stories. Featured Author: Rowana Abbensetts-Dobson, Author of Departure Story, a novel about a young Black Caribbean woman coming of age in the American Midwest. Open mic from 6-7 pm.

Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Author & Host:

Rowana Abbensetts-Dobson is a Guyanese-American writer, author of Departure Story, and founder of Spoken Black Girl, a publishing & media company that promotes mental health and wellness among Black women & women of color by amplifying emerging voices. Rowana has had fiction and poetry published in Moko Magazine, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Culture Push, When We Exhale: Anthology of Black Women Rooted in Ancestral Medicine, and Free Verse Magazine and The Fire Inside Volume lll Anthology. As a freelance health and wellness writer, Rowana has written for Insider, GoodRx, Well +Good, Bold Culture by Streamline Media, The Tempest, Insider, and Electric Lit. Rowana is currently completing her MFA in Fiction Writing at Arcadia University so she can bring more amazing stories into the world!

Website: Spokenblackgirl.com

About the Book:

When eighteen-year-old Celestine leaves her home in Guyana to attend college in the United States, she's filled with a mix of excitement and trepidation. She's always been a high achiever, but navigating a new country and culture is daunting, especially when she's leaving behind everything she's ever known.

As Celestine settles into her new life in a small college town in the Midwest, she finds herself struggling to fit in. She misses the warmth and familiarity of her family and friends back home, and the prejudice and ignorance she encounters from some of her classmates only makes things worse.

But Celestine is determined to succeed. With the help of her new sisters and found family, she begins to find her footing. As she explores her new surroundings and discovers her own identity, Celestine learns that she's stronger and more resilient than she ever imagined.

Told with honesty and heart, “Departure Story” is a moving story of one young woman's quest for education, independence, and belonging.

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Books will be available for sale at the event

Info: Light refreshments served

Info: Reading by R. Abbensetts -Dobson & Featured Readers

Info: Anyone attending can share for a maximum of 5 minutes.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Zuri, 363 Bleecker Street, New York, United States