Listen in as TCLA board member, writer, and editor, Christopher Romaguera, chats with Kirkus Prize winner, Brian Broome, about craft, the discipline of writing, telling difficult stories, and both the rewards and challenges of nonfiction. Free, provided by TCLA.

Brian Broome, poet and screenwriter, is the author of Punch Me Up to the Gods (Mariner Books, 2021), which won the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and Publisher Triangle’s Randy Shifts Award for Nonfiction. The memoir introduces Broome whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys and propels forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut. He is K. Leroy Irvis Fellow and instructor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Broome has been a finalist in The Moth storytelling competition and won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University’s Martin Luther King Writing Awards. He also won a VANN Award from the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation for journalism in 2019. Broome lives in Pittsburgh.

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