{"id":15646,"date":"2024-03-20T09:22:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=15646"},"modified":"2024-03-20T09:37:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:37:56","slug":"today-join-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-for-a-writing-workshop-and-a-reading-on-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/today-join-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-for-a-writing-workshop-and-a-reading-on-march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"TODAY: Join Wilkes Alum and Guest Artist Leah Vernon for a Writing Workshop and a Reading on March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join guest artist and Wilkes alum Leah Vernon for a writing workshop and a reading today, Wednesday, March 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vernon will visit the <strong>Creative Writing Workshop in Kirby 103 from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m.<\/strong> on Wednesday, March 20. The workshop is open to Wilkes students, faculty and staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She will read from her newest work at <strong>7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20<\/strong>, in the Kirby Hall Salon. The reading, followed by a book signing, is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also known as Leah V, the author earned her master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Wilkes University. She tells her story in the memoir\u00a0<em>Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim<\/em>\u00a0and explores futuristic fiction in her dystopian novels\u00a0<em>The Union<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Dissent<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\">news.<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wilkes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.wilkes.edu\/2024\/03\/12\/english-department-to-host-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-on-march-20\/\">.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AHD-Leah-Vernon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AHD-Leah-Vernon-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AHD-Leah-Vernon-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AHD-Leah-Vernon-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AHD-Leah-Vernon-1-930x620.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join guest artist and Wilkes alum Leah Vernon for a writing workshop and a reading today, Wednesday, March 20. Vernon will visit the Creative Writing Workshop in Kirby 103 from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20. The workshop is open to Wilkes students, faculty and staff. She will read from her newest work&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2024\/03\/20\/today-join-wilkes-alum-and-guest-artist-leah-vernon-for-a-writing-workshop-and-a-reading-on-march-20\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TODAY: Join Wilkes Alum and Guest Artist Leah Vernon for a Writing Workshop and a Reading on March 20<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15649,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15646\/revisions\/15649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}