Moonrise Over New Work
Thu Mar 13, 6:00 PM - Thu Mar 13, 7:00 PM

“Moonrise Over New Work” with Hermitage Fellow Jamila Minnicks, Thursday, March 13, 2025 @ 6pm: Hermitage Fellow Jamila Minnicks’ debut novel Moonrise Over New Jessup won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, the 2024 Black Caucus for the American Library Association First Novelist Award, and the 2023 Southern Literary Review Book of the Year. The novel boldly questions the value of integration and acceptance if it means losing the comfort that separation has created. Hear selections from this incredible story, read by the author, and get a taste of where this gifted writer will take you in her next work as she works to complete it in residence. Presented in partnership with Bookstore1. Jamila Minnicks’ Hermitage Residency generously sponsored by Georgia Court & Robin Radin. Registration is required at HermitageArtistRetreat.org ($5/person registration fee). Estimated running time: 60-70 minutes; Bookstore1, 117 South Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, Florida 34236.