Wonder Festival
November 3-5, 2022 | Austin, TX
Wonder is our annual literary festival that culminates in a celebratory reading with the Starshine and Clay Fellows and guest judge. Our inaugural festival took place in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with the spectacular Grand Tetons as our backdrop. In 2022 we are thrilled to host Wonder in Austin, amidst the limestone beauty of the Texas hill country. The vision for the festival is to connect participants with the power of landscape and literature to heal, transform, and astonish us. Our programming coincides with the Texas Book Festival, and we are also delighted to co-host an event with Torch Literary Arts. We welcome you to Wonder with us!
Wonder Festival 2022 Events:
Roger Reeves +
Jennifer Chang
When: Thursday, Nov. 3 - 8-9:30 PM CST
Where: Lazarus Brewing Co. + Live Streamed to LOGOS FB Page
Roger Reeves is the author of Best Barbarian (W.W. Norton & Co., 2022), which Tracy K. Smith called “a revelation and a form of reparation,” and King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a Library Journal Best Poetry Book of the year. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, two Cave Canem Fellowships and a Whiting Award.
Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity and Some Say the Lark, which received the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award and was longlisted for the Julie Suk Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Her poems have been featured on NPR, the PBS NewsHour, and The Slowdown and have appeared in numerous publications, including American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, The Ecopoetry Anthology, The New Yorker, The New York Times, A Public Space, and Yale Review. She co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman and serves as the poetry editor of the New England Review.
UPDATED:
Natalie Graham + Remica Bingham +Destiny Birdsong
in collaboration with TORCH Literary Arts
When: Friday, Nov. 4 - 7:00 PM CST
Where: Vuka North Loop
Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington College. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. She is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006) winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013) and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017). She is currently the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University and resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children.
Destiny O. Birdsong is a poet, novelist, and essayist. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, was published in 2020 by Tin House and was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award. Her debut novel, Nobody’s Magic, was published in February 2022 from Grand Central Publishing. She now serves as a 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
RaJon Staunton is a queer Black writer and editor from Beckley, West Virginia. Their poems have been published in print and online in Foglifter Journal, wildness, Teen Vogue, and Hobart, among other places. Currently, RaJon is pursuing their MA at Marshall University and is the Social Media Editor for UnCollected Press.
Gracia "Cianga" Mwamba (she/they) is a Congolese artist based in California, by way of South Africa. She was a semifinalist for the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and NFSPS Board Award. Gracia's intidisciplinary art practice is grounded in exploring black art as radical joy and critical protest. While preparing her debut collection, her work can be found in Rappahannock Review, Berkeley Fiction Review and her website.