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Summer Words Public Panel: Tayari Jones on Social Justice, the Writing Life and Oprah

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Tue Jun 18, 2019

Date

Tue Jun 18, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm MDT

Location



Contact

    [email protected]
    970-925-3122

Hosts

  1. Aspen Words

Tayari Jones, winner of the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize for her novel “An American Marriage,” will discuss with Aspen Words Executive Director Adrienne Brodeur, her work, why she wrote about race, incarceration and feminism, and what happened when Oprah Winfrey called her.

Doors open at 5:15 p.m.

$25 Individual Tickets
$75 Member Pass* | $100 Non-member Pass * 
*Passes include access to all five public events


Not an Aspen Words member? Join todayTayari Jones, winner of the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize for her novel “An American Marriage,” will discuss with Aspen Words Executive Director Adrienne Brodeur, her work, why she wrote about race, incarceration and feminism, and what happened when Oprah Winfrey called her.

Doors open at 5:15 p.m.

$25 Individual Tickets
$75 Member Pass* | $100 Non-member Pass * 
*Passes include access to all five public events


Not an Aspen Words member? Join today