Friday, December 22, 2017

2017 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize Finale At St. Francis College



2017 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize

The Brooklyn Film & Arts Festival in partnership with St. Francis College presented the 2017 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize finale on Wednesday, December 20th, 2017 at St. Francis College.


Ten essayists who were competitors for the 2017 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize's $500 annual writing award read excerpts from their submissions. The writers shared their very real and personal stories about their own Brooklyn experiences in the 2017 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize finale event titled, “All About Brooklyn.”


2017 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize Finale Presenters

Linda Bakst - "Nana’s Table"



Terry Chao  - "  A Banshee in Brooklyn"



Chuck Cascio - "The Light of Brooklyn"   - Read by John Florio


Amanda Gardner  - " Brooklyn"


Althea Wilson-Berkowitz - "Ma Sarah"
 

Daysean Higgs - "To Brownsville"


Pamela Hughes -  "Passages East, Brooklyn Unbound: On Bridges, Bumbling and Allen Ginsburg"


Connie Pertuz-Meza - "A Girl From Sunset"


Keith  Haymes - "The Brass Ring"



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