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Slantwise Histories

A Conversation with Alix E. Harrow and Bethany C. Morrow

An evening conversation about the craft of fantasy, highlighting Alix Harrow's newly released book, The Slantwise Histories

DC Public Library is excited to welcome conversation partners Alix Harrow and Bethany C. Morrow for a discussion and book signing. Booksellers from Loyalty Bookstore will be onsite supporting the event.

Alix E. Harrow is the NYT-bestselling author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, Starling House, The Everlasting, and various short fiction, including her most recently released title: The Slantwise Histories. Her work has won a Hugo and a British Fantasy Award, and been shortlisted for the Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Southern Book Prize, and Goodreads Choice awards.

She's from Kentucky, but now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids.

Bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow writes adult and young adult novels. Her young adult work includes SLJ Gold Standard selections, A Song Below Water (a Locus, Ignyte, and Audie finalist) and So Many Beginnings, a Little Women remix, for which she's presented at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. She is editor/contributor to the young adult anthology Take The Mic, which won the 2020 ILA Social Justice in Literature award.

Her adult novels include Mem, an Indies Introduce and Indies Next pick, and her most recent novel, Cherish Farrah, a social horror, was the April 2022 Belletrist x Bookclub pick. She was the 2021 Mansfield Lecturer at Roosevelt University, and her work has been featured in The LA Times, Forbes, Bustle, Buzzfeed, and more. Bethany is included on USA TODAY's list of 100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read.

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