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Dr. Tyler hosts Parable of the sower book club for local arts collective
Dr. Tyler will join Level Ground, a local arts collective in Los Angeles, California, for the inaugural cycle of their Social Practice Labs — a space for interrogating the socio-political landscape and building pathways towards a movement-inspired art practice. This five week communal reading will begin March 31. Click the link below to learn more.
Dr. Tyler at AWP Conference
Dr. Tyler will join Nikki High and others for a panel entitled “Long Live Octavia Butler” at the annual AWP Conference (Association for Writers and Writing Programs). Stop by and say hello!
Dr. Tyler at Huntington Library Founder’s Day
The Huntington, which holds Butler’s archive, will host a conversation about Parable of the Sower and its 1998 sequel, Parable of the Talents, with moderator Monique Thomas and panelists Nikki High, Tamisha A. Tyler, and John Williams. They will explore Butler’s call to community building, her influence on writers and activists, and how her fiction does—and doesn’t—speak to the present moment.