Open Mic Featuring Jessamyn Hope

Join me for an open mic featuring author Jessamyn Hope!

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From the Organizer:

“Join us on July 14th on Zoom for a night of sharing your writing!
The screen is the new stage for this OpecMic and everyone is invited – from Jerusalem to all of Israel and abroad!
Been waiting to be heard while stuck at home? Been waiting to share your writing from lockdown and the day-to-day?
Now is the time: come to hear from featured speaker and amazing writer, Jessamyn Hope, and then show what you’ve got at this OpenMic led by MC Zev Hofman!

To join the Zoom meeting you need to register for the event. (Those who register will receive a link to the Zoom session via email.) The event will also be broadcast live through the Jerusalism Facebook Page. For updates and links to Jessamyn’s work, check out the Facebook Event Page.
A little about the featured speaker:

Jessamyn Hope is an award-winning writer of fiction and memoir. Her debut novel Safekeeping was a Boston Globe recommended read; acclaimed by The Globe and Mail; a New York Public Library Staff Pick; a 2018 National Jewish Book Club pick; winner of the J.I. Segal Award in English Fiction on a Jewish Theme; and a finalist for both Hadassah’s Harold U. Ribalow Prize and the Paterson Fiction Prize. Safekeeping can also be found at number two on BuzzFeed’s “53 Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down.” Her memoir essays and short stories—originally published in Ploughshares, PRISM International, Colorado Review, The Common, The Hopkins Review, J Journal, and elsewhere—have received two Pushcart Prize honorable mentions and have been anthologized in Best Canadian Essays, The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose, and the forthcoming The New Spice Box: Contemporary Jewish Writing. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. For more about Jessamyn Hope, check out her website: jessamynhope.com”