The Fine Arts Work Center’s 24PearlStreet Online Writing Program will celebrate its Winter 2024 students and their writing practice in our seasonal, virtual Student Open Mic Night on March 28th at 6 PM EST.

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This virtual community event will be recorded for later viewing on YouTube, and facilitated by 24PearlStreet faculty member and Poet Melissa Studdard.

Melissa Studdard is the author of the poetry collections, Dear Selection Committee and I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, as well as the chapbook Like a Bird with a Thousand Wings. Her work has been featured by PBS, NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and has appeared in periodicals such as POETRY, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. Her awards include the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, The Penn Review Poetry Prize, the Tom Howard Prize from Winning Writers, the REELpoetry International Film Festival Audience Choice Award, and more.