San Francisco LitQuake Talk and Signing

Who is going to be in San Francisco on 15 October? Have we got a treat for you! https://tockify.com/litquake/detail/192/1697396400000

Andria Williams, Abby Murray, Lauren Kay Johnson, Liam Corley, M.C. Armstrong, and Steven Moore will present at the Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA, on October 15 at noon.

More than two decades after 9/11, the myriad effects of sustained warfare are only beginning to come to light. Predominant narratives persist in reducing stories to simplistic binaries of Hero or Victim, Us or Them, but a new wave of military writing seeks to expand the conversation. Writers Abby Murray, Andria Williams, Lauren Kay Johnson, Liam Corley, M.C. Armstrong, and Steven Moore have spoken out on issues like toxin exposure, misinformation, moral injury, generational trauma, and toxic masculinity. These writers will discuss the issues they seek to illuminate, emerging trends in the military genre, and the challenges and importance of writing against masculine traditions and combat-driven narratives.