An open mic event celebrating BIPOC poets and writers.

Galleyway and Adanne are back with another “Heard/Word Live!”

Join us Monday, December 20 at 7pm for a virtual open mic event featuring writer and author Rowana Abbensetts-Dobson, who’ll read from her debut novel, Departure Story (Spoken Black Girl Publishing).

Rowana is a Guyanese-American writer, mental health advocate, and founder of Spoken Black Girl, a publishing and media company that promotes mental health and wellness among Black women and women of color by amplifying emerging voices. Rowana has had fiction and poetry published in Moko Magazine, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, Culture Push, and Free Verse Magazine. As a freelance health and wellness writer, Rowana has written for GoodRx, Well +Good, Bold Culture by Streamline Media, The Tempest, and Electric Lit.