Excerpts from Reading by Said Shaiye at Washington State University

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Produced by: 
KBOO
Program:: 
Old Mole Variety Hour
Air date: 
Mon, 02/24/2025 - 9:00am to 10:00am
An image of Somali writer, filmmaker Said Shaiye against a red backdrop with gray and mustard colored letters identifying it as part of WSU's Visiting Writers Series
Excerpts from a February 2025 reading at WSU

We feature excerpts from a February 2025 reading at Washington State University. Said Shaiye is an  Autistic + ADHD (AuHD) Somali Writer, Photographer & Filmmaker in Minneapolis. He is a 2024 MacDowell Fellow & was awarded a 2024 MN State Arts Education Grant to lead a BIPOC autistic writing workshop where members publish their own books at year's end. His debut book, Are You Borg Now?, was a 2022 Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction & Memoir. He has published poetry & prose in Indiana Review, Texas Review, Obsidian, Brittle Paper, Pithead Chapel, 580 Split, Entropy, Diagram, and elsewhere.

Topic tags: 
Movement for Racial Justice, African American, Arts/Culture, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Disability, Poetry, Old Mole Variety Hour, War/Peace
Genre(s): 
Public Affairs

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