This afternoon, Hope Deferred editor Peter Orner was featured on WBEZ Chicago’s Worldview. Click here to listen here, to Peter’s interview!
In the Chicago area? Join Peter for a reading and discussion of Hope Deferred tomorrow (February 24th) at DePaul University. For details, visit our Events page.
For more from Peter about Hope Deferred, check out his interview on Iowa Public Radio, recorded on February 15th.
This Spring, Voice of Witness will be celebrating the launch of Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives and the forthcoming release of Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime with a variety of readings, talks and events in cities throughout the U.S. To give you the most up to date information on upcoming events, we’ve created a page for each book’s tour.
For Hope Deferred events, click here.
For Nowhere to Be Home, click here.
Bring Voice of Witness to your campus- click here to learn more!
This fall, Hope Deferred editors, Peter Orner and Annie Holmes discussed human rights issues in Zimbabwe at the World Affairs Council of San Francisco’s panel, Fifty Years Later: Human Rights and Social Reconstruction in Africa. If you were unable to attend the sold out event, you can now listen to the full discussion online.
For more opportunities to hear Peter Orner, Annie Holmes and other Voice of Witness editors discuss their work, check out our Events page for updates on readings, panels and other events.
“Hope Deferred might be the most important publication to have come out of Zimbabwe in the past thirty years.”
- Alexandra Fuller, Harper’s Magazine
We will post a link to the full article within the next week, as it becomes available.
Order your copy of Hope Deferred today by visiting the McSweeney’s Store.
Last October, Hope Deferred editor Peter Orner joined authors Adam Levin, Darin Strauss and Eli Horowitz at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center for the Litquake event ‘McSweeney’s Fall Harvest’. If you missed the event, you can still hear from Peter Orner as well as the other authors in the ‘Harvest’ right here.
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Peter Orner’s February 3rd reading and discussion of Hope Deferred at DePaul University has been postponed due to inclement weather. The event will be rescheduled soon – please check back for details about new event dates for Chicago.
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