All She Wrote x Lydi Conklin
When:
Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025 7:00p -
8:30p
Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025 7:00p -
8:30p
Where:
All She Wrote Books
75 Washington Street
Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
Admission:
$7
Hosted by:
Categories:
Good for Groups, LGBTQ+, Meetup, Rainy Day Ideas
Event website:
https://www.allshewrotebooks.com/events-1/all-she-wrote-x-lydi-conklin
Join All She Wrote Books at on Tuesday, June 10th at 7:00pm, as we host authors Lydi Conklin and Allegra Hyde! They will discuss Conklin's new book, Songs Of No Provenance, a suspenseful, wildly engaging debut novel by the award-winning author of Rainbow Rainbow, following a musician spiraling in self-doubt and self-searching after a night—and a relationship—gone wrong.
"Inclusivity" isn't just a buzzword to us. We make every effort to ensure our space and events are accessible to and for everyone. If you or someone in your party needs accommodations, please email us at [email protected].
About Songs Of No Provenance
Songs of No Provenance tells the story of Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, who flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage that she fears will doom her career. Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she's forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking—and her complicated history with a friend and mentee—while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member.
A propulsive character study of a flawed and fascinating artist, Songs of No Provenance explores issues of trans nonbinary identity, queer baiting and appropriation, kink, fame hunger, secrecy and survival, and the question of whether a work of art can exist separately from its artist.
About the Author
Lydi Conklin (they/them) has received a Stegner Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, work-study and tuition scholarships from Bread Loaf, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Sewanee Writers Conference, Emory University, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, the James Merrill House, Lighthouse Works, and elsewhere. Their fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, and VQR. They have drawn cartoons for The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine, and graphic fiction for The Believer, Lenny Letter, and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. They’ve served as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and are now an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award and The Story Prize.
About the Speaker
Allegra Hyde (she/her)is the author of the story collection The Last Catastrophe, a The New York Times Editors’ Choice selection. Her debut novel, Eleutheria, was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize. Her first story collection, Of This New World, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. She currently teaches creative writing at Smith College.
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