Event
4 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
The 2026 Poetry and Fiction Writing Project Information Session

Presenters
Junauda Petrus
Junauda Petrus is a writer, pleasure activist, filmmaker and performance artist, born on Dakota land of Black-Caribbean descent. Her work centers around wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, shimmer and liberation. Her debut novel, The Stars and the Blackness
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Michael Kleber-Diggs
Michael Kleber-Diggs
Michael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) is a poet, essayist, literary critic, and arts educator. He is the author of My Weight in Water, a memoir about his complicated relationship with lap swimming (forthcoming with Spiegel & Grau, 2026). Michael’s debut poetry collection, Worldly Things, won the Max
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Online—Zoom Classroom
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If you're curious about the Loft's Year-Long Writing Project in Fiction with Junauda Petrus or Poetry with Michael Kleber-Diggs, this informational session is for you. In this session, we'll discuss the each of the programs, the year ahead, and how your project may fit in. The teaching mentors of each cohort will share an overview about what to expect in their cohort. It is free and open to the public, and it takes place online, via Zoom. This will be a recorded event. Please pre-register for this event.

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Artists
Junauda Petrus
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Michael Kleber-Diggs
Michael Kleber-Diggs
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