Silverfish by Rone Shavers6/25/2023 ![]() After receiving a degree from Middlebury College in Vermont, Jay worked as a magazine art director for major consumer brands Time, Sports Illustrated and BusinessWeek for the next 25 years. Significant portions of the work were written while at residency at VCCA.Ī long time resident of Westport, CT, and a native New Yorker, Jay Petrow began his art path with classical beginnings, painting portraits of friends and landscapes. Shavers will be reading from Silverfish, his experimental Afrofuturist novel published just a few weeks ago by Clash Books. He is also fiction and hybrid-genre editor at Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. Shavers’ non-fiction essays and essay-length reviews have appeared in such diverse publications as American Book Review, BOMB, Electronic Book Review, Fiction Writers Review, and The Quarterly Conversation. His fiction has appeared in various journals, including Another Chicago Magazine, Big Other, Black Warrior Review, PANK, and The Operating System. ![]() Rone Shavers is a writer who publishes in multiple genres. ![]() ![]() Jay will present some earlier work and show how the work has developed over the last few years. Rone will read from his debut novel Silverfish. Washington Post columnist and VCCA Board member Steven Petrow will host the October 1 event featuring writer and VCCA Board member Rone Shavers and visual artist Jay Petrow. ![]()
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