Slamming Bricks: An Anthology

by Avery Brooks (Editor)

The Slamming Bricks Anthology features poetry from nineteen LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and AAPI poets across the world ranging from debut artists to award-winning slam poets. It includes over 80 pages of beautiful prose and meaningful expressions of liberation and resistance. The Slamming Bricks Anthology grew from the annual poetry slam competition, Slamming Bricks: A Riot on 1st Street, based in Grand Junction, Colorado that LGBTQ+ slam poet Caleb Ferganchick started in 2019. The 2021 event marks the third year of the poetry slam and the anthology features poetry by eight of the slam poets competing in 2021. The anthology was made possible due to the financial support of the Western Colorado Writers' Forum and Colorado Arts in Society.

Paperback

Published September 1, 2021

About the author

Avery Brooks grew up on the East Coast and has spent the years since gradually moving west. She has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and has spent much of her life studying dominance, climate change, social justice issues, and human rights atrocities. While conducting postdoctoral research in New Orleans, she fell in love with the city, which has featured prominently in her writing. She has taught at multiple universities, but her most rewarding experiences involved teaching interdisciplinary courses on dominance, climate change, and LGBTQ+ studies.

Avery is a graduate of the 2018 Golden Crown Literary Society's Writing Academy. Her novel Other Girls was a 2020 Goldie Finalist in Contemporary Romance. When she's not busy reading and writing fiction, she uses her free time to advocate for social justice issues, women's empowerment, and animal conservation in the face of a rapidly changing climate. She lives in Colorado, where she enjoys hiking with her two dogs, trying different microbrews, and rooting for the Saints.

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