Louis
Place
Resources for writers
with Steffani Jemison, Naima Lowe, and Quincy Flowers
Sunday, March 23 - 4:30pm ET
What you’ll learn
Coordinators of the community at Louis Place share their favorite resources for writers: craft books and prompts, approaches to workshop and feedback, and strategies for organizing applications and submissions.
About Steffani Jemison
Steffani Jemison is an interdisciplinary artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York. In dialogue with interlocutors (living and ancestral), her work connects mark-making, gesture, proposal, projection, movement, and document.
Jemison has presented solo exhibitions and commissioned performances at the CAC Geneva, JOAN Los Angeles, Mass MoCA, Jeu de Paume, CAPC Bordeaux, the Museum of Modern Art, LAXART, and other venues. Her work has been included in significant generational exhibitions, including Greater New York (2021) and the Whitney Biennial (2019), and is part of many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, a Herb Alpert Award, a NYFA Fellowship, an Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and a Radcliffe Fellowship, among others. Her novella A Rock, A River, A Street was published by Primary Information in 2022; she has also written for Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail.
Jemison’s collaborative projects include at Louis Place (a writing community co-founded with Quincy Flowers and led with Naima Lowe), Mikrokosmos (a platform for listening and performance with Justin Hicks), Future Plan and Program (a publishing project), and Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet (with Jamal Cyrus). She learns with and from her students at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she is an Associate Professor.
About Quincy Flowers
Quincy Flowers received his Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, M.A. in American Literature from New York University, where he was a New York Times Fellow, and B.A. in English from Kennesaw State University.
Flowers is a fiction writer whose research is concerned with eighteenth—and nineteenth-century social and cultural practices that emerged around tea, coffee, and wine. He is working on a novel about Duke Nelson, the Georgia okra farmer, winemaker, mechanical engineer, and inventor, as well as a collection of essays organized by wine-tasting notes.
His work has been published in Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire and Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (Prestel, 2015). With Steffani Jemison, his performance Flight Theater was presented in 2024 at the Centre d’art contemporain Geneve and in 2025 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. He has also collaborated with composer and performer Justin Hicks. He is a co-founder of the writing community at Louis Place.
About Naima Lowe
Naima Lowe makes performances, texts, drawings, installations, and videos using transgressive and radical traditions of Black utterance. She rigorously cultivates and protects her intuitive sensibilities; fed by a deep intellectual and familial allegiance to the liberatory ethos of improvisation. She uses the specificity of her personal and family history to create works about desire and longing; amplifying and abstracting emotional states to unsettle the perceived boundary between mind, body, spirit, and one another.
Naima has a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Temple University. Her work has been shown at Anthology Film Archive, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Wing Luke Museum, MiX Experimental Film Festival, National Queer Art Festival, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and the Henry Art Gallery. She’s held residency fellowships at The Bemis Center, Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, and The Lighthouse Works. Naima was a 2023-24 Mabou Mines SUITESpace Resident, and previously she was a 2021-2022 Mid America Arts Alliance Interchange ArtistFellow, recipient of the 2022-23 Mid America Arts Alliance Artistic Innovation Award, and a recipient of a 2022 Jazz Road Creative Residency. Naima resides in Tulsa, within the Muscogee Creek Nation Reservation, where she spends her time being free and talking to animals.