Sheri Joseph, Princess Joy L. Perry & Angela Flournoy: New Literary Fiction
Sat, Oct 04
|Marriott Hotel, Mary Gay Room
In three powerful new novels, Sheri Joseph, Princess Joy L. Perry, and Angela Flournoy explore how loyalty, love, tragedy, and friendships shape our lives.
Time & Location
Oct 04, 2025, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EDT
Marriott Hotel, Mary Gay Room, 130 Clairemont Ave, Decatur, GA 30030
About
A college student becomes obsessed with a classmate’s unexplained death. Three people — two enslaved, one indentured — all stake a claim to love. The evolving friendship of five black women, from young adulthood to midlife.
In their newest works, Angels at the Gate, This Here Is Love, and The Wilderness, authors Sheri Joseph, Princess Joy L. Perry, and Angela Flournoy create captivating stories with richly developed characters. Join them for a conversation on their writing process, insights, and how fiction can often reflect truths in our lives.
Following the panel, authors will proceed to signing tables to autograph books.
Purchase your book from Charis Books using this link, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the festival.
About the Moderator
Katie Mitchell is a storyteller and bookseller. Katie lives, works, and writes in Atlanta, Georgia. Her online and pop-up Black bookstore, Good Books, has been featured in The New York Times, NBC, NPR, PBS, and many other outlets. Katie is a Dorothy Porter Wesley fellow. Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores is her debut.