Professional Development Series for Arts Journalists Launches January 2020

Join the DC Arts Writing Fellowship at Cove Co-working in Dupont Circle for a new professional development series for arts journalists. This series is produced within the DC Arts Writing Fellowship project to provide practical training for early career arts journalists, including Day Eight’s DC Arts Journalism fellows. Space is limited and tickets are required. […]

Announcing Featured Poets in the 2020 DC Poet Project Reading Series

Through support from individual donors, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Wells Fargo Community Foundation, Day Eight’s DC Poet Project reading series will feature exceptional writers from across the region at five events spring 2020. Now in its fourth year, The DC Poet Project is a poetry reading series and open-to-all poetry competition […]

2019 Poet Project winner Kevin Wiggins in The Washington Blade and Bidwell Hollow

Kevin Wiggins (Photo by Danny Sax for Brink Media)

2019 DC Poet Project winner Kevin Wiggins was interviewed by The Washington Blade and Bidwell Hollow about his new book, Port of Exit, published October 15, 2019. Read the full interviews on The Washington Blade and Bidwell Hollow and excerpts below. From the Blade: Kevin Wiggins started writing poetry at age 6 and credits his […]