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SUMMARY:They Called Us Wicked: The Launch Event with Gloria Muñoz
DESCRIPTION:Let us know we will see you there. Please RSVP HERE! Four bud
 ding bruja BFFs face off against an anti-magic regime in this witchy\, w
 eird-girl YA dystopia Tombolo Books is thrilled to host the launch event
  for Gloria Muñoz's second YA novel\, They Called Us Wicked! Muñoz along
  with fellow local authors Tyler Gillespie\, Maria Ingrande Mora\, and E
 .G. Young will be in converation about the book\, writing\, and all thin
 gs witchy! They Called Us Wicked is equal parts a coming-of-age friendsh
 ip story and supernatural dystopia. This dazzling novel finds resistance
  to oppression in the extraordinary and the ordinary\, from magic and sp
 ellcraft to friendship\, heritage\, and love. They're a coven of four: L
 ucy\, who can hear a whisper in a crowded room. Clara\, who can read you
 r innermost thoughts. Fabiola\, who can see the future. And Sirena\, who
  can manipulate your every emotion. They've been best friends since they
  met on the astral plane as kids\, each of them hiding their gifts from 
 a world that insists magic and witchcraft are a threat to humanity. But 
 they've never met in the real world. . .until now. As a new student at t
 he prestigious Fletcher University\, Lucy is looking forward to a perfec
 t freshman year full of in-person coven hangs and covert witchy fun. But
  something is off with Lucy's roommate\, Retta\, almost like she might h
 ave latent magic powers she's unaware of (not possible...right?). So\, w
 hen Retta disappears\, Lucy knows it's up to her and her coven to invest
 igate—that is\, if they can make time for occult recon amid college clas
 ses\, flirty crushes\, and friendship group growing pains. As the search
  for Retta leads to an enchanted forest hidden under Fletcher's campus\,
  Lucy uncovers a chilling truth: maybe Fletcher is just another arm of t
 he anti-magic regime. But are supernatural powers and ride-or-die friend
 s enough to take down an oppressive authority that thinks you shouldn't 
 exist? Gloria Muñoz is the author of the poetry collections Your Biome H
 as Found You and Danzirly\, which won the Ambroggio Prize and the Florid
 a Gold Medal Book Award for Poetry. She is an Academy of American Poets 
 Poet Laureate Fellow\, a Hedgebrook Fellow\, a Macondista\, a Highlights
  Foundation Diverse Verse Fellow\, and a part of Las Musas. Her debut no
 vel\, This Is the Year\, was hailed as “brilliantly layered” by Booklist
  in a starred review. Visit her online at gloriamunoz.com and on Instagr
 am at @bygloriamunoz. Tyler Gillespie is a writer\, independent greeting
  card maker\, and the palest Floridian you'll ever meet. He’s an award-w
 inning journalist and the author of The Thing about Florida: Exploring a
  Misunderstood State (University Press of Florida\, 2021) and two poetry
  collections — the nature machine! (Autofocus\, 2023) and Florida Man: P
 oems\, Revisited (Burrow Press\, 2024). He’s the co-editor of The Awkwar
 d Phase (Skyhorse\, 2016)\, and his humor writing can be found in the Ne
 w Yorker\, McSweeney's Internet Tendency\, and LGBTQ Comedic Monologues 
 That Are Actually Funny. His reporting appears in Rolling Stone\, The Gu
 ardian\, GQ\, VICE\, The Daily Beast\, Playboy\, and other outlets. Gill
 espie is a fifth-generation Floridian and wrote the introduction for A24
 ’s Florida! A Hyper-Local Guide to the Flora\, Fauna\, and Fantasy of th
 e Most Far-out State in America. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing fro
 m the University of New Orleans and a PhD in English: Writing\, Rhetoric
 \, & Technical Communication from the University of Memphis. In 2021\, h
 e won the X. A. Kramer\, Jr. Outstanding Teaching Award at the Universit
 y of Mississippi. Gillespie teaches at Ringling College of Art and Desig
 n\, where he is currently the Writing Program Coordinator. Maria Ingrand
 e Mora (they/she) is the acclaimed author of Fragile Remedy\, a Junior L
 ibrary Guild Gold Standard Selection\, the Ranger Academy series\, and T
 he Immeasurable Depth of You\, an Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award fin
 alist\, which earned three starred reviews\, with Kirkus Reviews calling
  it “raw and compassionate.” A queer\, AuDHD single parent\, Mora lives 
 in Florida with their two teenagers and three cats. Instagram: @MariaMor
 aWrites. E.G. Young is a speculative fiction author living on the Gulf C
 oast of Florida. In her books\, you’ll find weird-but-tender vibes\, str
 ange girls\, dark humor\, spookiness\, and animals who all live at the e
 nd (promise!). She writes 90 percent of her drafts using voice-to-text d
 ictation (shoutout to fellow hypermobile humans). When she's not writing
 \, you’ll find her enjoying nature\, binging Netflix\, or playing with h
 er tabby cat and barkless basenji dog. Emily holds an MFA in Writing for
  Children & Young Adults from The Vermont College of Fine Arts. Check ou
 t her website at egyoungbooks.com.\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.co
 m/e/they-called-us-wicked-the-launch-event-with-gloria-munoz-tickets-199
 8989175435\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/eede9a5e-3665-400a-9c74-
 6f4dc0e95b91
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