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Town Hall Seattle Civics Series400. Clyde W. Ford: Who's Left Out of Black History How much do you know about Black history? From African women's rebellions on slave ships to a former enslaved man whose account of the first Juneteenth differs from what we hear today, to Benjamin Banneker's life, to how Islam found its way into American popular music in multiple genres, there is a lot of information that doesn't necessarily make it into your average curriculum. In A High Price for Freedom: Raising Hidden Voices From the African-American Past, author and historian Clyde W. Ford addresses these and other topics, seeking to illuminate and amplify little-known figures fr...
2026-02-091h 21
The Norton Library PodcastI Write Only That Whereof I Know (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Part 2)In Part 2 of our discussion on Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, editor Evie Shockley returns to discuss her first encounter with this text in graduate school, the book's place in the literary canon and the classroom, and her favorite passage. Evie Shockley is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry. For her poetry collections—including suddenly we, semiautomatic, the new black, and a half-red sea—she has been awarded the Shelle...
2025-10-0631 min
The Norton Library PodcastLess Like You're Reading Her, More Like You're Listening to Her (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Part 1)In Part 1 of our discussion on Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, we welcome editor Evie Shockley to discuss the author's family background, lively language as a storyteller, and influence on Shockley's own creative process as a poet. Evie Shockley is the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry. For her poetry collections—including suddenly we, semiautomatic, the new black, and a half-red sea—she has been awarded the Shelley Memorial Award, the La...
2025-09-2233 min
Politics and Prose PresentsIntroduction to Afrofuturism Panel - with DuEwa Frazier, Alan King, Victoria Moten & Christian M. HinesIntroduction to Afrofuturism delivers a fresh and contemporary introduction to Afrofuturism, discussing key themes, understandings, and interdisciplinary topics across multiple genres in Black literature, film, and music. From Afrofuturism's origins to the present, this critical volume features scholarly works, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction which illuminates on the contributions of notable Afrofuturists such as Octavia Bulter, Sun Ra, N.K. Jemisin, Janelle Monáe, Nnedi Okorafor, Saul Williams, Prince, and more. The volume highlights the impact of films such as Black Panther (2018, 2022), The Woman King (2022), and They Cloned Tyrone (2023) and covers a variety of essential topics giving students a comprehe...
2025-08-2558 min
New Books in Literary StudiesHarriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive, detailing her harrowing escape from enslavement, seven years hiding in an attic crawl space, and the racism she faced in freedom.
Forgotten for decades after its original, 19th century publication, Jacobs’ story was so harrowing and so brave it was thought to be fiction. Only through the research of historian Jean Fagan Yellin in the 1980s was it proven, once and for all, to be a brilliant and compelling work of nonfiction. Incidents is routinely cited by historians and fi...
2025-08-161h 12
New Books in the American SouthHarriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive, detailing her harrowing escape from enslavement, seven years hiding in an attic crawl space, and the racism she faced in freedom.
Forgotten for decades after its original, 19th century publication, Jacobs’ story was so harrowing and so brave it was thought to be fiction. Only through the research of historian Jean Fagan Yellin in the 1980s was it proven, once and for all, to be a brilliant and compelling work of nonfiction. Incidents is routinely cited by historians and fi...
2025-08-161h 12
New Books in Biography & MemoirHarriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive, detailing her harrowing escape from enslavement, seven years hiding in an attic crawl space, and the racism she faced in freedom.
Forgotten for decades after its original, 19th century publication, Jacobs’ story was so harrowing and so brave it was thought to be fiction. Only through the research of historian Jean Fagan Yellin in the 1980s was it proven, once and for all, to be a brilliant and compelling work of nonfiction. Incidents is routinely cited by historians and fi...
2025-08-161h 12
New Books in American StudiesHarriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive, detailing her harrowing escape from enslavement, seven years hiding in an attic crawl space, and the racism she faced in freedom.
Forgotten for decades after its original, 19th century publication, Jacobs’ story was so harrowing and so brave it was thought to be fiction. Only through the research of historian Jean Fagan Yellin in the 1980s was it proven, once and for all, to be a brilliant and compelling work of nonfiction. Incidents is routinely cited by historians and fi...
2025-08-161h 12
New Books in LiteratureHarriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive, detailing her harrowing escape from enslavement, seven years hiding in an attic crawl space, and the racism she faced in freedom.
Forgotten for decades after its original, 19th century publication, Jacobs’ story was so harrowing and so brave it was thought to be fiction. Only through the research of historian Jean Fagan Yellin in the 1980s was it proven, once and for all, to be a brilliant and compelling work of nonfiction. Incidents is routinely cited by historians and fi...
2025-08-161h 12
New Books in Women's HistoryHarriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive, detailing her harrowing escape from enslavement, seven years hiding in an attic crawl space, and the racism she faced in freedom.
Forgotten for decades after its original, 19th century publication, Jacobs’ story was so harrowing and so brave it was thought to be fiction. Only through the research of historian Jean Fagan Yellin in the 1980s was it proven, once and for all, to be a brilliant and compelling work of nonfiction. Incidents is routinely cited by historians and fi...
2025-08-161h 12
New Books in African American StudiesHarriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the stirring autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive, detailing her harrowing escape from enslavement, seven years hiding in an attic crawl space, and the racism she faced in freedom.
Forgotten for decades after its original, 19th century publication, Jacobs’ story was so harrowing and so brave it was thought to be fiction. Only through the research of historian Jean Fagan Yellin in the 1980s was it proven, once and for all, to be a brilliant and compelling work of nonfiction. Incidents is routinely cited by historians and fi...
2025-08-161h 12
Carleton ConvosCarleton Convo with David Wright Faladé ’86 | April 18, 2025Award-winning author David Wright Faladé ’86 delivered the Carleton convocation address — titled, “My 4-color Bic and the Constitution” — on Friday, April 18 from 10:50 to 11:50 a.m. in Skinner Chapel.
Wright Faladé is the author of the novel Black Cloud Rising (2022) and most recently The New Internationals (2025), as well as the co-author of the young adult novel Away Running (2016) and the nonfiction book Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers (2000), which was a New Yorker notable selection and a St. Louis-Dispatch Best Book of 2001. Wright Faladé was also a recipient of the Neale Hurston/Richard...
2025-04-221h 03Carleton ConvosCarleton Convo with David Wright Faladé ’86 | April 18, 2025Award-winning author David Wright Faladé ’86 delivered the Carleton convocation address — titled, “My 4-color Bic and the Constitution” — on Friday, April 18 from 10:50 to 11:50 a.m. in Skinner Chapel.
Wright Faladé is the author of the novel Black Cloud Rising (2022) and most recently The New Internationals (2025), as well as the co-author of the young adult novel Away Running (2016) and the nonfiction book Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers (2000), which was a New Yorker notable selection and a St. Louis-Dispatch Best Book of 2001. Wright Faladé was also a recipient of the Neale Hurston/Richard...
2025-04-221h 03Politics and Prose PresentsBernice L. McFadden — Firstborn Girls - with Glory EdimOn her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother pulled her from the flaming wreckage. Firstborn Girls traces her remarkable life from that moment up to the publication of her first novel, Sugar.Growing up in 1980s Brooklyn, Bernice finds solace in books, summer trips to Barbados, and boarding school to escape her alcoholic father. Discovering the works of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, she finally sees herself and her loved ones reflected in their stories of "messy, beautiful, joyful Black people."Interwoven wit...
2025-03-2155 minPolitics and Prose PresentsMarita Golden — How to Become a Black Writer: Creating and Honoring Black Stories That Matter - with Ethelbert MillerA lifetime of stories to tell. Growing up, Marita would listen to bedtime stories of Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and many other champions of Black history. Now a champion herself in the literary world, she shares her story in a motivational autobiography you will never forget. How to Become a Black Writer details Marita Golden's life, career, and the most cherished memories she made along the way. From nurturing her passions during the civil rights movement to celebrating her 40th writing anniversary in D.C., Marita shows that every dreamer can inspire others with their story.A lov...
2025-03-041h 06Politics and Prose PresentsLauren Francis-Sharma — Casualties of Truth - with Kwame AlexanderPrudence Wright seems to have it all: a loving husband, Davis; a spacious home in Washington, D.C.; and the former glories of a successful career at McKinsey, which now enables her to dedicate her days to her autistic son, Roland. When she and Davis head out for dinner with one of Davis's new colleagues on a stormy summer evening filled with startling and unwelcome interruptions, Prudence has little reason to think that certain details of her history might arise sometime between cocktails and the appetizer course.Yet when Davis's colleague turns out to be Matshediso, a...
2025-03-0257 min
Alabama Short StoriesSearching for Cudjo and the ClotildaCudjo Lewis was a captive aboard the Clotilda when it entered Mobile Harbor, the last slave boat to the United States in 1860. The story was well known to locals in Mobile but two writers, Emma Langdon Roche and Zora Neale Hurston, went to find Cudjo and tell their version of his story. Over 80 years later, Ben Raines would find the remains of the Clotilda and bring the story to light again. Support the showSupport the Podcast The podcast is free but it’s not cheap. If you enjoy Ala...
2024-03-0511 min
Written In MelaninPromoting Black Literature: A Discussion with the Hurston Wright FoundationIn this episode of Written In Melanin podcast, host CM Lockhart speaks with special guest DeAndréa Johnson, an educator, writer and the Writing Programs Manager at the Hurston Wright Foundation. The discussion offers an in-depth introduction to the foundation, its mission, and the many resources it provides to support Black authors. Besides sharing her own career journey from teacher to editor and program manager, DeAndréa also offers some valuable advice for both emerging and seasoned writers on honing their craft and finding their community. The podcast further explores the beneficial impact of mentorship, the importance of accountability in...
2024-02-0741 min
Melanin Me PodcastPromoting Black Literature: A Discussion with the Hurston Wright FoundationIn this episode of Written In Melanin podcast, host CM Lockhart speaks with special guest DeAndréa Johnson, an educator, writer and the Writing Programs Manager at the Hurston Wright Foundation. The discussion offers an in-depth introduction to the foundation, its mission, and the many resources it provides to support Black authors. Besides sharing her own career journey from teacher to editor and program manager, DeAndréa also offers some valuable advice for both emerging and seasoned writers on honing their craft and finding their community. The podcast further explores the beneficial impact of mentorship, the importance of accountability in wr...
2024-02-0741 min
Your BIPOC Writing CoachHow to Have a 40-Year Literary Career with Award-Winning Author and Literary Activist Marita GoldenOn episode 18 of the podcast, the amazing Marita Golden is my guest.
Marita Golden is an award-winning author of over twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her books include the novels, The Wide Circumference of Love, and After and the memoirs Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons, and Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex. Her most recent work of nonfiction is The New Black Woman Loves Herself, Has Boundaries and Heals Every Day. Marita is also the Co-founder and President Emerita of the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard W...
2023-10-2346 min
The New Yorker: PoetryEvie Shockley Reads Rita DoveEvie Shockley joins Kevin Young to read “Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove,” by Rita Dove, and her own poem “the blessings.” Shockley is the author of six poetry collections and the Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. Her honors include the 2023 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Lannan Literary Award, the Stephen Henderson Award, and, twice, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry.
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2023-10-1839 min
Keepin' It a BeanZora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright Beefed Over RepresentationZora Neale Hurston ruffled plenty of feathers when it came to how she crafted her female characters. Many people were not getting it correct, but she knew how to humanize a woman who did herself. Except other male literary giants did not like that. This is a conversation over respectability, representation, and who was supposed to witness it.
Keepin' It a Bean is a series where Marquise explores life, social issues, and culture over a cup of coffee with some of his closest friends and creative peers.
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2023-08-2924 min
The Windham-Campbell Prizes PodcastPercival Everett on Ralph Ellison's Invisible ManPercival Everett (winner of a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction) joins Windham-Campbell Prize administrator Michael Kelleher for the last interview of the season, and it's a joyful exploration of Ralph Ellison's seminal novel Invisible Man, Everett's relationship to the book and its contemporaries, and the enduring power of a novel that makes you think.Reading list: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison • Moby Dick by Herman Melville • "Box Seat" by Jean Toomer • If He Hollers, Let Him Go by Chester Himes • Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes • Native Son by Richard Wright • "(What Did I Do To Be...
2023-08-0833 min
The Windham-Campbell Prizes PodcastPercival Everett on Ralph Ellison's Invisible ManPercival Everett (winner of a 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction) joins Windham-Campbell Prize administrator Michael Kelleher for the last interview of the season, and it's a joyful exploration of Ralph Ellison's seminal novel Invisible Man, Everett's relationship to the book and its contemporaries, and the enduring power of a novel that makes you think.Reading list: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison • Moby Dick by Herman Melville • "Box Seat" by Jean Toomer • If He Hollers, Let Him Go by Chester Himes • Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes • Native Son by Richard Wright • "(What Did I Do To Be...
2023-08-0833 min
The Black Writer's StudioZelda Lockhart on The Black Writer's Studio Podcast
In November 2022, Hurston/Wright's executive director, Khadijah Ali-Coleman talked with Zelda Lockhart about her forthcoming work and the genesis of her book, "The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript: Turning Life's Wounds Into the Gift of Literary Fiction, Memoir, or Poetry."
Zelda Lockhart is a writer, speaker, teacher and researcher. She is the director of LaVenson Press and Her Story Garden Studios. She is the author of several books, with her first novel receiving critical acclaim including becoming a 2002 Barnes & Noble Discovery selection and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her book Cold Running Creek won the Black...
2023-05-2850 min
Vita Poetica JournalPoem by Ellen June Wright & Photography by David A. GoodrumEllen June Wright reads her poem, "The Lake," and David A. Goodrum shares about his photography published in our Spring 2023 issue.
Ellen June Wright consulted on guides for three PBS poetry series. Her work was selected as The Missouri Review’s Poem of the Week in June 2021. She is a Cave Canem and Hurston/Wright alumna and received Pushcart Prize nominations in 2021 and 2022. Follow her at https://twitter.com/EllenJuneWrites.
David A. Goodrum, photographer/writer, lives in Corvallis, Oregon. His photography has graced the covers of several art and literature magazines, most recently Cirque Journal, Wil...
2023-05-2606 minThe Black Writer's StudioTaylor Johnson on The Black Writer's Studio podcastTaylor Johnson is from Washington, D.C. and was a former participant in the Hurston/Wright Foundation's teen writing program in the early 2000's. Now, an award-winning poet, Taylor spoke with Dr. Ali-Coleman in November 2022 about his residency at the Guggenheim museum, his new appointment as the Poet Laureate of Takoma Park, MD and his poetry journey for this episode of the Black Writer's Studio.
Taylor Johnson is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the Norma Faber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and named as a best poetry book of 2020 by the...
2023-04-2435 minThe Black Writer's StudioGuthrie P. Ramsey on The Black Writer's Studio Podcast
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. is a music historian, pianist, composer, and Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Ramsey talked with Dr. Khadijah Ali-Coleman in December 2022 in The Black Writer's Studio to talk about his new book, "Who Hears Here?" and his award-winning career as a musician, scholar and educator.
A widely-published writer, he’s the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (2003), and The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and the Challenge of Bebop (2013). Dr. Ramsey is co-author beside Samuel A...
2023-04-1635 minThe Black Writer's StudioKiki Petrosino on The Black Writer's Studio
Kiki Petrosino is the author of "White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia" (2020) and three other poetry books, all from Sarabande. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her memoir, "Bright", was released from Sarabande in 2022. She directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Virginia, where she is a Professor of Poetry. Petrosino is the recipient of a MacDowell artist residency, a Pushcart Prize, a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, the UNT Rilke Prize, & the Spalding Prize, among other honors. She has served...
2023-04-0333 minThe Black Writer's StudioNatasha Gordon-Chipembere on The Black Writer's StudioNatasha Gordon-Chipembere, Ph.D. is author of "Representation and Black Womanhood: The Legacy of Sarah Baartman" and the historical fiction novel, "Finding La Negrita."
Her work has been featured in Essence Magazine along with a monthly series, “Musings from An Afro-Costa Rican” in the Tico Times. She is a Senior Co-editor of the AfroLatino Book Series from Palgrave and her current writing focuses on slavery and the legacy of Afro-descendants in Latin America.
Born in New York to Costa Rican/Panamanian parents, she eventually moved to Costa Rica eight years ago with her husband and two children. She is the...
2023-04-0233 minThe Black Writer's StudioToni Ann Johnson on The Black Writer's Studio podcast
Toni Ann Johnson is the winner of the 2021 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction, with her linked collection Light Skin Gone to Waste, selected by Roxane Gay.
Johnson’s novella Homegoing was a semi-finalist for the William Faulkner Wisdom Award in fiction. It won Accents Publishing’s inaugural novella contest in 2020 and was released in May of 2021. The novel Remedy For a Broken Angel was released in 2014 and earned Johnson a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author.
In 1998 Johnson won the Christopher Award and the Humanitas Prize for her Disney screenplay “Ruby Bridges...
2023-03-2545 min
Stories, Poems & Music - The Creative Process: Novelists, Poets, Non-fiction Writers, Musicians, Screenwriters, Playwrights & Journalists on WritingDOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ - NAACP Image Award-winning Author reads “Take My Hand” - Chair, Board of PEN/Faulkner FoundationDolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench, and Balm. She was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and she was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in Washington, DC with her family and teaches at American University. She discusses her latest novel Take My Hand, along with the importance of family, legacy, and history, particularly in regards to race.In 2017, HarperCollins released Wench as one of eight "Olive Titles," limited edition modern classics that inc...
2023-03-2505 minThe Black Writer's StudioRemica Bingham-Risher on the Black Writer's Studio podcastRemica Bingham-Risher is a poet, interviewer and essayist, a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Her book, Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up, was published by Beacon Press in September 2022. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Writer’s Chronicle, Callaloo, Essence and a host of other outlets. She is the author of Conversion, winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award; What We Ask of Flesh, shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Starlight & Error, winner of the Diode Editions Book Award and a finalist for the Library of...
2022-11-2833 minThe Black Writer's StudioHurston/Wright Foundation's North Star Merit Awardee, Elizabeth AlexanderElizabeth Alexander is a decorated poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation's largest funder in arts and culture, and humanities in higher education. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dr. Alexander served as the director of Creativity and Free Expression at the Ford Foundation, shaping Ford's grantmaking vision in arts and culture, journalism, and documentary film. There, she co-designed the Art for Justice Fund—an initiative that uses art and advocacy to address the crisis of mass incarceration—and guided the organization in examining how the arts and visual storytelling can empower...
2022-11-1929 minThe Black Writer's StudioHurston/Wright Foundation's Ella Baker Merit Awardee, Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorElla Baker famously said, “Give light, and people will find the way.” And, oh, how that light is so necessary today more than ever.
This year, the Hurston/Wright Foundation's board of directors has selected Keeangha-Yamahtta Taylor as the recipient of the Hurston/Wright Ella Baker award. The board believes that Dr. Taylor has shone her light in ways that have transformed communities, informed the general public and brilliantly advocated for equity and inclusion for the disenfranchised nationally and globally. The Ella Baker Award, named for the heroic civil rights activist, Ella Baker, recognizes writers and arts activi...
2022-10-3037 minThe Black Writer's StudioHurston/Wright Foundation's Madam "CJ" Walker Merit Awardee, Ron KavanaughThe Hurston/Wright Foundation's Madam C.J. Walker Award recognizes exceptional innovation in supporting and sustaining Black literature. Named for the feisty and entrepreneurial Madam CJ Walker, the award recognizes a person or organization that is integral to the lifeblood of Black culture.
Madam CJ Walker famously exclaimed, “My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.” This year’s recipient has certainly succeeded on tha...
2022-10-2642 minNew Books in LiteratureDavid Wright Faladé, "Black Cloud Rising" (Grove Press, 2022)In Black Cloud Rising (Grove Press 2022), author and scholar David Wright Faladé tells the story of Richard Etheridge, who towards the end of the Civil War joined America’s first and only “African Brigade.” Later recognized as a state hero, Etheridge is a young man when he joins the brigade in late 1863. Led by the one-armed General Edward Augustus Wild and Captain Alonzo G. Draper, the mission is to flush out rebel guerrillas, “bushwackers,” who continue to fight in Union-won territory. Their other mission is to prove that freed slaves can be trusted as combat soldiers. Set mostly in the swampy bar...
2022-06-1434 min
New Books in Historical FictionDavid Wright Faladé, "Black Cloud Rising" (Grove Press, 2022)In Black Cloud Rising (Grove Press 2022), author and scholar David Wright Faladé tells the story of Richard Etheridge, who towards the end of the Civil War joined America’s first and only “African Brigade.” Later recognized as a state hero, Etheridge is a young man when he joins the brigade in late 1863. Led by the one-armed General Edward Augustus Wild and Captain Alonzo G. Draper, the mission is to flush out rebel guerrillas, “bushwackers,” who continue to fight in Union-won territory. Their other mission is to prove that freed slaves can be trusted as combat soldiers. Set mostly in the swampy bar...
2022-06-1430 min
The Black Writer's StudioYvonne Battle-Felton on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastYvonne Battle-Felton, author of Remembered, is an author, academic, host, creative producer, and writer. Remembered, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). Winner of a Northern Writers Award in fiction (2017), Yvonne was commended for children’s writing in the Faber Andlyn BAME (FAB) Prize (2017) and has six titles in Penguin Random House’s The Ladybird Tales of Superheroes and The Ladybird Tales of Crowns and Thrones. Yvonne teaches creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University where she is a Principal Lecturer and Humanities Business and Enterprise Lead. Host of Write Your Novel with Y...
2022-06-0552 min
The Black Writer's StudioDestiny O. Birdsong on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastDestiny O. Birdsong is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, African American Review, and Catapult, among other publications. Her debut poetry collection, Negotiations, was published in 2020 by Tin House and was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award. Her debut novel, Nobody’s Magic, was published in February 2022 from Grand Central Publishing.
Learn more at http://www.DestinyBirdsong.com
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Song "Legacy" performed by Liberated Muse, w...
2022-05-2934 min
Feminism, Women’s Stories: The Creative Process: Empowering Stories, Inspiring Women, Gender Equality, Women's Rights & Empowerment(Highlights) Dolen Perkins-Valdez · NYTimes Best-selling Author of “Take My Hand” · Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner FoundationDolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench, and Balm. She was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and she was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in Washington, DC with her family and teaches at American University. She discusses her latest novel Take My Hand, along with the importance of family, legacy, and history, particularly in regards to race.In 2017, HarperCollins released Wench as one of eight "Olive Titles," limited edition modern classics that inc...
2022-05-1000 min
Feminism, Women’s Stories: The Creative Process: Empowering Stories, Inspiring Women, Gender Equality, Women's Rights & EmpowermentDolen Perkins-Valdez · NYTimes Best-selling Author of “Take My Hand” · Chair of the Board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation (50 mins)Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench, and Balm. She was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and she was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in Washington, DC with her family and teaches at American University. She discusses her latest novel Take My Hand, along with the importance of family, legacy, and history, particularly in regards to race.In 2017, HarperCollins released Wench as one of eight "Olive Titles," limited edition modern classics that inc...
2022-05-1000 min
The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Creativity, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Climate Change, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism, Tech, SustainabilityCan Fiction Heal Historical Wounds? DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ - HighlightsDolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench, and Balm. She was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and she was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in Washington, DC with her family and teaches at American University. She discusses her latest novel Take My Hand, along with the importance of family, legacy, and history, particularly in regards to race.In 2017, HarperCollins released Wench as one of eight "Olive Titles," limited edition modern classics that inc...
2022-05-1012 minThe Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: 2022-2023Can Fiction Heal Historical Wounds? DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ - HighlightsDolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench, and Balm. She was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and she was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in Washington, DC with her family and teaches at American University. She discusses her latest novel Take My Hand, along with the importance of family, legacy, and history, particularly in regards to race.In 2017, HarperCollins released Wench as one of eight "Olive Titles," limited edition modern classics that inc...
2022-05-1000 min
The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Creativity, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Climate Change, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism, Tech, SustainabilityDOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ - NYTimes Best-selling Author of Take My HandDolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench, and Balm. She was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and she was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in Washington, DC with her family and teaches at American University. She discusses her latest novel Take My Hand, along with the importance of family, legacy, and history, particularly in regards to race.In 2017, HarperCollins released Wench as one of eight "Olive Titles," limited edition modern classics that inc...
2022-05-1050 minThe Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: 2022-2023DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ - NYTimes Best-selling Author of Take My HandDolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench, and Balm. She was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and she was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She lives in Washington, DC with her family and teaches at American University. She discusses her latest novel Take My Hand, along with the importance of family, legacy, and history, particularly in regards to race.In 2017, HarperCollins released Wench as one of eight "Olive Titles," limited edition modern classics that inc...
2022-05-1000 minThe Black Writer's StudioTara Betts on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastTara Betts is the author of Break the Habit and Arc & Hue. In addition to her work as a teaching artist and mentor for young poets, she has taught at several universities, including Rutgers University and University of Illinois-Chicago, and at Stateville Prison via the Prison + Neighborhood Arts Project. She is the Inaugural Poet for the People Practitioner Fellow at University of Chicago. Betts serves as Poetry Editor at The Langston Hughes Review and is founder of the nonprofit organization The Whirlwind Learning Center on Chicago’s South Side.
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2022-05-0832 min
Roots Watering Hole Podcast SeriesPodcast Episode with Clyde W. Ford the author of Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives in the Making of White Power and WealthAn interview with the author of one of the best books we have ever read, Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth, Clyde W. Ford.The Roots Watering Hole podcast series proudly presents an episode with Clyde W. Ford author of, Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth. My co-host Dr. Akilah Martin and I agree that this book was one of the best reads in our experience. We were intrigued by how for example, Clyde through recounting the case of Elizabeth Key...
2022-05-061h 20The Black Writer's StudioTracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastTracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts is author of the dynamic book, Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration. She is a professor of English and Black Studies at the Community College of Philadelphia and the founder of HeARTspace, a healing community that uses storytelling and the arts to serve those who have experienced mental, emotional and physical trauma. As a writer, Tracey has published over 15 books, including several collaborations with numerous high-profile authors. In 2016, Tracey was honored by SheKnows Media as one of the "Voices of the Year" for her nuanced and personal exploration of mental health, PTSD, and self...
2022-05-0134 minThe Black Writer's StudioSteven Leyva on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastSteven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in 2 Bridges Review, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, Vinyl, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish and author of The Understudy’s Handbook which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers Publishing House. Steven holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he is an assistant professor in the Klein Family School of Communications Design.
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2022-04-2443 minThe Black Writer's StudioKeisha Bush on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastKeisha was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She has a business degree from Bentley University and an MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The New York Times, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, Electric Lit and Lion’s Roar Magazine. She has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, Moulin à Nef in France, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and VONA.
Her debut novel, No Heaven For Good Boys, is a New York Times Editor...
2022-04-1059 minThe Black Writer's StudioRage Hezekiah on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastRage Hezekiah is a New England-based poet and educator, who earned her MFA from Emerson College. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, MacDowell, and The Ragdale Foundation, and is the recipient of the Saint Botolph Foundation's Emerging Artists Award. Her poems have been anthologized, co-translated, and published internationally. Learn more at https://www.ragehezekiah.com/
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2022-04-0334 minThe Black Writer's StudioTara T. Green on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastDr. Tara T. Green is an African American Studies professor with over 20 years of teaching literature and culture. She is the author and editor of six books on the lives and experiences of African Americans in twentieth-century literature and film.
Her latest books are Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era. A recognized academic leader who is dedicated to building diverse, respectful, inclusive communities in higher education, Dr. Tara T. Green is a self-described Black feminist community-engaged scholar, mentor, and university professor.
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2022-03-2735 minThe Black Writer's StudioPrince Shakur on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastPrince Shakur is a queer, Jamaican-American author, freelance journalist, videomaker, and NY Times recognized organizer. He is the 2021 recipient of the Hurston/Wright Crossover Award. His writings range from op-eds in Teen Vogue to features on the violent impacts of policing and cultural essays that delve into black icons, like Bob Marley or Huey Newton. In 2017, his video series, Two Woke Minds, earned him the Rising Star Grant from GLAAD. As an organizer, he brought Black Lives Matter to his university campus, organized for labor rights in Seattle, disrupted a Bill Clinton speech in 2016, did solidarity work at the...
2022-03-2028 minThe Black Writer's StudioAmina Gautier on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastAmina Gautier is the author of three short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, and The Loss of All Lost Things. More than one hundred and thirty of her stories have been published, appearing in Agni, American Short Fiction, Boston Review, Callaloo, Cincinnati Review, Glimmer Train, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Joyland, Kenyon Review, Kweli, Latino Book Review, Los Angeles Review, Mississippi Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Quarterly West, Southern Review, and Triquarterly among other places. She is the recipient of the Eric Hoffer Legacy Fiction Award, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award in Fiction, and the International Latino...
2022-03-1332 minThe Black Writer's StudioMarita Golden on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastMarita Golden is the author of 19 works of fiction and nonfiction.
Her most recent work of nonfiction is The Strong Black Woman How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women.
She is the recipient of many awards including the Writers for Writers Award presented by Barnes & Noble and Poets and Writers, an award from the Authors Guild, and the Fiction Award for her novel After awarded by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She has lectured and read from her work internationally. Co-founder and President Emerita of the Zora Ne...
2022-03-0643 minThe Black Writer's StudioKymone Freeman on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastKymone Freeman is an artist, activist and co-founder of We Act Radio, Washington DC’s independent progressive radio and TV studio since 2011. He established the Charnice Milton Community Bookstore in 2018 and is also an award-winning playwright with several productions to his credit including “Prison Poetry”, “Whites Only, An Angry Black Man in Therapy” . He won the 2017 PRNDI Award for commentary and published articles in print with Washington Post and Ebony Magazine. He was part of international delegations to Cuba, Kenya, Ghana and Venezuela and is founder of the annual Black L.U.V. Festival in Washington, DC. Kymone joins us in the...
2022-02-2743 minThe Black Writer's StudioAlan W. King on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastAlan King is a Caribbean American poet, whose parents emigrated to the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s. He is a father, husband, and author of two full-length collections of poetry: Point Blank and Drift. Plan B Press published his recent chapbook, Crooked Smiling Light. King's poetry caught the attention of U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo who said: "Alan King is one of my favorite up-and-coming poets of his generation. His poems are not pop and flash, rather more like a slow dance with someone you're going to love forever." Alan King is also a vide...
2022-02-2049 minThe Black Writer's StudioB. Sharise Moore on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastB. Sharise Moore’s love of literature was ignited by Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Judy Blume’s Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. After earning a BA in English from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, she began performing her poetry on stages throughout the country. To date, Moore’s poems have appeared in Starline, Fantasy Magazine, These Bewitching Bonds, Mermaid Monthly, and FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. At present, Moore is a writer/educator, curriculum designer, and the poetry editor at FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Her debut YA novel, Dr. Marvell...
2022-02-1335 minThe Black Writer's StudioTony Medina on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastTony Medina is the author/editor of over seventeen books for adults and young readers. Medina's poetry, fiction, essays and book reviews have appeared in over a hundred publications and two CD compilations. Dr. Medina is the first Professor of Creative Writing at Howard University and was awarded both The Langston Hughes Society Award and the first African Voices Literary Award. A poet, fiction writer, children’s book author, activist and beloved teacher, Dr. Tony Medina is a prolific literary treasure. Learn more at http://tonymedina.org/
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2022-02-0641 minThe Black Writer's StudioDaMaris Hill on The Black Writer's Studio PodcastDr. DaMaris B. Hill is the author of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland, and Visible Textures. She is a 2020 NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry and was a Hurston Wright College Award Winner in 2003. Similar to her creative process, Dr. Hill’s scholarly research is interdisciplinary. Dr. Hill is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky.
2022-02-0142 minThe Black Writer's StudioThe Black Writer's Studio Launches February 2022Hurston Wright Foundation presents The Black Writer’s Studio, a podcast dedicated to showcasing Black Writers who are transforming the world today with their literary pen. We will talk to novelists, poets, scholars, screenwriters and more. We look forward to the conversation. Join us in February 2022 when we launch. Visit us at HurstonWright.org to learn more about our organization.
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2022-01-1200 min
Diversity & InclusionPOETIC PLAYWRIGHT. AFRICAN ARTISTIC ACTIVIST. ELEGANT EMPATH.Morgan Christie's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Room, Aethlon, The Hawai'i Review, Blackberry, Little Patuxent Review, Obsidian, Alternating Currents, as well as other publications. Her writing has been anthologized in such presses as BLF Press's Black to the Future and the Resonance Network's Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Re- imagining Gender in Marvel's Wakanda, which underlined the feminist, socio-political, and racially effective prose she seeks and continues to craft. Morgan's off off-broadway play "When We Talk About Watermelons" won the 2017 Player's Theatre Prize during its run in New York, NY.
Her poetry chapbook "Variations on a...
2021-09-0641 min
Black & PublishedLonging for Home with Wandeka GayleOn this episode of Black & Published, Nikesha is speaking with author, Wandeka Gayle, about her short story collection, Motherland and Other Stories. Wandeka is an artist in every since of the word. A Jamaican writer, visual artist, pianist, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Spelman College, she has received numerous fellowships including from Kimbilio Fiction, Callaloo, and the Hurston/Wright Foundation. She has a Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner and The Rumpus and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.Episode...
2021-03-161h 07
Ruthless Compassion with Dr. Marcia Sirota76 - Sakinah Hofler: Writing the WrongsSakinah Hofler is an award-winning writer and a doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. She has won the Manchester Fiction Prize, the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers, and the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, among others. She has received fellowships from the Edward H. and Mary C. Kingsbury Foundation, the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, and the P.E.O. Scholar Award. A former chemical and quality engineer for the United States Department of Defense, she's at work on her first novel.
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2021-01-2156 min
The Cheeky NativesBrit Bennett: The Vanishing HalfSend us a text“The only difference between lying and acting was whether your audience was in on it, but it was all a performance just the same.”Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction. In 2014, she received the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel The Vanishing Half was...
2021-01-0852 min
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingDanielle EvansDanielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. Her work has won awards and honors including the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize, the Hurston-Wright award for fiction, and the Paterson Prize for fiction. She is a 2011 National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree and a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts fellow. Her stories have appeared in magazines including The Paris Review, A Public Space, American Short Fiction, Callaloo, The Sewanee Review, and Phoebe, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, 2010, 2017, and 2018, and in...
2020-12-2159 min
MFA WritersMichal “MJ” Jones — Mills CollegeWhat’s it like to write a poem from the perspective of someone you despise? Michal “MJ” Jones of Mills College joins Jared to discuss their thesis project about the 2018 Hart family murders, writing from a place of anger, and pursuing an MFA as a working parent.
Michal "MJ" Jones is a poet and parent in Oakland, CA. Their work is featured or forthcoming at Anomaly, Kissing Dynamite, and Borderlands Texas Poetry Review. They are an Assistant Poetry Editor at Foglifter Press, a journal curating queer and trans voices, and have fellowships from the Hurston/Wright Foundation, VONA/V...
2020-12-0849 min
The TonearmHanif AbdurraqibHanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. With Big Lucks, he released a limited edition chapbook, Vintage Sadness, in summer 2017 (you cannot get...
2020-12-0154 min
Lannan Center PodcastValeria Luiselli in Conversation with Aminatta Forna | 2020-2021 Readings and Talks SeriesOn October 20, 2020, the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Valeria Luiselli in conversation with Aminatta Forna. Introduced by Lakshmi Krishnan. Valeria Luiselli's recent novel, Lost Children Archive was a finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and long-listed for the 2019 Booker Prize, and has been named a best book of 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Vulture, and Time. Lost Children Archive sits beside Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, Luiselli’s ground-breaking book-length essay that has become a touchstone text for those looking to facilitate meaningful and informed conversations around the...
2020-10-201h 02
ThresholdsWayétu MooreWayétu Moore is the author of The Dragons, The Giant, The Women, which was released in June 2020. Her debut novel, She Would Be King, was released in 2018 and named a best book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly & BuzzFeed. The novel was a Sarah Jessica Parker Book Club selection, a BEA Buzz Panel Book, a #1 Indie Next Pick and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award. She is the recipient of the 2019 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction.Moore is also the founder of One Moore Book, a non-profit organization that creates and distributes culturally relevant books...
2020-09-2333 min
In The Moment podcast69. Calvin Baker with Shaun Scott: Race, Integration, and the Future of America In this week's episode, correspondent Shaun Scott talks with acclaimed writer Calvin Baker about his new book A More Perfect Reunion: Race, Integration, and the Future of America. In this conversation about the bracing, necessary book, Baker argues that the only meaningful remedy to our civil rights efforts is integration: the full self-determination and participation of all African-Americans, and all other oppressed groups, in every facet of national life. Don't miss this call to action in our revolutionary democracy—and stay in the know about what's going on in this moment at Town Hall Seattle. Calvin Baker is t...
2020-09-1456 min
The 202StudioWillona Sloan | The 202StudioWillona Sloan has published non-fiction, fiction, and poetry in publications such as AudioFemme, BlazeVOX, Bohemia, Fresh Cup, Paste, Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, Washington Post and Words Apart. She teaches creative and professional writing workshops in the Washington, DC area at the Writer’s Center and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and has also led workshops in partnership with The Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature and the Reykjavík International Literary Festival. Willona is an alum of the VONA and Hurston/Wright writing workshops.
2020-07-2529 minThe New Yorker: PoetryRadical Imagination: Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes on Poetry in Our TimesIn a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Tracy K. Smith, Marilyn Nelson, and Terrance Hayes join Kevin Young to read their work, and to discuss its relationship to protest and liberation.
Tracy K. Smith served two terms as a U.S. poet laureate, and has won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a Pulitzer prize. Her latest collection is “Wade in the Water.” Marilyn Nelson writes poetry for adults, young adults, and children. Her honors include a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, an N. S. K. Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, and a Frost Medal from the Poetry Soci...
2020-07-2445 min
The Work RundownDon’t Call It a Comeback: Lessons on Reinventing OurselvesWriter Nicole Shawan Junior joined Jodi and Shaq to discuss her various careers; the importance of owning her story and addressing her traumas; her journey to finally accepting her life’s purpose; why her father is her superhero; and what she has learned along the way about reinventing herself. Get your notepad and pen ready for this fascinating conversation, because Nicole took us to the altar, to school, and to therapy.
Nicole Shawan Junior is a black, queer & justice-involved counter-storyteller. Her writing appears in Lambda Literary's anthology Emerge, CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art and Action, Gay Ma...
2020-05-0158 min
The Poet SalonBettina Judd reads from Aracelis Girmay's "The Black Maria"Good ppl, good ppl—last week we chopped it up with THEE Dr. Bettina Judd on so many goodness. This week, she brought in Aracelis Girmay's "The Black Maria" for us to melt our hearts over.
Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary writer, artist and performer whose research focus is on Black women's creative production and our use of visual art, literature, and music to develop feminist thought. Her current book manuscript argues that Black women’s creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls “feelin.” She is currently Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and...
2020-02-2037 min
New Rivers Press PodcastFriends for Five: Interviews with AWP AttendeesInterns Alex and Sarah interview a diverse collection of attendees at AWP Portland in March of 2019.
Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Spanish-American poet and teacher. He holds an MFA from Arizona State University and MAs from Saint Louis University and the Autonomous University of Madrid. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, PBS NewsHour, The Shallow Ends, Zocalo Public Square, and elsewhere.
Website: ernestoabeytia.com
Twitter: @eabeytia
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Creator and former Editor of Shards through the University of Houston,
Tamara Al-Qaisi-Coleman is a bi-racial Muslim writer and artist. She...
2020-01-2400 min
Black Market ReadsKalisha BuckhanonIn the Season 5 premier, Lissa sits down with author Kalisha Buckhanon to discuss her new novel Speaking of Summer (COUNTERPOINT, 2019). This episode was recorded live at an event hosted by Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis. Kalisha Buckhanon is the author of the novels Solemn, Conception, and Upstate, which was selected as an inaugural National Book Foundation Literature for Justice title. In Speaking of Summer, critically acclaimed author Kalisha Buckhanon has created a postmodern, fast-paced story of urban peril and victim invisibility, and the fight to discover truth at any cost. Her other honors include an American Library...
2019-09-2849 min
Poetry and EverythingInterview with Evie ShockleyEvie Shockley is the author of semiautomatic(2017), winner of the
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA
TimesBook Prize. She has published four other collections of
poetry—including the new black (2011), which won the Hurston/Wrigh...
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HANIF ABDURRAQIB is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first full-length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in 2016 from Button Poetry, was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us...
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HANIF ABDURRAQIB is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first full-length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in 2016 from Button Poetry, was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy A...
2019-05-1451 min
The Poet SalonNabila Lovelace reads Aracelis Girmay's "On Kindness"We're here! Last week, we were chatting it up with Nabila Lovelace about the South, the Conversation Literary Festival, and, of course, violence and intimacy. This week, Nabila brought in "On Kindness" by Aracelis Girmay. Hear her read it and be healed.
NABILA LOVELACE is a born and raised Queens native, as well as a first generation American. In her debut collection, Sons of Achilles, Nabila attempts to examine the liminal space between violence and intimacy. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Narrative Northeast, Washington Square Review, Day One, ESPNW, & Vinyl. She is co-f...
2019-02-1219 min
Literally This WeekOctober 27, 2018This week: the Hurston/Wright prize started a week of award news, the World’s Biggest Book sale goes to Dubai, an Iowa man burns library books to protest Pride, PBS named the Great American Read, transgender literature is on the rise, the Kirkus Prize winners were announced, and Ireland votes to legalize blasphemy. All this, plus the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists and the latest news from aois21, Literally This Week.
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2018-10-2828 min
First Draft: A Dialogue on WritingFirst Draft - Bernice McFaddenBernice McFadden is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels including Sugar, Loving Donovan, Nowhere Is a Place, The Warmest December, Gathering of Waters (a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012), Glorious, and The Book of Harlan (winner of a 2017 American Book Award and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction). She is a four-time Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of three awards from the BCALA. Praise Song for the Butterflies is her latest novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...
2018-10-0146 min
**Entrepreneurship and Mentoring: Special Guest A'lelia BundlesAuthor and journalist A’Lelia Bundles currently is at work on her fifth book, The Joy Goddess of Harlem: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, a biography of her great-grandmother, to be published by Scribner. As president of the Madam Walker/A’Lelia Walker Family Archives, she shares the history of her famous ancestors through speeches, publications, memorabilia, documents and several public initiatives.
Her critically-acclaimed, best-selling biography, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker [Scribner/2001], has been optioned by Zero Gravity Management for a television series starring Oscar winner Octavia Spencer. The book was named...
2018-06-1653 min
The Mixed ExperienceS5, Ep. 3: Award-Winning Writer Amina GautierAmina Gautier is the author of three short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy and The Loss of All Lost Things. At-Risk was awarded the Flannery Oâ??Connor Award. Now We Will Be Happy was awarded the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the International Latino Book Award, and was a Finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize. The Loss of All Lost Things was awarded the Elixir Press Award in Fiction, the Phillis Wheatley Award, the Chicago Public Libraryâ??s 21st Century Award, and was a Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award, the Paterson Prize, and the Jo...
2017-11-2700 min
A World of Black WritersA World of Black Writers: Donika KellyDonika Kelly discusses Bestiary (Graywolf Press) with Natalie Hopkinson of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
2017-10-2600 minA World of Black WritersA World of Black Writers: Elnathan JohnElnathan John discusses Born on a Tuesday (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic) with Crystal Davis of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
2017-10-2600 minA World of Black WritersA World of Black Writers: Ibram X. KendiIbram X. Kendi discusses Stamped from the Beginning,The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books) with David Whettstone of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
2017-10-2600 minA World of Black WritersA World of Black Writers: A. Igoni BarrettA. Igoni Barrett discusses Blackass (Graywolf Press) with Crystal Davis of the Hurston/Wright Foundation
2017-10-1400 minA World of Black WritersA World of Black Writers: Patricia Bell-ScottPatricia Bell-Scott discusses The Firebrand and the First Lady:Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice, (Alfred A.Knopf) with David Whettstone of the Hurston/Wright Foundation
2017-10-1400 minA World of Black WritersA World of Black Writers: Sjohnna McCraySjohnna McCray discusses Rapture (Graywolf Press) with Natalie Hopkinson of the Hurston/Wright Foundation
2017-10-1400 minA World of Black WritersA World of Black Writers: Jacqueline WoodsonJacqueline Woodson discusses Another Brooklyn (Amistad) with Crystal Davis of the Hurston/Wright Foundation
2017-10-1100 minA World of Black WritersA World of Black Writers: Hanif Willis-AbdurraqibHanif Willis-Abdurraqib discusses The Crown Ain't Worth Much (Button Poetry) with David Whettstone of the Hurston/Wright Foundation
2017-10-1100 minA World of Black WritersA World of Black Writers: Gary YoungeGary Younge discusses Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives (Nation Books) with David Whettstone of the Hurston/Wright Foundation
2017-10-1100 min
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2017-09-241h 12
The Poetry GodsSeason 2, Episode 12 Featuring Willie PerdomoOn this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Willie Perdomo about how he got started writing poetry, The Crazy Bunch, friendships in poetry, and so much more.
As always you can reach us at emailthepoetrygods@gmail.com. We love to hear from you, so please drop us a line! Leave us a review on iTunes! Bring us to your college/ local hummus emporium!
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WILLIE PERDOMO is the author of The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Poets), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and Milton Kessler Poetry Award; winner of the...
2017-09-0500 min
Hollywood Breakthrough Show with Danielle Tillis : TV & Film | Comedy | Podcast For Entertainment Careers In TV & FilmHBS 026 Author Natalie Baszile Queen Sugar book, and the TV Series on Oprah's OWN TV NetworkNatalie is the author of Queen Sugar, soon to be adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay of "Selma" fame, and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN, Oprah's television network. Natalie has an M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers where she was a Holden Minority Scholar. An early version of Queen Sugar won the Hurston Wright College Writer's Award, was a co-runner-up in the Faulkner Pirate's Alley Novel-in-Progress competition, and excerpts were published in Cairn and ZYZZYVA. She has had residencies at the Ragdale Foundation...
2016-06-011h 16
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Mitchell JacksonA native of Portland, Oregon, Mitchell Jackson is the author of The Residue Years, a novel set in inner northeast Portland neighborhoods in the 1990s. Based on Jackson's own life, the novel tells the story of Grace, a mother battling crack addiction, and Champ, her son, who sells the drug that has ravaged his family and his neighborhood. The Residue Years, which was Multnomah County Library's Everybody Reads selection for 2015, just won the prestigious Whiting Award, with a prize of $50,000. Jackson teaches at NYU and Columbia and is also the author of Oversoul, a collection of stories and essays. Mitchell...
2016-04-081h 09
The Archive ProjectMitchell S. JacksonMitchell S. Jackson begins with a round of thanks, sometimes unconventional, to all those who influenced his journey to stand before thousands of people in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, as a successful author. He mentions that after he was incarcerated as a young man, he began the process of revision, and he goes on to discuss the differences between editing and revision. “Editing is fixing the small things . . . it is minding convention.” Revision, on the other hand, “is to re-envision.” He talks about being grateful for the opportunity to revise his life and shares various examples of people that he...
2015-05-1552 min