DEI FYI: Recasting Black People in White Fictions is Never The Answer
Recasting Black people in White fictions will never be the answer to anti-Blackness in fiction.
Category: Blog
Let’s Win A Grammy! Spoken Word and The Recording Academy, With Faylita Hicks & Torch Literary Arts
That time I attended a spoken word Grammy workshop.
Using Fiction Literacy to Combat Disinformation
Black people have been uniquely targeted for disinformation since before being brought to this land, and it has become a model for how other “undesirable” groups are targeted.
PW Booklife Reviews: Catching The Indie-Publisher, A Little, As They Fall
There are Publishers Weekly Reviews and Publishers Weekly Booklife Reviews. PW Reviews are not guaranteed; they are free reviews selected and written at the discretion of the Publishers Weekly editor based on which books she/he/they think will be commercially important. And then there are Booklife Reviews […]
The Paper Cup: Mind The Construction Lines (Part 3)
We’ll take our raw story about a paper cup from the Narrative Device exercise and give it some movement with action and suspense.
Dark is Not A Feeling
if Dina had simply condemned herself to an eternal “dark” place away from the light of her prince and others, without changing her skin color, would we have cornered the racism in that idea?
The Paper Cup: Make it Clear (Part 4)
Let’s look at how audience was put into our micro story about a paper cup based on what is explained versus what is understood.
ADF Basics: How to Write A Story About A Paper Cup
The idea behind this exercise is that an ideas doesn’t make a good story, craft makes a good story, and a writer should be able to move a reader with a story about anything—even a paper cup!
African Dramatic Form (ADF): An Introduction
Using ADF for story development can help writers avoid “borrowing” anti-Blackness from non-African languages, allowing them to make their stories more empathetic, more meaningful, and more “Black.”
National Council for Black Studies Conference 2018 – Panel & Abstract
Black literary imagination tends to start in foreign places and then, somehow, find its way home.