The Black Writer’s Studio
The Hurston/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. Host Dr. Khadijah Ali-Coleman interviews novelists, poets, scholars, screenwriters and more. Visit us at HurstonWright.org to learn more about Hurston Wright Foundation. Email us at info@hurstonwright.org to be a guest on our show. Available on Anchor FM, Spotify, YouTube and Soundcloud
Episodes
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Tara T. Green on The Black Writer’s Studio Podcast
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Dr. 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.
Learn more about her at: http://www.drtaratgreen.com/
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Hosted and produced by Khadijah Ali-Coleman, Ed.D.
Music by Benjamin B. Dawson, Jr.
Song "Legacy" performed by Liberated Muse (http://www.LiberatedMuse.com), written by Khadijah Ali-Coleman
Presented by the Hurston Wright Foundation.
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Dr. Khadijah Ali-Coleman is the host of the Black Writer's Studio podcast. She is the executive director of the Hurston Wright Foundation. The podcast highlights writers of the African diaspora. Each new episode is released on Sundays via YouTube, Anchor.FM and Spotify.
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Prince Shakur on The Black Writer’s Studio Podcast
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Prince 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 US/Mexican border, and organized with Black Queer Intersectional Collective during the height of the George Floyd protests.
His work, whether literary, visual, or grassroots, is stepped in his commitment to black liberation, prison abolition, and queer resilience. His debut memoir, WHEN THEY TELL YOU TO BE GOOD, is forthcoming with Tin House Books in October 2022.
Visit his website at https://www.princeshakur.com/
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Credits:
Hosted and produced by Khadijah Ali-Coleman, Ed.D.
Music by Benjamin B. Dawson, Jr.
Song "Legacy" performed by Liberated Muse (http://www.LiberatedMuse.com), written by Khadijah Ali-Coleman
Presented by the Hurston Wright Foundation.
Learn more at http://www.hurstonwright.org ....
The Hurston Wright Foundation is Online!
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Dr. Khadijah Ali-Coleman is the host of the Black Writer's Studio podcast. She is the executive director of the Hurston Wright Foundation. The podcast highlights writers of the African diaspora. Each new episode is released on Sundays via YouTube, Anchor.FM and Spotify.
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Amina Gautier on The Black Writer’s Studio Podcast
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Amina 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 Book Award. For her body of work she has received the Blackwell Prize, the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, the Letras Boricuas Fellowship, and the PEN/MALAMUD Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
Learn more about her at: https://aminagautier.wordpress.com/
Credits: Hosted and produced by Khadijah Ali-Coleman, Ed.D.
Music by Benjamin B. Dawson, Jr.
Song "Legacy" performed by Liberated Muse, written by Khadijah Ali-Coleman
Photos from Amina Gautier and Google
Presented by the Hurston Wright Foundation.
The Hurston Wright Foundation is Online!
»» Website: http://www.HurstonWright.org
Dr. Khadijah Ali-Coleman is the host of the Black Writer's Studio podcast. She is the executive director of the Hurston Wright Foundation. The podcast highlights writers of the African diaspora. Each new episode is released on Sundays via YouTube, Anchor.FM and Spotify.
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Marita Golden on The Black Writer’s Studio Podcast
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 2022
Marita 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 Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation, Marita Golden is a veteran teacher of writing.
She taught at the University of Lagos, in Nigeria and has served as a member of the faculties of the MFA Graduate Creative Writing Programs at George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University. She has served as Distinguished Writer in Residence within the MA Creative Writing Program at John Hopkins University, and Prince Georges Community College and the University of the District of Columbia.
As a literary consultant, she offers writing workshops, coaching, and manuscript evaluation services.
Learn more at http://www.MaritaGolden.com
Credits:
Hosted and produced by Khadijah Ali-Coleman, Ed.D.
Music by Benjamin B. Dawson, Jr.
Song "Legacy" performed by Liberated Muse, written by Khadijah Ali-Coleman
Photos from Marita Golden and Google Presented by the Hurston Wright Foundation.
Learn more at http://www.hurstonwright.org
The Hurston Wright Foundation is Online!
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Dr. Khadijah Ali-Coleman is the host of the Black Writer's Studio podcast. She is the executive director of the Hurston Wright Foundation. The podcast highlights writers of the African diaspora. Each new episode is released on Sundays via YouTube, Anchor.FM and Spotify.
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Kymone Freeman on The Black Writer’s Studio Podcast
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Sunday Feb 27, 2022
Kymone 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 Black Writer's Studio to talk about his new book of fiction that is an Afrofuturist dystopian tale that revolves around water rights and adaptated from his earlier screenplay.
Learn more about Kymone and his community work at:
Black LUV Fest: http://www.blackluvfest.com/
Charnice Milton Bookstore: https://weluvbooks.org/
WEActRadio: https://www.weactradio.com/
Kymone Freeman: https://www.instagram.com/kymonefreem...
Credits: Hosted and produced by Khadijah Ali-Coleman, Ed.D. Music by Benjamin B. Dawson, Jr. Song "Legacy" performed by Liberated Muse, written by Khadijah Ali-Coleman
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Alan W. King on The Black Writer’s Studio Podcast
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Alan 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 videographer and motion graphics artist. The video he produced for his poem, "Gluttony," was an "Official Selection" of the 2021 International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, King is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. He lives with his wife, children, and mother-in-law in Bowie, MD. Learn more at https://alanwking.com/
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
B. Sharise Moore on The Black Writer’s Studio Podcast
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
B. 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. Marvellus Djinn’s Odd Scholars is available for purchase wherever books are sold. Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School students is forthcoming in March 2022 and Fangs, Feathers, and Folklore: Africa’s Amazing Beasts (a mythological field guide focused solely on the African continent) is forthcoming from Algonquin Young Readers in 2023. B. Sharise is represented by Laurie McLean, partner agent at Fuse Literary Agency. She lives in Baltimore, MD with her husband and young son.
Learn more at https://bsharisemoore.com/ -----
Credits: Hosted and produced by Khadijah Ali-Coleman, Ed.D.
Music by Benjamin B. Dawson, Jr.
Song "Legacy" performed by Liberated Muse (http://www.LiberatedMuse.com), written by Khadijah Ali-Coleman
Presented by the Hurston Wright Foundation. Learn more at http://www.hurstonwright.org
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Tony Medina on The Black Writer’s Studio Podcast
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Sunday Feb 06, 2022
Tony 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/
Credits: Hosted and produced by Khadijah Ali-Coleman, Ed.D.
Music by Benjamin B. Dawson, Jr.
Song "Legacy" performed by Liberated Muse, written by Khadijah Ali-Coleman
Presented by the Hurston Wright Foundation. Learn more at http://www.hurstonwright.org
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
DaMaris Hill on The Black Writer’s Studio Podcast
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Dr. 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.
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
The Black Writer’s Studio Launches February 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Hurston 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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About the Hurston/Wright Foundation
The Hurston/Wright Foundation supports Black writers in developing their writing craft and creating quality literature. Co-founded in 1990 by writer Marita Golden, has built community among writers for over 30 years. Providing intensive writing workshop retreats, residencies, and craft talks, Hurston/Wright's mission is mentor, recognize and provide community for Black writers. In addition, we strive to connect writers and readers, creating spaces for engagement. We present the annual Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards and produce The Black Writer's Studio podcast.