From How To Become A Black Writer… The new teacher was a woman of late middle age whose dour visage looked out on the assembled students in her class like a vicar searching for signs of heresy. The unease and…
You can read an excerpt from my forthcoming book… For a limited time, you can get 25% off with code: Marita. Click here. Who made me a writer? That is the foundational inquiry that inspired my forthcoming book How to Become…
If you are reading this it means that you continue to find my occasional missives worth reading. Thank you! If you are reading this you may be one of the writers I worked with this year on the art of…
Last week I took a staycation train trip to see the Memorial to the Enslaved Laborers on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The memorial is deeply moving and inspiring because it includes not just the names…
This is a photo from the 1998 literary gala and fundraiser hosted by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in Richmond, Virginia at The Jefferson Hotel. It was a spectacular literary event that brought together a stellar cast of writers including Gloria Naylor,…
