Moving on the Wires: My First Solo TV Interview!

My aunt Cicely invited me to be on her show in Westchester, Give and Take: The Positives in Life. In the interview, I talk about my blog, Afrofuturism, the fantasy novel I am writing, and I read one of my poems, too! Happy Black Speculative Fiction Month! By the way, I am currently raising money […]

THE NEXT BEST THING Blog Hop…Hoping to Be

The Next Big Thing Hop: the traveling blog that asks authors who they consider the NEXT BIG THING, and then has them pass along the questions for those authors to answer in their blogs. Thank you Valjeanne Jeffers for tagging me! Read hers here. Rules are: Answer ten questions about your current Work In Progress […]

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Audre Lorde’s “Recreation”

Thanks to Melanated Writers Collective for quoting the poem today. As a writer, I love the sensuality of this poem; how the two are creating themselves and the world around them in writing. Like two deities writing themselves into existence. Recreation Coming together it is easier to work after our bodies meet paper and pen […]

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Kyla Marshell and Jason Parham

After reading Ebony’s “7 Black Writers You Should Know,” I wanted to highlight a couple of them in a post. Besides technology reporter Jenna Wortham and her Girl Crush Zine, and Uzoamaka Maduka attempt to revilitalize the American literary magazine with The American Reader. the two writers that stood out to me were Kyla Marshell and […]