One of the reasons that my novel-writing is such slow going is that I am really meticulous when it comes to detail (that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it!). Case in point: today. In one fairly minor scene, my main character refers to another character disparagingly as a “Pharisee.” Being meticulous […]
I’ve requested a review copy of this. So far, no response.
An Interview with Filmmaker Daphne Valerius
conducted by s. e. anderson
Filmmaker Daphne Valerius takes a stark look at the relationship
between media images and the self-esteem of African American women
in her moving documentary The Souls of Black Girls. Here, she shares
the purpose behind her passion, and […]
The Reason Detroit Taxpayers Should Revolt
Good news…I got into VONA!
Bad news…I was accepted for a different week and a different class than I requested. So I’m passing. Maybe next year…
Good news…We got all the planting done!
Bad news…The same little girls who have asked me daily for the past month, “Are we gardening TODAY???” pretty much bailed after an […]
1. Spring
2. My neighborhood.
Is it just me, or is this the springest spring that ever sprung? It’s such a nice spring, it’s got me writing corny sentences like the preceding one. That’s some spring. Growing up in Florida, I never gave much thought to seasons. But now, living in PA and having children for whom […]
Financial Times endorses Obama
Democrats must choose Obama
Published: April 20 2008 18:59
Barack Obama goes into Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary as strong favourite, whatever happens, to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. Yet the vote could still go either way.
This is a sign of how close this race has been and how deeply it has divided the party.
Mr Obama […]
Last month, I had the pleasure of hearing Anne Lamott speak and read from her latest book, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith. That evening, she read from one of the book’s early chapters, “Wailing Wall.” In this chapter, she recounts a Sunday school class she taught to a group of rambunctious young boys […]
Hurston/Wright Writers’ Week 2008
Sunday, July 20 - Saturday, July 26, 2008
American University, Washington, DC
Submission Deadline - All submissions must be post marked by April 28, 2008.
The nation’s only multi-genre summer writer’s workshop for writers
of African descent with a tuition-free component for high school
students. This is a weeklong program of classes and presentations by
publishers, agents and […]
…to Junot Diaz! His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
The piece of writing that I’m most proud of has made its way into the world. It’s an article for Wondertime about what it meant to me to have my grandmother raise me (along with my mother). I will provide the link to the online version below, but promise me you’ll pick up the print […]
