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The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 1
“Elizabeth Nunez, the conference director and the director of the Black Writers Institute at Medgar Evers, estimated that 1,200 people attended t...
“Furious Flower” Conference Celebrates African American Poetry
Harrisonburg, Virginia: Over sixty distinguished poets and scholars gathered to help set the agenda for African American poetry for decades to come at the historic Fu...
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 2
Report from the Field National Black Writers Conference 2000 Part 2 of 3 “Elizabeth Nunez, the conference director and the director of t...
San Miguel Writers’ Conference & Literary Festival
San Miguel Writers’ Conference & Literary Festival Hotel Real de Minas San Miguel de Allende Mexico Learn from expert keynotes and faculty that include contemporary wri...
Brenda M. Greene
Brenda M. Greene Professor, writer and scholar, Dr. Brenda M. Greene is Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Black Literature, Director of the National Black ...
Migrated Writers
Migrated Writers 17th Annual Celeb.of Black Writing A Report From The Field More Bios. The Sight of the 360 Event 4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair AA Cultural E...
Pros and Cons of Mainstream and Self-Publishing
There are two basic routes to getting published, mainstream and self-publishing. Mainstream is when one submits one’s work to journals/magazines and publishin...
AALBC.com eNewsletter - August 1st 2012 - #193
Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle Help AALBC.com support our literary legacy. If you find somethi...
National Black Writers Conference
National Black Writers Conference Medgar Evers College Brooklyn New York More than 50 Black writers, publishing executives, and literary activists will gather to discuss ...
AA LIT. CONFERENCE 2000
THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE CONFERENCE 2000 "THE LEGACY LIVES ON…..IN BOOKS!"...
AALBC.com eNewsletter - September 20th 2012 - Issue #194
Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle AALBC.com's 25 Best Selling Books For July 1st through August 31st 2012...
Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin
Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin James Baldwin This book is a transcription of the proceedings of the "Black Writers Redefine the Struggle:...
The Black Arts Movement (BAM)
“…aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power concept.”―Larry Neal The Black Arts Movement spans the period from the mid 1960’s to...
Online Magazines
Below you will find a list of many resources available to locate print and electronic publications of all genres. Using the links below you'll find search engi...
AALBC.com eNewsletter – October 11th 2012 – Issue #195
Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle By Troy Johnson Authors You Should Know Countée Porter Cullen http...
30+ Must Read Books - Something for Everyone
Our January 2016 eNewsletter was sponsored by author Russell A. Mabane. Learn how you may sponsor an AALBC.com eNewsletter. Bestselling Books for November/De...
Please Donate to the Literary Freedom Project
The Literary Freedom Project (LFP) and Mosaic magazine are fighting to keep immersive reading, literary arts, expository writing, and professional development import...
AWP Conference & Bookfair
AWP Conference & Bookfair Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore Maryland Join thousands of writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers at the AWP Conference & Bo...
Bestsellers Lists, Authors, New Books & More - June 2015
Read Our eNewsletter Archives Subscribe to Receive Highlights of Our eNewsletter and More on Your Kindle Multi-Title Authors Find Success on Spring ...
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish Ai Will Alexander Robert Allen Maya Angelou Amiri Baraka&...
Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California
REGINALD MARTIN: Camus wrote in "Neither Victims nor Executioners" that the only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the...
2012 Guide to Literary Agents
2012 Guide to Literary Agents Chuck Sambuchino The Best Resource Available for Finding a Literary AgentNo matter what you’re writing—fiction or nonfiction, books for ...
New World of Words: Black Writers and poets spin tales of imagination and reality from Detroit to the world
Originally featured in Detroit’s Cityview Newsmagazine, October 28, 1999 he city’s new slogan announcing, "It’s a great time to be in...
The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s Mary Helen Washington Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist pol...
2013 Guide to Literary Agents
2013 Guide to Literary Agents Chuck Sambuchino The Best Resource Available for Finding a Literary Agent!No matter what you’re writing—fiction or nonfiction, books for...
Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing
Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing Brenda M. Greene and Fred Beauford Representing conversations from the Eighth National Black Writers Conference in 20...
Elizabeth Nunez
Elizabeth Nunez Elizabeth Nunez, PhD, (February 8, 1944 – November 8, 2024) immigrated to the US from Trinidad after completing high school there. She is the award...
August 2018 eNewsletter Recommended Reads, Videos, and More
Videos from the National Book Club Conference I attended the 2018 National Book Club Conference August 3rd and 4th. The conference is really like attending a family re...
Joanne C. Hillhouse
Joanne C. Hillhouse Joanne C. Hillhouse’s writing has been described as “honest”, “real”, “poetic”, and “lyrical”. Her Antiguan culture is at the heart ...
Guide to Literary Agents 30th Edition: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published
Guide to Literary Agents 30th Edition: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published Robert Lee Brewer The Best Resource Available for Finding a Literary Agent, fully revis...
Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s
Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s Brenda M. Greene and Elizabeth Nunez Defining Ourselves offers perspectives on black literature in the 1990s by twenty-nine b...
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism
I was looking forward to reading Keith Gilyard’s biography, John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism. John Oliver Killens is one of my favorite autho...
Guide to Literary Agents 2018: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting an Agent
Guide to Literary Agents 2018: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting an Agent Cris Freese No matter what you’re writing—fiction or nonfiction, books for adults or childre...
Greene Response to “Their Eyes Were Reading Smut”
Brenda M. Greene, Ph.D.,Professor of English Medgar Evers College, CUNY The Op-Ed Page 229 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Dear Edi...
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature
AALBC.com assessed the relative strengths of almost 300 American cities, to determine which ones are best able to provide environments that are supportive of, and conduci...
Ron Kavanaugh
Ron Kavanaugh Ron Kavanaugh is a literary activist. In 1996 he launched Mosaic Books which was the oldest, continuously running, website dedicated to books by people ...
Table of Contents
Resources for African American Writers, Authors and ReadersPlaces to Submit WorkPublishersDialogueFYAH.comCopyright InformationPublishing GlossaryOn-line Writers Worksh...
Cultivating Pearls: A Writer’s Retreat Comes Home
An oft used African proverb by a well-known fiction author states, “Where there is mud, there is water.” Transfer an upstate writing retreat on th...
Jeffery Renard Allen
Jeffery Renard Allen Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of two collections of poetry, Stellar Places (Moyer Bell, 2007) and Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell, 1...
Damaris B. Hill
Damaris B. Hill DaMaris B. Hill, PhD Hill is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky. Hill has a keen interest in the work of To...
John Oliver Killens
John Oliver Killens John Oliver Killens was an important figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, Killens was a close friend of Martin Luther King and other civ...
Dealing With Writer's Block: Eight Things To Do While You're Waiting In Limbo
Having writer’s block is no laughing manner. Some writers, for example, take it very seriously—so much so that they...
Linda A. Duggins
Linda A. Duggins Linda A. Duggins is the Director of Multicultural Publicity at Hachette Book Group, USA. As Co-founder of the Harlem Book Fair, she has helped to...
Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present
Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present Joanne V. Gabbin The Furious Flower Conference of 1994 represented the largest gatheri...
April 2014 eNewsletter - Good Books, Films, Events, Articles & More
You may receive this eNewsletter directly in your email-box by subscribing. It may also be read on your Kindle ebook reader. Enjoy our previous eNewsletters. Sponso...
AALBC.com eNewsletter March 28th 2006
The Following is an excerpt of AALBC.com's March 28th eNewsletter:MAKING THE BEST OF AALBC.comTip #1 — Use the Google Search EngineAALBC.com is a massive web site; make...
Troy Johnson
Troy Johnson A Shorter Biography of Troy Demetrius Johnson ▶ Troy Demetrius Johnson is the founder and president of the African American Literature Book Club (AA...
Exercise Your Mind With a Good Book – July 29, 2014 eNewsletter
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Good Books, Films, Events & Articles – June 23, 2014 eNewsletter
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On-Line Newsletters
The following on-line newsletters (listed in no particular order) are an extremely valuable and informative resource to anyone with an interest in African-American li...
Rashidah Ismaili
Rashidah Ismaili Dr. Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr is a writer of short stories, plays, and poetry. Originally from West Africa, Dr. AbuBakr has taught French and Englis...
Great Books, Events, Films & More - October 2015 eNewsletter
AALBC.com’s Best Selling Books — July/August 2015 We just published our ten best selling fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books for the period July 1 through ...
Kysha N. Brown
KYSHA N. BROWN (Photo Credit: J.R. Thomason) KYSHA N. BROWN is a publisher, poet and performer. She is co-founder and president of Runagate ...
Sekou Sundiata
Sekou Sundiata Sekou Sundiata (August 22, 1948 - July 18, 2007) was a poet, performer, and teacher. While attending the City College of New York (CCNY), he began recit...
Terrific Books Coming in May, Beyond Adichie, and More!
Terrific New Books Coming in May Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove will publish a collection of her poetry from the 30 year period, 1974 to 2004. There are also new n...
Patrick M. Oliver
Patrick M. Oliver Patrick Oliver is a program manager and literary consultant dedicated to promoting reading and writing as tools of empowerment. Through a variety of inn...
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison Morrison, won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1993). The motivation for the Prize was, “…who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic impor...
Troy Johnson on #WritersonWriting with Dr. Brenda M. Greene (#Center4BlackLit)
Dr. Brenda Greene interviews Troy Johnson, the founder of the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC) and President of AALBC.com, LLC. Greene and Johnson discuss th...
May 2017 Newsletter: Bestselling Books, New Books, Author Info, and Much More
Our May Newsletter is Generously Sponsored by Amistad Bestselling Books Bestselling Books: March/April 2017 Provenance a novel by Donna Drew Sawyer, which tops o...
Keith Gilyard
Keith Gilyard Raymond Keith Gilyard (born 1952 in New York City) is a prominent writer and American professor of English who teaches and researches in the fields of...
Black Women Lead the Way Promoting Black Culture through Books
“Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.” —Ethiopian proverb AALBC.com’s Bestselling Books - January to February 2015 The #1 selling book on AALBC.com, for Jan...
March 1, 2017 Newsletter — Book Award Announcements, New Books, and More
New Books Coming Out March 2017 Helene Cooper tells the amazing of story Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement and the first democratically el...
April 18, 2017 Newsletter: New Books, Vote for Your Favorite Author, and More
AALBC.com Congratulates all the Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in the Letters and Drama Categories Fiction: Colson Whitehead for his novel Underground Railroad Poetry: Tyeh...
AALBC.com May 2013 eNewsletter Book Highlights
AALBC.com Best-selling Books - March to April 2013 This version of AALBC.com's eNewsletter, which focuses on book related content is designed for Amazon Kind...
Curtis Bunn
Curtis Bunn In 2001, Curtis Bunn crafted his first novel, Baggage Check and watched in amazement as it became a word-of-mouth national success. The audacious, moving,...
Kadija Sesay
Kadija Sesay Kadija (George) Sesay, FRSA, is a literary activist, poet, editor, and publisher of Sierra Leonean descent. Her debut poetry collection, Irki, (which means ...
June 2016 Newsletter Celebrating the Best in Black Literature
Subscribe to AALBC.com’s eNewsletter Carter G. Woodson Award Winning Books The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) established the Carter G. Woodson Bo...
Clarence V. Reynolds
Clarence V. Reynolds Clarence V. Reynolds is an independent editor and journalist. He is the former director of Literary Programs at the Center for Black Literature at Me...
Loretta Collins Klobah
Loretta Collins Klobah Loretta Collins Klobah lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she is a professor of Caribbean Literature and creative writing at the University of P...
March 26th 2013 – eNewsletter Highlights
Read Our Complete eNewsletter AALBC.com mourns the passing of Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe (November 16, 1930 — March 22, 2013) Author of classic nov...
Molefi Kete Asante
Molefi Kete Asante Dr. Molefi Kete Asante is Professor and Chair, Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Considered by his peers to be one of the mo...
Julia D. Shaw
Julia D. Shaw “It takes teamwork to make a dream work”Julia D. Shaw Julia D. Shaw has developed an extensive marketing career with over twenty years of experience...
THE BLACK SCHOLAR: Journal of Black Studies and Research
Volume 1 Number 1 November 1969 Mission Statement From the Inaugural Issue: THE BLACK SCHOLAR has been born out of the struggle of black scholars, black intellectuals...
Sylvia Hubbard
Sylvia Hubbard Detroit native, Sylvia Hubbard, a single mother of three, has worked tirelessly to promote and encourage emerging writers in Michigan. She independently pu...
eNewsletter Highlights – January 31st 2013 – Issue #198
Read Our Complete eNewsletter AALBC.com's Bestselling Books Lists We've just published three new bestselling books lists. Our bimonthly bestselling books for N...
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Nicole Dennis-Benn Nicole Dennis-Benn is the author of the debut novel, Here Comes the Sun (Norton/Liveright, July 2016). Dennis-Benn is a Lambda Literary Award winner. I...
Afaa Michael Weaver
Afaa Michael Weaver Afaa Michael Weaver (蔚雅風) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1951. He attended the public schools there and gradua...
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones Sheree Renée Thomas Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora The critically acclaimed, award-winning anthology Dark Matter was a...
Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones Born and raised in Arkansas, Patricia Spears Jones aka Patricia Jones is [2024] the New York State Poet Laureate. She is a poet, playwright, educato...
Louise Thompson Patterson, A Life of Struggle and Justice by Keith Gilyard
To study her story is to witness the courage, sacrifice, vision and discipline of someone who spent decades working to achieve justice and liberation for all people (Gily...
Author Martha Southgate Reflects on the State of African American Fiction
This article was brought to my attention by author Eisa Ulen (www.EisaUlen.com/blog).Author Martha Southgate (http://authors.aalbc.com/martha_southgate.htm) muses about t...
Marcia Wilson
Marcia Wilson Marcia E. Wilson is a British-born prolific and accomplished photographer who has documented hundreds of poets and writers of the African Diaspora, includin...
Shonda Buchanan
Shonda Buchanan Shonda Buchanan is an award-winning author, professor, former magazine editor, and an Education Specialist for the U.S. Department of State [2019]. She h...
Tina Andrews
Tina Andrews Tina Andrews is an international award-winning writer, producer, director, as well as author, playwright, and multi-media visual artist. Her nonfiction book,...
Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays Miriam Decosta-Willis Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a collection of fourteen essays by scholars and creative writers fro...
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an ...
The Talented Ripkins by Ladee Hubbard
Drawing from W.E.B. DuBois’s concept of the Talented Tenth, Hubbard’s debut award-winning The Talented Ribkins follows the journey of a family with special po...
June 2017 eNewsletter: The Best New Books, Author Info, and More
This Month’s Newsletter is Made Possible by Support From Amistad Authors You Should Know Tracy K. Smith The Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, recently nam...
The Heart of a Woman
The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of b...
W. Paul Coates Literarian Award Acceptance Speech from the 2024 National Book Awards
Watch a Video of Walter Mosleys’s Introduction and Paul Coates Acceptance Speech. Paul Coates Acceptance Speech: Let me begin with a bunch of thank yous and...
Happy New Year From AALBC.com’s Troy Johnson
2013, what a year! With so many great new books and films last year, there was a lot to celebrate. We also extended our reach through partnerships with other mission driv...
Ravi Howard
Ravi Howard Ravi Howard received the 2001 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award for College Writers for his short story “Like Trees, Walking.” After graduati...
Zetta Brown
Zetta Brown Zetta Brown’s red hot L-L Publications has a line of unorthodox commercial books. Based in Scotland, L-L Publications and its sister imprint, Logical-Lust, ...
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson
Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson Raising their two children in Northern NJ, parents Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson found it difficult to find quality Black-i...
Kysha N. Brown
Kysha N. Brown A college classmate and friend of Kysha Brown Robinson’s once said of her first impression of Brown: "I remember seeing this little girl sitting ...
Millicent Graham
Millicent Graham Millicent A. A. Graham was born 1974 in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the author of two collections of poetry, The Damp In Things, 2009 and The Way Home, 201...
Artress Bethany White
Artress Bethany White Artress Bethany White. PhD is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is the recipient of the 2018 Trio Award for her poetry collection, My Afmer...
Book of Letters
Book of Letters Mary J. Taylor Book Of Letters is a literary archive of historical, sociological, psychological, and cultural data mined from the lives of early to mid-tw...
Jordan K. Casomar
Jordan K. Casomar Jordan K. Casomar is a Black prose writer from West Des Moines, Iowa. He holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Minnesota. He was th...
February 28th 2013 - eNewsletter Highlights
Our monthly eNewsletter contains information about books and films by or about people of African descent. Authors You Should Know (Children's Book Authors) Sharon ...