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Author Archives: Stephanie Andrea Allen
Five Black Lesbian Books You Should be Reading for Pride Month — Black Lesbian Literary Collective — Stephanie Andrea Allen
My latest over at the BLLC Review! Pride month is nearly over, and there are lists upon lists of books LGBTQ folks should be reading circulating around the internet. Interestingly, most of them don’t have many, if any, Black lesbian books included on them. A wonderful exception is this list by Danika Ellis, head librarian […]
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10 Works of Black Lesbian Short Fiction-via WOCreads
Recently, I was asked about short story collections by women of Color, and what a timely thing, too, since I’m planning on reading more short fiction this year. Collections are always a bit complicated for me: on the one hand I want to take my time and savor each story, treat it as a complete […]
2016: A Review — S. Andrea Allen
Over the past several days, I’ve read (and enjoyed) quite a few of these “year in review” blogs/essays and it got me to thinking. What did I accomplish in 2016? Where did I fail? I realized that I had many more successes than failures, and that made me feel pretty darned good about myself. I […]
A Dream Undeterred: An Interview w/ Black Lesbian Feminist Press On Their Debut Title, Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction — S. Andrea Allen
My deepest thanks to Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque for this wonderful article on BLF Press! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5846f853e4b0b261c83427a2?timestamp=1481160541770
Melancon on the Anniversary of June Jordan’s Death
June Jordan was born on July 9, 1936 and died on June 14, 2002. Melancon writes:
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‘New Suns’: An SBF Writing Retreat
“There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” Octavia Butler
New Suns is the first annual Seattle Black Feminists (SBF) writing retreat. It is a time for Black women to come together in this sacred space and support each other’s writing process; to light the path of another’s journey. Written and oral narratives have been a way Black women have waged resistance and transformed our communities. Then and now, Black women have literally written ourselves and each other into existence.
We will converge in Maple Falls, Washington, at the beautiful and serene Peaceful Mountain Retreat Center from July 15-17, 2016. Through independent writing, group discussions, and workshops, approximately 20 Black women will collectively explore literary traditions. We anticipate this time to be resistive, sacred, and transformative, and will showcase the power of words in written or spoken form.
Our powerful time together will include Black feminist discussion…
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