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Coming back from another spirited, challenging and enlightening workshop week, this time the notable Tin House Summer Workshop held at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. I participated in one of the novel workshops led by the gracious and energetic (and fellow native Georgian!) Tayari Jones. In the midst of her book tour for “An America […] 
In the wake of celebrating the life of my father, the Aspen Words writing workshop in Aspen, Colorado provided a breezy clean-air escape—again—into the “serious” literary world: Manhattan agents and editors. MFA grads. Tea drinkers. Brows that furrow at the mere mention of a certain current White House occupant. And us “emerging” writers gasping at humble-bragged mentions of […] 
A casual chat in the studio with some old friends at “We R Sumthin Else.” Talking about Donald Glover, #AtlantaFX, Kanye, growing up in the South, America, white supremacy, living your best life– and oh, yeah, a bit about “Strivers and Other Stories” too. Check it out. (And all their other episodes too). 
Many thanks to PEN/Faulkner’s Writers in Schools Director Gregory Langen and Eastern High School librarian Ellen Dodsworth for the invite to present and discuss “Strivers and Other Stories” with the students at Eastern High School on my first Writers in School program visit last week. I enjoyed the attentive eyes and heartfelt questions about my stories, […] 
I had an interview with the blog site Write and Author, a resource dedicated to helping writers develop their craft and offer advice on publishing. I discussed my writing process, influences, and why I like to write. Some excerpts from the Q&A: What do you love most about the writing process?The excitement of not knowing […] 
Had a spirited reading and signing of “Strivers and Other Stories” in my hometown of Augusta, Georgia at the Lucy C. Laney Museum of Black History on Sunday, February 19, 2017. The museum, I noted to the audience, is in a downtown neighborhood that conjures many memories from my formative years: Waiting for my sister’s piano […] 
Attended my first AWP conference this week and participated in WWPH’s panel on running a small press. 12K writers converged on DC and our sprawling convention center for 3 days of panels, readings, a massive book fair and that kind of casual social freedom people have when being amongst their own kind. Lots of […] 
Thanks to Politics and Prose for supporting the Washington Writers’ Publishing House and providing an opportunity for us to read and introduce our books recently. If you don’t know, P&P is a vaunted institution in DC, one of the last viable independent bookstores around really. And it hasn’t even been around that long. When I […] 
“Strivers” was selected for inclusion in the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools Program which is a literary arts outreach program that brings free copies of contemporary works of literature into Washington, DC schools, and arranges for the authors of those works to visit classrooms and discuss literature and the writing life. Teachers can request a visit via […] 
Many thanks to Haile and Shirikiana Gerima and the staff at Sankofa Video, Books and Cafe for organizing the “Strivers and Other Stories” reading held Saturday November 12. It was a wonderful intimate space in the shadows of Howard University across the street. I felt the warmth of the legacy of the African-American literary tradition surrounding […] 
Received proof copies of SAOS recently. They look good. Even though the trend-watchers say the hot color for book covers is BRIGHT yellow, I decided on an elegant colonial (or maybe steel?) blue that my designer Denise Nielsen of Pandenwolf Creative selected. It’s actually a textured pattern, evoking cloth. At first we were going for an aged […] 
Spent a week of intense focus on the current writing project–a new novel–at the Callaloo Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters Writing Workshop for fiction, lead by novelist Ravi Howard (If you don’t know him, get to know him: http://www.ravihowardauthor.com/). The workshop was held at Oxford University, one of three current academic locales that hosts Callaloo’s […] 
The WWPH launch for its 2016 prize winners will be held Sun, 6 Nov, 2016 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda. Announcement: Join Laura Fargas and Robert Williams, winners of the annual Washington Writers’ Publishing House competition, for a reading. Fargas’s new collection, The Green of Ordinary Time, won the […] 
