18th National Black Writers Biennial Symposium 2025
Call for Papers
Wild Seeds Retreat for Writers of Color
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Post 17th NBWC2024 Event
Percival Everett and E. Ethelbert Miller in Discussion & Award Ceremony
The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY presented NBWC 2024 Honoree Percival Everett in Conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller. The discussion focused on many topics including Everett’s novels, philosophical views, writing process, teaching methods and writing craft. Audience members expanded the conversations with their questions. See Highlights from the Interview.
Writers on Writing with Dr. Brenda M. Greene
Writers on Writing Interview
with Anita Kopacz
Sunday, November 3, 2024 and
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Dr. Brenda Greene interviews writer, activist, and spiritual advisor Anita Kopacz and author of Shallow Waters: A Novel (Black Privilege Publishing, Atria, 2021). Greene and Kopacz discuss the genesis for her debut novel grounded in African-centered spiritualism. Kopacz has always been moved and fascinated by African spirituality and attracted to the fantastic in fiction. Beginning in Africa in the 1500s, Kopacz takes the reader on a journey that captures historical moments such as the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Trail of Tears, and the Abolitionist Movement and people such as Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harriet “Moses” Tubman. Shallow Waters symbolizes her blending of these moments and people to create a novel under the umbrella of Black Speculative Fiction.
Writers on Writing Interview
with Victor LaValle
Sunday, October 20, 2024 and
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Dr. Brenda Greene interviews Victor LaValle, the author of Lone Women (One World, 2023), a Black speculative fiction novel that provides the perspective of “lone women” in Montana, a group of unmarried women who took advantage of the Homestead Acts passed by the federal government between 1862 and 1912. Lone Women explores paranormal experiences in our lives from the perspective of a Black woman. Victor LaValle is the author of eight works of fiction: five novels, and a collection of short stories. He has also written two graphic novels series.
About the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY
For 20 years, the programs of the Center for Black Literature (CBL) have had a dynamic impact in the literary field. The highly anticipated author readings and book signings, journals, symposia, conferences, panel discussions, and writing workshops—and the Center’s intellectual and accessible approach to programming—form an integrative approach to programming that sets CBL apart from others. CBL’s events are known for the way they ensure that Black literary scholarship and conversations are valued and sustained.
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