National Black Writers Biennial Symposium 2025
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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.
Writers on Writing with Dr. Brenda M. Greene
Writers on Writing Interview
with Chester Higgins, Jr.
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Dr. Brenda M. Greene interviews Chester Higgins Jr. , author of Sacred Nile, with Betsy Kissam (BCH, 2021). Dr. Greene and Higgins discuss how he began the work of documenting through photography, the African spiritual and historical influences related to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in Egypt and Ethiopia. Higgins recollects his personal pilgrimages to sacred sites and provides an overview of the visual representations of ancient African rituals and practices. He documents with photographs and text, inscriptions on tombs, 13th-century churches, religious festivals, and the landscape that includes pyramids and the Nile River. Higgins ends his stunning photograph book with the sentence, “In the dance of eternity, we are all spirits passing through form.” This sentence encapsulates the basis of his premise for telling the story of the sacred Nile.
Writers on Writing Interview
with Troy Johnson
Sunday, November 17, 2024 and
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Dr. Brenda Greene interviews Troy Johnson, the founder of the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC) and President of AALBC.com, LCC. Greene and Johnson discuss the history of how the AALBC website has provided a platform for Black writers, authors, and literary professionals to showcase their work. They also discuss the landscape of book publishing, bookstores, the challenges of hosting a website dedicated to Black books, and the ways that writers, readers, and the general public can support AALBC.
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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