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Women Writers of the Diaspora presents

Jacqueline Bishop

Thursday, February 18, 2016, 6:00-7:15 pm

Calabar Imports Harlem

2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at 134^th St.)

Harlem, NY 10030

JACQUELINE BISHOP is an award-winning photographer-painter-writer born and raised in Jamaica, who now lives and works in New York City (“Jamaica’s 15th Parish”). She has twice been awarded Fulbright Fellowships, including a year-long grant to Morocco; her work exhibits widely in North America, Europe and North Africa. She teaches in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University; is the founding editor of Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Art & Letters; and author of The River's Song, a novel about growing up in Jamaica. The Gymnasts & Other Positions: Stories, Interviews, Essays is forthcoming in the fall from Peepal Tree Press.

WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA is a reading/discussion series created and moderated by DR. CELESTI COLDS FECHTER, Exec. Director of Education Success Services and Prof., Org. Behavior, King Graduate School, New Rochelle.  WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA features poetry, prose, memoir, essay, reportage, urban writing by African and African diasporan women.

Be sure to mark your calendar for Amber Atiya, Mar 3; Yvette Louis, Mar 17; Farah Jasmine Griffin, Apr. 21; Stephanie Renee Payne, May 5; Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, May 19;  Cynthia Manick, June 9; Celeste Rita Baker, June 23.  

Stay updated by following the WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA blog at http://womenwritersofdiaspora.blogspot.com/.

The venue, CALABAR IMPORTS HARLEM, is provided by ATIM ANETTE OTUN.  The series is also co-sponsored by MOSAIC LITERARY MAGAZINE.

Questions, comments, suggestions:  womenwritersofdiaspora@gmail.com

Women Writers of the Diaspora presents

Kim Coleman Foote

Thursday, February 4, 2016, 6:00-7:15 pm

Calabar Imports Harlem

2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at 134^th St.)

Harlem, NY 10030

Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

KIM COLEMAN FOOTE is a writer of fiction, essays, and experimental prose. In addition to a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in fiction and a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, she has received fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Hedgebrook, the Illinois Arts Council, and elsewhere. Her work has appeared in Obsidian, Black Renaissance Noire, Crab Orchard Review, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a novel about the trans­-Atlantic slave trade and a story collection about her family's experience of the Great Migration from Alabama to New Jersey. She lives in Brooklyn. For more information, visit www.kimcolemanfoote.com.

WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA is a reading/discussion series created and moderated by DR. CELESTI COLDS FECHTER, Exec. Director of Education Success Services and Prof., Org. Behavior, King Graduate School, New Rochelle.  WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA features poetry, prose, memoir, essay, reportage, urban writing by African and African diasporan women.

Be sure to mark your calendar for readings/discussions with Jacqueline Bishop, Feb 18; Amber Atiya, Mar 3; Yvette Louis, Mar 17; Pamela Booker, Apr. 7; Farah Jasmine Griffin, Apr. 21; Stephanie Renee Payne, May 5; Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, May 19;  Cynthia Mannick, June 9.  

Stay updated by following the WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA blog at http://womenwritersofdiaspora.blogspot.com/.

The venue, CALABAR IMPORTS HARLEM, is provided by ATIM ANETTE OTUN.  The series is also co-sponsored by MOSAIC LITERARY MAGAZINE. 

Questions, comments, suggestions:  womenwritersofdiaspora@gmail.com

KAITLYN GREENIDGE

Thursday, January 21, 2016, 6:00-7:15 pm

Calabar Imports Harlem

2504 Frederick Douglass Blvd. (at 134^th St.)

Harlem, NY 10030

KAITLYN GREENIDGE is originally from Boston. A graduate of Hunter College's MFA Fiction program, she currently lives in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, Kweli Journal, The Believer, Guernica and other places. Her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman will be published by Algonquin Press in March 2016.

WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA is a reading/discussion series created and moderated by DR. CELESTI COLDS FECHTER, Exec. Director of Education Success Services and Prof., Org. Behavior, King Graduate School, New Rochelle.  WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA features poetry, prose, memoir, essay, reportage, urban writing by African and African diasporan women.

Be sure to mark your calendar for readings/discussions with Kim Coleman Foote, Feb. 4; Jacqueline Bishop, Feb 18; Amber Atiya, Mar 3; Yvette Louis, Mar 17; Pamela Booker, Apr. 7; Farah Jasmine Griffin, Apr. 21; Stephanie Renee Payne, May 5; Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, May 19;  Cynthia Mannick, June 9.  

Stay updated by following the WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA blog at http://womenwritersofdiaspora.blogspot.com/.

The venue, CALABAR IMPORTS HARLEM, is provided by ATIM ANETTE OTUN.  The series is also co-sponsored by MOSAIC LITERARY MAGAZINE. 

Questions, comments, suggestions:  womenwritersofdiaspora@gmail.com