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