We are so pleased to continue the series and add writer KAITLYN GREENIDGE to our ever-growing list of African Diasporan women writers.
When: Thursday, January 20, 2016, 6pm
Where: Calabar Imports Harlem (corner of 134th & Frederick Douglass Blvd)
WOMEN WRITERS OF THE DIASPORA has endeavored to provide
exposure for established, newly-published, and soon-to-be-published Black women
writers across all genres. In some
cases, our reading/discussion series provided early exposure to unpublished and
first-published writers who have become well-known. Past readers include Opal Palmer Adisa, Esther Armah, Keisha-Gaye Anderson, Jacqueline Bishop, Pamela Booker, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor,
Merle Collins, Lorraine Currelley, Carole Boyce Davies, Bridget Davis, LaTasha
Diggs, Kim Coleman Foote, Ifeona Fulani, Monica Hand, Eartha Watts Hicks, J.P.
Howard, Linda Susan Jackson, Pamela
Jackson, Jacqueline Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Tayari Jones, Dahlma
Llanos-Figueroa, Nigeria Lockley, Cynthia Manick, Diana McCaulay, Rosalind
McLymont, Pam Mordecai, Elizabeth Nunez, Ebele Oseye, Dolen Perkins-Valdez,
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Cecily Rodway, Gammy Singer, Danyel Smith, Patricia
Smith, Martha Southgate, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Eisa Ulen, and Tiphanie
Yanique.
In September 2015, ATIM OTUN offered Calabar Imports Harlem
as a new venue for the series, and Editor RON KAVANAUGH’s Mosaic Magazine
became co-sponsor. Please come out and support our efforts!
