Last week ended with a lively virtual book launch of a writing craft how-to delivered as a new memoir from the living literary icon and educator Marita Golden. Similar to the way in which August Wilson composed "The Pittsburgh Cycle" to examine the complexity of the African-American experience throughout the 20th century, each Marita Golden memoir offers insights into different aspects of her life as a Black person, a woman, a creative, an academic, a wife, a mother with compelling discourse that urges readers to excavate their own lives, motives, and lessons learned in easy and hard ways. How to Become a Black Writer: Creating & Honoring Black Stories That Matter by Marita Golden non-fiction memoir Mango, February 2025 "All writing is autobiographical." Marita Golden https://maritagolden.com/ This memoir offers an examination of self as a way into engaging public conversation with a variety of subjects: the e...
Only 4 months plus a few days until The Write Women Book Fest kicks off on Saturday, July 19th from 12 noon - 5 p.m. & Sunday, July 20th from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the Bowie Comfort Inn & Conference Center in Bowie, Maryland! Details here: https://www.thewritewomenbookfest.org/#/ This is how our planning sessions usually start. [a dining table covered in a white linen cloth; 2 linen napkins, 2 salad plates, 2 filled water glasses, 2 glass goblets half-full of red wine, charcuterie plates of fruit, meat, bread, crackers, brownies] [6 trade paperback library books from left to right: 2 arranged spine up - Deep End, Better Than Friends; 4 arranged face up - A Lifetime in 30 Days, A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke, Maybe in This Lifetime, Single Player] A Lifetime in 30 Days by A.C. Arthur contemporary suspense fiction with romance Montlake, December 2024 key themes: a weekend getaway gone astray, intrigue, danger, regrets, hea...