Promotional graphic announcing Alexander Manshel's WRITING BACKWARDS is the Winner of the 2026 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative. It includes the book's cover.

We are pleased to announce that Alexander Manshel's WRITING BACKWARDS is the Winner of the 2026 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize from the International Society for the Study of Narrative. buff.ly/6KcLUsP #HistoricalFiction #HistoricalNovel #LiteraryPrizes #AfAmLit #BookClub #NEA

The creative projects in #AfAmLit have gotten so competitive (as in, “I can beat that example”) & consistently good I could run a bracket of original song recordings, poetry, and game & character designs. If you think #STEM students don’t like #Humanities, revisit your assignments.

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Fantastic! Shared several of your articles with my #AfAmLit students this semester, so I’ll send them a link! Already watched the first videos and learned things relevant to my research on the (lack of) preservation of historic Black cemeteries. Thanks!

So we’re back to Jim Crow vagrancy laws now? I’ll be sure to reference this when we read excerpts from Charles Chesnutt’s The Colonel’s Dream after midterm.

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