You can and should read Black authors every month, but in case you’re looking for recommendations for Black History Month - here are some of my favourite fiction picks!
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Joyce Davis’s new Substack post about how her writing life is impacted by her reading life illustrated by a print of little black girl writing.
If you’re NOT normally a #SpeedReader, but you’ve read a book in a day, what was it? I wrote about mine here: open.substack.com/pub/enjoycei... #BookSky #WritingCommunity #Books #TBR #BlackBookSky #Writing #Authors #Writers #Reading #Novels #Fiction #LiteraryLife #RWCPromoChallenge ✍🏾📚
My first published essay was in The Globe & Mail last spring. It’s a bit of a preview into the topic of my forthcoming nonfiction book.
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#RWCpromochallenge #essay #creativenonfiction #writerlife
Zora, Jimmy, Alvin: New York State of mind
“And I had the nerve to start reading #PercivalEverette’s “Erasure” this morning as I was settling into my few days of #NewYorkCity adventures.” open.substack.com/pub/enjoycei... #RWCPromoChallenge #Books #BookSky #Fiction #Writing #WritersWrite
What a pleasure it was to engage with my Sanctuary sister scribes after their awesome presentation at the inaugural #ZoraNealeHurston Summit at @barnardcollege.bsky.social. @ericalwilliams7.bsky.social @loriltharps.bsky.social #Writing #RWCPromoChallenge #BookSky #WritersWrite
“I have been grappling with my racial identity over the last few years after realizing how much I allowed whiteness to take over my life.”
- from my essay “MY NOT-SO-SECRET IDENTITY”:
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If you’re in #Atlanta, this free book club mixer (any book) sounds cool. It’s at the Bellyard tomorrow. Got my evite tix here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cute-c... If you follow me, you KNOW I’ll be discussing #DanzySenna ‘s Colored Television. #RWCPromoChallenge #BookClubs #BookSky #BlackBookSky
One of my 2025 writing goals was to do a writers' residency. I'm so excited that I will be doing a Creative Sabbatical at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois. It's short: Feb 18-21, but honestly, that's perfect for me right now! #RWCPromoChallenge #writing
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I was born on this day to Negro parents in Rome, New York at Griffiss Air Force Base Hospital. I claim myself a writer, a sewist, an artist, a cultural curator.
Day 8 - Shout-Out to my Sister Scribes in The Sanctuary: Right On / Write On!
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#sowingandsewing
Throwback. November 2013. This was either at NWSA or AAA when I held my first book in my hands for the first time. When the writing gets hard sometimes, I remind myself that I have been here before and pushed through. #RWCPromoChallenge #writing
#Writing: “learning from others that you are so impressed by that you want to know their path and their process, what they read and write, and who they admire, well, that is my jam. I’m about to turn into a bit of a #DanzySenna stalker.” enjoyceinglife.substack.com/p/reading-fo... #RWCPromoChallenge
This is one of my writing inspiration quotes for 2025. I'm currently reading Black Feminist Writing (Evans) How to Live Free in a Dangerous World (Lawson), and Belonging: A Daughter's Search for Identity through Loss and Love. Fellow writers, what are you reading? #rwcpromochallenge #writing
ZNH: “You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.” Can’t wait to present at the Zora Summit in 2 weeks! #rwcpromochallenge #writing
Joyce Davis signing her first book book, “Can’t Stop the Shine” in a promo for her first Substack post.
Biiiiiiggggg shoutout to #AliyaKingNeil for inspiring my first #Substack post and my first blog post in nearly 10 years. Hat tip to @shannon.b.life, too! open.substack.com/pub/enjoycei.... #RWCPromoChallenge #Fiction #Novels #Blogging #Writing #WritersWrite
Throwback: 19 year old me on my 1st international solo trip. I went to Caracas, Venezuela and visited the coastal towns of Puerto Colombia and Choriní. This is one of the experiences I’m writing about in my memoir, Take Flight: A Memoir on Race, Identity and Travel. #rwcpromochallenge #writinglife
After I published my first novel, “Can’t Stop the Shine,” in 2007, a friend saw someone reading it on the NYC train. I posted about it in 2009 on my Enjoyceinglife blog, an outgrowth of my AOL email newsletter. #IYKYK I’m still #writing. enjoyceinglife.blogspot.com/2009/12/you-... #RWCPromoChallenge
Reflecting on my writing in 2024: I track my writing time in a spreadsheet. In 2024 I wrote a total of 11,900 minutes (198 hours), which breaks down to 3.8 hours per week. I made a lot of progress on my 2 book projects. I participated in 32 co-writing sessions in The Sanctuary #rwcpromochallenge
My upcoming self-published hybrid memoir, “In The Land of Sowing and Sewing” is a visual archive of creative legacy about me and my sisters remembering our mother, her mother, and hers—Corrine, Rena Mae, Hagar—born in Tennille, Georgia.
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#remember
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I think I’m going to alternate writing & spending time on developing deeper character descriptions - getting in the heads of those who have more visibility. As I was #writing, some became more prominent than I initially intended. #Fiction #Novels #Authors #Writers #RWCPromoChallenge #WritersWrite
Great to hear that your character’s side trip improved your #plot. I’m following mine & hope to have a similar result! #Fiction #Novels #Authors #Writers #Writing #RWCPromoChallenge #WritersWrite
I’m slogging through, letting the characters lead me some, but I need them to participate some kind of way in the plot or I won’t get to the end. But I’m only in the 6th chapter, 20k words in. Thankfully it’s all enjoyable. #Fiction #Novels #Authors #Writers #Writing #RWCPromoChallenge #WritersWrite
Helpful! As #ToniMorrison says, #firstdrafts are painful, & revisions are more enjoyable. I’m having fun, but it is challenging. I’m learning how to let my characters do their thing, but I do need them to participate in the plot. #Fiction #Novels #Authors #Writers #RWCPromoChallenge #WritersWrite
That is a great idea for when I need a break! Maybe I’ll do that before I’m planning to work on more character backgrounds & descriptions, when I’d only be #writing about one character. Thank you! #Fiction #Novels #Authors #Writers #RWCPromoChallenge #WritersWrite
So glad to join you Erica in celebrating our anniversary in The Sanctuary. It’s changed my #writing life - and my life! #RWCPromoChallenge #WritersWrite
Type A creative #writers, when you are wrestling with your characters who KEEP wandering away from the 10-page outline you’ve meticulously created, what do you do? Should I let them run wild & keep the #writing flow going or take time to build out more #CharacterDescriptions? #RWCPromoChallenge
It’s been just over a year since I joined The Sanctuary, a virtual
Writing community for BIPOC students women created by Lori Tharps. Best decision ever. I’m fully stepping into my identity as a WRITER. #RWCPromoChallenge
