Tag: Black Women Authors
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On Eve and the Faders: A Conversation with the Authors
On January 9th, my co-author (Lornett B. Vestal) and I celebrated the release of our new novel, Eve and the Faders. This virtual launch included an Author Q&A, readings from the book, and more. Watch the short video below if you missed it! Eve and the Faders officially hit stores on January 1, 2021. If […]
Berneta L. Haynes
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A Black AF Comic Book, Women in Sci-Fi, Octavia Butler’s Legacy, and more…
Kit de Waal: ‘Make room for working class writers’ (The Guardian) But writing as a career? That never entered my head. The only writers I knew were dead. And apart from Enid Blyton, they were dead men. And white. And posh. Even when I began to read widely in my 20s, it was still a case […]
Berneta L. Haynes
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‘Woke’ Authors, Diversity in Children’s Books, and Changing IP Rules in Oz…
Why ‘woke’ is no joke (Times Live) Black female authors are the next big thing in South African publishing, a development publisher says follows the “woke” trend. According to Jacana Media’s assistant publisher Sibongile Machika, both authors and readers are more “woke” – a colloquial term that refers to a state of social and political awareness used […]
Berneta L. Haynes