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S6E9 A Conversation with 'A Future Ancient' featuring Sherese Francis
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Sherese Francis (poetry.), which was live-streamed on November 2, 2025. Sherese Francis (she/they) describes themselves as an AlkyMist of the…
S6E8 Why Not Us?, featuring wife writing team, Naomi Rivers
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Naomi Rivers.Naomi Rivers writes lesbian romance and women’s fiction. Naomi Rivers is a wife writing team who believes in romance, fairy tales,…
S6E7 How Culture & Colonization Inform Craft, On Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico and Climate Change featuring Dorsía Smith Silva
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Dorsía Smith Silva, which was live-streamed on October 19, 2025. We chatted about her debut poetry collection, In Inheritance of Drowning…
S6E6 Kiss My Art & the Living Memoir featuring Tiriq Rashad
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Tiriq Rashad, which was live-streamed on October 17, 2025 as a part of our National Black Poetry Day marathon. We chatted about his recently…
S6E5 Filtering Out the "Noise" Through Poetry featuring Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton, which was live-streamed on October 17, 2025 as a part of our National Black Poetry Day marathon. Synnika…
S6E4 Igniting New Beginnings featuring Damon Moore
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Damon Moore, which was live-streamed on October 17, 2025 as a part of our National Black Poetry Day marathon. We talked about his debut poetry…
S6E3 Rebirth, Resilience, and Reflection featuring The Honorable Tiffany D. Tilley
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with self-help author, the Honorable Tiffany D. Tilley, which was live-streamed on October 14, 2025. Tiffany D. Tilley is an author, leader,…
S6E2 It's a New Dawn, It's a New Day featuring Dr. Shonda Buchanan
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Dr. Shonda Buchanan, which was live-streamed on September 14, 2025. We talked about her recent poetry collection, The Lost Songs of Nina Simone…
S6E1 Claiming a Black-Biracial Identity Through Memory, Memoir, and Connections with Shannon Luders-Manuel
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Shannon Luders-Manuel, which was live-streamed on September 7, 2025. We welcomed Shannon back to the virtual platform to talk about her debut…
Season Six Trailer
Send a textBlack Writers Read has reached its sixth season! Check out this trailer to get a sneak peek of the upcoming season.Conversations here on Black Writers Read question our own subjectivities…
S5E25 Roller Skating, Romance, and Resistance through Gentrification with Arriel Vinson
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Arriel Vinson, which was live-streamed on May 24, 2025. We chatted about her debut young adult (YA) novel in verse, Under the Neon Lights (G.P.…
S5E24 Black Writers Read Celebrates 15 Years of The Kweli Journal featuring Laura Pegram
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Laura Pegram, founding editor of The Kweli Journal, to chat about Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection, an anthology…
S5E23 Black Writers Read: Eden Royce
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Eden Royce (Southern Gothic.), which was live-streamed on May 3, 2025. Eden Royce is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina now living in…
S5E22 Black Writers Read: Essie Chambers
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Essie Chambers, which was live-streamed on April 22, 2025. Essie Chambers is an award-winning author and producer. Her debut novel, Swift…
S5E21 Black Writers Read: Brother's Keeper Poetry Theater Ensemble
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Brother’s Keeper Poetry Theater Ensemble, which was live-streamed on April 12, 2025. Since 2013, Brother’s Keeper Poetry Theater Ensemble has…
S5E20 Black Writers Read: Nzima Hutchings
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Nzima Hutchings (poetry. prose.), the 2023-2025 Poet Laureate for Enfield, Connecticut, which was livestreamed on April 7, 2025 to kick-off…
S5E19 Black Writers Read: Reese Ryan
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with contemporary romance author, Reese Ryan, which was live-streamed on March 23, 2025.Award-winning author Reese Ryan writes sexy, emotional,…
S5E18 Black Writers Read: LaTanya Orr
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with nonfiction, business, and Christian Self-Help author, LaTanya Orr, which was live-streamed on March 15, 2025.Brand strategist, certified life…
S5E17 Black Writers Read: Donna J. Nicol
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Dr. Donna J. Nicol, which was live-streamed on March 8, 2025, the day nationally recognized as International Women’s Day. We talked about her…
S5E16 Black Writers Read: Victoria Christopher Murray
Send a textThis episode features our conversation with Victoria Christopher Murray, which was live-streamed on March 1, 2025. Victoria Christopher Murray is a New York Times bestselling author of…
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