Black & Published
Black & Published brings you the journeys of writers, poets, playwrights, and storytellers of all kinds to discuss what it means to be a writer, dissect the writing process, and demystify the steps between concept and publication.
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Rachel Howzell Hall, author of the novel, Mist & Malice. It's book two in the Haven Thriller Series.
The novel tackles major themes including race, class, and immigration status.
In our conversation Rachel explains why as a California native it was time to discuss ICE in her work and how people are being hunted. Plus, the everyday ca...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Ashton Lattimore, author of the novel, Runner.
The novel explores prohibition era life on Martha’s Vineyard and the burgeoning cultural force that became the Harlem Renaissance between two women who will do anything to achieve their dreams, including risking their own lives.
In our conversation, Ashton discusses why she enjoys exp...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Amy DuBois Barnett, author of the novel, If I Ruled the World. It’s a story Amy began during her tenure in corporate media, specifically working as an editor at several major magazines including ESSENCE, EBONY and as the Editor-in-Chief of Honey.
Living the dream of becoming a novelist is something Amy’s wanted to do since s...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha takes you to the American Writers Festival, held June 7, in Chicago where she did a live recording of the podcast with the authors Jabari Asim, Deborah D. Douglas, and Lonnae O’Neal.
In their conversation they discuss, the importance of narrative repair, publishing in the current socio-political climate, and how they avoid being pigeonholed t...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Victoria Christopher Murray and Marie Benedict, the authors of the historical fiction novel, A Pair of Aces.
In our conversations they discuss why they see their partnership as a mission with a message. The hard conversations about race, class, and feminism, they have with each other that get transported to the page. And why the...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Regina Black, author of the country romance novel, August Lane. The book recontexutalizes the narrative around who can be a country star as well as expands the perspective of who lives a country, read: rural, life.
In our conversation, Regina explains how fanfiction and live journal became her MFA workshop and Beyoncé's Cowboy Ca...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Kristina Forest, author of the romance novel The Summer Girlfriend.
In our conversation, Kristina discusses an enraging trip to the bookstore that sparked the idea for the novel, the plotting tools she uses to create meaningful stakes, and why she wanted to put her heroine definitively in her "soft girl era."
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Toni Ann Johnson author of the new short story collection, But Where's Home. The collection dives even further into the world she’s built with previous publications of a middle class Black family, in a majority white enclave in upstate New York.
In our conversation, Toni Ann explains why she keeps returning to auto fiction ...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Lisa Smith, author of the novel, Jamaica Road. It’s a coming of age story that spans 12 years in the lives of Connie and Daphne, who wrestle with their identity as British and Jamaican at a time of great racial unrest in the UK.
In our conversation, Lisa explains why she decided to write a novel during maternity leave and h...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Ashley Jordan, the author of the romance novel, Once Upon a Time in Dollywood.
In our conversation, Ashley explains how going to grad school helped her finish her novel, plus the zombie apocalypse television show that sparked Ashley’s writing career.
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Gwendolyn Wallace and Tonya Engel, the author and illustrator of the new picture book, Dancing with Water. It's a story about a young queer child and their love for their grandfather who is a water diviner.
In our conversation, Gwendolyn explains why she believes stories are truly born at the intersection of science and the human...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Rickey Fayne, author of the novel The Devil Three Times. A multi-generational story about one family, their spiritual gifts, and how they see they’re calling in life as either from God or Satan.
In our conversation, Rickey reveals who gave him the push he needed to take his work seriously. Plus, in making the devil a centra...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Christina Dotson, author of the novel Love You to Death.
The story is billed as a Black Thelma and Louise who go on a murderous romp throughout the south.
In our conversation, Christina explains how the complex characters she works with in real life help as a social worker, help her craft the imperfect personalities of the people...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Helena Haywoode Henry, author of the YA novel, Last Chance Live!
The book looks at the price of eternity through the eyes of an 18-year-old girl on death row, who decides to try to win her freedom on a reality show.
In our conversation, Helena discusses the legal papers she read during her time as a lawyer that inspired the premis...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of the poetry collection, Doggerel, which he says is his most joyous to date.
In our conversation, Dwayne explains how he became intentional about singing a different song after realizing he’d become a long suffering Black man. Plus, why he believes identity is always in flux and why he said he...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Lizzie Damilola Blackburn about her second novel, The Re-Write. A second chance romance between a full-figured woman and a reality TV star who’s struggling to decide exactly what kind of man he wants to be.
In our conversation, Lizzie explains why she wanted to tackle toxic masculinity and fat phobia.
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Ashley M. Jones, author of the poetry collection, Lullaby for the Grieving. A deeply personal look at what it means to find and lose love at the same time of unprecedented political turmoil.
At 31-years-old, Ashley became the poet Laureate of Alabama, becoming both the youngest and the first person of color ever to hold that titl...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Lauren Morrow. Author of the novel, Little Movements. A book that explores what it means to leave behind the life you know and take a risk on what you love without the guarantee of reward.
In our conversation, Lauren explains why she's not turned off by her book being characterized as auto-fiction. Plus, what she’s learned ...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Camonghne Felix, author of Let The Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom.
It’s a treatise on the inherent harm of political power and an entreaty for people to seek collective and communal good from a praxis of poetics.
In our conversation, Camonghne explains why the erasure poems she included in the text are the best optio...
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This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Jodi-Ann Burey, author of the book Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work.
Part memoir, part sociological study of how women, queer, disabled, and minoritized people are discriminated against in the workplace, the book is an outgrowth of Jodi-Ann’s 2020 Ted Talk on the same subject that’s been viewed n...
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