We are pleased to announce that Professor, poet and scholar, Tara Betts, will be writing the afterword to WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA due for release April 15, 2016. Betts holds a Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from New England College. A Cave Canem […]
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA Breaking the White Code of Silence A Collection of Personal Narratives ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-48-3 (pbk) ISBN-13: 978-1-940939-49-0 (eBook) LCCN: 2015913482 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA, edited by Gabrielle David and Sean Frederick Forbes, with an introduction by Debby Irving and an afterword by […]
DANIELA MCVICKER | BOOK BABY BLOG The more compelling your book description, the more likely people will click to learn more about what you have written, and the more likely they are to make a purchase. You’ve written an amazing book. You’ve gone through a thorough editing process. Your book cover has been designed and […]
Congrats to J.L. Torres’ review in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise as noted below! “Boricua Passport” by J.L. Torres, 2Leaf Press, 2014 MARILYN McCABE | ADIRONDACK DAILY ENTERPRISE | Special to the Enterprise, Adirondack Center for Writing Some of the richest literature of the world is the literature of exile – artists driven from their homelands […]
LAST CALL DEADLINE: December 1, 2015 Well, it’s November and very soon we will be closing out the open call submission to WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA. It’s been an amazing journey in itself. Really. And not for the reasons you may think. First of all, the question is really a difficult […]
When Sean Frederick Forbes and I announced the open call submission for our forthcoming anthology, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA, we didn’t know what to expect. We certainly expected some hate mail (very few and of little consequence, thank goodness), and some criticism, but what we didn’t expect was that white […]
INDEPENDENT || OCTOBER 2015 Dozens of writers have returned India’s highest literary honour to protest what they call a growing climate of intolerance in the country since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government took office. So far 41 novelists, essayists, playwrights and poets had returned the awards they received from India’s prestigious literary academy, saying they […]
PAUL ANTHONY JONES | WATERSTONES | OCTOBER 2015 International Translation Day is celebrated each year on the 30th of September—the feast day of St Jerome, the patron saint of translators, who is known for being among the first in history to translate the Bible from Greek into Latin. But translations from one language to another […]
ALEXANDRA ALTER and KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA | NEW YORK TIMES | OCTOBER 2015 The Jamaican novelist Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for his novel “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” a raw, violent epic that uses the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976 to explore Jamaican politics, gang wars and […]
ERWIN JAMES || THE GUARDIAN || SEPT. 2015 The end of the ban on sending books to prisoners in the UK reminds me just how vital they were to my survival inside, and to the life I have lived since The official lifting on the ban on sending books to prisoners, which comes into effect […]