
One More Week!
To apply to this year's VONA / Voices Summer Workshops in Berkeley, California. What's your story? Applications & Info here.

11 more days to apply for VONA Travel Writing!
5 years • 42 graduates • 50+ publications • 4 publishing partnerships • 1 world We're back the the Bay Area. Now non-residential. Apply...

Two Writing Workshops, One Deadline (2/19)!
Time to get cracking on your New Year's resolution to write more! Or to support a loved one who has a story. I'm teaching a...

Give the Gift of Story for the Holidays
#writingworkshop #personalnarrative #newyearnewyou #meditation @anasayoga To register #memoir #writing #workshop #oralhistory...

What's black & white & red/read all over?
📓📓📓 A biracial author with red hair & Composition Book iPad case & Mary Janes! 😆😆😆 #blerd #blackandwhiteandradallover This wasn't...

4 Great Faith-Adjacent Events in November!
I'm SUPER excited to be moderating an evening with Zinzi Clemmons, whose debut novel WHAT WE LOSE is burning up the charts! Not only will...

VISIBLE: WOMEN WRITERS OF COLOR: FAITH ADIELE
Fresh from my summer in Finland, I sat down with long-time pal Deesha Philyaw for her crucial column VISIBLE in The Rumpus. According to...

Annual Fall Faith-based Initiatives
Yesterday's talk (Being the Wrong Person in the Story: Fear & Writing in Troubled Times) kicked off what I like to call the Annual Fall...

Finally playing in Helsinki
Thanks to the amazing folks I met at the Afro European Conference in Tampere early this month, I'm now showing my documentary in Helsinki...

My African Nordic Summer
What a summer! In early June I presented at the NonfictioNow Conference in Reykjavík Iceland, where I finally met Stockholm-based...