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From the Magazine
Reading Books in Black and White
by Carleen Brice
News and Trends
November/December 2009
Author Carleen Brice recommends titles in honor of National Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give It to Somebody Not Black Month, the book-buying campaign she launched last year to heighten awareness of black authors who aren't as famous as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Colson Whitehead.
Q&A: Eady Sees Cave Canem Success
by Thomas Sayers Ellis
News and Trends
November/December 2006
A decade after the founding of Cave Canem, Eady speaks about the ways in which the organization has developed into a "safe haven for black poets."
Out of Ethiopia: An Interview With Nega Mezlekia
by Therese Eiben
Feature
January/February 2002
Ethiopian exile Nega Mezlekia's memoir, Notes From the Hyena's Belly, details his remarkable boyhood in Jijiga, a city in the eastern part of the Horn of Africa built on a "dry, sandless desert where even the smallest wind creates devils—whirlwinds of dust that rise high into the heavens and are visible from miles away."
From Grants & Awards
- DEADLINE: April 30
Cave Canem Foundation
Poetry Prize - DEADLINE: March 15
Cave Canem Foundation
Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize - DEADLINE: December 18
Black Caucus of the American Library Association
Literary Awards
From the Databases
RedBone Press
RedBone Press publishes quality work celebrating the cultures of black lesbians and gay men, and work that further promotes understanding between black gays and lesbians and the mainstream. RedBone Press
RedBone Press publishes quality work celebrating the cultures of black lesbians and gay men, and work that further promotes understanding between black gays and lesbians and the mainstream.