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Black Writers Read
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109 episodes
Growing Your Roots Where You Land Featuring Cedric Muhikira
This episode features our conversation with Cedric Muhikira, which was live-streamed on January 18, 2026.Cedric Muhikira is a self-t...
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Finding Home Through Life, Love, and Loss Featuring Denise Nicholas
This episode features our conversation with author, actress, and activist Denise Nicholas, which was live-streamed on January 17, 2026.Nicholas's memoir,
Black Love & Travel Through Wanderlust Romance featuring Cher Terais
This episode features our conversation with Cher Terais, which was live-streamed on December 21, 2025.
Healing Through Books Featuring Bibliotherapist, Emely Rumble, LICSW
This episode features our conversation with Emely Rumble, LICSW, which was live-streamed on December 2, 2025. Emely Rumble, LICSW is a distin...
The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work Featuring Jodi-Ann Burey
This episode features our conversation with Jodi-Ann Burey, which was live-streamed on November 18, 2025. Jodi-Ann Burey (she/her) is a writer and crit...
Living Life After Death Changes Everything featuring Debut Author, Michael D. Whitney
This episode features our conversation with Michael D. Whitney, which was live-streamed on November 9, 2025. Michael D. Whitney is the author of Annetta's Michael:...
A Conversation with 'A Future Ancient' featuring Sherese Francis
This episode features our conversation with Sherese Francis (poetry.), which was live-streamed on November 2, 2025.
Why Not Us?, featuring wife writing team, Naomi Rivers
This episode features our conversation with Naomi Rivers.Naomi Rivers writes lesbian romance and women’s fiction. Naomi R...
How Culture & Colonization Inform Craft, On Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico and Climate Change featuring Dorsía Smith Silva
This episode features our conversation with Dorsía Smith Silva, which was live-streamed on October 19, 2025. We chatted about her debut poetry collection,
Kiss My Art & the Living Memoir featuring Tiriq Rashad
This 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 released spoken word album,
Filtering Out the "Noise" Through Poetry featuring Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton
This 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 Alek-Chiz...
Igniting New Beginnings featuring Damon Moore
This 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 collection, Anthems f...
Rebirth, Resilience, and Reflection featuring The Honorable Tiffany D. Tilley
This 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, advocate, and luminary from Detroit with a multi-fac...
It's a New Dawn, It's a New Day featuring Dr. Shonda Buchanan
This episode features our conversation with Dr. Shonda Buchanan, which was live-streamed on September 14, 2025. We talked about her recent poetry collection,
Claiming a Black-Biracial Identity Through Memory, Memoir, and Connections with Shannon Luders-Manuel
This 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...
Season Six Trailer
Black 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 as creatives, justify our choices as writers, ack...
Roller Skating, Romance, and Resistance through Gentrification with Arriel Vinson
This 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,
Black Writers Read Celebrates 15 Years of The Kweli Journal featuring Laura Pegram
This episode features our conversation with Laura Pegram, founding editor of The Kweli Journal, to chat about
Black Writers Read: Eden Royce
This episode features our conversation with Eden Royce (Southern Gothic.), which was live-streamed on May 3, 2025. Eden Royce is a writer from C...
Black Writers Read: Essie Chambers
This episode features our conversation with Essie Chambers, which was live-streamed on April 22, 2025. Essie Chambers is an award-winnin...
Black Writers Read: Brother's Keeper Poetry Theater Ensemble
This episode features our conversation with Brother’s Keeper Poetry Theater Ensemble, which was live-streamed on April 12, 2025. Since 2013, Brother’s...
Black Writers Read: Nzima Hutchings
This episode features our conversation with Nzima Hutchings (poetry. prose.), the 2023-2025 Poet Laureate for Enfield, Connecticut, which was livestreamed ...
Black Writers Read: Reese Ryan
This episode features our conversation with contemporary romance author, Reese Ryan, which was live-streamed on March 23, 2025.Award-winning author