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Black Writers Read
Black Writers Read showcases, celebrates, and honors the words, work, and traditions of Black writers from across the country, across genres, across experiences, and across the African Diaspora. This podcast series is produced and hosted by performance poet, playwright, events curator, and educator Nicole M. Young-Martin. Find us on Instagram: @blackwritersread. Find Nicole on Instagram: @coco_penexplore.
Episodes
87 episodes
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
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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1:33:07
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Black Writers Read: LaTanya Orr
This episode features our conversation with nonfiction, business, and Christian Self-Help author, LaTanya Orr, which was live-streamed on March 15, 2025.Brand strategist, certified life coach and visual storyteller, LaTanya Orr...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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57:46
Black Writers Read: Donna J. Nicol
This episode features our conversation with Dr. Donna J. Nicol, which was live-streamed on March 8, 2025, the day nationally recognized as International Women’s Day. We talked about her book, ...
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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1:24:54
Black Writers Read: Victoria Christopher Murray
This episode features our conversation with Victoria Christopher Murray, which was live-streamed on March 1, 2025. Victo...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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1:02:24
Black Writers Read: Roya Marsh
This episode features our conversation with Roya Marsh, which was live-streamed on February 3, 2025. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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1:08:59
Black Writers Read: Justin Haynes
This episode features our conversation with Justin Haynes, which was live-streamed on January 18, 2025. Justin Haynes ...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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1:03:58
Black Writers Read: T'challa Williams
This episode features our conversation with T’challa Williams, which was live-streamed on January 11, 2025. Through love, marriage, motherhood and loss, T’challa Williams' voice...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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1:38:23
Black Writers Read: Jennifer Janell
This episode features our conversation with Jennifer Janell (spicy women's fiction.), which was live-streamed on December 21, 2024. Je...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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1:07:18
Black Writers Read: Crystal Senter-Brown
This episode features our conversation with Crystal Senter-Brown, which was live-streamed on December 14, 2024. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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48:30
Black Writers Read: DuEwa Frazier
This episode features our conversation with Dr. DuEwa Frazier, which was live-streamed on December 7, 2024. Dr. DuEwa Frazier<...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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1:29:56
Black Writers Read: Sabin Prentis Duncan
This episode features our conversation with Sabin Prentis Duncan, which was live-streamed on December 7, 2024.
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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1:44:58
Black Writers Read: Ebony Aya
This episode features our conversation with Ebony Aya, which was live-streamed on November 23, 2024. During our chat, we talked about her latest book,
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:34:17
Black Writers Read: Brianna Wheeler
This episode features our conversation with Brianna Wheeler, which was live-streamed on November 16, 2024. Brianna Wheeler covers cannabis...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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1:26:36
Black Writers Read: Nathan Alexander Moore
This episode features our conversation with Nathan Alexander Moore (Speculative Fiction. Poetry. Nonfiction. Critical Theory.), which was live-streamed on November 2, 2024. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:20:29
Black Writers Read: Adrian Burks
This episode features our conversation with Adrian Burks, which was live-streamed on October 20, 2024. Adrian Burks
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:24:41
Black Writers Read: Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman
This episode features our conversation with Dr. Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, which was live-streamed on October 19, 2024. We chatted about her recently released poetry collections,
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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1:37:19
Black Writers Read: Tracy Cross's A Gathering of Weapons
On this episode, we welcomed back Tracy Cross (who first joined us in Season Two) for our conversation on October 5, 2024 to talk about her recently released second book,
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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1:22:15
Black Writers Read: Lori L. Tharps
This episode features our conversation from September 28, 2024 with Lori L. Tharps, founder of the Reed, Write & Create platform.Lori is an award-winning author, journalist ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:28:12
BONUS: Nicole + Jasmine Chat about 'The Other Black Girl'
This special bonus episode of Black Writers Read is the first episode of Season Eight of Podcasting is the New Kink! which features me as a guest co-host! I was invited by Jasmine Gary to join her on her platform to chat about the novel,
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Season 5
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59:20
Bonus: Isabel Wilkerson's Caste, a Conversation with Pink Lady Jasmine Gary
This episode features my conversation with guest host, fellow Black woman podcaster Jasmine Gary, about the book, Caste: The Origin of our Discontents (2020)
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Season 5
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1:08:37
Black Writers Read: Yael Valencia Aldana
This episode features our conversation with Yael Valencia Aldana, the recipient of the
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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1:11:05
Black Writers Read: Season Five Trailer
Welcome to Season Five of Black Writers Read!For this season, we're expanding the definition of “writer” to look at narrative construction. We start the season with a
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Season 5
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3:44
A Conversation with Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin from A24's SING SING
This bonus episode features my recent conversation with Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin from the latest release from A24 Films,
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20:46