Hosted by Nikesha Elise Williams · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 210 episodes
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Black & Published brings you the journeys of writers, poets, playwrights, and storytellers of all kinds to discuss what it means to be a writer, dissect the writing process, and demystify the steps between concept and publication.
Nikesha Elise Williams hosts Black & Published, a arts show with 210 episodes published.
This week on Black & Published , Nikesha speaks with Regina Black , author of the country romance novel, August Lane . The book recontexutalizes the narrative around who can be a country star as well as expands the persp
This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Kristina Forest , author of the romance novel The Summer Girlfriend . In our conversation, Kristina discusses an enraging trip to the bookstore that sparked the idea fo
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Toni Ann Johnson author of the new short story collection, But Where's Home . The collection dives even further into
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Lisa Smith , author of the novel, Jamaica Road . It’s a coming of age story that spans 12 years in the lives of Conni
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Ashley Jordan , the author of the romance novel, Once Upon a Time in Dollywood . In our conversation, Ashley explains
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Gwendolyn Wallace and Tonya Engel , the author and illustrator of the new picture book, Dancing with Water . It's a s
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Rickey Fayne , author of the novel The Devil Three Times . A multi-generational story about one family, their spiritu
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Christina Dotson , author of the novel Love You to Death . The story is billed as a Black Thelma and Louise who go on
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Helena Haywoode Henry , author of the YA novel, Last Chance Live! The book looks at the price of eternity through the
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Reginald Dwayne Betts , author of the poetry collection, Doggerel , which he says is his most joyous to date. In our
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Lizzie Damilola Blackburn about her second novel, The Re-Write . A second chance romance between a full-figured woman
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Ashley M. Jones , author of the poetry collection, Lullaby for the Grieving . A deeply personal look at what it means
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Lauren Morrow . Author of the novel, Little Movements . A book that explores what it means to leave behind the life y
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published , Nikesha speaks with Camonghne Felix, author of Let The Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom . It’s a treatise on the inherent harm of
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Jodi-Ann Burey , author of the book Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work . Part memoir, part sociol
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published , Nikesha speaks with Tayari Jones , author of the novel Kin . Kin, is Tayari’s fifth novel and her second Oprah’s book club pick after 20
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Donika Kelly , author of the poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things . It’s a collection of poems paying homag
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Damon Young , author and editor of That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor . The antholo
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Ebony LaDelle , editor of the YA Romance Collection: You’ve Got a Place Here too: An Anthology of Black Love Storie s
Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree ! This season on Black & Published, guests help answer the question: What does it mean to be a Black writer? Mahogany Books Mentioned in this episode: Rate & Review Thanks
Lisa Smith
host of the Recovery Rocks podcast, author of Girl Walks Out of a Bar, former practicing lawyer · Women’s Domestic and Family Violence Court Advocacy
1 appearance on this show
Ashley Jordan
author of Unhappy Achiever
1 appearance on this show
Christina Dotson
LOVE YOU TO DEATH author
1 appearance on this show
Reginald Dwayne Betts
1 appearance on this show
Tayari Jones
novelist
1 appearance on this show
Damon Young
Bad Faith
1 appearance on this show
Ebony LaDelle
1 appearance on this show
Rachel Howzell Hall
author
1 appearance on this show
Nikkolas Smith
artist
1 appearance on this show
Kiese Laymon
2 appearances on this show
Denne Michele Norris
Editor-in-Chief · Electric Literature
1 appearance on this show
Jill Tew
queen of dystopian
1 appearance on this show
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