Renee Cronin | Fistful of Love | At the age of 23, social worker, Jeya Wellington was pretty much on her own. The devastating loss of her parents left her bereft and alone. Her best f
Sky Lee | Disappearing Moon Cafe | Sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, always compelling, this extraordinary first novel chronicles the women of the Wong family from frontier railroa
For the Love of Learning | Queer Monologues | Produced by For the Love of Learning, an arts-based non-profit organization working with youth in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Queer Monologues: Stories
Tenea D. Johnson | Smoketown | In the neurosis-filled city of Smoketown, where birds are outlawed after being blamed for a devastating plague, three purposes collide to alter the ci
Susie Taylor | Even Weirder Than Before | Daisy’s job is to be as unobtrusive as possible. But when her father suddenly leaves and her mother breaks down, Daisy’s old life disappears, and she
Saydeah E. Howard | First Bloom | First Bloom, a collection of stories about blossoming Black lesbian love, takes a look at the beginnings–and sometimes the middle and end–of the lov
Nikki Giovanni | The Prosaïc Soul of Nikki Giovanni | For the first time, the collected prose of national treasure Nikki Giovanni Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Yea
Nik Nicholson | Descendants Of Hagar | It’s 1914 in Zion, Georgia, during the Black Codes, when Negroes were lynched for one wrong glance. A time when marriage was an agreement between a wo
S. Andrea Allen | A Failure to Communicate | A Failure to Communicate, S. Andrea Allen’s debut collection of short fiction, focuses on how communication, or the lack thereof, impacts Black women’
