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03/29/2020

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11/09/2019

Celebrating World Vegan Month: Vegan Must-Haves - Cuisine Noir Magazine

Celebrating World Vegan Month: Vegan Must-Haves - Cuisine Noir Magazine

Whether you embrace a vegan lifestyle or not, these products are delicious and can be enjoyed by anyone who loves good food.

11/01/2019

Free to roam: Following in the footsteps of a legend along Maryland's Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway | Roadtrippers

Article by "MoJo!" poet Rekaya Gibson!

The self-guided driving tour includes 36 locations—I’m overcome with emotion after visiting just five of them.

08/29/2019

Rita Dove | Biography, Books, & Facts

Happy Birthday, Rita Dove!!!

Rita Dove, American poet, writer, and teacher who was the first African American to serve as poet laureate of the United States (1993–95). Her poems often centered on family life and personal struggle, addressing the larger social and political dimension of the black experience primarily by indire...

04/22/2019

Hello, Friends! Hundreds of people have shared the link to the current online issue of "MoJo!" here on FB or shared via e-mail or PMed me encouraging messages. Thank you so much! You are the reason HCP and I are hanging in there!

02/02/2019

Black Myself: Rhiannon Giddens Forms Supergroup ‘Our Native Daughters’ and Reclaims the Soul of Country Music

Black Myself: Rhiannon Giddens Forms Supergroup ‘Our Native Daughters’ and Reclaims the Soul of Country Music

Four women. In 1966, Nina Simone famously sang the strikingly diverse yet intersecting narratives of four fictional-but-unforgettable black women. Now, four women who could be considered Simone’s spiritual daughters—award-winning musician and composer Rhiannon Giddens, acclaimed neo-folk singer-...

01/10/2019

22-Year-Old Becomes the 1st Black Female Nanoscientist in Virginia

22-Year-Old Becomes the 1st Black Female Nanoscientist in Virginia

Ginai Seabron just made history as the first black woman to become a nanoscientist in the state of Virginia.

01/03/2019

Open submissions for the online journal "MoJo!"
1/7/19 - 3/15/19

12/02/2017

100 Writing Prompts Inspired by Social Media

New from "MoJo!" writer (and Food Temptress) Rekaya Gibson!

100 Writing Prompts Inspired by Social Media offers scenarios and sentences to jump-start the writing process. Some prompts don’t require much time while others take longer. Most will resonate with you from seeing a status, video or meme on social media. Let’s get started writing!

09/26/2017

Author @ the Library presents Margie Shaheed of Tongue Shakers: Interviews and Narratives on Speaking Mother Tongue in a Multicultural Society

Margie Shaheed will be reading from "Tongue Shakers..." (Hamilton Books, 2017) at the New York Public Library next week. October 5th at 6pm.

Her book "Playground: poems" (2015) won the 2014 HCP chapbook contest. She will be in Massachusetts in two weeks. Check back for details.

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2017/10/05/author-library-presents-margie-shaheed-tongue-shakers-interviews-and

Margie Shaheed is a community poet and writer.

11/12/2016

The Hidden Charm Press nominees for the 2017 Pushcart Prize are:

1. "Ode to Joy" by Marcie Eanes
2. "Selfies" by Marcie Eanes
3. "Unequal Among Women" by Rekaya Gibson
4. "Belief" by Meredith King
5. "Unsolicited Advice on How to Love Your Husband: Granny." by Brittany Rogers
6. THE DUSTING by Robin G. White

All poems are from the "Extra Mojo! #2" anthology. Thank you to all the HCP writers who make the press a true labor of love!

10/04/2016

Extra MoJo! #2: an anthology of Black women's poetry and flash memoir (Extra MoJo! Anthologies) (Volume 2)

"Extra MoJo! # 2" is now on sale! This is the second print anthology derived from the online journal of Black women's poetry and memoir, "MoJo!"

https://www.amazon.com/Extra-MoJo-anthology-womens-Anthologies/dp/0692768467/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1475604097&sr=1-1&keywords=extra+mojo+%232

An anthology of 12 Black women's poems and flash memoir. The works are selected from the online journal "MoJo!" (which stands for "MAPS-ONE Journal"...Memoir and Poetry Sisterhood of New England).

05/01/2016

Tell-Tale Inklings

May 30th Update: 3 days until deadline!

NARRATIVE POETRY and FLASH FICTION submissions sought for the print journal Tell-Tale Inklings #2.
(No submission fee; nonpaying market.)

http://tell-talechapbooks.weebly.com/tell-tale-inklings.html

Sisters, this call is from my other small press, so please submit via the e-mail listed on the site's Guidelines page ([email protected]).

Tell-Tale Chapbooks

03/14/2016

Kimbilio Nurtures Black Writers | Poets and Writers

Kimbilio Nurtures Black Writers | Poets and Writers

Now in its third year, the annual Kimbilio fiction writers retreat provides “an oasis, a sort of freeing space, where nobody has to apologize for being their black self or writing about black people.”

03/14/2016

Everyday Feminism Seeks Contributing Writer, Pays Up to $150 per Blog Post

Everyday Feminism Seeks Contributing Writer, Pays Up to $150 per Blog Post

Everyday Feminism, a digital feminist magazine, is currently seeking contributing writers for their blog. They pay $75 per blog post to contributing writers. They pay $150 to “investigative writers.”

03/07/2016

Frances Harper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frances Harper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of social reform and was a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, which advocated the federal government taking a rol…

03/07/2016

2016 New African Films Festival Kicks Off in Silver Springs, MD, March 11-18

2016 New African Films Festival Kicks Off in Silver Springs, MD, March 11-18

AFI Silver's 2016 New African Films Festival kicks off later this month, running from March 11-18, at the historic AFI Silver Theatre, in Si

03/07/2016

Civil Rights and Black Arts Movement Poet Sonia Sanchez Gets Her Own Film

Civil Rights and Black Arts Movement Poet Sonia Sanchez Gets Her Own Film

Maya Angelou called her “a lion in literature’s forest.” She went on the road with legendary jazz drummer Max Roach. And upon hearing Malcolm X...

03/07/2016

Regina King Has So Many Stories to Tell

Regina King Has So Many Stories to Tell

The actress, who won an Emmy for her role in “American Crime,” has found success in playing a wide range of characters.

03/05/2016

Zounds! Prizes for Rita Dove, August Wilson, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., and more! All on film!

Zounds! Prizes for Rita Dove, August Wilson, Joseph Pulitzer Jr., and more! All on film!

Rita Dove’s husband shot the 1987 prize lunch at Columbia’s Low Library. See it here.

03/05/2016

Jazz Singer Sarah Vaughan Is Being Honored With a Postage Stamp

Jazz Singer Sarah Vaughan Is Being Honored With a Postage Stamp

Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Sarah Vaughan is being honored with a Forever stamp by the U.S. Postal Service, the Amsterdam News reports. The unveiling will take place March 29 in Newark, N.J.—where Vaughan was born. The image on the stamp is an oil painting of Vaughan's face during a performance…

02/25/2016

35 Audre Lorde Quotes to Live By

35 Audre Lorde Quotes to Live By

Following a prolonged battle with cancer, Audre Lorde passed away in 1992, leaving behind a body of work that's still a cornerstone in any Women's Studies 101 course. She was among the first to cri...

02/25/2016

Jack Jones Literary Arts

Jack Jones Literary Arts

Including Desiree Cooper's KNOW THE MOTHER (Wayne State University Press, March 2016) and Cole Lavalais's SUMMER OF THE CICADAS (Willow Books, May 2016).

02/25/2016

Obama nominates Carla Hayden to be Librarian of Congress | Baltimore Brew

Obama nominates Carla Hayden to be Librarian of Congress | Baltimore Brew

President Barack Obama today nominated Pratt Library CEO Carla D. Hayden to be Librarian of Congress - an honor which, if conferred, would make her the first

02/11/2016

From the Unwritten Letters of Joseph Freeman by Camille T. Dungy : The Poetry Foundation

From the Unwritten Letters of Joseph Freeman by Camille T. Dungy : The Poetry Foundation

(February, 1841) / Melinda, I've been preparing to write. / That peculiar girl named Molly,