Harlem Writers Guild

10/08/2025

Counting down the days until our big celebration!🎉

Join us at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Harlem Writers Guild!

We’ll be honoring Dr. Brenda M. Greene — award-winning educator, scholar, literary activist, and radio host — and featuring an inspiring keynote address by Kevin Powell , renowned activist, writer, and speaker.

✨Admission is FREE! Reserve your tickets now through the link below.✨

✨ https://HWG75thAnniversary.eventbrite.com ✨

09/26/2025

Join us as we celebrate 75 years of storytelling and legacy! ✨✨

The Harlem Writers Guild invites you to our 75th Anniversary Celebration at the historic Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Friday, October 24, 2025.

From 6pm - 9:30pm we’ll be honoring our past, celebrating our present and inspiring the future HWG writers.

Get your tickets below!
https://HWG75thAnniversary.eventbrite.com

09/19/2025

As the Harlem Writers Guild celebrates 75 years of amplifying Black voices and shaping literary history, we unveil our new logo—a symbol of our enduring legacy and bold future.

This refreshed look honors the power of our past while embracing the promise of what’s next—reflecting the creativity, resilience, and evolution of generations of writers who continue to inspire and free the world through storytelling.

Here’s to three-quarters of a century of literary excellence—and to the next 75 years of words that move, challenge, and transform.

09/15/2025

THE HARLEM WRITERS GUILD virtual event in line with the Brooklyn Book Festival is this Wednesday at 7pm.



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John Robinson
Kendall D. Glaspie
Judy C. Andrews
Dr. Robert J. Woodbine
Angela Dews
Marc Polite
Maigen Jones
Bob McNeil
Gene Anthony Jr Edwards
Clinton Long
Brian J T Watts
JaVonne Armstrong
Lorraine Treadwell

For more information about the Harlem Writers Guild, visit our website www.theharlemwritersguild.org.

Mark your calendars for September 17, 2025, and get ready to be inspired!

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Join us for a virtual gathering hosted by The Harlem Writers Guild, where talented writers will showcase their work and share their creative

09/10/2025

The Harlem Writers Guild (HWG), the nation’s oldest continuously operating African American writers’ organization, proudly celebrates 75 years of Black literary legacy.

📖 When We Write, We Free the World
🗓 Friday, October 24, 2025
📍 The historic Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Join us for an evening honoring the past, inspiring the present, and shaping the future of Black storytelling. Writers, scholars, community leaders, and literature lovers from around the world will gather to celebrate this historic milestone.

09/08/2025

📚✨ We’re bringing our stories to the 2025 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends!

🗓️ Sept 17 | ⏰ 7:00 PM

📖Live readings by our Harlem Writers Guild authors

🔗 To register, click on the link in our bio.

08/26/2025

📚✨ Exciting news! ✨📚

Author Marc Polite will be at Sisters Uptown Bookstore on September 20, 2025 to discuss his latest book Stand on Ganymede and sign copies! 🖊️🚀🖊️🚀

Don’t miss this chance to connect with the author and grab your signed copy.

07/16/2025

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We had an incredible time celebrating 100 years of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the Schomburg Literary Festival in Harlem!
A few of our Harlem Writers Guild members showed up to represent—sharing their work, building community, and honoring a century of Black literary excellence.

Rain or shine, the legacy lives on. 🌧️📚✊🏾

07/14/2025

📚 Meet our very own at the 12th Annual Independent Authors Book Expo ( )

🗓️ Saturday, September 6, 2025
🕛 12 PM – 5 PM
📍 Warinanco Sports Center
Roselle, NJ 07203

Come out to support independent authors, explore new books, and connect with fellow readers and writers!

06/17/2025

We’re proud to share that HWG writer Minnette Coleman had the honor of participating in the 10th Anniversary celebration of Writers Read in Fall 2024.

For the occasion, contributors were invited to write 5-minute essays on the theme “TEN.” Minnette’s powerful piece, “Ten Tiny Pages,” tells the story of her father—a reporter for The Atlanta Daily World—who covered the ex*****on of a Black man accused of assaulting a white woman.

We’re thrilled to announce that Minnette’s essay was selected for inclusion in the Writers Read 10th Anniversary Anthology, featuring some of the most impactful essays from the past decade.

📚 The anthology is available on Amazon.
🎥 Watch a clip of Minnette reading her essay via the link on our Facebook post or in our IG story.

https://youtu.be/m7P8-C1mNr8?si=gPB2a2Jmfz1GajpF

06/17/2025

If you missed us this weekend, please follow @ theharlemwritersguild across all Social Media for more information about the Harlem Writers Guild's 75th Anniversary Event. Here is some archived footage from the 2021 Schomburg Center Literary Festival.


Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Harlem Writers Guild


Watch on YouTube

Voices from HARLEM, presented by the Harlem Writers Guild, featuring Jogn Robinson, Marc W. Polite, Angela Dews, Malik Kirkwood, Eartha Watts Hicks, Sylvia White, Dr. Robert J. Woodbine, Kay Bell, Judy C. Andrew, Minette Coleman, and Diane Richards.

3:15 PM (EDT) | Harlem Writers Guild Author Previewwith executive director Diane Richards and guild authors John Robinson, Marc Polite, Angela Dews, Malik Ki...

06/17/2025

The Harlem Writers Guild proudly celebrates our very own Minnette Coleman on the 15th anniversary of her beloved novel, The Blacksmith’s Daughter. ✨

You can grab your copy at Sisters Uptown Bookstore & Community Center, The Schomburg Bookstore, or on Amazon. 📚

Join us in showing love and support for Minnette and this incredible literary milestone! 🎉❤️