6 min read
Marcus was halfway through a chapter when Tony started pounding on the front door. Not knocking. Pounding. The sound rattled...
Julia Press Simmons
6 min read
3 min read
Entrepreneurship advice often sounds as though every founder begins with wealthy connections, easy access to investors, and enough financial security...
2 min read
Tayari Jones delivers an emotionally layered novel about two motherless girls whose lifelong friendship survives distance, ambition, grief, and the...
2 min read
The Loyal League Series Belongs on Every Historical Romance Fan’s Bookshelf By Intellectual Ink Magazine This holiday weekend we’re going...
2 min read
Some days, writing does not happen in peace. It happens between errands, appointments, work, caregiving, bills, grief, and whatever else...
3 min read
Book Club Spotlight: Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known by George M. Johnson
George M. Johnson’s Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known is more than a history lesson. It is...
8 min read
By Week 18, you have studied the manuscript from several revision angles. You have looked at story, theme, structure, character...
8 min read
By Week 16, you have already begun looking at your manuscript through a revision lens. Week 14 focused on story,...
6 min read
Independent Bookstore Day is a celebration of the bookstores that keep local literary culture alive. These are the places where...
3 min read
While names like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen often dominate conversations about the Harlem Renaissance, the movement...
