Dear White Publishers
“I would like to be among the crop of Black writers who emerged from the ashes of a torched racist system.”
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“I would like to be among the crop of Black writers who emerged from the ashes of a torched racist system.”
The #PublishingPaidMe hashtag highlights anti-Black bias within the publishing industry and opens up the conversation about how editors determine book advances.
“The list of what you can’t do is endless because I know how quickly #blackboyjoy can become #sayhisname.”
“Where do Black folks put all this pain? Where do we put all our anger?”
The owner of the recently opened Harriett’s Bookshop, which specializes in the work of Black and women authors, talks about the arts as a tool for social change and her vision for the store.
“You place yourself in the story, and one by one you begin to fill in the holes the world has left behind.”
“How can I love a people who want to destroy me? How can I protect myself in that love?”
“I write sporadically and edit often.” —francine j. harris, author of Here Is the Sweet Hand
The author of Horsepower reimagines the bildungsroman to honor the narrative arc of Black childhood.
The author of Horsepower examines and resists the racism and subconscious anxieties that infect the U.S. literary imagination.