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Danell Jones’s poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in various publications. Jones has a Ph.D. from Columbia University where she won a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities for her work on Virginia Woolf. She was awarded the Jovanovich Award for Poetry from the University of Colorado and was chosen as a finalist for both the Bakeless Poetry Prize and the PEN/Nelson Algren Award for Fiction. She is the author of The Virginia Woolf Writers’ Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing and Desert Elegy as well as a founder of the Big Sky Writing Workshops. An African in Imperial London, her biography of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor, a forgotten pioneer of African Literature, won the 2019 High Plains Book Award for Nonfiction. Her ne ...more

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Danell Jones Finding or organizing a writing group can be one of the best things you can do. I meet with my group every other week. Knowing that your group will be…moreFinding or organizing a writing group can be one of the best things you can do. I meet with my group every other week. Knowing that your group will be expecting to see work from you every 14 days is a great way to stay on track with a project. (less)

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Danell Jones Thanks for the great question. Sorry it has taken me so long to answer. I was just finishing my latest book: An African in Imperial London: The Indomi…moreThanks for the great question. Sorry it has taken me so long to answer. I was just finishing my latest book: An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor.
Merriman-Labor is a forgotten pioneer of African literature, and the hardest thing about writing his biography was not knowing how the story would end! When I began my research little was known about his life. It has been a joy and a challenge to do this work. What about you? What is the hardest thing about writing for you?(less)

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	Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf, Danell Jones (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.52 avg rating — 13,577 ratings — published 1922 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing 3.85 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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