Louella Bryant's Blog - Posts Tagged "writing"
Good Words, Good Reads
I'm delighted to have an author page with Goodreads and to meet followers. Hello and hurrah! I know you're all reading, and some of you are writing, too. I can help with both. I hold the MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in fiction and a Master's in Education and Human Development from George Washington University. My undergrad degree from GWU was in English, focusing on writing of the Elizabethan era. That didn't get me far, haha. I edit writers' work and am happy to look at yours. See my website for contact info: http://louellabryant.com.
When I began teaching high school English in 1976, I was asked to teach American literature. I was as much a student as my 11th graders when it came to U.S. authors. But after 25 years of teaching, I finally got a handle on writing that is truly American.
For several years, I read mostly books and stories by black writers, including Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Alexis De Veaux, Maya Angelou, Wanda Coleman, and many, many others. Their writing is diverse and ranges from African topics to inner-city tales in the U.S., from New England to Southern California, and everywhere in between. I fell in love with the cadences of their writing and the brutal honesty of what they had to say. For many years, these women were my teachers.
Three of my published books deal with the topic of race, The Black Bonnet, Father By Blood, and Cowboy Code. My forthcoming memoir, Hot Springs and Moonshine Liquor, includes stories about black women working in the underground during Prohibition as well as Native Americans who made hooch. And even though my working novel, Sheltering Angel, is about the Titanic (on which there were few if any black passengers), I include a chapter about Booker T. Washington and his conflict with Boston's black newspaper publisher Monroe Trotter. To see how I managed that trick, you'll have to get the book.
Hot Springs and Moonshine Liquor is due for release December 23, but you may preorder with a 15% discount using the code PREORDER2020. Just go to the Black Rose Writing website and be sure to click the preorder link: https://www.blackrosewriting.com/nonf....
Let's keep the conversation going!
When I began teaching high school English in 1976, I was asked to teach American literature. I was as much a student as my 11th graders when it came to U.S. authors. But after 25 years of teaching, I finally got a handle on writing that is truly American.
For several years, I read mostly books and stories by black writers, including Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Alexis De Veaux, Maya Angelou, Wanda Coleman, and many, many others. Their writing is diverse and ranges from African topics to inner-city tales in the U.S., from New England to Southern California, and everywhere in between. I fell in love with the cadences of their writing and the brutal honesty of what they had to say. For many years, these women were my teachers.
Three of my published books deal with the topic of race, The Black Bonnet, Father By Blood, and Cowboy Code. My forthcoming memoir, Hot Springs and Moonshine Liquor, includes stories about black women working in the underground during Prohibition as well as Native Americans who made hooch. And even though my working novel, Sheltering Angel, is about the Titanic (on which there were few if any black passengers), I include a chapter about Booker T. Washington and his conflict with Boston's black newspaper publisher Monroe Trotter. To see how I managed that trick, you'll have to get the book.
Hot Springs and Moonshine Liquor is due for release December 23, but you may preorder with a 15% discount using the code PREORDER2020. Just go to the Black Rose Writing website and be sure to click the preorder link: https://www.blackrosewriting.com/nonf....
Let's keep the conversation going!
