As an affiliate of BlackPR.com, Eartha Watts-Hicks has written countless press releases for products, services, and events. She is a contributing writer for Harlem World's Magazine's blog site. She has written for TheUrbanBookSource.com and several other online publications, as well as having served two terms as director of publications for Cultivating Our Sisterhood International Association, a 501(c)(3).
On the creative spectrum, Eartha is a songwriter, music publisher, and member of ASCAP. She is a member of the acclaimed Harlem Writers Guild, an exclusive network of writers whose roster has included Lorraine Hansberry, Sarah Elizabeth Wright, Audrey Lorde, Grace F. Edwards, Walter Dean Myers, Ruby Dee, Paul Robeson, Maya Angelou, and Terry McMillan. Eartha is a writing fellow of Medgar Evers College's Center for Black Literature and other highly regarded writing programs. She has studied under a host of award winning authors, including Valerie Wilson Wesley, Chris Abani, and Bernice McFadden. On June 13, 2013, Eartha Watts-Hicks received the Just R.E.A.D. 'literary game changers' Award from the NYCHA branch of the NAACP and was named their literacy ambassador for 2013.