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Black Women Deserve Beach Reads with Kristina Forest
Jun 23, 2026
Unknown duration
People Over Place with Toni Ann Johnson
May 19, 2026
44m 51s
Living Cheek by Jowl with Lisa Smith
May 12, 2026
51m 41s
The Psychology of Romance with Ashley Jordan
May 5, 2026
48m 02s
Water's at the Root with Gwendolyn Wallace and Tonya Engel
Apr 28, 2026
38m 10s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/23/26 | Black Women Deserve Beach Reads with Kristina Forest | This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Kristina Forest, author of the romance novel The Summer Girlfriend.In our conversation, Kristina discusses an enraging trip to the bookstore that sparked the idea for the novel, the plotting tools she uses to create meaningful stakes, and why she wanted to put her heroine definitively in her "soft girl era."Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform | — | ||||||
| 5/19/26 | People Over Place with Toni Ann Johnson✨ | auto fictionfamily dynamics+3 | Toni Ann Johnson | Mahogany BooksThe Seven Daughters of Dupree+1 | — | Toni Ann Johnsonauto fiction+5 | — | 44m 51s | |
| 5/12/26 | Living Cheek by Jowl with Lisa Smith✨ | coming of ageidentity+4 | Lisa Smith | Mahogany BooksThe Seven Daughters of Dupree+1 | — | Jamaica RoadLisa Smith+6 | — | 51m 41s | |
| 5/5/26 | The Psychology of Romance with Ashley Jordan✨ | romancewriting process+3 | Ashley Jordan | Mahogany BooksOnce Upon a Time in Dollywood+1 | — | romance novelwriting career+3 | — | 48m 02s | |
| 4/28/26 | Water's at the Root with Gwendolyn Wallace and Tonya Engel✨ | children's literatureBlack traditions+3 | Gwendolyn WallaceTonya Engel | Mahogany BooksDancing with Water+1 | — | children's bookqueer child+4 | — | 38m 10s | |
| 4/21/26 | Every Which Way But Loose with Rickey Fayne✨ | spiritual giftsBlack liberation+3 | Rickey Fayne | Mahogany BooksThe Devil Three Times+1 | — | Rickey FayneThe Devil Three Times+3 | — | 49m 50s | |
| 4/14/26 | A Character Study with Christina Dotson✨ | character developmentwriting process+3 | Christina Dotson | Mahogany BooksThe Seven Daughters of Dupree+1 | — | character studyBlack Thelma and Louise+3 | — | 47m 21s | |
| 4/7/26 | Not for Your Entertainment with Helena Haywoode Henry✨ | capital punishmentyoung adult literature+4 | Helena Haywoode Henry | Mahogany BooksLast Chance Live!+1 | — | capital punishmentyoung adult novel+5 | — | 52m 54s | |
| 4/1/26 | You Gotta Win Joy with Reginald Dwayne Betts✨ | poetryidentity+3 | Reginald Dwayne Betts | Mahogany BooksDoggerel+1 | — | poetryidentity+5 | — | 53m 02s | |
| 3/24/26 | Take a Second Chance with Lizzie Damilola Blackburn✨ | second chance romancetoxic masculinity+3 | Lizzie Damilola Blackburn | Mahogany BooksThe Re-Write+1 | — | second chance romancetoxic masculinity+3 | — | 31m 43s | |
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| 3/17/26 | Where There is Grief, There is Love with Ashley M. Jones✨ | grieflove+4 | Ashley M. Jones | AlabamaMahogany Books+2 | — | grieflove poems+5 | — | 54m 29s | |
| 3/10/26 | Stepping into the Spotlight with Lauren Morrow✨ | auto-fictionartistic voice+3 | Lauren Morrow | Mahogany BooksThe Seven Daughters of Dupree+1 | — | auto-fictionBlack literature+3 | — | 52m 10s | |
| 3/5/26 | The Power in Poetics with Camonghne Felix✨ | poeticspolitical power+4 | Camonghne Felix | Mahogany BooksLet The Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom+1 | — | poeticspolitical power+4 | — | 48m 12s | |
| 3/3/26 | Unruly with Jodi-Ann Burey✨ | workplace discriminationmemoir+4 | Jodi-Ann Burey | Mahogany BooksAuthentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work+1 | — | workplacediscrimination+6 | — | 51m 43s | |
| 2/26/26 | BONUS: Surrendering to the Story with Tayari Jones✨ | storytellingwriting process+3 | Tayari Jones | Mahogany BooksKin+2 | — | Tayari JonesKin+4 | — | 51m 21s | |
| 2/24/26 | Love and Reverence with Donika Kelly | Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Donika Kelly, author of the poetry collection, The Natural Order of Things.It’s a collection of poems paying homage to Donika’s wife, her friends, and especially her family. In our conversation, we discuss how she uses poetry to imagine a future that doesn’t feel possible, the comfort she finds in the natural world, and why she says she’s never writing toward a book. Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Mahogany BooksRate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform | — | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | The Limitlessness of Black Humor with Damon Young | Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Damon Young, author and editor of That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor.The anthology features essays and stories from 24 acclaimed Black writers whose words do work on the page but are also funny AF.In our conversation, we discuss how humor is a vehicle to explore human vulnerabilities, the reason Damon believes Black American humor is the best humor, and the reason he’s got sex on his mind for his future projects.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Mahogany BooksRate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform | — | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | Black in Love with Ebony LaDelle | Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with Ebony LaDelle, editor of the YA Romance Collection: You’ve Got a Place Here too: An Anthology of Black Love Storie set at HBCUs.The collection provides a gathering place for 11 authors to share stories of all representations of love within the HBCU ecosystem.In our conversation, we discuss why it’s necessary to give teens the tools we all need to navigate healthy love relationships, what a platonic soul mate taught her about romantic love, and how the death of her best friend propelled her into her purpose.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platformMahogany Books | — | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | Free Puerto Rico with Dorsía Smith Silva | Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This week on Black and Published, Nikesha speaks with Dorsía Smith Silva, author of the poetry collection, In Inheritance of Drowning.The collection was born out of Dorsía’s experience of living through Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017, becoming a mother, and witnessing the racial reckoning of 2020.In our conversation, we discuss the reason she shays she cannot write light verse, how long she had to put her creative dreams aside to secure her career, and why she believes poetry is the form that offers the most freedom.Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platformMahogany Books | — | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | The Truthtellers - Season 6 | Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!This season on Black & Published, guests help answer the question: What does it mean to be a Black writer?Mahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform | — | ||||||
| 1/27/26 | A "Transcendent" Experience with Jamise Harper and Edrick Scarver | This week on Black & Published, Nikesha celebrates the publication of her latest novel, The Seven Daughters of Dupree, with Bookstagram and Book Tok favorites, Jamise Harper (@diversespines, @spinesvines) and Edrick Scarver (@edrickreadit).They discuss the original title of the novel that informed the whole story line, the greatest takeaway Nikesha wants readers to have when they finish the novel, and the experience of going from an indie to trad author.Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!See Nikesha on TourMahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:The Seven Daughters of Dupree Pre-Order Offer Nikisha Elise Williams, the host of the Black and Published podcast, is celebrating the release of her forthcoming novel, The Seven Daughters of Dupree. This historical fiction novel is about the secrets kept between mothers and daughters over the course of seven generations and is told backwards in time from 1995 to 1860. The Seven Daughters of Dupree will be released on January 27th, 2026, but is available for pre-order now at MahoganyBooks.com. Please consider pre-ordering The Seven Daughters of Dupree today.Mahogany BooksRate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform | — | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | The Eye of an Editor with Alison Callahan | This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with her editor, Alison Callahan who has been working as an editor for 20+ years. They discuss why their editor-author relationship was always destined to be. Plus, the deep dive Alison and her team did into Nikesha's background before making the deal. And why she feels intimidated every time she takes off her editorial hat and tries to approach the page as a potential author.Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!See Nikesha on TourMahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform | — | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | Agent of Record with Peter Steinberg | This week on Black & Published, Nikesha speaks with her literary agent, Peter Steinberg. An agent since 1996, Peter explains the one thing that remains true in publishing even after all these years. Plus, the importance of rejection to an author's career, and what he thinks is the death of good fiction.Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!See Nikesha on TourMahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform | — | ||||||
| 1/6/26 | The Seven Daughters of Dupree and Me | This week on Black & Published, Nikesha dives into how she wrote her forthcoming novel The Seven Daughters of Dupree. From starting the book for a publishing contest just days before she gave birth, to writing and revising as her life fell apart Nikesha breaks down how her novel kept her from a break down, and the kismetic happenstance that occurred between she, her agent, and editor.Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!See Nikesha on TourMahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform | — | ||||||
| 1/6/26 | Introducing The Seven Daughters of Dupree | Black & Published is back for season 6, but before we dive into our regularly scheduled episodes, we're having a mini series all about Nikesha's forthcoming novel The Seven Daughters of Dupree. Over these next four weeks she'll discuss:the writing processhow she got her agenthow the novel sold in a weekthe themes already resonating with early readers.Order Your Copy of The Seven Daughters of Dupree!See Nikesha on TourMahogany BooksMentioned in this episode:Rate & ReviewThanks for listening, family! Please do us a solid and take a quick moment to rate and/or leave a review for this podcast. It will go a long way to making sure content featuring our stories and perspectives are seen on this platform | — | ||||||
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