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Toni Ann Johnson's "But Where's Home?"
Jun 11, 2026
1h 24m 54s
Bonus Episode: Representing ‘MY’ Black Experience featuring Theresa Okokon
May 30, 2026
1h 22m 00s
The Tribulations of Triangles Featuring Charmaine Leticia Wilcox
May 28, 2026
1h 01m 22s
An Intimate History of Black Feminism Featuring Dr. Jenn M. Jackson
May 23, 2026
1h 27m 21s
Growing Your Roots Where You Land Featuring Cedric Muhikira
May 14, 2026
29m 56s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/11/26 | Toni Ann Johnson's "But Where's Home?"✨ | literatureawards+3 | Toni Ann Johnson | Roxane GayNAACP+4 | — | Toni Ann JohnsonLight Skin Gone to Waste+3 | — | 1h 24m 54s | |
| 5/30/26 | Bonus Episode: Representing ‘MY’ Black Experience featuring Theresa Okokon✨ | Black experiencestorytelling+3 | Theresa Okokon | Straw Dog Writers GuildThe LAVA Center | Greenfield, MA | Black experienceTheresa Okokon+3 | — | 1h 22m 00s | |
| 5/28/26 | The Tribulations of Triangles Featuring Charmaine Leticia Wilcox✨ | multi-genre narrativesindependent publishing+3 | Charmaine Leticia Wilcox | Triangles Publishing | — | Charmaine Leticia WilcoxTriangles Publishing+3 | — | 1h 01m 22s | |
| 5/23/26 | An Intimate History of Black Feminism Featuring Dr. Jenn M. Jackson✨ | Black FeminismBlack Politics+4 | Dr. Jenn M. Jackson | Syracuse University | — | Black FeminismBlack Politics+5 | — | 1h 27m 21s | |
| 5/14/26 | Growing Your Roots Where You Land Featuring Cedric Muhikira✨ | migrationcultural fusion+3 | Cedric Muhikira | Libaax: Grow Your Roots Where You... | RwandaUnited States+1 | Cedric Muhikiramigration+5 | — | 29m 56s | |
| 5/1/26 | Finding Home Through Life, Love, and Loss Featuring Denise Nicholas✨ | memoirpersonal journey+4 | Denise Nicholas | Agate BoldenFinding Home | Detroit | Denise Nicholasmemoir+5 | — | 52m 21s | |
| 4/23/26 | Black Love & Travel Through Wanderlust Romance featuring Cher Terais✨ | Black lovetravel+3 | Cher Terais | As Written by Cher Terais | — | Black womenromance+3 | — | 1h 08m 55s | |
| 4/9/26 | Healing Through Books Featuring Bibliotherapist, Emely Rumble, LICSW✨ | mental healthbibliotherapy+3 | Emely Rumble | Black Writers Readbibliotherapy | — | mental healthbibliotherapy+4 | — | 1h 11m 11s | |
| 4/2/26 | The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work Featuring Jodi-Ann Burey✨ | raceculture+3 | Jodi-Ann Burey | Flatiron BooksAuthentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work | — | authenticityworkplace+5 | — | 1h 22m 08s | |
| 3/17/26 | Living Life After Death Changes Everything featuring Debut Author, Michael D. Whitney✨ | personal journeycreative writing+4 | Michael D. Whitney | Annetta's Michael: Living Life After Death Changes Everything | — | Michael D. WhitneyAnnetta's Michael+5 | — | 1h 06m 13s | |
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| 2/26/26 | A Conversation with 'A Future Ancient' featuring Sherese Francis✨ | poetryinterdisciplinary arts+3 | Sherese Francis | A Future Ancient | — | Sherese Francispoetry+4 | — | 1h 08m 55s | |
| 2/5/26 | Why Not Us?, featuring wife writing team, Naomi Rivers | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Naomi Rivers. Naomi Rivers writes lesbian romance and women’s fiction. Naomi Rivers is a wife writing team who believes in romance, fairy tales, and happily ever after. Their first novel, THIS: A Simple, Complex Love Story, was written over twenty years to maintain their connection during multiple deployments. They are both retired U.S. military veterans and reside with their two rescue dogs on the east coast. Naomi’s work has... | 1h 12m 04s | ||||||
| 1/15/26 | How Culture & Colonization Inform Craft, On Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico and Climate Change featuring Dorsía Smith Silva | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Dorsía Smith Silva, which was live-streamed on October 19, 2025. We chatted about her debut poetry collection, In Inheritance of Drowning (CavanKerry Press, 2024). In this striking debut, Dorsía Smith Silva explores the devastating effects of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, highlighting the natural world, the lasting impact of hurricanes, and the marginalization of Puerto Ricans. These poems also focus on the multiple sites of... | 1h 27m 03s | ||||||
| 1/1/26 | Kiss My Art & the Living Memoir featuring Tiriq Rashad | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Tiriq Rashad, which was live-streamed on October 17, 2025 as a part of our National Black Poetry Day marathon. We chatted about his recently released spoken word album, Kiss My Art. Tiriq Rashad, a proud native of “Atlantic-Ville” (Atlantic City and Pleasantville), blends his social work background with a gift for storytelling to create work rooted in resilience, authenticity, and healing. Author of A Diamond In God’s Dirt and... | 54m 29s | ||||||
| 12/13/25 | Filtering Out the "Noise" Through Poetry featuring Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton, which was live-streamed on October 17, 2025 as a part of our National Black Poetry Day marathon. Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton is an award-winning poet, educator, Pushcart Prize nominee, and publisher. Lofton is the author of more than thirty-five collections of poetry and more than one-hundred and seventy spoken word albums. His poems have appeared in Clock House Journal, Revenge, UpStreet, Experien... | 1h 25m 59s | ||||||
| 11/28/25 | Igniting New Beginnings featuring Damon Moore | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Damon Moore, which was live-streamed on October 17, 2025 as a part of our National Black Poetry Day marathon. We talked about his debut poetry collection, Anthems for an American Apocalypse Volume One: Poems for Recitation and Resuscitation. Bridging psychology and prophecy, Damon Moore crafts mythic verse that prods you into awakening. Anthems of the American Apocalypse Volume One burns with themes of identity, culture, and r... | 59m 16s | ||||||
| 11/14/25 | Rebirth, Resilience, and Reflection featuring The Honorable Tiffany D. Tilley | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with self-help author, the Honorable Tiffany D. Tilley, which was live-streamed on October 14, 2025. Tiffany D. Tilley is an author, leader, advocate, and luminary from Detroit with a multi-faceted background that often intersects across education, communications, government, real estate development, community and economic development, and nonprofit leadership. A dedicated public servant, she was elected to the Michigan State Board... | 1h 06m 53s | ||||||
| 10/10/25 | It's a New Dawn, It's a New Day featuring Dr. Shonda Buchanan | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Dr. Shonda Buchanan, which was live-streamed on September 14, 2025. We talked about her recent poetry collection, The Lost Songs of Nina Simone and her debut memoir, Black Indian. Kalamazoo, Michigan native Dr. Shonda Buchanan is a three-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Oxfam Ambassador and a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow and PEN America Mentor. An Associate Professor in the Department of English at Western Michigan Uni... | 1h 01m 58s | ||||||
| 9/19/25 | Claiming a Black-Biracial Identity Through Memory, Memoir, and Connections with Shannon Luders-Manuel | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Shannon Luders-Manuel, which was live-streamed on September 7, 2025. We welcomed Shannon back to the virtual platform to talk about her debut memoir, The One Who Loves You. Shannon Luders-Manuel is the author of the memoir, The One Who Loves You: A Memoir of Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World, published by Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press which was released in February of 2025. Shannon holds ... | 1h 01m 41s | ||||||
| 9/3/25 | Season Six Trailer | Send us Fan Mail Black Writers Read has reached its sixth season! Check out this trailer to get a sneak peek of the upcoming season. Conversations here on Black Writers Read question our own subjectivities as creatives, justify our choices as writers, acknowledge our growths, chiseling through barriers so that others behind us don’t face the same challenges and of course, remaining hopeful in our constantly shifting world - one that continues to erase our histories, representations, and ident... | 3m 44s | ||||||
| 9/2/25 | Roller Skating, Romance, and Resistance through Gentrification with Arriel Vinson | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Arriel Vinson, which was live-streamed on May 24, 2025. We chatted about her debut young adult (YA) novel in verse, Under the Neon Lights (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, June 3. 2025). Arriel Vinson is a Reese's Book Club LitUp Fellow and Midwesterner who writes about being young, Black, and in search of freedom. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in ... | 1h 09m 16s | ||||||
| 7/31/25 | Black Writers Read Celebrates 15 Years of The Kweli Journal featuring Laura Pegram | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Laura Pegram, founding editor of The Kweli Journal, to chat about Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection, an anthology published in celebration of their 15th anniversary, which was live-streamed on May 17, 2025. Hailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” The Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. Kweli—“truth” in Swahili—marks its fifteenth anniversary with ... | 1h 15m 41s | ||||||
| 6/12/25 | Black Writers Read: Eden Royce | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Eden Royce (Southern Gothic.), which was live-streamed on May 3, 2025. Eden Royce is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina now living in Southeast England. She is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and a Bram Stoker Award nominee for her adult short fiction, which has appeared in various print and online magazines. Her debut middle-grade novel, ROOT MAGIC is a Walter Award Honoree, a Nebula Award finalist, a Mythopoeic Fantas... | 1h 23m 01s | ||||||
| 6/2/25 | Black Writers Read: Essie Chambers | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Essie Chambers, which was live-streamed on April 22, 2025. Essie Chambers is an award-winning author and producer. Her debut novel, Swift River—a Today Show “Read with Jenna” Book Club pick—won the 2024 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, Elle, and others. It was also longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and The Cen... | 1h 12m 11s | ||||||
| 5/15/25 | Black Writers Read: Brother's Keeper Poetry Theater Ensemble | Send us Fan Mail This episode features our conversation with Brother’s Keeper Poetry Theater Ensemble, which was live-streamed on April 12, 2025. Since 2013, Brother’s Keeper Poetry Theater Ensemble has been a beacon of hope and transformation, weaving together words, emotions, and stories to create powerful theatrical performances that resonate deeply with their audiences. The group blends elements of poetry, spoken word, theatre and music to create a unique performance which is not on... | 1h 40m 51s | ||||||
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