A Celebration of Marita Golden, the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Migrations of the Heart and forty years of writing, teaching and literary activism. |
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (EDT)
FREE Live Event on Facebook & Twitter
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Join Marita Golden and writers Tracy Chiles McGhee and Abdul Ali to discuss and celebrate Marita’s impact as a writer, teacher of writing, mentor, and institution builder.
As a novelist, memoirist, anthologist, and literary activist Marita has created a canon of 22 books, worked with writers in academic institutions, in her individual classes, and built community to sustain and nurture Black writers.
In this program, Marita will be in conversation with novelist Tracy Chiles McGhee and poet Abdul Ali. Marita will discuss her influences, her writing process, and how since 1983 with the publication of her memoir Migrations of the Heart she has “dreamed a world” of stories that many readers hold dear.
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I am the award-winning author of 22 works of fiction and nonfiction, including my memoir, Migrations of the Heart, and my most recent novel The Wide Circumference of Love.
In my role as teacher, coach, and editor, I have worked with many prominent award-winning writers including political analyst Donna Brazile, (Cooking With Grease Stirring the Pots in America), novelists Nicole Dennis-Benn, (Here Comes the Sun and Patsy), Tope Folarin, (A Particular Kind of Black Man), Tracy McGhee, (Melting the Blues), Sadeqa Johnson, (Yellow Wife and Second House From the Corner), short story writer Camille Acker, (Training School for Negro Girls), and memoirists Karen Gray Houston, author of Daughter of the Boycott Carrying on a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy and Nita Wiggins author of Civil Rights Baby, My Story of Race, Sports, and Breaking Barriers in American Journalism and Leslie C. Youngblood, YA author of Love Like Sky and Forever This Summer.
I have taught creative writing in the MFA Creative Writing Programs at George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University and served as Writer-in-Residence at numerous colleges and universities, including the University of the District of Columbia and Johns Hopkins University. As a literary activist, I co-founded The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation.
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About Tracy Chiles McGhee |
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Tracy Chiles McGhee is the CEO of TCM Consulting Group & Gold Fern Press, a multi-genre writer and the award-winning author of the novel Melting the Blues. The novel garnered six awards, among them Honor Book (Fiction) at the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Self-Publishing Literary Awards. Tracy is the founder & curator of the online Womaifesting movement, inspiring 30k followers to manifest their deepest desires and biggest dreams. Tracy is also the co-founder & Director Emeritus of the Literacy Empowerment Action Project, along with Newberry Medalist and NY Times Best-selling Author and Poet Kwame Alexander. |
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Abdul Ali is the author of Trouble Sleeping, his debut collection of poems that won the 2014 New Issues Poetry Book Prize and is the current Editor-at-Large of Pleiades. He has held distinguished teaching appointments at Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, and Howard University Ali lives and creates in Baltimore, MD where he is the co-founder of Thrive Arts. His website is abdulali.net
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