![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Terrance Hayes is the author of seven collections of poetry, including American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets, 2018), which received the 2019 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award for poetry, the 2020 Bobbitt Prize, and was a finalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry, the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and was shortlisted for the 2018 T. He received a BA from Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina, where he studied painting and English and was an Academic All-American on the men’s basketball team, and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh writing program. Terrance Hayes was born in Columbia, South Carolina, on November 18, 1971. ![]()
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One example of how Bethune’s vision paid off was that of Dovey Johnson Roundtree, who was a member of the first WAAC Officers training class. She foresaw how the training the women would receive, and later their veterans’ benefits, would help continue the struggle for civil rights. She positioned herself as advisor to WAAC/WAC leadership early on to ensure that Black women would have opportunities in the Corps. Mary McLeod Bethune was basically the godmother of the Black WAC soldiers. What did your research reveal about this incredible woman?ĭr. ![]() Mary McLeod Bethune-an amazing educator who had a major part in developing the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black battalion of the Women’s Army Corps. Personally, I have family who attended Bethune Cookman University (many years ago!), so I was familiar with Dr. I immediately googled “Black women WW2 France” and the rest is history. But I had never seen a picture of them until a picture of the 6888th marching in France floated down my Twitter timeline almost 10 years ago. Intellectually, I knew that Black women had served in the WAC. The aspects of that war that interest me most are the French Resistance and the U.S. Kaia: I am a lifelong history geek who whose fascination with World War II began early. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and where the idea for this book began? ![]() Danielle: Welcome to Fresh Fiction, Kaia, and congrats on the release of SISTERS IN ARMS. ![]() ![]() ![]() I decided to buy this book while making this list of 36 graphic novels for middle-schoolers - and it was a good call! I read it on my iPad using the Kindle app and the experience was seamless it felt like reading the real thing, except I could also zoom in, which is always nice. ![]() Imagine Raina’s shock when her best friend befriends the mean girl. There’s also a “mean girl” in the class who seems to gain a thrill from teasing everyone in her vicinity. Her best friend finds out that her family is moving away soon, which, of course, causes Raina a measure of anxiety. Her parents take her to see a doctor who after multiple tests assures them that Raina is “healthy as a horse.” Unsure what to do next, they take her to see a therapist.Īt school, Raina also deals with friendship issues. ![]() Her anxiety manifests physically as a stomachache which further exacerbates her fear of vomiting and intensifies her anxiety. After a case of the stomach flu in their family, Raina becomes terrified of vomit and vomiting. Guts is based on Telegmeier’s experience with anxiety as a tween. ![]() ![]() Sleigh Bells Ring also has stories by Sandra D. Carmichael, Dani Collins, Megan Crane, Mallory Kane, Erika Marks, Jane Porter, Terri Reed and Joanne Rock. ![]() Writing the Bestseller II: Romance and Commercial Fiction also includes contributions by Kim Boykin, C.J. Mistletoe Kisses also has stories by Margaret Daley, Camille Elliot, Lisa Mondello, Pamela Kaye Tracy, Janet Tronstad, Lacy Williams and Cheryl Wyatt. The Boy Next Door also has stories by Susan Crawford, Rene Gutteridge, Cheryl McKay, Gayle Roper and Kathleen Y’Barbo. A Recipe for Romance also includes contributions by Carolyne Aarsen, Dana Corbit, Lyn Cote, Debby Giusti, Winnie Griggs, Marta Perry, Terri Reed, Janet Tronstad and Debra Ullrick. ![]() Once Upon a Christmas also includes a story by Lauraine Snelling. Blessed Bouquets also includes stories by Lyn Cote and Penny Richards. Notes: Home Again and Carly’s Song were written as Lenora Nazworth. ![]() Amant)Īutumn Brides (By: Kathryn Springer,Katie Ganshert,Beth K. Winter Brides (By: Denise Hunter,Deborah Raney,Betsy St. ![]() The Man She Once Knew / The Price He Paid (By: Jean Brashear)Ī June Bride (By: Marybeth Mayhew Whalen) The Truth About Family (By: Kimberly Van Meter)Ī Time to Come Home (By: Darlene Gardner) His Best Friend's Baby (By: Molly O'Keefe) Return to Little Hills (By: Janice Macdonald) Past, Present and a Future (By: Janice Carter) ![]() ![]() ![]() A country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America, its indigenous people (known as the Surinen) were displaced by British settlers. Unfortunately, histories of empire tend to be written and discussed within their respective colonial language-worlds, so it is unsurprising that Suriname, as a Dutch former colony, is relatively unknown in Anglophone postcolonial studies. ![]() “Screw it,” she says, “it’s their history too.”Īs a Dutch-Surinamese writer, Karin has had to confront a slew of questions concerning the place she was born, even from the Dutch themselves. As a less experienced author then, she decided to give in, but now believes that it the responsibility of the Dutch audience to find out about Suriname, as a former Dutch colony. In response, Karin describes how her publisher asked for a prologue to her second book Wanneer Wij Samen Zijn (When We Are Together), in order to introduce Suriname. Ethnic identity is easily reduced to a curious bit of old history trading on the audience’s comfortable ignorance. The category of “migrant identity” seems to imply vague generalisations about transnational travel, exile and liminality. ![]() During the workshop, Karin Amatmoekrim is asked about whether a migrant writer is at the mercy of market forces in the publishing industry. ![]() |