DuEwaWorld News! by DuEwa Frazier

A documentary about author, folklorist, anthropologist, playwright and "Genius of the South" Zora Neale Hurston will air tonight on PBS. Check the website for local listings.

Rhymes, Views & News Talk Radio Featuring -- Qaadira Allen, today, March 30th at 5pm EST! Qaadira Allen is a mixed media artist, creative life coach and transformative art facilitator and student of spiritual law. She creates and facilitates workshops that feature art-making, affirmations, reflective journaling, energy work, meditation, visualization, music, and sacred ceremony. In 2006 Qaadira received the Art & Change Grant from The Leeway Foundation . She is the author of the forthcoming book “Soulful Change”. DuEwa will interview Qaadira Allen about her work as an artist and life coach and the practices she utilizes in her transformative healing workshops for women. Be sure to listen in today at 5pm EST on this empowering discussion!

Rhymes, Views & News Talk Radio Featuring -- Dr. Brenda M. Greene this Saturday, March 22, 2008! Dr. Greene is the Director of The Ninth National Black Writers Conference , which will take place March 28 - 30, 2008. DuEwa will interview Dr. Greene about this year's Conference and the many esteemed Black writers, authors and publishing professionals who will participate in the event. Be sure to tune in at 5pm EST tomorrow to listen in on the discussion and find out how you can register for the Conference!

Last Saturday, I took my first “real” writing workshop in a year. When I say this was a “real” workshop, meaning it wasn’t a talkfest where people just exchanged abstract ideas on writing or talked about their publishing credentials for the full class time, like some workshops I’ve taken in the past. For four hours, myself and ten other writers workshopped samples of projects we’re working on with a Senior Editor at a major publishing house. The experience was both exciting and scary, as I let go of “my baby”, a project I’ve been working on for some months now, and shared an excerpt of it with complete strangers. This workshop was filled with women writers of all ages, mostly professional women, from New York, Georgia, Texas and other areas. We all read our work, gave copies of our work to the other participants and braced ourselves for the critique. Our instructor gave us some insider tips to the publishing industry and what it takes for an editor to acquire your work. I found t...

Romance Novelist, Professor and Blogger, Gwyneth Bolton recently interviewed me about Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees ! Gwyneth has written several novels in the romance genre, several with a hip hop twist. Her latest is Sweet Sensations . Check out the interview in the February edition of "About a Book Mondays" on Gwyneth's blog.

Rhymes, Views & News Talk Radio Features Playwright, Professor and New Play Advisor, Richard Fewell Sunday, February 3rd @ 2pm EST Playwright Richard Fewell will discuss his distinguished career in the arts and the past and present of Black theatre! Fewell is the New Play Advisor for the Connecticut based Prometheus' Fire, LLC, a professional theatre-producing entity. He earned a BA & MA (Magna Cum laude) from the University of Bridgeport. Fewell is a former instructor of African-American Literature & Literature & Composition at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, CT and has taught literature courses at UB, and at Sacred Heart University. Two of Fewell's plays were finalists in the Theodore Ward Prize at Columbia College, Chicago, IL. He won a First Prize Article in Writer's Digest, and received three Writing Grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Fewell's play, The Voice of Bones, was produced as a Dramatic Concert Reading at t...

Bestselling novelist Connie Briscoe has been at the top of her publishing game for a long time. You've probably fallen in love with many of her stories, as they are reminiscent of the lives you, your best friend, sister, mother, or aunt has lived. She is the author or co-author of many books including: You Only Get Better(Feb 1, 2008), Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50 (April 2007), Can't Get Enough (April 2005) and P.G. County (2004). Briscoe currently posts a wealth of information for writers on her blog. Just this week she added "Tips for Finding a Literary Agent." Writers take note from this heavyweight author. Do your research, utilize the tips, and be faithful that this will get you closer to your goal! Taken from Connie Briscoe's Website: In an earlier post I suggested that fiction writers find a book agent before submitting to publishers. Naturally someone asked the logical question: OK, so how do I find a book agent? I’ll try to answer that h...