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Essays and stories centering Blackness, Black womanhood, romantic realism, and the art of writing through struggle.
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The Company You Keep—Lainey Abbott Book 3 (opens the original)
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The Best Bad Idea (opens the original)
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The Shape of Love (opens the original)
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'Forty-Nothing' is a Novel (opens the original)
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The Recharge Report: Wine, Words, and the Magic of Baltimore (opens the original)
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It’s book festival season, so I’ve been quiet for a while. But you may have heard that I co-hosted a little soiree of my own, Wine with Writers™, along with my friends and fellow writers, Jacinta Howard and Lily Java. We’ve been hosting readers on and off for the past 10 years for smaller gatherings where the priority is fostering personal spaces for readers and writers to truly connect in conversation over wine and light bites. This year we were in Baltimore at The Last Resort Artist Retreat, a
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