Writing

How to Become a Black Writer: Creating and Honoring Black Stories that Matter

How Black Stories Shaped My Own

Discover meaningful events and the people behind them that helped Marita Golden to become the leading icon she is today, such as:

  •       How she was mentored under feminist poet Audre Lorde
  •       Life as a groundbreaking journalist at Essence Magazine
  •      Co-founding and leading the Hurston-Wright Foundation to help publish Black stories

Award-winning author Marita Golden explores her writing career and how the igniting power of storytelling is still inspiring generations of Black authors today.