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A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal’s mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community. ailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” The Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. Kweli—“truth” in Swahili—marks its fifteenth anniversary with this luminous colle...
SING THE TRUTH: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection
By: Edited by Laura Pegram
Release: May 2025
A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal’s mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community. ailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” The Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. Kweli—“truth” in Swahili—marks its fifteenth anniversary with this luminous colle...
In this richly imagined and unconventionally told debut collection, Avitus B. Carle turns tradition on its head, discarding and reframing antiquated portraits of women and girls as damsels, princesses, and homemakers relegated to lives of cleaning and baking and waiting in towers to be rescued or to receive a truly forced first kiss. Instead, Carle’s characters face the world head-on in unique, bo...
These Worn Bodies
By: Avitus B. Carle
Release: November 2024
In this richly imagined and unconventionally told debut collection, Avitus B. Carle turns tradition on its head, discarding and reframing antiquated portraits of women and girls as damsels, princesses, and homemakers relegated to lives of cleaning and baking and waiting in towers to be rescued or to receive a truly forced first kiss. Instead, Carle’s characters face the world head-on in unique, bo...
Walk with me into the world of Black women and the taboo side is mental health. This book is a dive into my personal issues with suicide attempts and ideations, as well as a discussion on studies done and lack of them in relation to suicide in the Black community. Black women are expected to always be strong. Never have a problem that she can't solve. What a lot of people don't see is behind that ...
Clipped Wings
By: Candi Usher
Release: June 2024
Walk with me into the world of Black women and the taboo side is mental health. This book is a dive into my personal issues with suicide attempts and ideations, as well as a discussion on studies done and lack of them in relation to suicide in the Black community. Black women are expected to always be strong. Never have a problem that she can't solve. What a lot of people don't see is behind that ...
After her cellphone and other precious items go missing, Key is confused and rightfully angry. Magical shenanigans are at play and an elf boy is the culprit! Except he may not have taken her things for the reason she thinks. Is he a thief, a potential friend, or just a victim of circumstance?
Key & Zan - Stolen Introductions
By: D. T. Henderson
Release: April 2024
After her cellphone and other precious items go missing, Key is confused and rightfully angry. Magical shenanigans are at play and an elf boy is the culprit! Except he may not have taken her things for the reason she thinks. Is he a thief, a potential friend, or just a victim of circumstance?
All Shay wanted to do was make it out of the hood. She does all she can to not become a product of her environment. But once she makes it out and starts college nothing happened as she expected. Becoming a Sugar baby, finding her sister from another mister, and gaining a stoker. Who knew when you step into the real world it really is like a lifetime movie. Where will her path lead, and will it bre...
Haunting Pursuit
By: Shauntah Jones
Release: February 2024
All Shay wanted to do was make it out of the hood. She does all she can to not become a product of her environment. But once she makes it out and starts college nothing happened as she expected. Becoming a Sugar baby, finding her sister from another mister, and gaining a stoker. Who knew when you step into the real world it really is like a lifetime movie. Where will her path lead, and will it bre...
From the author Jalen Tellis comes a unique collection of three short stories, some of which have never been published and some that have. “When the night falls, the fear comes to the light.” In the afterword to his brand new first collection of three stories, Jalen Tellis dives into the lives of individuals who must deal with fear and ask themselves, “What’s true and not true?” We live in a worl...
Nightfall: Stories
By: Jalen Tellis
Release: January 2024
From the author Jalen Tellis comes a unique collection of three short stories, some of which have never been published and some that have. “When the night falls, the fear comes to the light.” In the afterword to his brand new first collection of three stories, Jalen Tellis dives into the lives of individuals who must deal with fear and ask themselves, “What’s true and not true?” We live in a worl...
"Damn, what a difference four years make. One day, I’m out strolling the country roads. The next thing I know, I’m sitting in rooms full of politicians, celebrities, and shrewd business folks. Consulting is proving to be quite lucrative, especially when you get your payment in dollars and souls. That’s right. I’m on a new job, but deep down, my mission is still the same. To judge. To sentence. To ...
Nova: the Executioner of Vanity
By: Latrell R. Morris
Release: January 2024
"Damn, what a difference four years make. One day, I’m out strolling the country roads. The next thing I know, I’m sitting in rooms full of politicians, celebrities, and shrewd business folks. Consulting is proving to be quite lucrative, especially when you get your payment in dollars and souls. That’s right. I’m on a new job, but deep down, my mission is still the same. To judge. To sentence. To ...
Mothers and Everyday Life is a book created for mothers by mothers. This book is compiled of different stories about moms and their everyday stories. You will read about their triumphs, their tribulations, their struggles and most of all their devotion to Jesus. It is the author's prayer that the moms that read this book will find themselves in the story of these women and learn that they too can ...
Mothers and Everyday Life
By: Dormeka D. Pearce, Contributing Authors
Release: April 2023
Mothers and Everyday Life is a book created for mothers by mothers. This book is compiled of different stories about moms and their everyday stories. You will read about their triumphs, their tribulations, their struggles and most of all their devotion to Jesus. It is the author's prayer that the moms that read this book will find themselves in the story of these women and learn that they too can ...
Real or imaginary, geekdom is where it's at in this multi-genre YA anthology that celebrates "the geek," with stories by some of today's top bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors. Contributors include Amerie, Kalynn Bayron, Terry J. Benton-Walker, Roseanne A. Brown, Elise Bryant, Tracy Deonn, Desiree S. Evans, Isaac Fitzsimons, Lamar Giles, Jordan Ifueko, Leah Johnson, Amanda Joy, Kwame...
Cool. Awkward. Black
By: Edited by Karen Strong
Release: January 2023
Real or imaginary, geekdom is where it's at in this multi-genre YA anthology that celebrates "the geek," with stories by some of today's top bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors. Contributors include Amerie, Kalynn Bayron, Terry J. Benton-Walker, Roseanne A. Brown, Elise Bryant, Tracy Deonn, Desiree S. Evans, Isaac Fitzsimons, Lamar Giles, Jordan Ifueko, Leah Johnson, Amanda Joy, Kwame...
Topaz and Meeko are back with another excursion in Part Two of their holiday tale. It's been a few days and Topaz is still getting used to the changes that have taken place since she last visited her hometown. It's Day 3 of the Sunflower Falls Holiday Festival and Meeko is dead set on making sure Topaz enjoys the festival and her holiday away from work. Join Meeko as he helps Topaz fall in love ...
Here For The Holidays
By: Erin Wakefield
Release: December 2022
Topaz and Meeko are back with another excursion in Part Two of their holiday tale. It's been a few days and Topaz is still getting used to the changes that have taken place since she last visited her hometown. It's Day 3 of the Sunflower Falls Holiday Festival and Meeko is dead set on making sure Topaz enjoys the festival and her holiday away from work. Join Meeko as he helps Topaz fall in love ...
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A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal’s mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community. ailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” The Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. Kweli—“truth” in Swahili—marks its fifteenth anniversary with this luminous colle...
SING THE TRUTH: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection
By: Edited by Laura Pegram
Release: May 2025
A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal’s mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community. ailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” The Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. Kweli—“truth” in Swahili—marks its fifteenth anniversary with this luminous colle...
In this richly imagined and unconventionally told debut collection, Avitus B. Carle turns tradition on its head, discarding and reframing antiquated portraits of women and girls as damsels, princesses, and homemakers relegated to lives of cleaning and baking and waiting in towers to be rescued or to receive a truly forced first kiss. Instead, Carle’s characters face the world head-on in unique, bo...
These Worn Bodies
By: Avitus B. Carle
Release: November 2024
In this richly imagined and unconventionally told debut collection, Avitus B. Carle turns tradition on its head, discarding and reframing antiquated portraits of women and girls as damsels, princesses, and homemakers relegated to lives of cleaning and baking and waiting in towers to be rescued or to receive a truly forced first kiss. Instead, Carle’s characters face the world head-on in unique, bo...
Walk with me into the world of Black women and the taboo side is mental health. This book is a dive into my personal issues with suicide attempts and ideations, as well as a discussion on studies done and lack of them in relation to suicide in the Black community. Black women are expected to always be strong. Never have a problem that she can't solve. What a lot of people don't see is behind that ...
Clipped Wings
By: Candi Usher
Release: June 2024
Walk with me into the world of Black women and the taboo side is mental health. This book is a dive into my personal issues with suicide attempts and ideations, as well as a discussion on studies done and lack of them in relation to suicide in the Black community. Black women are expected to always be strong. Never have a problem that she can't solve. What a lot of people don't see is behind that ...
After her cellphone and other precious items go missing, Key is confused and rightfully angry. Magical shenanigans are at play and an elf boy is the culprit! Except he may not have taken her things for the reason she thinks. Is he a thief, a potential friend, or just a victim of circumstance?
Key & Zan - Stolen Introductions
By: D. T. Henderson
Release: April 2024
After her cellphone and other precious items go missing, Key is confused and rightfully angry. Magical shenanigans are at play and an elf boy is the culprit! Except he may not have taken her things for the reason she thinks. Is he a thief, a potential friend, or just a victim of circumstance?
All Shay wanted to do was make it out of the hood. She does all she can to not become a product of her environment. But once she makes it out and starts college nothing happened as she expected. Becoming a Sugar baby, finding her sister from another mister, and gaining a stoker. Who knew when you step into the real world it really is like a lifetime movie. Where will her path lead, and will it bre...
Haunting Pursuit
By: Shauntah Jones
Release: February 2024
All Shay wanted to do was make it out of the hood. She does all she can to not become a product of her environment. But once she makes it out and starts college nothing happened as she expected. Becoming a Sugar baby, finding her sister from another mister, and gaining a stoker. Who knew when you step into the real world it really is like a lifetime movie. Where will her path lead, and will it bre...
From the author Jalen Tellis comes a unique collection of three short stories, some of which have never been published and some that have. “When the night falls, the fear comes to the light.” In the afterword to his brand new first collection of three stories, Jalen Tellis dives into the lives of individuals who must deal with fear and ask themselves, “What’s true and not true?” We live in a worl...
Nightfall: Stories
By: Jalen Tellis
Release: January 2024
From the author Jalen Tellis comes a unique collection of three short stories, some of which have never been published and some that have. “When the night falls, the fear comes to the light.” In the afterword to his brand new first collection of three stories, Jalen Tellis dives into the lives of individuals who must deal with fear and ask themselves, “What’s true and not true?” We live in a worl...
"Damn, what a difference four years make. One day, I’m out strolling the country roads. The next thing I know, I’m sitting in rooms full of politicians, celebrities, and shrewd business folks. Consulting is proving to be quite lucrative, especially when you get your payment in dollars and souls. That’s right. I’m on a new job, but deep down, my mission is still the same. To judge. To sentence. To ...
Nova: the Executioner of Vanity
By: Latrell R. Morris
Release: January 2024
"Damn, what a difference four years make. One day, I’m out strolling the country roads. The next thing I know, I’m sitting in rooms full of politicians, celebrities, and shrewd business folks. Consulting is proving to be quite lucrative, especially when you get your payment in dollars and souls. That’s right. I’m on a new job, but deep down, my mission is still the same. To judge. To sentence. To ...
Mothers and Everyday Life is a book created for mothers by mothers. This book is compiled of different stories about moms and their everyday stories. You will read about their triumphs, their tribulations, their struggles and most of all their devotion to Jesus. It is the author's prayer that the moms that read this book will find themselves in the story of these women and learn that they too can ...
Mothers and Everyday Life
By: Dormeka D. Pearce, Contributing Authors
Release: April 2023
Mothers and Everyday Life is a book created for mothers by mothers. This book is compiled of different stories about moms and their everyday stories. You will read about their triumphs, their tribulations, their struggles and most of all their devotion to Jesus. It is the author's prayer that the moms that read this book will find themselves in the story of these women and learn that they too can ...
Real or imaginary, geekdom is where it's at in this multi-genre YA anthology that celebrates "the geek," with stories by some of today's top bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors. Contributors include Amerie, Kalynn Bayron, Terry J. Benton-Walker, Roseanne A. Brown, Elise Bryant, Tracy Deonn, Desiree S. Evans, Isaac Fitzsimons, Lamar Giles, Jordan Ifueko, Leah Johnson, Amanda Joy, Kwame...
Cool. Awkward. Black
By: Edited by Karen Strong
Release: January 2023
Real or imaginary, geekdom is where it's at in this multi-genre YA anthology that celebrates "the geek," with stories by some of today's top bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors. Contributors include Amerie, Kalynn Bayron, Terry J. Benton-Walker, Roseanne A. Brown, Elise Bryant, Tracy Deonn, Desiree S. Evans, Isaac Fitzsimons, Lamar Giles, Jordan Ifueko, Leah Johnson, Amanda Joy, Kwame...
Topaz and Meeko are back with another excursion in Part Two of their holiday tale. It's been a few days and Topaz is still getting used to the changes that have taken place since she last visited her hometown. It's Day 3 of the Sunflower Falls Holiday Festival and Meeko is dead set on making sure Topaz enjoys the festival and her holiday away from work. Join Meeko as he helps Topaz fall in love ...
Here For The Holidays
By: Erin Wakefield
Release: December 2022
Topaz and Meeko are back with another excursion in Part Two of their holiday tale. It's been a few days and Topaz is still getting used to the changes that have taken place since she last visited her hometown. It's Day 3 of the Sunflower Falls Holiday Festival and Meeko is dead set on making sure Topaz enjoys the festival and her holiday away from work. Join Meeko as he helps Topaz fall in love ...