women of color - WRITERS WORLDWIDE
Laterally Creative is developing collaborative pathways with Women of Color, Writers Worldwide who share the some of the goals in developing, promoting, encouraging diversity in story-telling and creative writing. Collaboration opens us up to opportunities to reach those goals through mutual support of each other's journey. By sharing the profiles of Women of Color Writers Worldwide, we are introducing you to new friends with diverse voices. This organization, located in New York, runs Creative Writing workshops for women by allowing “writers to write, and experiment with figurative language, imagery, character development, the uses of dialogue, setting, cliche’ and more. Women of Color Writers Worldwide use poetry, fiction, nonfiction and other to tell our stories; to celebrate" their identity.
This platform has enabled it’s participants to hone their talents. Many have gone onto be, “published, entered prestigious writing colonies, used the workshop to overcome writer’s block, hone their skills, complete chapters of their novels, enter MFA programs... Women of Color, Writers Worldwide also have opportunities to present portions of their manuscripts for feedback, join Women of Color, Writers Worldwide Readings and Performances, free Poetry writing workshops, participate in Women of Color, Writers Worldwide anthologies and other literary experiences.”
The organization’s aim “is to present new, under-represented and captivating literary works of the world.” For details regarding Women of Color, Writers Worldwide;
or visit their website; http://wocwriters.com/www.WOCWRITERS.COM/Homepage.html
email: NYCWomenWriters [at] gmail.com
Bisi Ideraabdullah
Bisi Ideraabdullah is best known as the founder and Executive Director of IMANI HOUSE, a Brooklyn-based non-profit organization that provides after-school programs, adult education, and employment assistance in Brooklyn, as well as a health care clinic and adult literacy programs in Liberia, West Africa. IMANI HOUSE is an outstanding non-profit organization known for selflessly serving over 19,000 marginalized community members, each year, both in New York and Liberia.
She has written for several small magazines, assisted in the publication of Voices of Brooklyn; Writings from the Women of Color Writers Workshop, Face to Face Press, 2000. Her story, Imani Means Faith, appears in the National Book Foundation's Collection: Sounds of This House. She is currently working on her memoir, How Many Days Until Tomorrow, a story of her life's experiences and challenges growing up in Brooklyn Public Housing, moving to Liberia, West Africa, living through seven years of brutal civil war, overcoming obstacles and succeeding, in 1985, to found IMANI HOUSE.
Anthology Submissions
The WOW Writers’ Community Editorial Committee accepts submissions for consideration of inclusion into the publication, Women of Color Anthology - Boundaries Borders!
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