Black Writing Matters
Edited by: Whitney French
University of Regina Press
February 2019
ISBN: 978-0889776166
An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writing Matters offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose. As Whitney French says in her introduction, Black Writing Matters “injects new meaning into the word diversity [and] harbours a sacredness and an everydayness that offers Black people dignity.” An “invitation to read, share, and tell stories of Black narratives that are close to the bone,” this collection feels particular to the Black Canadian experience.
PRAISE FOR Black Writers Matter
"Reading these stories gave me both joy and grief. " —Afua Cooper
"Collected in these pages are voices that need to be urgently heard, engaged and reckoned with. Black life, Black Canadian life, Black Canadian diasporic life in full colour and full of desire is on offer in Black Writers Matter. " —Rinaldo Walcott, professor at University of Toronto and author of Queer Returns: Essays on Multiculturalism, Diaspora and Black Studies
"Black Writers Matter is an extraordinary achievement, a bold and loving gathering of Black writing in its sublimity; its stylistic and thematic complexity; its regional, cultural, generational, and experiential differences; its fiercely constellated energy. Whitney French and the talented contributors to this book offer us vital new writings within a two-hundred-year legacy of yearning and truth-telling. Please read this book. " —David Chariandy, author of Soucouyant and Brother
"This book is as pretty as a present. ..and just as beautiful on the inside. Marvellous and life-changing. " —Donna Bailey Nurse, author of What's a Black Critic To Do? and editor of Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing
Black Notes
Edited by: Althea Prince
Insomniac Press
Selected story in anthology, "Glass" by Whitney French
September 2017
ISBN: 978-1-55483-175-3
“Whitney French writes daringly, boldly, taking you by surprise and then spinning your head around as her story slides into a shocking ending.” — Dr. Althea Prince
PAST PUBLICATIONS
A Face Full of Atmo
By: Whitney French
Self Published: April 2017
Cover Art: Arto Marttinen
Cover Design: Whitney French
Excerpt from the Introduction:
"There are similar themes & motifs I’m excited to explore in this collection too: memory, loss, digitizing grief, environmental degradation, surgical procedures and time but the main thing I was most fascinated by is neo-narratives. The ability for characters to redefine story within their own temporal context.
It’s like pushing the boundaries of not only the universe, but the ways in which the universe’s narrative is being told. I’m unapologetically sticking my face into the atmosphere and letting the stars kiss my skin."
3 Cities: Poems
By: Whitney French
Self Published: April 2012
Cover art: Sept Design
Printed and bound in Canada
ISBN: 978-0-9878106-0-1
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