Center for Black Literature presents: The Wild Seeds Retreat for Writers of Color! OPEN REGISTRATION!

This Is For The Writer In You!

The Center for Black Literature’s Wild Seeds Retreat provides writers of color with an opportunity to meet other writers, workshop their writing among peers, and engage with published writers about concerns and issues related to writing and publishing.

Meet the Wild Seeds Retreat for Writers of Color Summer 2024 Facilitators

Jamal Joseph (Screenwriting): Jamal Joseph is a writer, director, producer, educator and activist. His film and television writer/director credits include Chapter & Verse (theatrical and BET), Drive By and Da Zone for STARZ in BLACK, Hard Chorus and Hip Hop in the Promised Land for Comedy Central, and Hughes Dream Harlem for PBS. Additional screenplay credits include Knights of the South Bronx for A&E and Ali: An American Hero for FOX. Joseph is an executive producer of FX’s Docuseries Dear Mama about the life and legacy of Tupac and Afeni Shakur.

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa (Fiction): Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is a novelist. Her first novel, Daughters of the Stone, was shortlisted for the 2010 PEN Bingham Award. The 2020 self-published trade paperback edition won the 16th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards for Multicultural Fiction. Other awards include the 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction Award and the Mellon Foundation Letras Boricuas Award in 2022.

Nick Powers (Creative Non-Fiction/Memoir): Dr. Nicholas Powers is a memoirist, novelist, poet, and Associate Professor of English. His reportage from 9/11 New York, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the Darfur Genocide, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti was compiled in The Ground Below Zero. It was published by Upset Press in 2014. His political vampire novel Thirst was released in 2023. His journalism has appeared in The Village Voice, Truth-Out, The Independent, Business Insider, Lucid News, Apogee Journal, and Double-Blind Magazine.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

The Wild Seeds Retreat will take place on Monday, July 15 – Saturday, July 20, 2024 at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York. All are welcome to apply! The application deadline is Friday, May 17, 2024. For more details, please visit:  www.centerforblackliterature.org