Black Writers and Authors Network - Creative Writing

Let's support Black writers and continue the legacy of great artistry from the African Diaspora.

Caption: Toni Morrison speaking at "A Tribute to Chinua Achebe - 50 Years Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'". The Town Hall, New York City, February 26th, 2008. Photo by Angela Radulescu.

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Fiction - List of Black American and African Diaspora Writers / Authors

• Rochelle Alers - romance novels
• Kwame Alexandar - poetry and children's fiction
• Maya Angelou - poetry
• Tina McElroy Ansa - contemporary fiction novels
• Michael Baisden - contemporary relationship fiction novels
• James Baldwin - novels, plays, essays, short stories, poetry
• Toni Cade Bambara - fiction
• Amiri Baraka - poetry, plays, novels, essays
• Venise T. Berry - contemporary relationship fiction novels
• Gwendolyn Brooks - poetry
• Octavia Butler - science fiction novels
• Bebe Moore Campbell
• Charles W. Chestnutt
• Pearl Cleage
• Countee Cullen
• Eric Jerome Dickey
• Frederick Douglass
• Rita Dove
• Sharon Draper
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Michael Eric Dyson
• Ralph Ellison

Non Fiction - List of Black American and African Diaspora Writers / Authors

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