The week's events
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- These Black Bodies Are ... Virtual Reading
These Black Bodies Are ... Virtual Reading
These Black Bodies Are ... Virtual Reading
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January 15, 2024The Poets and Storytellers of These Black Bodies Are … on ZOOM
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday, January 15, 2024
3:00-4:30 PM PT
Free and open to the public. All are welcome.
Please register to attend: http://tinyurl.com/TBBAV
Please join Inlandia Institute and Blacklandia on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2024 for an exceptional literary and cultural event. On Monday, January 15, from 3:00-4:30 PM PT, the poets and storytellers of the Blacklandia anthology These Black Bodies Are … will read and share their work on ZOOM with contributors from across the county. This is the culminating event in a series of readings that began on Juneteenth 2023, and one you won’t want to miss.
These Black Bodies Are … is a collection of stories, poems, and essays by Black writers from the Inland Empire and beyond.
Cover art for the anthology features a painting by internationally-acclaimed artist Charles Bibbs, Shared Knowledge. Bibbs’s art is featured at Riverside Art Museum in a landmark exhibition that fills three galleries and presents a range of work from Bibbs’s personal art collection as well as the artist’s own original paintings and drawings. The exhibition runs from November 3, 2023 – March 10, 2024.
Anthology editor Romaine Washington, M. Ed., is the author of Purgatory Has an Address (Bamboo Dart Press) and Sirens in Her Belly (Jamii Publications). She has been published in a wide variety of anthologies and periodicals, including Inlandia Institute’s San Bernardino Singing anthology and “Cholla Needles 32, 36 and 39.”
Ms. Washington is a fellow of The Watering Hole, South Carolina, and the Inland Area Writing Project at the University of California, Riverside. She was a public school educator for over twenty years, and has developed a social justice curriculum available for free on her website: https://www.romainewashington.com/. The proud mother of two sons, Romaine Washington is a native Californian from San Bernardino who currently resides in the Inland Empire.
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- Submission Window Opens for ONLINE JOURNAL ALL-TEEN ISSUE, The Art and Craft of Writing Poetry with Romaine Washington
Submission Window Opens for ONLINE JOURNAL ALL-TEEN ISSUE
Submission Window Opens for ONLINE JOURNAL ALL-TEEN ISSUE
January 16, 2024
January 16-February 29, 2024
Online Literary Journal Submission Window for
Inlandia: A Literary Journey ALL-TEEN ISSUE
Free and open to teens 13-19 years old.
To submit: http://tinyurl.com/InlandiaSubmit
The Art and Craft of Writing Poetry with Romaine WashingtonThe Art and Craft of Writing Poetry with Romaine Washington
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January 16, 2024The Art and Craft of Writing Poetry with Romaine Washington
(All Levels)
Alternating Tuesdays, 6:00-8:00 PM PT, 1/16, 1/30, 2/13, 2/27, and 3/12/24, on Zoom
$50. Registration required.
http://tinyurl.com/WriteWinter2024
Discover the art and craft of writing poetry with generative prompts and other forms of poetic inspiration. Brief group feedback will help you uncover images and language that resonate for you and for your audience.
Romaine Washington, M. Ed., is the editor of "These Black Bodies Are... A Blacklandia Anthology" and the author of “Purgatory Has an Address” (Bamboo Dart Press) and “Sirens in Her Belly” (Jamii Publications). She has been published in various anthologies and periodicals, including Inlandia Institute’s “San Bernardino Singing” anthology and “Cholla Needles 32, 36 and 39.”
Ms. Washington is a graduate fellow of The Watering Hole, South Carolina, and the Inland Area Writing Project at the University of California, Riverside. She was a public school educator for over twenty years and has developed a social justice curriculum available for free on her website: https://www.romainewashington.com/. The proud mother of two sons, Romaine Washington is a native Californian from San Bernardino who resides in the Inland Empire.