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Glory Edim: Well-Read Black Girl

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‘We can’t just rely on Toni and Alice and Zora,’ Well-Read Black Girl founder Glory Edim has said. ‘These women are the foundation, but what does the next generation look like? How can we uplift that?’

Edim, based in Brooklyn, founded the Well-Read Black Girl (WRBG) book club back in 2015. Since then, the club has grown into a major literary phenomenon. The club meets monthly, in real life, to discuss the work of emerging and established writers. It also exists online, with live-streamed events and lively social media conversation.

Black women writers and readers are front and centre in Edim’s club. As the WRBG movement grows, Edim has hosted some incredible, award-winning authors at meetings, including Angela Flournoy, Naomi Jackson and Margo Jefferson. She’s even run a one-day WRBG festival.

With Santilla Chingaipe, Edim will discuss the founding and future of the club and the next generation of black women writers. Then the pair will be joined by author Maxine Beneba Clarke for a real-life WRBG book club meeting, discussing Clarke’s memoir, The Hate Race.

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Glory Edim

Glory Edim is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, an online book club-turned-literary festival that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. Well-Read Black Girl’s mission is to increase the visibility of Black women writers and initiate meaningful conversation with readers u... Read more

Maxine Beneba Clarke

Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of the acclaimed memoir The Hate Race, the award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the poetry collections Carrying The World and How Decent Folk Behave, and many other books for adults and children. Her forthcoming poetry collection is It’s The S... Read more

Santilla Chingaipe

Santilla Chingaipe is a filmmaker, historian and author, whose work explores settler colonialism, slavery, and post-colonial migration in Australia. Chingaipe’s first book of non-fiction detailing the untold stories of convicts of African descent is forthcoming, and the critically acclaimed and aw... Read more

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