Glory Edim: Well-Read Black Girl
‘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.
Readings will be our bookseller at this event.
Featuring
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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 is the ABIA and Indie award winning author of over nine books for adults and children, including the critically acclaimed short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the bestselling memoir The Hate Race, the Victorian Premier’s Award winning poetry collection Carrying the World... Read more
Santilla Chingaipe is a journalist and filmmaker whose work explores migration, cultural identities and politics. She is a regular contributor to the Saturday Paper, and serves as a member of the Federal Government’s Advisory Group on Australia-Africa Relations (AGAAR). Chingaipe wrote and direc... Read more
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