midnight & indigo - celebrating Black women writers

Writing Classes & Workshops for Black Women

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Featuring classes on short story & essay writing, craft, novel development, discussions of works by Black and POC writers, and more. Designed especially for you! Payment plans are available.

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Books & Lit Mags

Our tri-annual lit mag is dedicated to short stories and narrative essays written by Black women writers. To date, issues feature works by 100+ emerging and established storytellers across the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Canada, Asia, and Australia.

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Tote Bags

Whether you are a writer, author, artist, or content creator, our stories are the continuation of the tradition carried for generations. Celebrate your art with our exclusive tote bags.

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midnight & indigo - Issue #8

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Our eighth issue is here!

Featuring ten new short stories and essays by emerging and established Black women writers from the U.S., Caribbean, and Africa, this issue introduces characters fighting themselves and others to get what they deserve, accepting love and life in different ways, and understanding the power of choice.

Contributors include:

ISBN: 978-1-7379332-4-3
Pages: 129
Dimensions: 6 x 0.33 x 9 inches

**Please note: Since issues are printed upon purchase, items are not returnable/refundable.

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Online Classes for Black Women Writers

Capturing The Dreamscape: Using Your Dreams to Spark Your Writing | Two-Day Seminar

In Capturing The Dreamscape: Using Your Dreams to Spark Your Writing, we’ll establish a dream journaling practice, learn ways to incorporate our dreams in writing, explore how to use dream themes in our stories, discuss techniques to create vivid descriptions, and share our experiences and writing.

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Desi Lenc Sundays, Sept. 10 and Sept. 24
10am–12pm ET
7am-9am PT
9am-11am CT
2 class sessions

How to Write & Edit Personal Essays | 3-Week Online Writing Seminar

We all have a story buried within us. This course taps into the well of words that we all have. It is the perfect course for writers who are enthusiastic about starting their writing life by using themselves as the nucleus of the story.

How to Write & Edit Personal Essays | 3-Week Online Writing Seminar

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Zainab Khadijah Karim Wednesdays, Sept. 13-27
7pm-9pm ET
4pm-6pm PT
6pm-8pm CT
3 class sessions

Dare to Dream: Writing with/to Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower | 5-Week Discussion & Writing Seminar

Dare to Dream: Writing with/to Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower is an imaginative writing and reading course that uses Black science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s work as a guide in which we turn to the timely Parable of the Sower (1993) as a tool for our own writing.

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Chelsea Bouldin Thursdays, Sept.14- Oct. 12
6:30pm-8:30pm ET
3:30pm-5:30pm PT
5:30pm-7:30pm CT
5 class sessions

Honoring Your Writing Process: A How-to for Black women writers | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop

Honoring Your Writing Process is designed for the new and emerging writer who is still discovering the craft and their process, as well as the more seasoned writer who occasionally struggles to understand and get the most out of her/his unique writing way.

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La Rhonda Crosby-Johnson Thursdays, Oct. 5-26
7pm-8:30pm ET
4pm-5:30pm PT
6pm-7:30pm CT
4 class sessions

celebrate Black women writers. every day.

With an emphasis on short fiction, essay writing, classes and writing workshops, provides space for Black women writers to share their narratives with the world. We exist to make a meaningful contribution to the rich Black literary tradition while providing a platform to elevate our voices. In addition to our bi-annual print publication, we publish online. We are Black and woman-owned.

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PRE-ORDER: midnight & indigo: Eighteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers (Issue 9)

From a mysterious swamp to a haunted highway, new wishes granted to past lives revisited, 18 Black women storytellers share tales in which secrets are exposed, mysteries unravel, and the human spirit shines in unexpected, often supernatural ways in this Black speculative fiction issue of our literary journal.

PRE-ORDER: midnight & indigo: Eighteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers (Issue 9)

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midnight & indigo - Digital Issue #1

Featuring 10 short stories and essays by Black women writers from the U.S., Africa, and Europe, this issue introduces characters learning secrets, defining themselves, and making sense of love. From beach towns to round-the-way grocery stores, beauty shops to being Black-at-work, join us for a literary journey.

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midnight & indigo - Issue #8

midnight & indigo - Issue #8

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midnight & indigo - Issue #7

midnight & indigo - Issue #7

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midnight & indigo: Nineteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers (Issue 6)

midnight & indigo: Nineteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers (Issue 6)

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Words We Create By

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much." Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much."
No woman has ever written enough.”
― bell hooks

midnight & indigo: Twenty-two Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers (Issue #6)

From haunted houses to spaceships, old worlds to new phenomena, nineteen emerging and established Black storytellers share tales of fear and discovery, redemption, and resistance.

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