Tag Archives: Eartha Watts-Hicks

New Year’s Workout: Tips from Big Steve

Posted on January 21, 2013 by | 1 Comment

big steve in sweden and england

Happy New Year, everybody! I’m Big Steve, an original English bloke with my roots in Barbados. I’m 6’3” and I weigh in at 210 lbs of muscle. Continue reading →

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The Harlem Book Fair Was In Full Force

Posted on July 27, 2012 by | 2 Comments

Every third Saturday in July, authors and readers converge at 135th Street in Harlem. For bibliophiles, the Harlem Book Fair is the perfect place to indulge in their obsession. Continue reading →

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Hue-Man Books Closes: Harlem Responds

Posted on July 2, 2012 by | 8 Comments
Ten-year-old Hue-Man Bookstore and Café in Harlem on St. Nicholas Avenue (between 125th and 124th Streets) is the latest bookstore to close its physical space in order to reinvent itself.

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Harlem World Magazine Holiday Podcast with Harlem Writers Guild And More

Posted on December 20, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Join us every Tuesday at 2 pm EST with host Danny Tisdale, guests and Harlem World Magazine contributors “Best Of” and “Top Spots”.

Today Eartha Watts-Hicks and Grace F. Edwards from the historic Harlem Writers Guild read for the holidays listen to it here.

Also, Walter Rutledge gives his Walter’s World: Weekend Picks for this week in Harlem.

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Edwidge Danticat Presented the 2011 Langston Hughes Medal At City College

Posted on November 28, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Edwidge Danticat is no stranger to acclaim. In years past, her work has been selected for Oprah’s Book Club, the Reader’s Digest Grant, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Continue reading →

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3 Picks For Reading This Fall In Harlem By Eartha Watts-Hicks (update)

Posted on October 31, 2011 by | Leave a comment

I am a member of the Harlem Writers Guild. I used to be an avid reader. I readily admit that my relationship with books changed the moment I decided to become a writer. Before I read books the way I watched television, purely for enjoyment. Now, I read to study style, voice, and syntax.

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Hill Harper At Hue-Man Bookstore And Café In Harlem

Posted on August 26, 2011 by | 1 Comment

On August 23, 2011, an earthquake that registered 5.8 on the Richter scale rocked New York City. The strongest in 67 years, even a quake of this magnitude was not enough to shake or sway consumers determined to see bestselling author, Hill Harper, at Hue-Man Bookstore & Café in Harlem, located at 2319 Frederick Douglass Boulevard. Hill Harper, back reading an excerpt from his fourth release, The Wealth Cure, engaged the standing room only crowd. Afterward, through a Q & A segment, he openly discussed financial issues with all the candor and charm of a sibling that has been long missed. Continue reading →

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Workshop Wisdom By Miriam Kelly-Ferguson

Posted on August 16, 2011 by | 2 Comments

When I first conceived of a life as a fiction writer I began, naturally, to read fiction with an eye toward learning the craft.  I have always had an earth tongue. My imagination comes from a down home feeling that my grandmother and great-aunt kept alive in the family. Continue reading →

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Writer Woman: Why I Write

Posted on July 14, 2011 by | 1 Comment

I don’t know how many times I heard my aunt, Eartha, after whom I am named, tell this one particular story. According to her, I was three years old—telling everybody’s business—outside in front of her building with pen and paper, writing “a book.” I don’t remember that. Or even if I was able to write my own name at the age of three. Continue reading →

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A Paige Full of Advice on Single Life

Posted on June 13, 2011 by | 1 Comment

By Eartha Watts-Hicks

Cordenia Paige is a native of Washington, DC. Hoping to follow the artistic paths of those of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Art Movement, she moved to NYC in 2001, settling just north of Harlem in the Bronx. Continue reading →

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