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Are you a current
BWG member with a website? Your membership entitles you to be featured on the BWG Member Website page.
Simply send an email to bwg@blackwritersguild.org with your name, website address or blog URL, and a 150 word or less statement. You'll be notified
when your information has been posted.
Cherrie Amour Baltimore-based, Cherrie Amour, is a performing artist who uses spoken words
coupled with various music genres, “spoken songs,” to share her love and life experiences. Her first CD,
Love’s Journey takes listeners on a journey through her various love relationships. Amour’s
second CD, ilovemesomewords, continues her journey with themes that include love of friends, family,
being ready for love, the elements of love for a good marriage…waiting for love…being in love…and more.
Maxine Bigby
Cunningham www.empoweredwalkingministries.com Maxine Bigby Cunningham is an author/writer, presenter, mental health advocate and recovery specialist.
Her published book, Power Walking, a Journey to Wholeness offers readers key steps to optimal wellness.
Using walking as a metaphor, Cunningham chronicles her recovery from major depression and related physical ailments.
The author engages readers through poetry, sacred writings, reflections and affirmations. This first part of a planned
trilogy has been called “revealing, inspiring and empowering”. It ”speaks” anyone striving to
overcome impediments to wellbeing. Power Walking received two nominations for the 2011 Global
Ebook Awards. It is also available in paperback. Wilma Brockington www.wilmabrockington.com Wilma Brockington is a contemporary fiction writer and is the author of
two novels--Cinnamon Girl Blues and Office Politics. She writes about positive women faced with unusual
circumstances. Critics have described her work as having a great mix of drama, suspense and romance and her characters
as realistic and well developed. She has been featured at area festivals, panel discussions, and book signings.
She is currently hard at work on two new literary projects. Please visit Wilma’s website for more information and to
read excerpts of her work. Blaque Diamond http://www.blaquediamond.net/ A glimpse at
life and its complexity awaits everyone as author Blaque Diamond (pronounced black) releases, In My Mother’s
House. Detailing few of life’s realities, this book will surely
give readers a unique reading experience. In this wonderful memoir, Diamond offers a vivid representation of both the crucial
and vital occurrences that happen in the house where the author and the neighborhood grew up. Diamond shares of her
memories with the house where her life was shaped and where she learned more about life. With all the things happening in
the house, it opened her eyes to the realities of life and she bravely shares what it has offered to her and to others. Blaque
Diamond lives in Maryland and, is currently working on her next novel and her hair line of grease. For more information, book
signings, or speaking engagements contact Blaque Diamond at blaquediamond357@yahoo.com
Cassandra Foster
Cassandra Foster is the author
of three books. Two of the books are short stories oriented to juveniles and families based on childhood reminiscences.
The first is A Good Story: A Collection of Short Short Stories. The second is Do You Know Us: A Collection of
Short Stories Cassandra's third book is a collection of stories based on interviews with tournament bridge players who were
over 80 years old at the time of the interviews. The subjects are all African Americans who have lived life in these
United States and survived. The stories are both entertaining and inspirational.
This book is Who Are These people: A Story about Bridge Players in the Washington Bridge Unit. June Lawrence www.daybreakauthorpoet.intuitwebsites.com June is a part of the five-fold ministry stated in Ephesians 4:11-13. She is pastor,
author, Bible teacher and poet. Her literary work includes the Text Book Collection
on Salvation and Spiritual Growth, for church distribution and group studies. Her
fourth book entitled, A Song in the Night Season, of Poetry defines her ministerial season.
She is also on Facebook and Twitter as Apostle June Lawrence.
Ephesians 4:11-13And
he gave Apostles; and some prophets; and some evangelist; and some pastors and teachers. For the perfecting
of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Margaret D. Pagan www.margaretpagan.com Walk through African American history with my characters as they face tough
challenges and overcome harsh conditions. Rejoice with them as they spiritually transcend all that besets them.
There are no miracles in my two books, only faith and determination. When readers finish More Than A Slave: The Life of
Katherine Ferguson (published by Moody Press of Chicago) they often want to know more about the Fulani girl, who is introduced
in chapter two. Her full story, and the story of her sister, is told in my most recent novel, aptly titled The Fulani
Girls. Based on more than 20 years of writing experience. http://www.sharonpricks.blogspot.com/ Sharon P. Ricks is
the author of Let My Life Be A Testimony (paperback, $12.99, 104 pages, ISBN: 978-4251-4117-2). It is a book
about letting yourself off the hook for being human. God does not expect us to be perfect. We sometimes put too much pressure
on ourselves to be a better mother/father, daughter/son and friend. The problem is in the process of trying to
do these things, we forget who we are. God loves us and everything He does has a purpose. We just have to learn to trust
Him. Between the covers of this book, are testimonies from people who know what it's like to struggle with decisions that
affect us every day. "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony..."
Revelation 12:11
Odessa
Rose On
September 15, 2000, La Caille Nous Publishing Company
released my first novel, Water In A Broken Glass. This strikingly unique story centers around renowned sculptor
Tonya Mimms, who is forced to stop hiding behind her art when she meets Malcolm Holland, a charming account with a dazzling
gap between his teeth that Tonya falls into; then meets Satin Pierce, a captivating bookstore owner with one of Tonya’s
sculptures prominently displayed on a shelf in her bedroom. To read an excerpt of Water In A Broken
Glass and get purchasing information, please visit my website, http://www.odessarose.com/. LaDonna M. Smith http://www.ladonnamsmith.com/ LaDonna M. Smith
- author, speaker, musician, marketing and promotions professional. “My writing is a voice to so many whose voices have been silenced
and I became a writer so that others would have a voice by asking the questions that people may think but never say, as well
as by verbalizing the thoughts and feelings that people including myself may allow to fester in and affect our lives. Writing
is not for me its for others. It is my passion - a passion that I use to transpose my life and the lives of others.” For more information on LaDonna M. Smith, her books “I Married Satan”(ISBN: 978-1-4507-2036-6), “Hannah’s
Song: A Musical Approach to Potty Training” and/or her publishing company-Fire and Words Publishing – Your Road
Map to Independent Publishing™ (a subsidiary of Philatonian Productions), please visit http://www.ladonnamsmith.com/. Information on connecting via social networks is also available on her website. James Wright http://www.jameswrightsbooks.com/ James Wright has published two books, American Apartheid, and No Land No
Mule No Freedom. He is in the process of publishing his third book, Life on the
Back Side of the Sport of Kings. James hopes to have his fourth book completed by 2011. James states,
“I wrote the American Apartheid Trilogy to jumpstart the Civil Rights movement, which has come to a screeching halt.
It is my hope that my perspectives of African American History will change the lives of the people who read my books.” James often speaks on the significance of racial events in American history. He’s an avid
proponent of African American history and its importance to the future of blacks in America His most frequent quotes
are: “Knowledge is power and education is the key to knowledge” and “History needs to be taught in more
than one color and from more than one perspective.”
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