The Writers’ Block Podcast

For this reading, there will be unpublished works red, which will probably be featured in works to be publish later this year. The titles of those works are THOUGHTS IN A MIRROR & WHAT THE HEART WANTS both by the host of the space Jennifer Bush-Harris. Make sure that you rate, share, and review this podcast wherever find it. Thank you.

For this time together, I’ll be performing to unpublished works: BALLAD FOR THE DEAD GOOD GIRL and THE SAFE SPACE. Both of these palms will be featured in two separate works at the end of the year. Watch for the release dates for PERSPHONE IS A BLACK WOMAN, and THE DEATH OF PETER PARKER & OTHER FAIRY TALES. These words will released between August and October 2023.

As we continue in this series, this platform welcomes Tiffany Richardson. The piece she will be performing is “Like That” coming from her poetry collection, SUNFLOWERS IN WINTER. Available on Amazon and Kindle. Follow Tiffany on all platforms (especially Instagram and TikTok!): @tbthewriter.

Sometimes love requires the reminder of sacrifice and power. For the pieces that are red for day three I believe demonstrates both of those things while we are in the beginning of Black History Month, we as black and Writer are possess with a unique reality. For as good as we are with our words, and our ability to adapt, the masters town known as the English language, we are aware that not so long...

Diversity is a buzzword to some and a reality for others. Yet, in the current artistic climate, we do see how multicultural writing has become. To the point White writers feature Black characters in their books…yet the complete personhood is not there. While there is no rule about which writer can create a particular character, of you as a non-Black writer can write Black characters: you can discu...

We kick of Love Month & Black History Month with a work by Chanel Hardy! This work sounds like a conversation, but is a needed one through the voices of two of the most often used tropes in literature: Mammy and Sapphire. This work is engaging, thought-provoking and necessary! Follow all info in Chanel’s bio at the end of her piece.

Permission to write is both easy and complex. The best thing you can do as a writer is to write the story you want, including parts of your story you want to share! It matters because YOU matter.

Critics are everywhere! They are the cost of being an artist. Critique will be everywhere, this is the price you pay for being brilliant! Commentary is just other people having something to say! Be brave, dear Writer! And create anyway. At the end of the show, you will be more encouraged, and more enlightened to do the work you need to do. This shit was also dedicated to my brother, an executive p...

The year of 2022 has brought so many things! And the year of 2023 has the potential to be that much better! If last year is any indication of next year? I’m here for it!

I have a challenge for you (and me). For the next 365 days. Write something everyday. YES…EVERYDAY. Why? This will force you to reckon with where you are wasting time and where you are maximizing it. Are you willing? JBHarris Writing Services: http://comegetyourwritelife.wordpress.com.

The case of Nancy Brophy is wild. I have watched her cross examination on YouTube multiple times. It’s a thing that I keep coming back to you is this did not have to happen. While this is not a true crime podcast, I would be remiss in my duties as a writer, to not speak about the dangers of imagination and greed, and, the total lack of awareness that some writers have in their detriment. YouTube c...

Mortality is an interesting subject for a writer. Seeing that we have the ability to make the moral people in our lives immortal sometimes it’s scary to think about a day, where we will no longer be in the world yet our work will be! Finish particular, cause I must begin to tell you about what you need to do, or remind you what you need to do, as a writer as a relates to your work, that’s publishe...

I believe it was Tina Fey, or Amy Poehler, who said that being a writer is basically signing up for homework for the rest of your life. And they’re right! In the hustle and bustle of daily responsibilities, compounded by artistic the man, sometimes things are lost. Sometimes things are forgotten! Sometimes things are even neglected or unsaved. This is your reminder to finish your homework before t...

Dr. Anthony Batts is an educator, author, and literacy advocate. He is the author of “Deuce: A Second Chance at life” recounts the events of an young black man who navigates childhood depression, issues of self-confidence and self-consiousness to find an eventual latent appreciation towards his journey of life. This book shows how a person can grow to conquer hardships, despite enduring the weight...

We are fighting to tell our stories. WE ARE FIGHTING TO TELL OUR STORIES. Book banning is erasure, and is dangerous to the preservation of a culture! What is so disconcerting is how common this is! Note: the clip used in this show was on the IG timeline on 11/22-2022. This is from a school board meeting in Sumner County Tennessee on 10/17/2022. The book in “question” is A PLACE INSIDE OF ME: A Poe...

For this episode, it is going to be indicative of where the space is going to be headed for 2023. “Pen work” is defined as the work that you do, the brainstorming, that you bring to page, that brings theory, characters, in reality, sometimes we only drips in fiction to life. Let us be reminder to never give your pinup to anyone. Stay tuned to the end of the show for the SEND FOR A POET segment. Th...

Welcome to Season 6! As we dive into the adventure, that will be this season, let this first show remind you of all the talent that you have. I know that things are tumultuous right now, everything seems to be happening everywhere, but I want to remind you of the words of Roxane Gay. Roxanne Gay said in her essay “WRITING INTO THE WOUND”writers have to write through the things that we don’t necess...

We made it to the end of SEASON 5! Our Hiatus is from 9/8-22 to 10/6-22. See y’all soon!

This is the second part of the conversation on Written In Melanin hosted by C. M. Lockhart (SM: (TT/IG: themelaninlibrary/Written In Melanin Podcast), which aired on September 7. In this conversation, we are going to continue the discussion about the relevance of black writers, the Raisher of Black people in literature, the erasure of our narrative, and how essential it is that black riders exist...

Listen for the August book recommendation from the Melanin Library-THE UNDEAD TRUTH OF US by Britney S. Lewis. Every writer needs to own every thing we say. For this weeks bonus episode, I lean into what happens when we as writers throw rocks and hide our hands. When we try to take our name off of work that can be found. Please see the article in the show notes. I invite you to read that after thi...

Writing in community is a blessing and…a curse. We are going to examine what it means to write in community, where is your writing tribe, and is it worth it sharing space (or drafts!) with them? Listen for the August book recommendation from the Melanin Library-THE UNDEAD TRUTH OF US!

This week is reported at a church Texas is going to be feeling the full wrath of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the tour de force behind the musicals Washington Heights, and most noteably HAMILTON! The VERY musical this church copied! This week for this week’s bonus show, we are going to be talking about just why and how non-BIPOC people really feel like they can take our stuff like we don’t see them! Please...

This episode we are going to talk about writing dreams versus writing goals and why it is always needed a necessary for you to reach for the impossible. Please follow @toxicbloodlines on TikTok! Purchase his books TOXIC BLOODLINES BOOK 1 & 2! His Info is in his bio! BLACK MALE WRITERS MATTER!

Special shout out to Blupoetres alumni of the show! On August 1, she will be hosting a WRITE ABOUT NOW creative writing event plate. Please search that event through Eventbrite and support! This bonus show is dedicated to the incredible, Black blerd family of the ever present Marvel Cinematic Universe! With Wakanda forever being in theaters in about three months we have much to prepare for, and so...

If MARVEL comics or the MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE is the world outside or window, why do so many people have an issue with what other people see out of their windows? From our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, to the Captain America debate (Die mad! Steve Rogers is out, and Sam Wilson got the shield now!), to even how we remember Chadwick Boseman. The fandom has a serious issue with representation...