AWAH Officers
The Literary Celebration Committee
in Collaboration with
American Women of African Heritage, Inc.
Francine Shorts, President
Helen Williams, Vice President
Gwenette Cort, Recording Secretary
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Gloria B. Welcome, Corresponding Secretary
Janette Wilson, Treasurer
PRESENTS
Pattie Wade-Dozier, Financial Secretary
Maiysha Jones-DeFreitas, Archivist
Jennifer Lewis, Public Relations Officer
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Toni Cox-Burns, President Emeritus
LITERARY CELEBRATION
Featuring African American Authors
MEMBERS
Thelma Gordon
Lois Bronz
Rita Jones
Mary Lane Cobb
Theresa Murphy
Bridget O. Crichlow
Bentley Patterson
Katherine Drucker
Roda Simmons
JoAnn Dudley
Claudett Stothart
Adalina Eilbacher
Cheryl Small Jackson
Renee Willis-Smith
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AWAH, Inc.
P.O. Box 376
White Plains, NY 10603
Eddie Mae Barnes
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Monday, January 19, 2015
2-5pm
Jay Heritage Center
210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
Reservations
Daniel Black, Ph.D. (Omotosho Jojomani)
Professor of English and African American
Studies – Clark Atlanta University/Morehouse College
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Daniel Black’s poignant novel, Perfect Peace, is the heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern
family’s attempt to grapple with their mother’s desperate decision to make her newborn son into the
daughter she will never have.
St. Martin’s Press
AWAH values opportunities to inform and educate members of our
community. We embrace literature as is evident in our O.R.A.L.S.
program, which is dedicated to introducing young people to prominent
authors and to a variety of literary prose. We recognize “the word as
the message” that bridges cultures, generations, and lifestyles, and
simultaneously raises hope in the eyes of women and girls of African
ancestry.
New York
Publisher
Jeff Burns, Jr. – Veteran Marketing Executive/Author.
Jeff Burns, Jr. is Vice Chairman of the School of Communications
Board of Visitors at his alma mater, Howard University.
Jeff Burns tells the story of friends he met as a freshman at Howard University in The Brotherhood
of Drew Hall. It recounts their early years at Howard in Drew Hall, the bonds they shared and how
each man went on to extraordinary achievements.
Publisher
City/State/Zip:_______________________________________________
Limited Seating
RSVP by Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
Tickets may be purchased by mail:
Please make check payable to:
American Women of African Heritage, Inc.
Attn: Literary Celebration
This Literary Celebration offers us an occasion to appreciate and showcase
the works of writers from diverse backgrounds. May this be the first of
many events that joins AWAH with the literary community.
Caroline Clarke – Award winning journalist and host of
“Black Enterprise” Business Report.
Postcards from Cookie is Caroline Clarke’s moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birth mother
– Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole – and the relationship that blossomed between them
through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards.
Harper Collins
The Literary Celebration Committee
JoAnn M. Dudley, Chairperson
Toni Cox-Burns
Barbara L. Edwards, Esq.
Helen L. Williams
Claudett Stothart, AWAH Liaison
Address:_________________________________________________
Daytime Phone:______________________________________________
Burns Book Publishing
Francine T. Shorts,
President of American Women of African Heritage, Inc.
Name:____________________________________________________
Publisher
Mail to:
AWAH, Inc.
P.O. Box 376
White Plains, NY 10603
Enclosed $____________for___________ticket(s) at $65 each
Bridgett M. Davis – novelist, essayist, teacher, filmmaker
and curator.
Into the Go-Slow, Bridgett Davis’ second novel, is set both in Davis’ hometown of Detroit and the
Nigerian metropolis, Lagos – where Davis lived for a year as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. Into The GoSlow was born of her experiences in the most complicated and intriguing city in the world.
Feminist Press
Publisher
Tickets will be held at the door
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