announcing the release of a new
ground-breaking curriculum guide

“Love, Race and Liberation
‘Til the White Day is Done”
Co-Edited by
JLove Calderon and Marcella Runell Hall
with writers Piper Anderson, Tanesha Barnes,
Andrea Dre Domingue, and Samantha Shapses Wertheim
featuring Love Letters for Liberation by
Kahlil Almustafa, Esther Armah,
Hector Calderón, Richard Chavolla, Suheir Hammad,
Ariel Luckey, Peggy McIntosh, Pedro Noguera,
Sofia Quintero, and Tim Wise
including [...]

How to Get Your Book
Published: The Crash Course
A 2.5 Hour Workshop for Writers of All Levels
Tuesday, March 16th , 2010 5:30pm-8:00pm
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Workshop Fee: $125
What You Get With This Workshop:
+ The Business of Publishing
+ Perfecting Your Pitch
+ The “Gotta Get an Agent” Debate
+ Book Proposal ‘Must Haves’
+ How the Recession Is Impacting Advances & Publishing Contracts
+ [...]

How To Get Your Book Published
A Four Week Course for Serious Writers Only
Through my publishing seminars in 2009 I had the opportunity to learn a tremendous amount from the diverse writing community who participated. I am excited to announce that after extensive feedback from many of you, I have decided to create a new course [...]

JLove Calderon and Marla Teyolia
present
“Meet the Producer”
A Special Forum with Industry Insiders

featuring
Producer, Director, Playwright
and Award-winning Actress
K A M I L A H  F O R B E S

Join game-changes KAMILAH FORBES in a special forum that will allow  you to hear behind the scenes information that will take your business, production skills, and know-how to [...]

JLOVE CALDERON presents
“How to Get Your Book Published: The Crash Course.”
A 2 Hour Workshop for Writers of All Levels
Sponsored by 1+1+1=ONE, Brooklyn
Food for Thought Book Collective and Sanctuary of Writing (Amherst)
In 2009, JLove Calderon created and produced FOUR highly successful book publishing seminars for writers of all levels. After attending her seminars, writers have gone [...]

Race or Class or Both?
In the interview, MC Serch comments on the role of both race and class in analyzing the causes of injustice and inequality.  He comes clearly down on the side of class trumping race, stating:
“We have to look at economics and see where it plays, and not race. [...]

I greatly appreciated many of the points that MC Serch made in his interview, like his comments about Elvis and reparations, for example. But let’s stay grounded in the reality, not the flash of fantasy delivered to us by the hip hop images we are bombarded with.
MC Serch: …“ the amount of freedom and power [...]

Gangs….in Denver? I know that many of you don’t think of Crips and Bloods when you think of Denver, but actually gangs have been in Denver since the early 80’s, and the violence and bloodshed has hit low income communities of color really hard.  For those who wonder why a place like Denver would have [...]

Good people, please check out “Who’s Got Your Back” by Keith Ferrazzi (author of Never Eat Alone, another must-read). It really takes the concept of relationships currency and social capital to the next level. His four core mind-set to building lifeline relationships are: generosity; vulnerability; candor; and accountability. Personally, I would add authenticity into that [...]

JLove Calderon and AKILA WORKSONGS, Inc.
present
Book Publishing Workshop Series #4
“How to Get Your Book Into Book Stores”
A Workshop for SERIOUS Writers of All Levels!
Featuring Owner of Hue-Man Bookstore
MARVA ALLEN
Friday, July 17, 2009
Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd • New York, NY 10027
Respected bookseller MARVA ALLEN shares the inside scoop on the retail side of book [...]