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Promoting Liberian literature, Arts and Culture
promising writer. But it is okay
to self-publish if you have to.
We now live in a social media
world where you can
connect to writers from
across
the
world
for
publishing
and
editing
opportunities.
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11) What book[s] are you
reading now? Or recently
read?
Kwame Dawes’ Duppy
Conqueror:
Collected
Poems is what I’m reading
right now. Kwame is a
Ghanaian born, Jamaican
American writer who is the
founder of the Africa Poetry
Book Fund that your readers
need to know about, an
opportunity
to
get
published here in the US
and in Africa. I have read
this book before, a very
thick
book,
but
I’m
rereading it.
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12) Tell us your latest news,
promotions, awards, book
tours, launches etc.
Links:
1.http://www.altoona.psu
.edu/now/news.php?value
=5411#.VsvbDMugpCA.fac
ebook
2.http://www.altoona.psu
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4. http://www.thestar.co.ke/news/2015/08/2
that, so you keep trying to
beat the last book.
Also, I’m working on three
manuscripts,
have
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13) What are your current
projects? [We understand
that there is a new book on
the horizon, want to give us
some inside juice?]
The
book
is
under
contract, and is being
processed for publication
this fall. Here is the prepublication advertisement.
I now have a book cover,
but the publisher has not
yet released this cover yet.
But here is the link:
https://www.nebraskapre
ss.unl.edu/product/Whenthe-Wanderers-ComeHome,677245.aspx
This book was written
entirely in less than four
months while I was on
sabbatical in Liberia in 2013,
and explores the issues of
the after war effect on our
people,
written
about
Liberian during that year. I
am excited about the
poems in it. Each new book,
I hear critics say, “Oh, this is
the best book,” but from
what I’m already hearing,
this may be the best so far.
But a writer never thinks
22
completed my memoir,
“Living Miracles: Life in the
Liberian Civil War,” and am
seeking a literary agent
right now. Big project, over
five hundred pages. I also
am working on a new book
of poems as usual, and will
be looking for a publisher
for my very big children’s
book, long written. Time is
my problem.
14) What is your take on
contemporary
Liberian
Literature? Where do you
see it in say five years?
I am excited about the
number of younger writers
or even people in my
generation that are still
writing, new to writing and
are excited about their
need to publish their own
books. There is an exciting
new trend that I am glad
about. I am a bit saddened
by how much the war took
away from us, but many are
using this as an opportunity
to get published. I know a
few younger poets who