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Submissions | Writing a Liberatory Practice [A Lit Lib x Memoir Land collaboration]
 • Sherisa de Groot, Literary Liberation, and Memoir Land
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"Writing requires an emotional nudity that prompts a similar ethic in liberation work."
 • PAIN BABY, Literary Liberation, and Yomalis Rosario
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Literary Liberation is Six Months Old!
 • Sherisa de Groot
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✍🏽The Three Resistances as Portals for Women, Writers, and Warriors
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LIVE: Lisa Gil-Ventura on Geography of Joy
Watch the video to learn more about her new offering and take us up on 25% off the class!
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Literary Liberation
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Yomalis Rosario
, and 
Lisa "Rubi G." Ventura
"When I felt like I had affirmed my child self, described the things she had to endure and overcome, and had written them in a way that…
Ten Questions no. 6: Cinelle Barnes
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Sherisa de Groot
, 
Literary Liberation
, and 
Cinelle Barnes
When Books Become a Container of Possibility for Black Girls
Emma Akpan on how books became both refuge and revelation for a Black girl seeking her place in the world.
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Literary Liberation
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Memoir Land
, and 
Emma Akpan
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"I have to believe the work is inherently useful because it frees me."
Educator and writer Saskia Kercy on constant revision, reimagining new realities, and how everything counts.
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Saskia
 and 
Literary Liberation
What is "Let's Get Personal"?
Learn how Kin Keepers is evolving, find out what our Summer '25 theme is & register now to join our inaugural crew!
 • 
Literary Liberation
 and 
Lisa "Rubi G." Ventura

A Literary Life

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"Growing up, I never saw myself on the page, so I wanted to tell my own stories." Nicole Dennis-Benn's Literary Life
Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of PATSY and HERE COMES THE SUN, talks about identity.
 • 
Sherisa de Groot
 and 
Nicole Dennis-Benn
"I’m interested in utopia and the impediments to utopia." Emily Raboteau's Literary Life
Emily Raboteau, author of her most recent work, LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL: MOTHERING AGAINST "THE APOCALYPSE" talks about the importance of being understood.
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Sherisa de Groot
 and 
Emily Raboteau
"The belief that words have power, that Black stories matter, and that I can write to make a difference all inspired me to become an…
Renée Watson, author of over 15 books, most recently BLACK GIRL YOU ARE ATLAS and 'skin & bones' takes us through her literary career, and tells us why…
 • 
Sherisa de Groot
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"For so long publishing acted like it didn’t have space for this kind of writing, so I do so unapologetically." Minda Honey's Literary Life
The author of THE HEARTBREAK YEARS shares sound writing advice, her top book recommendations, and reveals a bit about future projects.
 • 
Minda Honey
 and 
Sherisa de Groot
"[My] responsibility is to understand the context of my own existence." Keisha-Gaye Anderson's Literary Life
"As an immigrant first-born daughter, this is not the practical or stable thing to do in the eyes of our family."
 • 
Sherisa de Groot
 and 
Keisha-Gaye Anderson
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