Founders
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Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham is a writer who lives in Copenhagen/Ebeltoft. Communities of Black womxn have nourished and empowered her from birth to adulthood. She hopes that BWWE does the same for the next generation of Black womxn artists. She is one half of the BWWE whole and provides opportunities for comic relief and good trouble every chance she can.
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Joy is a writer based in Toulouse, France. She created the Emerging Writers Community Podcast, where she interviews early career BIPOC creative writers in a roundtable discussion with the audience, and founded the Europe chapter of Women Who Submit, with members from nine European countries, to empower women and non-binary writers to submit work for publication.
As one half of BWWE, Joy combines her reverence for the artistic ancestors who blazed trails in Europe with her passion for creative communities centering Black womxn.
2025 Participants
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Nella Aguessy
When a visual artist and documentarian writes fiction you just can’t look away
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Maipelo Gabang
An embodied practitioner and culture enthusiast who captures all the faces you don’t get to make. Yes, you.
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Elie Lobe
A born poet writing speculative fiction that crosses alternative pathways of civilizations and leaves you spellbound
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Nadu Ologoudou
And now join us as we eagerly await the West African historical fiction we didn’t know we needed
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Olivia de Santos
Who did what now? So guilty of writing Caribbean crime fiction and mystery thrillers that has us on edge
2024 Participants
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Heather Dannyelle
Amateur baking enthusiast mixing family history, politics, and food in unforgettable creative non-fiction
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Robin Allison Davis
Real life winner of a winged woman holding an atom giving real talk about life in Paris.
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N.K. Iguh
Writer of immigrant experiences and U.S. history, with some magic thrown in, while showing ChatGPT who’s boss
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Tara Phillips
Click for live footage of tightrope walking the line of acting, writing, and kind of stewarding a legacy
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Cyrielle Tamby
Depicter of multiple cultural identities who knows how to say “micro-aggression” in an impressive number of languages
2023 Participants
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Amah Edoh
Wandering cultural anthropologist w/ budding mixed-media practice. Also hosts our “Craft Chats”!
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Carlene Fraser Harris
Server of non-fiction that reads like a novel. No lies told.
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Denise "DeeDee" Mitchell
Budding literary genre agnostic, writing from experiences as an outsider.
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Marly Pierre-Louis
Archeologist of the inner worlds & survival strategies of Blk women. Resident web designer!
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Alison Jones
Server of tales of identity & neurodivergence that are actually funny (and heartbreaking)
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Sharda Sekaran
Conjurer mixing heavy metal, multiethnic folklore, & death mythology. Hosts our weekly writing group!