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How we do it : Black writers on craft, practice, and skill / edited by Jericho Brown ; presented by the Hurston/Wright Foundation.

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New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]

Authorship -- Technique.

Authors, Black.

African American authors.

9780063278196 (hardback) :

0063278197 (hardback)

x, 341 pages ; 21 cm

Introduction / Jericho Brown -- Who your people? -- Rhythm in writing / Daniel Omotosho Black -- Asking questions and excavating memory : creating complex fictional characters / Crystal Wilkinson -- When a character returns / Rion Amilcar Scott -- What do you want from me / Jacqueline Woodson -- What you got? -- The "natives of my person" or blood is not enough : a meditation on literary kinships / Curdella Forbes -- Sweet, bittersweet, and joyful memories / Jewell Parker Rhodes -- How to write a memoir or take me to the river / Marita Golden -- Where you at? -- Looking for a place called home / W. Ralph Eubanks -- On abiding metaphors and finding a calling / Natash Tretheway -- How they must have felt--imaginary Tulsa : empathy and writing historical fiction / Breena Clarke -- This Louisiana thing that drives me : an interview with Ernest J. Gaines / Charles H. Rowell with Ernest J. Gaines -- How you living? -- Seven brides for seven mothers / Rita Dove -- Once more with feeling / Camille T. Dungy -- Craft capsules : An American Marriage / Tayari Jones -- Craft and the art of pulling Lincoln from a hat / E. Ethelbert Miller -- What it look like? -- Ready for the world : on classroom, craft, and commanding Black space / Tony Medina -- Wrangling the line, meditations on the bop / Afaa Michael Weaver -- Fiction forms : how to make fun and profundity possible in fiction / Tiphanie Yanique -- Craft / Nikki Giovanni -- Jericho Brown in conversation with Michael Dumanis / Jericho Brown with Michael Dumanis -- Who you with? -- Those words that echo...echo...echo through life / Jamaica Kincaid -- Write what you know or nah? / Tricia Elam Walker -- Nations through their mouths : silence, inner voices, and dialogue / Ravi Howard -- Writing through loss and sorrow : poetry as a practice of healing / Frank X Walker -- An interview with Barry Jenkins and Morgan Jerkins / Barry Jenkins with Morgan Jerkins -- How to read -- Nothing new : Black poetic experiment / Evie Shockley -- Yearning, despair, and outrage : writing loss in fiction / Angela Flournoy -- Journal / Terrance Hayes -- Muscularity and eros : on syntax / Carl Phillips -- Going back -- Plotting the plot / Elizabeth Nunez -- Re-vision / Mitchell S. Jackson -- The art of revision : most of what you write should be cut / Charles Johnson -- Afterword / Darlene R. Taylor and Dana A. Williams.

"How We Do It is an anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and proliferation of Black thought. While a creator's ethnicity does not solely define them, it is inherently part of who they are and how they interpret the world. For centuries, Black creators have utilized oral and written storytelling traditions in crafting their art. But how does one begin the process of constructing a poem or story or character? How do Black writers, when faced with questions of 'authenticity,' dive deep into the essence of their lives and work to find the inherent truth? How We Do It addresses these profound questions. Not a traditional 'how to' writing handbook, it seeks to guide rather than dictate and to validate the complexity and range of styles--and even how one thinks about craft itself. An outstanding list of contributors offer their insights on a range of important topics. Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown explores the lives personified in poetry, while Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey explores decolonizing enduring metaphors. National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy illuminates the pain of grief in all forms and how it can be revealed in the act of creation, and iconoclast Nikki Giovanni offers an elegiac declaration on language. New and previously published essays and interviews provide encouragement, examples, and templates, and offer lessons on everything from poetic form and plotting a story to the lessons inherent in the act of writing, trial & error, and finding inspiration in the works of others, including those of Toni Morrison, Shakespeare, and Edward P. Jones. A handbook and a reference tool, How We Do It is a thoughtful and welcome tool that offers direction to help Black artists establish their own creative practice while celebrating and widening the scope of the Black writer's role in art, history, and culture."--Amazon.com.

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