Moore Black Press, originally founded in 1997 by Detroit Poet Laureate jessica Care moore, has relaunched as an imprint of Amistad/HarperCollins, celebrating its first publication: Every Where Alien by poet Brad Walrond. Now co-run by moore and Regina Brooks of Serendipity Literary Agency, MBP is committed to publishing revolutionary works by leading and emerging Black…
Diane Richards, executive director of the Harlem Writers Guild, was celebrated with a cover feature in Publishers Weekly in honor of her new book Ella. The book, a novel based on the life of Ella Fitzgerald, also received a Publishers Weekly starred review and was chosen for the “Sarah Selects” book club by Amazon Books Editorial Director Sarah Gelman.
The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families, compiled by Dr. Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer, is the 2024 NAACP Image Award winner in the “Outstanding Literary Work: Non-Fiction” category. Inspired by W. E. B. DuBois’ Brownies’ Book magazine from the 1920s, this collection of art and writing by more than 50 contributors…
Former president Barack Obama, A.K.A. “Skinny Santa”, surprised children at a Chicago school with a live holiday reading of Santa’s Gotta Go, a hilarious new picture book written by Serendipity Lit author Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Courtney Lovett! The event was covered by CBS, NBC, and MSNBC. Look for your own copy of Santa’s Gotta…
The New Brownies’ Book by Dr. Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer was recommended by Oprah Daily as a perfect 2023 holiday gift! This acclaimed anthology of Black creative work that “consoles, explains, entertains, and inspires” has also been featured in Essence, CNN, The New York Times, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, The Philadelphia Tribune, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.…
Shitty Craft Club by Sam Reece, with photography by Lizzie Darden, has been named one of Barnes & Noble’s best books of the year, in the “Best of Being Creative” category. This hilarious crafting/mindfulness book about rejecting perfectionism and doing what makes you happy, based on the author’s viral TikTok account, has also been spotlighted…
A new article in the New York Times spotlights both The Brownies Book– W.E.B Du Bois’s publication from the 1920s which sought to counter racial stereotypes and empower Black children with positive representation– and The New Brownies’ Book compiled by Serendipity Lit’s Dr. Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer. Like the original, The New Brownies’ Book: A…
Serendipity author Victoria Scott-Miller founded Liberation Station Bookstore with her family as a pop-up shop at the North Carolina Museum of Art in 2019, after struggling to find books for her sons featuring Black characters in other local bookstores. On Juneteenth, the store finally found a permanent brick-and-mortar home in downtown Raleigh, making history as the first Black-owned children’s…
Denise Rosario Adusei, Serendipity client and author of the forthcoming picture book Cesaria Wears No Shoes, is now the Executive Director of the newly refurbished Bronx Children’s Museum. Her efforts to create a magical space for the children of the Bronx, which has already been visited by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and native Bronxite U.S.…
Dr. Jenny Wang, clinical psychologist, Serendipity client, and author of the book Permission to Come Home, has offered mental health guidance and support on her Instagram page @asiansformentalhealth since 2019. This work, and her ongoing mission to improve mental health resources for the AAPI community, is being celebrated by Nordstrom with a feature on the front…
