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Series 3 Episode 7: Louise Hare
The Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour now accepts manuscripts in non-fiction.
In this third series of podcasts in support of Morley College’s Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, Dr Florence Marfo talks to returning Morley Prize judge and novelist Louise Hare about her third novel Harlem After Midnight, to be released this month. Florence and Louise also talk about The Harlem Renaissance and Nella Larsen’s Passing. Florence finds out about Louise’ involvement in literary festivals.
See here for more on the Harlem Renaissance:
Suggested Reading List: Brown: ‘Odyssey of Big Boy’, Cullen: ‘Yet do I Marvel’, DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk, Fauset: Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral, Hughes: ‘I Too’, ‘ The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain’, Hurston: ‘How it Feels to be Colored Me’, Johnson: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Jones: Blues People: Negro Music in White America, Petry, The Street, Larson: Passing and Quicksand, Locke: ‘The New Negro’, Schomburg: ‘The Negro Digs Up His Past’
Visual Art: Douglass: ‘Building More Stately Mansion’s and ‘The Judgement Day’ and Wells: ‘Looking Upward’ and Motley: ‘Gettin’ Religion’
Songs: Johnson: ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ and God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Listen here for a Harlem Renaissance playlist: The Greatest songs of the Harlem Renaissance – playlist by Far Out Magazine | Spotify