SHORT-TAKE ANTHOLOGIES

In narratives and poems, fifteen women share their poignant and personal views on life as an African American woman during the Harlem Renaissance. It includes the title essay by Zora Neale Hurston and "On Being Young—a Woman—and Colored" by Marita Bonner. Poems by Anne Spencer, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Angelina Weld Grimké, and more.

Six storied women of the Harlem Renaissance address the complexities and ramifications of an African American “passing” as white. The choice of narratives and women's perspectives are unique and fascinating. It includes "The Sleeper Wakes," a short story by Jessie Redmon Fauset, the author of four Harlem Renaissance novels.

For the first time in a single collection—

unique insights into the mecca of the Harlem Renaissance by the women who experienced it. A woman's perspective of Harlem, influenced by the social expectations of the time, is unique and rarely addressed.

Jessie Fauset was the Literary Editor of The Crisis and the most published woman writer of the Harlem Renaissance. This collection gives readers an opportunity to absorb the true breadth and depth of her brilliant and long overlooked poetry.

This anthology compiles all the poems written by women and published in Boston’s Harlem Renaissance literary journal, The Saturday Evening Quill. A defining feature of this landmark publication was its inclusivity: at a time when women were often underrepresented, half of its contributors were women.

A collection of poems by women of the Harlem Renaissance distinguished by cash prizes and honorable mentions in the annual contests, 1925-1927, organized by the national African American periodicals, The Crisis and Opportunity. Poets include Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Anne Spencer, Helene Johnson,  and more.

Popular, powerful, and highly regarded short stories by Harlem Renaissance greats, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Gwendolyn Bennett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Marita Bonner, Anita Scott Coleman, Ottie B. Graham, and Brenda Ray Moryck.

More popular, powerful, and highly regarded short stories by by Harlem Renaissance greats, Marita Bonner, Mae Cowdery, May Miller, Marie Louise French, Eloise Bibb Thompson, Maude Irwin Owens, Leila Amos Pendleton, and Adeline Ries.

Perhaps the best known woman writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston burst onto the Harlem scene in 1925. These short stories reflect the dynamic start of Hurston’s celebrated writing career.

Marita O. Bonner broke the mold of traditional storytelling with her lyrical and sometimes experimental writing style. These are her short stories and narrative essays. 

Three of her plays are included in Prize Plays by Women of the Harlem Renaissance, Volumes 1 and 2.

Angelina Weld Grimké, the daughter of a former slave and the great-niece of white abolitionists, struggled with her repressed bisexuality. Her poems are powerful discourses on love, loss, longing, and racial identity. 

In her short stories, Angelina Weld Grimké leaps daringly into the dark and tragically personal facets of lynchings and racial injustice.

Anita Scott Coleman, a prolific and award-winning writer, added her unique and important perspective of the American southwest to the canon of Harlem Renaissance literature.

Prize-winning One-Act Plays by Zora Neale Hurston, Marita O. Bonner, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Myrtle Smith Livingston. PLUS The Pot Maker by Marita O. Bonner. 

Prize-winning One-Act Plays by Zora Neale Hurston, Marita O. Bonner, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Ruth Gaines-Shelton. PLUS Scratches by May Miller.

First produced in 1916, Rachel was the first play performed by African Americans to an integrated audience. Rachel was also the first "race play." It exposed a white audience to the horrific injustices imposed on African Americans. For a Black audience, it projected racial pride.