Kitchen Table Literary Arts: Set up right for a decade

Nonprofit Kitchen Table Literary Arts celebrates a decade of promoting the prose and poetry of Black women and women of color and helping them blossom and flourish as writers. Photos by Kiran Malik-Khan “We Write Here.” It’s an apt tagline for Kitchen Table Literary Arts (KT), a nonprofit organization located in the Kress Contemporary – an Ybor City arts hub. The group celebrates its 10 th anniversary this month. KT has a mission to promote the prose and poetry of women of color and Black women. The low-cost or free program options feature a range from online creative writing series to in-person workshops at the Kress as well as public events. An anniversary event at the Kress Contemporary on September 8th drew a full house and featured the audience voting on “You Choose the Ending” stories read by local writers Slam Anderson, Tenea D. Johnson and Gloria Muñoz. Muñoz, the Poet Laureate of St. Pete, enjoyed the experience of writing a story ending with the audience’s help. “I’m a fan of what Kitchen Table does for the community,” she enthuses. “I just love their work. It was really fun and an honor to read my story amongst writers who I admire.” Johnson, a professional editor and speculative fiction author who serves as a genre fiction thesis mentor for Western Colorado University, agrees. “As a writer, you don’t get to see the interactive part with the audience,” she says. “You write a story in isolation before it goes out to the world, so being able to have the audience help you make those decisions was just great.” Helping writers blossom and flourish Maroon Stranger, who joined KT last year, notes how important the group was for her creative writing. “I love attending KT events,” she says. “Thanks to them, my writing has improved.” Nyasha Mutunhu says Kitchen Table Literary Arts helps her find time in her busy schedule to focus on her writing.Nyasha Mutunhu agrees. She has been with the group for four years intermittently. “I’m a teacher, so it becomes difficult to make time for my own writing, KT […]

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