Jessica Powers
@jlpowers
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J.L. Powers writes books. Under Water pubbed in Feb 2019. She's publisher at @catalyst_press, writes w/ bro @powers_squared, freelances at https://t.co/5AWcDq7zOI.
El Paso, Texas
Joined January 2009
RT @lithub: @jlpowers and @kenechiuzor on how Catalyst and Iskanchi Press are bringing African writers to wider audiences. .
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I met Kenechi Uzor a few years ago when he was new to publishing and launching his press, which focuses on publishing African writers. My own company, Catalyst Press, which also focuses on publishi…
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RT @catalyst_press: Starting soon: Writing a Greener World: How African Writers are Responding the Climate Crisis, our second #ReadingAfric….
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RT @AfricainWords: Today's AiW Team pick,#6 of #ReadingAfrica week (with @catalyst_press), is @Duncan_M_Yoon's *China in 20th and 21st Cent….
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RT @wwborders: "Now I have decided. I will travel to search for her in every place." For #ReadingAfrica week, we're returning to this work….
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RT @GlobalLitin: Chaos in Kinshasa, by Barly Baruti & Thierry Bellefroid, tr. Ivanka Hahnenberger. A Harlem gangster's trip to Central Afr….
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RT @africa_dialogue: In our latest interview, publicist and South African office head for @catalyst_press, SarahBelle Selig, speaks to @Bij….
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RT @wwborders: “Every so often a name spreads so far out that an entire community comes to believe nobody else is entitled to bear it. “ We….
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RT @catalyst_press: "I see an Africa that writes, & publishes, for Africa and beyond, with the focus on supporting the African way of writi….
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AiW Guests: Maureen Masamba, Azafi Omoluabi, Goretti Kyomuhendo, and Mutesi Gasana, with Jessica Powers. As part of this year’s #ReadingAfricaWeek, in the second part of this publishing serie…
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RT @UnivNebPress: Celebrate #ReadingAfrica week with MINE MINE MINE (@AfricanPoetryBF), a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s fa….
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RT @GlobalLitin: Spud: A Wickedly Funny Novel, by John van de Ruit, featured during our 2nd #IntlYALitMonth, curated by @lhoiseth. This b….
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RT @GlobalLitin: Crooks and Straights, by Masha du Toit. Those who are fans of fantasy and young magicians' coming-of-age titles will enj….
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RT @GlobalLitin: Lit Hub: Books that travel: a report from the 2023 Nairobi International Book Fair . #ReadingAfri….
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All photos courtesy of e-Kitabu. In 1993, I was a teenager, volunteering to work with street children in Kibera, the largest “slum” on the continent of Africa. I held babies, played hokey-pokey and…
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RT @cwfcreatives: To celebrate #ReadingAfrica Week, @catalyst_press has organised three online events to spotlight African literature start….
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RT @UnivNebPress: Celebrate #ReadingAfrica week with YOUR BODY IS WAR by @MShiferraw which contemplates the psychology of the female human….
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RT @UnivNebPress: THE FUTURE HAS AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE DAWN wrestles with the ethnic violence and civil war that dominated life in West A….
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RT @GlobalLitin: Jen Thorpe aims to read every book written by #SouthAfricanWomxnWriters. We went along on part of the journey! . This is a….
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RT @OpenHeartsBigD1: Igbo is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Igbo people, a once autonomous people who live in Nigeria, Cameroon & Equ….
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RT @AfricainWords: Team pick #3 reopens a plagiarism scandal & reexamines the place of African writing in its light:.Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's….
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RT @AfricainWords: (BC somehow we were asleep on Sunday) Today we've 2x AiW picks of 2023's reads for @catalyst_press' #ReadingAfrica week….
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RT @catalyst_press: Though we don't publish any work by Palestinian writers (yet!), we wanted to support as best we could. Visit our site t….
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