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Dirty Words features Abiola Abrams' writing along with writers Ellen Sussman, Antonya Nelson, Phillip Lopate, Martha McPhee, Jonathan Ames, Thomas Beller, Maud and Nell Casey, Pagan Kennedy, Stephen McCauley, Elissa Schappel, Katharine Weber, and many others. Dirty Words steps in where time-honored discussions of the birds and the bees fall short.

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Dare, Abiola's first novel from Simon & Schuster!

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(Also in photo The Apprentices Stacey J, Kwame Jackson, singer Freddie Jackson, MTV VJ Tweetie)

i've been a writer since i was six... creative non-fiction, screenplays, an off off broadway play named GODDESS CITY, and my debut novel DARE was just published by simon & schuster.  my words are also featured in eve ensler's latest anthology as well as the upcoming anthologies behind the bedroom door by self magazine's paula derrow and ellen sussman's encyclopedia of dirty words.

thank you so much for your interest in my work!
xoxo,
a.
p.s. that's me (below) after hosting the african american literary awards.

ACADEMIC FLASHBACK

(from my MFA tenure, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Class of 2005)

>Abiola's Thesis on her Artistic Process

>Glass Slipper: Cinderella Movies

>Films, Femmes & Fighting Women

>Sideshow Freakism

>Feminitude

Anthology edited by Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler's current VDay Anthology featuring my work along with Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Edward Albee, Edwidge Danticat, Michal Eric Dyson & much, much more.
Features writing by Abiola Abrams

A Memory, A Monologue , A Rant and A Prayer features Abiola Abrams' writing along with writers Eve Ensler, Edward Albee, Tariq Ali, Maya Angelou, Howard Zinn, Erin Cressida Wilson, Michael Eric Dyson, Elizabeth Lesser, Anna Deavere Smith, David Eggers, Jane Fonda, Alice Walker, and many more.

THEATRE PLAYS

Hip Hop Theater Project
When I was in my early 20s, out of frustration and sheer ignorance of how hard it was supposed to be, I set out to creat an off-broadway show. and, yay, I succeeded!
GC will be published in anthology Across All Lines.

Goddess City

Groceries, excerpted in Eve Ensler's anthology

>Bloodsport, performed at The Kitchen, NYC

>Castration, Goddess Odyssey excerpt

ARTICLES + ESSAYS

Former Ms. editor Marcia Guillespie asked me to write this article about Monica Lewinsky as I was also an "intern-type" at the time!
"Dear Monica" college article

>Dear N-Word (written for an anthology by Aimee Breeze Harper)

>RANT, Mahogany Blues Magazine

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