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Announcing the 2025 Memoir Magazine Prize Winners!
GRAND PRIZE: Firstborn Girls by Bernice L. McFadden
From the award-winning author and creative writing professor at Tulane University comes an intimate and powerful memoir that explores inherited trauma, family secrets, and the enduring bonds of love between mothers and daughters. On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother pulled her from the flaming wreckage. Firstborn Girls traces her remarkable life from that moment up to the publication of her first novel, Sugar. A memoir of many threads, Firstborn Girls is an extraordinarily moving portrait of a life shaped by family, history, and the drive to be something more.
See Bernice L. McFadden
November 7th, 2025 (6-8 PM CT)
Community Book Center
A conversation with Bernice L McFadden
Memoir Writing of Ancestral Reverence and Reckoning
2523 Bayou Road, New Orleans, LA 70119
For more information, call (504) 948-READ (7323)
See Bernice L. McFadden
November 22-23, 2025
Miami Book Fair
Miami Dade College
Wolfson Campus
Downtown Miami, FL.
See Bernice L. McFadden
On October 3-5, 2025, in Jacksonville, FL:
BLACK BOOK BASH: The Literary Family Reunion
Hyatt Regency Riverfront, 225 E. Coastline Dr.
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See Bernice L. McFadden
CariFesta XV | August 23-29, 2025
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Angelcestor Podcast Launch
It’s here! The Angelcestor Podcast officially launched on June 16, 2025 ✨
“Sometimes the veil between worlds feels thin. Sometimes we just know: that whisper of intuition, that miraculous timing, that deep knowing or dream—we’ve been helped, protected, or guided by someone who is no longer physically here.”
This podcast is for that knowing. For the ones who feel it.
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Camilla’s Roses Returns – Reissued June 10th
The unboxing of Camilla’s Roses—my fifth novel, originally published in 2004, marks a full-circle moment. The book went out of print just a year after its debut, but now, 21 years later, Camilla’s Roses is being reissued by Dutton on June 10th for your reading and listening pleasure.
This special edition also includes a brand-new audiobook, brought to life by five brilliant raconteurs, including the incomparable Robyn Miles. Told in a moving progression of voices, Camilla’s Roses captures a life shaped by the past and the fierce choices we make to secure our future.
Whenever possible, please support independent, Black-owned, and locally operated bookstores with your purchase. It truly makes a difference.