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I just returned from the biannual gathering of the Community Built Association that met this year in Providence, Rhode Island. Photo above is from a closing plenary panel discussion among the youngest of the attendees who knocked us out with their wisdom about listening, creating, and working in collaboration. Throughout the conference, members shared inspiring work from around the country and visions for a collective future, from core values to ideas for murals, parks, playgrounds, public gardens, performances, sculptures, and historic restorations. Never have I had such a warm and enthusiastic welcome to New Village Press. I look forward to seeing these friends again in 2026!
In community, Lynne
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Forthcoming June Releases | | |
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A richly imagined, illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland
In this well-researched work, the traditional central figure and linear plot of the novel has been replaced by an interwoven collage of scenes and community of characters that reflect the diversity of experience, “silences,” and incompleteness of the historical record. By largely avoiding graphic depictions of the violence perpetrated on the enslaved, this book allows readers focus instead on the remarkable resilience, ingenuity, skills, and cultural strengths that enabled them to make a way out of no way.
All author royalties will be donated to the Historic Sotterley Descendants Project.
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Praise for Making a Way Out of No Way
"There's something about knowing your history and its ability to sometimes 'rock your
world' to its core. Especially when you realize there's so much more to your story. It's helping to introduce me to my history in a personal way."
— T. Darlene Yorkshire, daughter of James Timothy "Tim" Yorkshire, descendant of slaves associated with Sotterley and the Georgetown Memory Project
"Like [Toni] Morrison, [Taylor] sees the joy and triumph of survival in the midst of pain."
— From the foreword by Rex M. Ellis, Associate Director Emeritus for Curatorial Affairs, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Merideth M. Taylor is Professor Emerita of Theater and Dance at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and a founding member of the African and African Diaspora and Women Studies programs at the College. She is author of Listening in: Echoes and Artifacts from Maryland’s Mother County; co-editor of In Relentless Pursuit of an Education: African American Stories from a Century of Segregation; and documentary screenwriter/director. | |
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Exhibit
Making a Way Out of No Way photography in Art In Treasured Spaces
Annapolis, MD – Thru June 7
"Maryland Muse: A Tapestry of Inspiration" presents a diverse collection of two-dimensional creative works inspired by the unique cultural, beauty, and daily lives of Marylanders. Included in this display is photography from Merideth Taylor's forthcoming book, Making a Way Out of No Way.
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A rare first-person account of the Women's Movement
In her candid, compelling memoir about the Second Wave feminist movement, Muriel Fox offers remarkable, firsthand stories of 30 people (29 women and one man). Those profiled include Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, Pauli Murray, Heather Booth, Mary Eastwood, and others whom history should not forget.
Unlike books relying on secondary sources, Fox's memoir is built mainly from her own Feminism Files containing hundreds of letters, clippings, notes, and photographs that she archived. The book is truthful in revealing the movement’s struggles, maneuvers, sacrifices, feuds, betrayals, defeats, and victories large and small. This is the most comprehensive book ever written about the laws, lawsuits, and victories that helped the modern women's movement change the world.
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Praise for The Women's Revolution
"The Women's Revolution sets the record straight on the Second Wave of feminism.
It's all there--the debates, the triumphs and failures, the many larger-than-life personalities.
This is history from the inside, by one who was there. I couldn't put it down."
—Katha Pollitt, Author of Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
"Finally, a much-needed book documenting the untold stories of NOW and feminists
who relentlessly fought to transform lives, disrupt oppression by changing laws, and advocate for equality and justice from the streets to the courtrooms. The world will get to read an authentic story of the unwavering fight for feminism... thrills and stumbles in all."
—Christian F. Nunes, President, National Organization for Women
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Author Muriel Fox cofounded the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the powerful NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (now Legal Momentum), pivotal forces in the Second Wave Feminist Movement. As executive vice president of Carl Byoir & Associates, Fox became the world’s most preeminent woman in public relations. At age 96, she remains an influential voice in the feminist movement. | |
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2024 Clara Lemlich Awards
Museum of the City of New York, Manhattan, NY
Monday, May 13, 4pm ET
Muriel Fox will be honored for her lifelong commitment to social activism. RSVP to info@LaborArts.org to let them know if you will join in person or online. Other honorees include Priscilla Basset, Dorthaan Kirk, Theodora Lacey, and Estella Vasquez.
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IWF 50th Anniversary Conference
New York Hilton, Manhattan, NY
May 15–17
On May 16th, Muriel Fox will be honored at the 50th Anniversary of the International Women's Forum at their World Leadership Conference & Gala in New York City. New Village Press will host a book signing table immediately prior to the luncheon. The registration waitlist has now closed, but become an Elly's Ladder donor here!
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Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove is a social psychiatrist and educator. Her work centers urban mental health, displacement, and collective consciousness. She is the author of Root Shock, Urban Alchemy, Main Street, and more. | |
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Dr. Mindy Fullilove Events
Main Street America Now Conference: Main Idea Session
Birmingham, AL | Tues, May 7, 9–10am
Dr. Fullilove joins Main Street America President, Erin Barnes, for a fireside chat on how well-designed, equitable spaces create connections to place and people, which catalyze healing for communities that have experienced disinvestment.
Conference info HERE
The Learning Tree: Common Ground Gathering
Washington County, MD
Wed, May 14, 7:30–9pm EST
Join Fullilove at The Learning Tree's 3-day gathering and 10th birthday celebration, where she will give a Keynote presentation exploring the questions: What are we willing to share? What will we be willing to grieve? And who are we wiling to learn from?
Ticket Purchase & Registration HERE
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Joyce Milambiling to feature in
New-York Historical Society forum
Virtual/Online
Wednesday, May 15, 6–7pm ET
Dr. Milambiling—author of Skyscraper Settlement: The The Many Lives of Christadora House—will join public historian Katie Vogel and curatorial scholar Jeanne Guiterrez (moderator) for an online panel event on "My Best and Strongest Feelings: Gender, Class, and the Settlement House."
More info and Register HERE
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Louise Dunlap in conversation
with Aravinda Ananda:
Healing the Colonizer Mind
Virtual/Online
Sunday, May 19, 11am–2pm PDT
This event will weave together conversation between the event host Aravinda Ananda, Louise–author of Inherited Silence–and participants, with practices for healing and transformation.
More info and Register HERE
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World premier of playwright
Catherine Filloux's How to Eat an Orange
The Downstairs @ La MaMa, New York, NY
May 30–June 16, 2024
A new one-woman play about the visual artist and activist Claudia Bernardi, her childhood in Argentina under the military junta, and her subsequent work digging up and healing the past. Histories are woven together in a kaleidoscopic play that depicts how both families and justice may be reconfigured.
More info and Ticket Purchase HERE
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Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2024
Hobart, NY • June 7–9
Hobart Festival of Women Writers is entering its eleventh year! Come celebrate the work of women authors and explore the writing craft. Poets, Fiction Writers, Essayists, Memoirists, and all lovers of language are invited and welcomed. This year, New Village Press director Lynne Elizabeth will join, hosting a workshop on "What Publishers Need: How to Pitch Your Book Effectively."
More event info HERE
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Mayumi Oda's artwork exhibited at
Donkey Mill Art Center, Holualoa, HI
Happy Veggies Exhibit: thru June 29
Works in the exhibition include a curated selection of prints, paintings, etchings and drawings by Oda, many of which have never been exhibited. Bring your ‘ohana and friends to explore, relax and create in this lush wonderland gallery. Mural installations by Ira Stivers and local artists.
More info HERE
Discover Mayumi's beautiful anniversary editions of Random Kindness & I Opened the Gate, Laughing
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In the playful style of 12th century Japanese picture scrolls, Mayumi Oda's art depicts humans as animals who lose their way when their leaders become confused and drawn to violence. The lesson is to create a better world through simple acts of kindness. | |  |
This enchanting book is a meditation on the search for inner peace and reawakening, awash with luscious prints and watercolors, beautifully designed, and filled with vivid stories and verse. A resource for anyone seeking a slower pace, a sacred space, and a garden path. | | |
Mark Dowie & Judith Letting Go in the Media | |
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The Final Trip praises Mark Dowie, calling his latest book "the most moving thing Dowie has done as a writer. And he's done a lot."
Read the Full Review HERE
INELDA names Judith Letting Go
"Media of the Month"
highlights a meditative excerpt on remembrance and Judith's friendship with incarcerated poet, Spoon Jackson.
View the Award HERE
Berkeleyside spotlights Judith Letting Go in their spring book round up.
View the Whole List HERE
The Prison Journalism Project reviews
The Book of Judith
Accompanying Mesro Dhu Rafa'a's review is an original poem, "Only Judith Tannenbaum," reflecting on Judith's lasting legacy.
Read the Full Review HERE
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Author Mark Dowie is a former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine. His recent book Judith Letting Go, covers the lost human art of releasing everything that matters to the living in preparation for the inevitable. Dowie has also been awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters by John F. Kennedy University, nineteenth journalism awards, and is author of eight previous books. | |
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Spoon Jackson's new album,
No Moon, reviewed
Alex Dwyer, LA journalist and "Tea w/ Dweez" substackist, pairs Ataraxia Dian Hong tea with No Moon, calling Jackson and producer Nicolas Snyder’s new album “a message-in-a-bottle plea of artistic audacity from inside the walls of the American prison industrial complex.”
"Am I crazy to hear the tea on Spoon Jackson lips?" Read the full article HERE and let us know!
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Pigeon Pages interviews Leigh Sugar
Sugar on That's a Pretty Thing to Call It, "I was writing poems about prison, incarceration, and my experiences with the people I was encountering, but I felt very conflicted about what to do with this writing. [...] Over time, I realized I was probably not alone in this desire to share my writing from prison, so I decided to start reaching out to other prison teaching artists to see if they had similar work."
Read the Full Interview HERE
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