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The Spark

A Voice of Their Own

Kristina Gashi

Crossing Pages, Crossing Borders: Giving Wanjikũ a Voice

Ciiku Ndung'u-Case

Through Their Eyes: How Stories Connect Us Across Generations

Máire Fisher

Between Places: Tsitsi and Tej on culture, identity, and home

Tayla Mocke

It Is Immigration, For Those at the Back | Empress Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki

Empress Ciku Kimani-Mwaniki

Reading Africa Challenge | Samantha Keller

Samantha Keller

Q&A with Becky Cerling Powers, Author of Wherever I Go

Britain Powers

Q&A with Bill McCamley, Author of Right My Dudes... Now What?

Britain Powers

Q&A with Helen Brain, Author of The Fiery Spiral Trilogy

Britain Powers

Q&A with Hannes Barnard, Author of Nebulous

Britain Powers

Q&A with Sahra Noor, Author of Salt in the Snow

Britain Powers

Q&A with Rosemary Smith, Author of Swimming with Cobras

Britain Powers

Q&A with Elizabeth Gabel, Author of Gates of Erin

Britain Powers

Q&A with Faraaz Mahomed, Author of Mother/Land

Tayla Mocke

Q&A with Laura Camacho Frias, Author of Unwritten

Tayla Mocke

Q&A with Barbara Adair, Author of Will, the Passenger Delaying Flight

Britain Powers

Q&A with Jeffrey Armstrong, Author of Asphalt Surfer

Britain Powers

Q&A with Joanne Bloch, Author of Unseen

Britain Powers

Q&A with Stephanie Ebert and Alison de Villiers, Creators of Beat the Rain

Tayla Mocke

Q&A With Samantha Keller, Author of The Light Remains

Tayla Mocke

Q&A with Colleen Higgs, Author of my mother, my madness

Britain Powers

Q&A with Joseph Olejak, Author of 26 Weekends in County Jail

Britain Powers

Q&A with Becky Cerling Powers, Author of Forbidden Orphanage

Britain Powers

Q&A with Jose M. Rodriguez, Author of Quantum Nightmares

Britain Powers

Q&A with M.C. Kasper, author of There Doesn’t Have to be a Reason

Tayla Mocke

Q&A With Dennis Dalton, Author of Unit 33

Britain Powers

Q&A with Craig Higginson, Author of Shadow Country

Britain Powers

Q&A with Elle Evans, Author of Ship in the Sky

Tayla Mocke

Q&A with Mason O’Connor, Author of Manor of Buried Secrets

Tayla Mocke

Q&A with Máire Fisher, Author of The Enumerations

Britain Powers

Q&A with I.M. Aiken, Author of Stolen Mountain

Britain Powers

Part 2: Q&A with A.R. Goldsmith, Author of A Dangerous Business

Britain Powers

Q&A With A.R. Goldsmith, Author of A Nasty Business

Britain Powers

Q&A With Mike Nicol, Author of Falls the Shadow

Britain Powers

Q&A with Bryan Kromm, Author of Young and Hungry

Britain Powers

Q&A with Donica Merhazion, Author of Born at the End of the World

Britain Powers

Q&A with Lisa Maria Burgess, Author of Snowpal Soccer

Britain Powers

Q&A with Leo Daly, Author of The Giant and the Olive

Britain Powers

Catalyst authors in conversation: reflections for #ReadingAfrica Week

Tayla Mocke and Patricia Spencer

Discussion with author Malcolm Himschoot and author Aaron Scott on trans issues, religion, and American culture

Thirteen Essential African Films in French

Lora Parker

#ReadingAfrica 2025 Guide

Ashawnta Jackson

A Touch of African Romance

Lora Parker

Q&A with the Otto Foundation

Patricia Spencer

Finding Africa in North Texas

Patricia Spencer

Registration Opens For #ReadingAfrica 2025 Live Panels!

Catalyst Staff

Q and A with Jane Kurtz, author of "Oh Give Me a Home"

Britain Powers

VLog: Flare Crime/Thriller authors discuss reading eachothers novels

Jessica Powers

There Doesn’t Have to be a Reason Author Q&A

Daniella Felix

Reading Secrets: A Question and Answer With Malcolm Himschoot

Britain Powers

Author Q&A: Kendra Powers

Jessica Powers

After the Catalyst Comes the Flare

Staff

Catalyst is Putting Stories on the Map with Flare

Staff

Coming Soon: The Little Ambulance War of Winchester County

Staff

Coming Soon: Killer Insight

Staff

Coming Soon: Under the Light of Fireflies

Staff

Author Q&A with Ciiku Ndung'u-Case

Daniella Felix

Author Q&A with Barbara Erasmus

Daniella Felix

Sifiso Mzobe to be judge for the Hurston Wright Awards

Daniella Felix

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu became a judge for the Caine Prize

Daniella Felix

Barbara Erasmus: The winding road to writing Below Luck Level (Based on a canceled speech to U3A)

Barbara Erasmus

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