Pearl Cleage

Are you a woman writer who yearns for: • A place to write? • Time to write? • An audience? • The energy of other writers? • The advice of other writers? • The inspiration of accomplished authors? • The opportunity to be published yourself? Save the dates: Friday, October 21 and Saturday ... (more)October 22 for a one-of-a-kind writing conference at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta (UUCA). Meet, learn and participate in a workshop led by celebrated authors and poets. Also enjoy a yoga and meditation session designed to fuel your creative energy, and an opportunity to perform for an audience. You will also have the chance to have a personal meeting with a professional editor to discuss your work. Tickets for Friday night's keynote speaker, Pearl Cleage are $30. Tickets for the two day event are $85 in advance, $100 at the door. Tickets available at Charis, cash or check only. Visit www.uucawomenwriters.org to register and see full schedule of events.

The fabulous Pearl Cleage returns with a new novel! This one will keep you laughing and once again admiring Pearl’s wonderful imagination. The book is ”Just Wanna Testify,” and it’s all about a group of high fashion model black women who have settled in Atlanta’s West End. and oh yeah, they ... (more)just happen to be vampires (”vamps”), and they’ve hired five Morehouse men who should have read the contracts before they accepted the offer. Author Tayari Jones calls this novel, Pearl’s latest Blue Hamilton book, ”laugh out loud funny,” and we know you won’t want to miss this special event. It’s free, of course, no tickets or reservations needed, and you can buy the book at the program and get it signed. The beautiful new Stonecrest Library is at 3123 Klondike Road in Lithonia near Stonecrest Mall.

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Pearl Cleage, the acclaimed author of Oprah’s book club pick What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day comes Till You Hear From Me. The novel showcases Cleage’s singular talent for capturing the heart, soul and rhythm of America ... (more)in a pitch-perfect snapshot of a young woman caught at the intersection of Obamamerica and the legendary Civil Rights freedom movement, between personal loyalties and political realities.

One of our favorite writers, Atlanta’s own Pearl Cleage, returns with an exciting new novel, Till You Hear from Me. It’s a scathing look at the new ”post-Obama” politics and black culture centered around an outspoken civil rights legend named the Rev. Horace Dunbar, whose unexpected and ... (more)politically incorrect comments may have damaged his daughter’s hopes for a place in the new administration. Cleage writes with authority and power and pulls no punches as she tells this story, filled with the heroes and villains of today’s political scene. Her many bestselling books include Seen It All and Done the Rest, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day and Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do. She’s won many awards, and her books have been included on the Center for the Book’s list of ”25 Books All Georgians Should Read.”

Charis favorite, Pearl Cleage, is back with a new novel about fathers, daughters, and Obama-era politics set in Atlanta’s West End. Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar ... (more)finds herself coming home, to deal with her father, the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon and self-described “foot soldier for freedom,” when he is notoriously featured on an endlessly replayed YouTube clip in which his pronouncements don’t exactly jibe with the new era in American politics

High Tea with Pearl Cleage at a program sponsored by the Westchester Library System. Last Year it was wonderful.

Presented by Capella University.
6pm Reception, 7pm Author's Lecture
Tuesday, March 18
Admission: $10; $5 for AHC members;
free for MMH members