ALICE WALKER
"If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?"
BOMBS Publishing is an independent, non-profit press for the radical Black woman writer composing to advance Black people.
about BOMBS publishing
Why "BOMBS"
The name "BOMBS" does not infer militarism nor violence. Instead, it is an acronym for Betting On My Black Self, which was conceived in 2023 after the founder--having received multiple rejections from publishers regarding her own poetry manuscripts--decided to organize her own independent press. BOMBS Publishing, therefore, is a Black, lesbian, woman-owned and run press for other Black women writers who need a publisher to "bet on" them and their creative works. Mirroring Audre Lorde, et al.'s Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press (1980); Alice Walker's Wild Flower Press (1984); and Alexis De Veaux's Diva Enterprises (1980), BOMBS situates itself as a major contributor to the Black literary canon.
Our Mission
At BOMBS Publishing, we aim to provide a radical space for Black women writers--primarily first time poets, creative non-fiction, and children's books writers. We aim to produce literary works that intentionally respond to the social uplift and critical consciousness of Black people, while fostering an author community whose members compliment, while countering traditional publishing.
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(Image: Natalie Cole reading, 1975
Photo via Johnson/Ebony Archives)
now on audio
we be theorizin keeps alive the 1960s Black Arts Movement with tankas, sonnets, and spoken word poems written in a Black English, hip-hop blues funk celebrating and detailing Black life unexpected. Organized into three sections that each include a prose essay, we be theorizin affirms Black folks' intellectual grit and divine spirit.
released August 31, 2024
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