Featuring: Lola Jaye, Christina Fonthes, Charmaine Wilkerson
Chair: Jendella Benson
Pit Theatre, Level -2 (2 mins from Level 0)
Time: 1pm – 2pm
What does it mean to write Black womanhood across generations, continents, and histories — and still dream forward?
In this rich and intimate conversation, authors Lola Jaye (The Manual for Good Wives), Charmaine Wilkerson (Good Dirt), and Christina Fonthes (Where You Go, I Will Go) explore how their fiction gives voice to the complexity, beauty, and boldness of being a Black woman in the world.
Chaired by writer and editor Jendella Benson, this panel delves into stories of survival and softness, identity and resistance, love, lineage, and liberation. Together, they’ll discuss how writing becomes a way to not only reflect the world — but to reshape it.
This is a celebration of Black women’s voices, and the stories that lift us higher — one truth at a time.
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