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Jewell Parker Rhodes

Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Jewell Parker Rhodes

Jewell Parker Rhodes, an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction, including Voodoo Dreams, Season (formerly titled Voodoo Season) Yellow Moon (formerly titled Yellow Moon), Magic City, Douglass' Women, Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors, and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction, is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and artistic director of the Virginia G. Piper Center in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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The Marie Laveau Mystery Trilogy is now available in eBook
Nov 20, 2012
The Marie Laveau Mystery Trilogy will be released on November 20, 2012 in eBook
Nov 20, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Douglass' Women
Sep 07, 2012
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Apr 15, 2011
Season will be released on April 12, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Apr 12, 2011
Season is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 12, 2011
Hurricane will be released on April 12, 2011 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Apr 12, 2011
Hurricane is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Apr 12, 2011
Moon will be released on April 12, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Apr 12, 2011
Moon is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 12, 2011
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Moon
Apr 07, 2011
Excerpt:
Prologue from Hurricane
Mar 24, 2011
Douglass' Women will be released on June 22, 2010 in eBook
Jun 22, 2010
Douglass' Women is now available in eBook
Jun 22, 2010
Porch Stories is now available in eBook
Jun 15, 2010
Porch Stories will be released on June 15, 2010 in eBook
Jun 15, 2010

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What 6 Phoenix-area writers learned at ASU's Desert Nights conference
Examiner.com, March 23, 2013
...Feb. 22-24. Presented by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, the conference included such speakers as Jewell Parker Rhodes, the award-winning author of “Voodoo Dreams,” “Magic City” and “Douglass’ Women”; Betty Webb, author...
So Long, Farewell . . .
School Library Journal, February 15, 2013
...IT?S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE As we wrap up another season of Heavy Medal, we?d like to thank all of our readers for their contributions.� It?s always hard to recognize only a small handful of books every year, but I always feel like we are able to...
Garden Lakes book fair inspires reading
RN-T.com, October 2, 2012
...from the fair. The 10-year-old got a bookmark with a fluffy cat on it and “Ninth Ward” by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Both Cora and Jessica said they enjoyed the book fair coming to their school, and Cora said she could use a book or two for the AR...
Garden Lakes book fair inspires reading
RN-T.com, October 2, 2012
...from the fair. The 10-year-old got a bookmark with a fluffy cat on it and “Ninth Ward” by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Both Cora and Jessica said they enjoyed the book fair coming to their school, and Cora said she could use a book or two for the AR...