This month’s online presentation welcomes African-American Alliance founders and writers, Georgia McDade, Minnie Collins, and more. Join us to celebrate the start of It's About Time Writers' Reading Series' 32nd year.

Dr. Georgia Stewart McDade, a Louisiana native who has lived in Seattle more than half her life, loves reading and writing. Earning a Bachelor of Arts from Southern University, Master of Arts from Atlanta University, and Ph. D. from University of Washington, the English major spent more than thirty years teaching at Tacoma Community College but also found time to teach at Seattle University, the University of Washington, Lakeside School, Renton Technical College, and Zion Preparatory Academy. As a charter member of the African-American Writers’ Alliance (AAWA), McDade began reading her stories in public in 1991. For a number of years she has written poems inspired by art at such sites as Gallery 110, Seattle Art Museum, Onyx Fine Arts Collective and Columbia City Gallery. She regularly contributed opinion pieces for Pacific Newspapers, especially the South District Journal. A prolific writer, she has works in AAWA anthologies I Wonder as I Wander, Gifted Voices, Words? Words! Words, and Threads. Her works include Travel Tips for Dream Trips, questions and answers about her six-month, solo trip around the world; Outside the Cave and Outside the Cave II, collections of poetry; and numerous essays, stories, and other poems.

Minnie A. Collins, award-winning English professor Emerita, is the author of The Purple Wash, Palm Power: Hearts in Harmony, and Seattle’s Historical Liberty Bank Building Apartments’ Commemoration Plaques on 24^th and Union. She is published also in Raven Chronicles, Emerald Reflections, Fly to the Assemblies! Seattle and the Rise of the Resistance, Voices That Matter, Threads, Washington College Humanities Association’s Crosscurrents, Blackpast.org., and The Avocet-Nature Poetry. She is listed in Seattle’s 4Culture’s Touring Arts Roster (TAR).

Ability to use Zoom on your own computer or phone is required for this program.

This reading will be recorded and also available for future viewing on the It's About Time Writers' Reading Series YouTube channel.​