News & Reflections

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Welcome Table Talk #6: The Sacred & The Secret: Writing the Women of the Black Church

Wintergreen Women Writers Collective and Torch Literary Arts are embarking on an intergenerational three-year project for Black women writers called Welcome Table Talks.

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Letter from the Team: Memorializing Black Midwives

Wintergreen’s Executive Director, Dr. Joanne Gabbin, shares an update on artist and poet Malaika Favorite’s midwives mural project and discusses the legacy of black midwives in America.

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Welcome Table Talk #5: Parables and Provisions: Feeding the Soil and the Soul

Wintergreen Women Writers Collective and Torch Literary Arts are embarking on an intergenerational three-year project for Black women writers called Welcome Table Talks.

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Letter from The Director: A Frederick Douglass Moment

Wintergreen’s Executive Director, Dr. Joanne Gabbin, reflects on the legacy of Frederick Douglass and his ever-relevant call to action.

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“And So We Gather” by Leah Glenn Dance Theatre

The Carver Community Cultural Center presents the Leah Glenn Dance Theater’s “And So We Gather” featuring Wintergreen Women Leah Glenn, Latorial Faison, Joanne Gabbin, Opal Moore, and Hermine Pinson.

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Letter from The Director: me and you be sisters

Wintergreen’s Executive Director, Dr. Joanne Gabbin, reflects on the passing of her sister Doris Elizabeth Hunt.

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Welcome Table Talk #4: I Know a Place: Black Women Artists Imagine Sanctuary

Wintergreen Women Writers Collective and Torch Literary Arts are embarking on an intergenerational three-year project for Black women writers called Welcome Table Talks.

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Wintergreen Women Writers: A Reading at AWP

The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective presents its inaugural reading at AWP 2026, co-sponsored by the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore, MD.

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Letters from The Team: One Spark

The Wintergreen team reflects on the life and legacy of Rosa Parks.

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Welcome Table Talk #3: Thinking About Love and the Divine

Wintergreen Women Writers Collective and Torch Literary Arts are embarking on an intergenerational three-year project for Black women writers called Welcome Table Talks.