Women Writers of Haitian Descent, Inc.and Friends
About Us
The organization’s activities and services include a literary contest, writing workshops, a bookclub, a writer's group, readings and various social and literacy-oriented projects. WWOHD also provides forums for Haiti’s literary daughters to connect and for the preservation of their works in a special collection.
PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES
WWOHD initiates and participates in a variety of literary, artistic, and cultural programs at the community, national, and international level each year. Our activities are aimed at fostering greater awareness of Haiti’s literary and artistic culture, especially as it relates to women.
Haiti Out Loud
Every two months, the Women Writers of Haitian Descent, in association
with Jean-Michel Daudier, host an evening celebrating music and the
written word at Casa Champet, in Pembroke Pines, FL.
Onè? Respè!
Onè? Respè! is a literary journal that showcases emerging and
established authors. We accept poems, interviews, personal essays, short
stories, articles, or one-act plays by or about women of Haitian
descent.
Daughter of Anacaona Writer’s Network
The Daughter of Anacaona Writer’s Network (DAWN) is a South
Florida-based writer’s group dedicated to the professional development
and support of Haitian Women Writers and their works.
Every summer, we offer a six-week writer’s support and critique group.
We seek Haitian women writers with a serious interest in sharing and
workshopping their fiction, poetry, and non-fiction in a supportive and
creative environment.
Literature can be in English, French, or Creole.
For more information email us at emailwwohd@gmail.com.
OUR TEAM
Joanne Hyppolite holds a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in English from The University of Miami. She has published two popular children's books, Seth and Samona (Delacorte Press, 1995) which won the Marguerite DeAngeli Prize for New Children's Fiction and Ola Shakes It Up (Delacorte, 1998). Her short stories have appeared in The Caribbean Writer and in The Butterfly's Way: Voices From the Haitian Dyaspora.
Maude Heurtelou holds an undergraduate degree from University of San Carlos/INCAP in Guatemala and a master's degree in public health nutrition education. She has written twenty children's books and two novels, Lafami Bonplezi and Sezisman, in Haitian Creole.
Liliane Nerette Louis is the author of When Night Falls, Kric! Krac! (Libraries Unlimited,1999). She holds a master's degree in Human Resources from Barry University. Well known as a mèt kont, or master storyteller, Ms. Louis has presented programs in schools, libraries, and universities across the country.
M.J. Fievre got her MFA from the Creative Writing program at Florida International University. Her short stories and poems in English have appeared in Haiti Noir (Akashic Books, 2011), The Mom Egg, Healthy Stories, Writer’s Digest, The Caribbean Writer, and Daily Bites of Flesh: 365 Days of Flash Fiction. She is the author of several mystery novels and children’s books in French. Her latest publications include Les Fantasmes de Sophie (2007) and Sortilège Haïtien (2011). She is also the founding editor of Sliver of Stone, a bi-annual, online literary magazine dedicated to the publication of work from both emerging and established poets, writers, and visual artists from all parts of the globe. She is a regular contributor to the online publication The Nervous Breakdown and a proud member of the Miami Poetry Collective, famous for its Poem Depot, a regular feature of Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk.
Fabienne Josaphat is the author of Requiem pour Anaise. She holds a BA in Professional Writing from Barry University and has published articles in newspapers and magazines.
Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel is the author of the following picture book titles: I'll Fly Away, A Fish Called Tanga, Keeper of the Sky, Daughter of the House, and One More Daughter, America. She is the author of Haiti: a Cigarette Burning at Both Ends in Butterfly Ways: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States edited by Edwidge Danticat. Her short stories have appeared in the following literaty magazines: Compost, African Homefront, Onyx, and Watermark. She was born in Port au Prince, Haiti in 1974. She moved to Boston at the age of ten where she was educated. She has a B.A. from Tufts University and a M.A. from the University of Massachusetts. She lives in Homestead, FL with her husband and daughter.
ABOUT THE ARTIST FEATURED ON OUR BANNER:
Xavier Amiama was born in Santo Domingo in 1910. After numerous single artist shows in the Dominican Republic, he settled in Port-au-Prince in 1936 and began teaching painting.
He encouraged Petion Savain to participate in the 1939 New York World's fair.
He was among the original members of the Centre D'art and participated in several group exhibitions.
In June of 1945 he held a single artist show in the Centre D'art, and exhibited with The American Army Veterans in March of 1951. Amiama died in 1969.
This bio was provided by www.fouyeart.com.
The name of the painting we used is Haitian Women.
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