Contributing Author
-
Featured Writer: Camella Ward
Meet Camella Ward, a new writer and contributor to Aya Collective Publishing’s Rise & Write. As a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania native, Camella’s career background includes mental health counseling and teaching. Other career experiences include being a sole proprietor and a community outreach developer focused on self-development for marginalized citizens, women, and youth. Past recognitions have included…
-
The River Rages
Contributing Author, Bethany Camille James The river rages. The freshwater(s) like to move in stages. Similarly, your blessings flow. The atmospheric river has large areas of divergent surface airflow. My sorrows, like the waters, dissipate. Open your wonders and the floodgates. Let freshwater(s) come or flow. The newness of life and strength untold. The water…
-
Child of Grace
Contributing Author, Marjorie Grevious Who are first-born Black daughters after their mama dies and they have no children of their own to take care of? Who are first-born Black daughters so intertwined with the roles they play that they forget their own fool selves, fun selves, loving selves, quiet selves, sensual selves? Mama was one,…
Aya Collective Publishing 