Sowa's Red Gravy Stories

Diane Richards is a member of the Harlem Writers Guild the oldest African American writers guild in the world and the guild of legendary members Maya Angelou Terry McMillan and Ossie Davis.Sowa''s Red Gravy Stories is filled with passion humor wit and grit. Writer Diane Richards has the same affection reverence and mystical empathy for African American folklore and storytelling that can be found in the works of Zora Neale Hurston. Best of all her work keeps alive the all but forgotten craft of creating authentic American fables.William H. Banks Jr. EXECUTIVE DIRECTORTHE HARLEM WRITERS GUILD INC. Diane Richards is the voice of the New Harlem Renaissance. Her narrator Sowa is very much alive as she reaches back into southern tradition and folklore to give us stories reminiscent of Zora Neale Hurston Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer. She is an author to watch. Ruby DeeActressSowa is a mythmaker revitalizing the tradition of southern folklore. Red Gravy Stories capture the sound heart and fury of African American culture. Richards is a supreme poet ahead of her time. These stories will be told over and over again for generations to come. Angela Kinamore Poetry EditorESSENCE MAGAZINEDiane Richards is an excellent writer. Voodoo Black Magic and All Kinds of Mess should be a theater piece or a screenplay. Woodre KingNEW FEDERAL THEATREDiane Richards is one of our most promising young emerging writers. Grace EdwardsSecretary of the Harlem Writers Guild Inc. Doubleday Author of the Mali Anderson Mystery SeriesSowa''s Red Gravy Stories compel me to readthem; I don''t want to put them down. This is a powerful piece of work from a gifted writer. Tina Sattin ActressFounder and DirectorOpen Cage Theatre