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Awards and Commissions

Gene-Gabriel Moore award for Playwrights

NEA/TCG theater residency program for playwrights

Atlanta Mayor's Fellowship for Poetry

Atlanta Cultural Committee for the Olympic Games honoree

Commissioned to adapt Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land for stage

Commissioned by Seven Stages (Rockefeller Foundation) to develop Blue Monk (play)

National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow chosen for poetry

Georgia Poetry Circuit Tour

Bronze Jubilee Award for Literature

American Film Institute's William Wyler Fellowship for Screenwriting

Broadside Press Award for Poetry

Anthology and Magazine Publications (partial list)

“The Chattahoochee Review” (poems)

"Drum Voices" (anthology), Essay, English Department of SIUE,

 "African American Review" (anthology), Play, Indiana State University,

 "Snake Nation Review" (anthology), Poem, Snake Nation Press,

 "Atlanta Review" (anthology), Poems, Poetry Atlanta,

 “Drum Voices" (anthology), Interview, English Department of SIUE,

 "Snake Nation Review" (anthology), Poem, Snake Nation Press,

 “Quest Magazine” Short story, Health Quest,

Poems, short stories and feature articles have appeared in a wide range of publications

including Black World, Negro Digest, Rufus Magazine, Essence Magazine, The Dayton Daily

News, The Fanon Center Journal, Catalyst Magazine

Books Published:

Wise Blood   

New and selected poems, Snake Nation Press

Blues Blood  

New and selected poems, CAC Press

Blood Elegy  

Collection of poems, Poetry Atlanta Signature Series

Blood Lines 

Collection of short stories and poems, Togetherness Press

*Poetry cover art created by Carol Colgate

Film Credits:

Seven short film scripts written for advanced-study directors and produced on

film or tape at the American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA.

Television Credits:

"The Boy King" (winner of a Peabody Award), rewrite credit, produced by WSB TV

 "Palmerstown, USA", teleplay: A Place for Beau, produced by Haley/T.A.T. for CBS

 "Freedom Road" (four hour mini-series), wrote additional scenes as consultant to

director Jan Kadar, produced by Zev Braun Productions for NBC

 "Lazarus Syndrome", story created for VSC Enterprises, Inc. and ABC

 "Polished Ebony", twenty minute video produced at the American Film Institute