Center Stage
Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm

Nora Brooks Blakely (Literary Administrator, Author) founded Brooks Permissions, in 2001, to license and promote the work of her mother, Gwendolyn Brooks, by producing programming and publications which demonstrate Brooks’ continuing relevance. The company is currently spreading the word about AnnieAllen@75, a celebration honoring the 75th anniversary of Annie Allen, the book that made Gwendolyn Brooks the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize. A playwright for young audiences for many years, Nora released her first picture book, Moyenda and The Golden Heart (a Kwanzaa origin tale) and is hard at work on her next one.