Episode 74: Writing and Styling with Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

Greetings Glocal Citizens!
My guest this week comes to us from Queens, New York by way of Accra, Ghana. She is Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, the author of Powder Necklace, which Publishers Weekly called "a winning debut." Named to the “Africa39” list of writers “with the potential and talent to define trends in the development of literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora,” her short fiction was included in the anthology Africa39. Her work also appears in Everyday People: The Color of Life, New Daughters of Africa, and Accra Noir among others. Forthcoming from Brew-Hammond are a children's picture book, a novel, and an anthology. Brew-Hammond was a 2019 Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, a 2018 Aké Arts and Book Festival Guest Author, a 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, a 2016 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence, and a 2015 Rhode Island Writers Colony Writer-in-Residence. Every month, Brew-Hammond co-leads a writing fellowship whose mission is to write light into the darkness.
Nana is also a founder of the made-in-Ghana lifestyle line EXIT 14 which offers a new generation of style lovers and collectors fashion and home goods made of batakari, a luxury cotton textile woven by Ghanaian artisans in a generations' old tradition.
Where to find Nana:
www.nanabrewhammond.com (https://www.nanabrewhammond.com/)
Shop Exit 14 (https://www.exit14apparel.com/#!/HOME)
On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nana-ekua-brew-hammond-8164784/)
On Twitter (https://twitter.com/nanaekua?lang=en)
On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/nanaekuawriter/?hl=en)
On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/nanaekua)
What's Nana watching?
Closure on Amazon Prime (https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00TPJGW6I/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r)
Other topics of interest:
Akashic Books (http://www.akashicbooks.com/subject/noir-series/)
Cassava Republic (https://cassavarepublic.biz/)
Nana-Ama Danquah (https://danquah.com/bio)
Book Nook Store (https://booknook.store/about-us/)
Writers Project of Ghana (https://writersprojectghana.com/)
Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_Accelerated_Development_Authority)
Library of African and the African Diaspora (https://loatad.org/)
Special Guest: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond.

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

My guest this week comes to us from Queens, New York by way of Accra, Ghana. She is Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, the author of Powder Necklace, which Publishers Weekly called "a winning debut." Named to the “Africa39” list of writers “with the potential and talent to define trends in the development of literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora,” her short fiction was included in the anthology Africa39. Her work also appears in Everyday People: The Color of Life, New Daughters of Africa, and Accra Noir among others. Forthcoming from Brew-Hammond are a children's picture book, a novel, and an anthology. Brew-Hammond was a 2019 Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, a 2018 Aké Arts and Book Festival Guest Author, a 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, a 2016 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence, and a 2015 Rhode Island Writers Colony Writer-in-Residence. Every month, Brew-Hammond co-leads a writing fellowship whose mission is to write light into the darkness.

Nana is also a founder of the made-in-Ghana lifestyle line EXIT 14 which offers a new generation of style lovers and collectors fashion and home goods made of batakari, a luxury cotton textile woven by Ghanaian artisans in a generations' old tradition.

Where to find Nana:

www.nanabrewhammond.com

Shop Exit 14

On LinkedIn

On Twitter

On Instagram

On Facebook

What's Nana watching?

Closure on Amazon Prime

Other topics of interest:

Akashic Books

Cassava Republic

Nana-Ama Danquah

Book Nook Store

Writers Project of Ghana

Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA)

Library of African and the African Diaspora

Special Guest: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond.