Bio
Me
Like other creative folks who have spent many years in a cultural Mecca like New York City, I’ve worked on a number of interesting projects over the years. I’m what I refer to as a “slasher.” Writer, slash, editor, slash, columnist, slash … well, you get the idea. There are plenty of us slashers around New York. More specific info below.
SékouWrites is the editor of When Butterflies Kiss, a serial novel in which ten co-writers each wrote one chapter of the same story. It’s innovative structure and collection of strong literary voices resulted in much critical acclaim, including glowing reviews in Quarterly Black Review, Black Issues Book Review, Honey and even Booklist, which described When Butterflies Kiss as “the telling of the lusts, loves, and agonies of a gifted writer, as told by gifted writers.” When Butterflies Kiss was the first serial novel to be wholly authored by African American writers.
During the 7th Annual New York International Fringe Festival (2003), SékouWrites co-authored and co-starred in a “spoken word theatre” performance designed to explore the modern black male experience. It enjoyed a six-day run at the prestigious Cherry Lane Theatre and was described by Brook Stowe (theater2k.com) as a “devastating spoken-word dissemination of what it means to be African-American and male in the USA today.”
SékouWrites also created a monthly event called Black Men on Black Love that later evolved into an online relationship column. Both the event and the column were designed to respond to queries from black women by offering multiple black male opinions. Aside from its originating site (sekouwrites.com), Black Men on Black Love has been posted on NiaOnline, EURweb and AOL/BlackVoices and has received national media coverage. Additionally, NiaOnline hired SékouWrites to write Heart to Heart, a second relationship column.
His fiction has been published in several anthologies, including Zane’s Caramel Flava (Atria, 2006), Wanderlust: 14 Erotic Travel Tales (Plume, 2005) and Intimacy: Erotic Stories of Love, Lust and Marriage by Black Men (Plume, 2004). An essay about a formative childhood experience appears in Bronx Biannual II and another work of fiction appears in the anthology Sex and Candy (Pretty Things Press).
SékouWrites holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction from New School University and a BA from Morehouse College. He is currently the Editor in Chief of SimplyRides.com, an online car magazine geared toward women. As a journalist, Sekou has written for a wide range of magazines, newspapers and websites over the course of his long career.
Email: sekou@sekouwrites.com
The website for SékouWrites, a NY-based writer who "day-lights" at SimplyRides.com.
