Announcing the Recipients of the She Writes Press and SparkPress STEP Contest

Announcing the Recipients of the She Writes Press and SparkPress STEP Contest

Sep 3, 2019 | Featured, News, Writing Portfolio

Congratulations to our two winners: Veena Rao, author of Purple Lotus, and Robin Farmer, author of Angel Dressed in Black.

Robin Farmer will publish on the SparkPress Spring 2021 season with her winning book Angel Dressed in Black, an exploration of the elusive truths in our personal and national narrative, based on the adolescent trauma of a black Catholic schoolgirl in Philadelphia. It’s a coming-of-age story about a young teen confronting racism and the hypocrisy that surrounds her, within her school, her family, her community, and the Oval Office as Watergate unfolds.

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Announcing the Top 5 STEP Contest Finalists

Aug 30, 2019 | Featured, News, Writing Portfolio

Robin Farmer, author of Angel Dressed in Black

An award-winning journalist, Robin’s work has appeared in Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where she specialized in narrative nonfiction projects and was part of the Special Projects/Investigative team. Her national awards include a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan and a first-place award for education reporting from the Education Writers Association. Robin’s fiction projects, which include screenplays, short stories and poems, focus on girls discovering their voices to advocate for social justice. Robin is a recipient of residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and is completing a debut novel for young adult readers. She is gobsmacked that she has lived in a suburb of Richmond longer than in her hometown of Philadelphia.

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Meet Robin Farmer,host of our The Writer’s Voice

Meet Robin Farmer,
host of our The Writer’s Voice

Jul 29, 2017 | News

Connecting individuals with disabilities to information, culture and community
using technology and the human voice.

Robin is a freelance writer and her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Theroot.com, Publisher’s Weekly, Richmond Magazine, and Black MBA Magazine. She is a board member for James River Writers and hosts and produces our popular interview style audio program, The Writer’s Voice. Learn all about RVA writers and their works by listening to Robin’s entertaining and informative interviews. Most recently, Robin talked to Bill Blume about his young adult vampire series and the most recent book in that series, Gidion’s Blood.

River City Secrets: Stories from Richmond

Sep 20, 2016 | News

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River City Secrets: Stories from Richmond is a collection of middle-grade short stories, each set in one of Richmond’s many popular historic locations. My short story “The History Lesson” involves the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial. Written with children in mind, this is a great collection for adults, too!

Authored by eighteen different writers and edited by Lana Krumwiede, the anthology is published by RVA indie press Chop Suey Books Books. To find more information, including bios of the authors and classroom study guides, see the Richmond Children’s Writers website. A portion of the proceeds of this book will go to James River Writers. The remaining proceeds will be used to fund school visits to Richmond-area schools.