Toya Wolfe

Join the @StephenCurry30 book club at literati.com/Steph for exclusive conversations and reading materials! Thanks to Steph and team for selecting Last Summer on State, @WmMorrowBooks and @literati! ❤️

@fopminui @fasc1nate @JefferyRenard wrote about him in his beautiful novel, Song of the Shank!

The last American slave ship docked illegally in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860, carrying about 160 West African captives. Among them was Cudjo Lewis, who recognized how his birth culture might be erased while toiling in this new land. So when he was freed, he purchased two acres and started a self-sufficient community of survivors of the last slave ship. Known to outsiders as Africatown, Lewis' neighborhood was modeled on his West African home, where extended families lived together, members conversed in their regional languages, and partook in traditions that might otherwise be lost to them in America. Today, Africatown still exists and houses the descendants of the nation's last slave ship community.

Hope to see you there!

@rebeccamakkai This really ought to be a meme. I swear I get caught off guard EVERY time! @DavidSedaris you’re not alone!

@chloelashby @TrapezeBooks @orionbooks @CWAgencyUK Congrats Chloe! ❤️

SECOND SELF proofs! Coming 6th July 🍑 Pre-order: geni.us/SecondSelf

Check it out! @BBCRadio2 @MerkyBooks Thank you!!! ❤️

Still celebrating! Honored to be a finalist! Can’t wait to pull up to the awards in a FEW DAYS! 🥳

@SashaAnnSimons Yesssssssss!

As if my Wednesday wasn’t eventful enough, I happily announce that your girl will officially be in attendance…in the presence of THE QUEEN…at the #RENAISSANCEWorldTour this summer 👑🐝 #gotmyticket #cantwait

@natalieymoore Harry’s House, his last album, was FUHN! Music for Sushi Restaurant was errrthang and my book tour jam!

my mother wants to listen to harry styles. i don't think i'm equipped to pick the best songs. help!

Congrats to my fellow @StoryStudio teaching fam!!!

Honored to be longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and cheering SO damn loud and hard for both @bdantaslobato and @jessaminechan my Sisters-in-Lit! They made the Debut Ficiton and Translation lists! Let’s go!!! 🏃🏾‍♀️✍️📓

@DeeshaPhilyaw Girl. I KNOW! 😔 We can do it, though! 💪🏾✍️📓

I have been writing/avoiding writing the same novel scene for 3 days. It has required me to become a historian, an epidemiologist, and my own therapist. Fml. #amwriting

You missed this class BUT stay tuned for the next one! Excited to wax poetic about novel writing for the next five Thursday eves! @StoryStudio Let’s go!!! 📓🤓✍️

@rberdelle @finejuli Thx Rick!!!

Thrilled to join the team! 🤓✍️📓

We are thrilled to welcome @ToyaWolves to the BWS faculty! Toya grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago’s South Side. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Last Summer on State Street is her debut novel. Welcome, Toya! toyawolfe.com

So honored! 🙏🏾

Hope to see you there!

@DeeshaPhilyaw @DarkstarTweets Stealing this! 😋

I can’t remember if you’re anti-Jiffy or not, @DarkstarTweets. I just know we have cornbread beef that’s nearly 2 decades old. Here’s my Jiffy chipotle cornbread.

I’ll be at @evanstonpl tonight teaching a fun workshop! Come and start that story or book that’s been haunting your soul… 6pm FREE!!! 👻🤓📓