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​Write Volumes Shades Of anthologies.

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​Official bio Write Volumes is a group of eclectic writers who are passionate about viewing the world through varying perspectives, ideas, and thoughts. Writing is a way to understand, inspire, and transform ourselves and possibly others which we can try to do in volumes—in the sense of decibels or quantity. Please join us in engaging the world through reading and writing. Together we are and can Write Volumes.

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The Shades Of anthologies were first published digitally and are now also available in paperback.

You can subscribe to the Write Volumes Substack page to receive information and updates on free books, author news and interviews, writing process, submissions info and deadline, story trailers and tears, as well as the latest anthologies news. 

​We have horror to make you hide, romance to make you swoon, and literary fiction to make you feel up, down, inside out and everything in between!
BUY ANTHOLOGIES

Short stories, essays, poems.

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SHORT STORY - Shades of Love
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SHORT STORY - Dinner Parties
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ESSAY - Feast
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POEM - Harriet and Me
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ESSAY - Mommy, Still
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SHORT STORY - Ever After
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SHORT STORY - Initiation of the Disembodied
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ESSAY - Floating Like Butterflies
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SHORT STORY - All Is Nothing
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SHORT STORY - It's Time
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POEM - Covid: Covert No More
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SHORT STORY - It Takes All Kinds
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SHORT STORY - In the Eye of the Beholder

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Celebrating Writers Black History Month Presents
 In this five-minute video, I answer the following:
1. Did any Black writers influence you and your writing?
2, What does it mean to be a Black writer?
3. How would you like your writing to influence future generations?
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​Shades of Writers: 8 at 8 Author Interview Write Volumes' co-editor Genea Tafesse and I discuss life, death, grief, mothers, secrets, inspiration, Harriet Tubman, writing & more. Bring tissue and be prepared to laugh, too.
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​One Question Video Series: A panel of writers + one question See how it affects them, their writing, and readers From the role of writers in society to how readers perceive stories Let’s listen, let’s think, let’s feel, let’s ask, let’s share, let’s talk. Today’s one question: Who is your favorite writer or book in a community you identify with and what is it that captured your attention?

My pick?
People Who Led to My Plays by black avant-garde playwright Adrienne Kennedy whom I was fortunate to interview.
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© ​Karen Brailsford 2020-2025
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  • Home
  • I am
  • Praise
  • Inspire
    • Sacred Landscapes (excerpts) >
      • Spiraling
      • Sacred Landscapes of the Soul
      • Go Directly to Jubilee
      • Bring the Party
      • A Life Is God Writ Large
      • Soot into Soil
      • In the Here and Now
      • Creation Story
      • In This Skin
    • Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit (talk + guided meditation)
    • Omega Institute Workshop
    • Inner Visions >
      • Burnished Love
      • An Appreciation
      • Forward
      • Life As We Know It And See It
      • Precipice and Presence
      • Sentient and Prescient
      • The I Am of Resonance
      • The Glass Is Always Full
      • You Will Know
    • Talks >
      • Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (recitation)
      • Knowing the Soul (conversation)
      • God's Love Keeps Lifting Us Higher and Higher (talk)
      • Go Directly to Jubilee! (talk)
    • Paintings
  • Agent
    • Aevitas Creative Management
    • Writer's Digest
    • His Name Is George Floyd
    • Kamala's Way
  • Write Volumes
    • Short Stories >
      • In the Eye of the Beholder
      • It's Time
      • It Takes All Kinds
      • All is Nothing
      • Ever After
      • Dinner Parties
      • Shades of Love
    • Essays >
      • Mommy, Still
      • Floating Like Butterflies
      • Feast
    • Poems >
      • Initiation of the Disembodied
      • Covid: Covert No More
      • Harriet and Me
  • Unity
    • Daily Word Magazine >
      • My Journey to Yes
    • Spirituality & Health Magazine >
      • Amandla Stenberg Channels The Force
      • Anu Gupta on Breaking Bias
      • Marianne Williamson: Evolving Out of Darkness
      • Lee Harris: Channeling As a Transformational Tool
      • Deva Premal & Miten: How Mantras Heal
      • Sharon Salzberg Cultivates Loving-Kindness
      • Kate Bowler Shows Grace in Gravity
    • Unity Magazine >
      • Smells Like Teen Spirit
      • From Grief to Grace
      • Rising in Joy
      • Blessed by a Dress
      • This Is How You Pray
      • For A Reason, for a Season, or for a Lifetime
  • Media
    • Download Kit
    • Articles and books
    • Podcasts, radio and video >
      • The Peace Studio Summit 2021
      • The Jenny McCarthy Show
      • In the Flow With Rev. Skip
      • Waking Up in Daily Life
      • The Only One in the Room
      • Bridges & Blessings with Rev. Julie
    • Press
  • Blog
  • Connect