Permission to Write

An online and in-person community that cultivates and amplifies the voices of Black writers and writers of color. Here we curate books by Black and POC writers. 

Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery Loot You Were Always Mine
Permission to Write

PTW Picks

Seen, Loved and Heard: A Guided Journal for Feeding the Soul
Feeling Good!: A Mental Health Workbook
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Affirmations for Black Women: A Journal: 100+ Positive Messages and Prompts to Affirm Your Self-Worth, Empower Your Spirit, & Attract Success
Everyday Magic: The Joy of Not Being Everything and Still Being More Than Enough
The Little Book of Self-Healing: 150+ Practices for Healing Your Mind, Body, and Soul
Self-Care for Black Women: 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul
Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
What I Know for Sure
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life
Before I Let Go
The Writers' Room Survival Guide: Don't Screw Up the Lunch Order and Other Keys to a Happy Writers' Room
Black Women Writers at Work
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation
Find Your Voice: A Guided Journal for Writing Your Truth
Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression (Second Edition)
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book on Novel Writing You'll Ever Need
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue)
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Women
Black Oak: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black Men
Seven Days in June
Self-Care for Black Women: 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
All about Love: New Visions
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Ten Dad Commandments
It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
The Violin Conspiracy
Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
Why Solange Matters
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Can't Stop Won't Stop (Young Adult Edition): A Hip-Hop History
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Decoded
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
A Celebration of Black History Through Music: From Spirituals to Hip-Hop [With CD (Audio)]
The Story of Motown
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
Before I Let Go
The Neighbor Favor
Better Than Fiction
Booked on a Feeling
On Rotation
Fake It Till You Bake It
By the Book-A Meant to Be Novel
The Family Chao
The Bride Test
The Right Swipe
You Had Me at Hola
Intercepted
The Boyfriend Project
While We Were Dating
How to Fail at Flirting
Love Radio
You Can Go Your Own Way (Original)
Instructions for Dancing
Blackout
Grown
Wings of Ebony
Chlorine Sky
Concrete Rose: A Printz Honor Winner
The Unfolding: An Invitation to Come Home to Yourself
Alive at the End of the World
Collected Poems
Black Girl, Call Home
Sunny.
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country