On August 6, 2025, the McKnight Foundation named Carolyn Holbrook its 2025 Distinguished Artist, Minnesota’s highest honor for an individual artist, recognizing a lifetime of achievement and leadership in Minnesota’s cultural arts. Carolyn Holbrook’s career embodies that vision. A celebrated writer, educator, and arts leader, she has spent decades creating spaces where Black, Indigenous, and...
A full review of We Are Meant to Rise was published last week in the Star Tribune, written by Lorraine Berry. Read the article here. The review praises the anthology’s timeliness, and describes the context of its creation: in large part, the COVID-19 pandemic. Berry describes a few of the pieces that stood out to...
Twin Cities PBS Carolyn Holbrook and Tess Montgomery got a chance to sit down with Almanac’s David Gillette and discuss the mission and foundation of More Than A Single Story.
By Nicholas Williams Food is a powerful vehicle for storytelling. This is true both for individuals and at the collective level. Food is who we are, where we come from, how we live, what we believe, and who we will become. Our biographies are condensed into dishes and bites, like memories garnishing our stories. Through...
We’re not speaking from one voice’: Discussion series on black women writers opens in Minneapolis A panel discussion Sunday afternoon featuring seven African-American women writers who explored identity, publishing and social issues brought together more than 150 people at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.
Black women writers talk about what infuses their writing – and what makes them distinctive.
