The Diasporic Peoples Writing Collective (DPWC) is a San Jose State University (SJSU) registered student organization (RSO) that fosters equity in the literary arts for students, alums, and academics who write to catalyze reparative action. We platform aspiring artists of color, nurture genre exploration, and work with eco-systems that support BIPOC literature. Writing can sometimes feel like a solitary endeavor, so we can best resist … Continue reading DPWC

Our collective is home to talented writers whose works are published and accessible with a click. We are home to editors, educators, archivists, and folks both in and adjacent to the literary world. Keenan Norris melds into this novel, memoir, cultural criticism, and literary biography to indelibly depict Chicago—from the Great Migration to the present day—as both a cradle of black intellect, art, and politics … Continue reading Buy