By Robin Gibson

The three-day event offers readers and authors the chance to connect through a virtual platform, receive exposure on Black Ink’s social media and digital platforms, network with other authors in online groups and more.

Black Ink: A Charleston African American Book Festivalhas opened registration to Black authors for its 2022 event aimed at amplifying their voices. Due to pandemic-related safety concerns, the free festival happening January 13-15, 2022, will be virtual. 

Host Beverly Jenkins is the recipient of the 2017 Romance Writers of America Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the 2016 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for historical romance. She has also been nominated for theNAACP Image Award in Literature,and was featured both in the documentary“Love Between the Covers,”and onCBS Sunday Morning.

Due to pandemic-related safety concerns, the free festival happening January 13-15, 2022, will be virtual. 

Jenkins has been instrumental in moving the multicultural romance genre forward ever since debutingNight Song in 1994. Her work has been praised by the likes ofThe Wall Street Journal,People MagazineandNPR.

Dozens of African American authors from the Lowcountry and surrounding areas be on hand for workshops, and there will also be programs for readers.

Sponsorship opportunities are still available.

Registration for featured authors isnow open.The three-day event offers readers and authors the chance to connect through a virtual platform, receive exposure on Black Ink’s social media and digital platforms, network with other authors in online groups and more.Registrationis $75 per author and closes on Dec. 24, 2021. Space is limited.

Sponsorship opportunities are still available. For more information on these, visit theBlack Ink websiteor contact Black Ink Committee Chair, Djuanna Brockington at info@blackinkcharleston.org.For more information on the event hosted by theCharleston Friends of the Libraryin partnership with theCharleston County Public Libraryand the College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture,visitblackinkcharleston.org.