Angela Belcher Epps

Fiction Writer

Raleigh, NC
North Carolina US

Author's Bio

Angela Belcher Epps is the author of a novella, Salt in the Sugar Bowl (Main Street Rag, 2013). She has contributed to three anthologies: All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective (Blair, 2020); Heartspace: Real Life Stories on Death and Dying (heart2heart, 2019), and Gumbo for the Soul: The Recipe for Literacy in the Black Community (iUniverse, Inc., 2007). Her stories and essays have appeared in Workers Write (a chapbook); the North Carolina Literary Review; Essence Magazine; Main Street Rag; moonShine Review; When Women Awaken; Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, and others. She’s a past recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council creative nonfiction grant and a Wildacres writing residency. She is completing a novel.

Literary agent: 
Helm Literary Agency

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
All the Songs We Sing (Blair, 2021)
Journals: ,
moonShine review
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Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review
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Pembroke Magazine
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Novella:
Salt in the Sugar Bowl (Main Street Rag, 2013)
Prizes won: 

Editor's Choice Award: Pembroke #39, "For Whom the Beauty"

 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Zelda Lockhart Louise Erdrich Daniel Woodrell
What I'm reading now: 
We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan, Anatomy of the Spirit by Carolyn Moss

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Black
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
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Last update: Nov 30, 2023