Toni Ann Johnson

Why Not Podcast Season 1 Episode 12 “Love Your Work”

The Writer's Chronicle

The Writer’s Chronicle – Interviewed by Scott LaMascus

The Writer's Chronicle

Light Skin Gone to Waste – Nominated for the NAACP Image Awards

American Library in Paris Event

Event – AWP Panel “Minding the Gaps and Mining Landscape in Linked Short Story Collections”

March 9, 2023

 

Event – AWP Signing Light Skin Gone to Waste 

March 11, 2023

American Library in Paris Event

Event – The American Library in Paris

 

February 1, 2023

American Library in Paris Event

Toni Ann Johnson interview in the LA Times

 

“Sharing the story with readers has allowed the kid in me to feel acknowledged. That’s healing — being heard is a relief.”

Washington Post lists Light Skin Gone to Waste in “10 award-winning short story collections worth reading

 

“[T]his quietly powerful collection leaves the impression of a novel.”

Toni Ann Johnson Wins the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

 

Her short story collection, Light Skin Gone to Waste, will be published by the University of Georgia Press on October 15, 2022.

Toni Ann Johnson Nominated Twice for Pushcart Prize

The nominated stories are “This Side and That” published in Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor, and “Daughtered Out” published in The Coachella Review.

New Novella Available Now!

 

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Winner of Accents Publishing’s Inaugural Novella Contest

Featured Works

Light Skin Gone to Waste

The short story, “Time Travel”, read by Toni Ann Johnson
is a finalist for the 2021 Miller Audio Prize from the Missouri Review

Audio microphone next to "Miller Aud-cast" text

Remedy for a Broken Angel

"Remedy for a Broken Angel" book cover

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