Why Not Podcast Season 1 Episode 12 “Love Your Work”
The Writer’s Chronicle – Interviewed by Scott LaMascus
Light Skin Gone to Waste – Nominated for the NAACP Image Awards
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
Event – The American Library in Paris
February 1, 2023
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!
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
Remedy for a Broken Angel
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