The new website makeover of the National Writers Union (NWU) went live on Monday, July 13, 2015; and several of the sites for various state Chapters are now hosted under the main NWU site at https://nwu.org. You’ll find that the new design is clearer, cleaner and easier to navigate.  Members are able to see their uploaded […]

National Writers Union (NWU) member Calvin Alexander Ramsey, playwright and author, was interviewed by Michael T. Luongo of The New York Times about his work, “The Green Book.” Read the interview here- Calvin A. Ramsey on How Black Travel Has Changed Since Jim Crow. The Green Book,” Calvin’s first work, was produced as a two-act play in […]

I received an email that some of you probably received too. It’s a follow-up to letters some of us signed in support of Hatchette authors in their dispute with Amazon. Now the dispute has expanded into fundamental questions of freedom of information in a democracy. Amazon now has more monopoly power over books than Standard Oil had […]