PUBLICATIONS SOONCOME
2025
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I am proud to say that in 2025 The Sledgehammer Series (an imprint of Tripwire Harlot Press) will publish, Before You Go : An Offering.
Before You Go queerly/explores a daughter's relationship with her aging mother as she seeks to understand, hold and heal the love that she feels for her. The piece is made of poems/prayers/letters and dreams between the mother and daughter, and journaling prompts - all of which serve as an invitation for those that receive the work to engage in their own healing rituals for themselves and their loved ones.
Stay tuned HERE.
2025
I have a piece in
We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
Edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and Tiffany Diane Tso. Published by Haymarket Books.
Stay tuned HERE
2026
2026
In 2026 53rd State Press is publishing a collection of my work titled, From The Marrow: Performance Scripts by Sharon Bridgforth, With Witnessings by Long Time Collaborators
The collection includes writings by brilliant Black feminist artist/scholars: Stephanie Leigh Batiste, Sonja Parks, Stacey Karen Robinson, Sonja Perryman, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Nia Witherspoon, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and a special sharing of a piece (posthumously) by the great Robbie McCauley. Following the contextualizing Introduction by Stephanie Leigh Batiste, each chapter of the book includes a performance text, my experience in writing and developing with the work, and Witnessing by an artist/scholar who worked closely with me in the process. Together, the artist/scholars and I offer strategies for creating live theatrical jazz ritual performance compositions along with theoretical, spiritual and culturally-specific techniques for community-making through art.
More soon!
I have a new book!
bull-jean & dem/dey back
bull-jean & dem/dey back contains the bull-jean stories (originally published in 1998 by RedBone Press) with an Opening by Mary Anne Adams and Closing by Virginia Grise along with a new piece titled, bull-jean/we wake with an Opening by Celeste Henery and Closing by Signe Harriday.
POETRY MAGAZINE
Poetry Magazine July/August 2024 issue
Thanks to Samiya Bashir I am proud to say I am a part of: UP WE STEP: THE POETS OF FIRE & INK
in the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Magazine!
July/August 2024 HERE
The playwright’s toolbox
Edited by Justin Maxwell, this book includes work from over 60 contributors who offer everything from generating ideas and world-building, through dialogue and plotting, to revision and the last steps before releasing a play into the world, making this an endlessly useful guide to building better plays.
Published by Rowman & Littlefield
Cane: A New Critical Edition
A new critical edition for the 100th anniversary of Jean Toomer’s 1923 novel features LYRIC FICTION / CRITICAL INVITATION / ORACULAR CARD DECK is now available thanks to project editors Diane Exavier, Carlos Sirah and Anne de Marcken.
Published by The 3rd Thing Press
NEW BOOK!
In June 2022, myself and my long time collaborator/art-brother Daniel Alexander Jones had a conversation about the pragmatics of making art and engaging the communities--living and ancestral--from which our work emerges.
Published by 53rd State Press.
Celebrating Forty Years of This Bridge Called My Back and But Some of Us Are Brave
LITERARY JOURNALS
The entire River See Theatrical Jazz Script in: Obsidian Issue 43.1
Sharon and Omi Osun Joni L. Jones essay titled,
Black Desire, Theatrical Jazz, and River See, in:
TDR/The Drama Review, Winter 2014, Vol. 58, No. 4. EdS Jill Dolan and Stacy Wolf.
love conjure/blues excerpt in Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought edited by Briona Jones
dyke/warrior-prayers redux (excerpt) in
Cream City Review Vol. 39, Issue 1
Anthologies
An excerpt from con flama in Windy City Queer
Litany-Blood In The Soil/Texas in A Students’ Treasury of Texas Poetry
dyke/warrior-Prayers excerpt in Voices Rising
interlude #21: the road to Higher Power in Spirited: Affirming The Soul And Black Gay Lesbian Identity
con flama excerpt in New Monologues For Women By Women
sunshine & home in Affirming Flame: Writings By Progressive Texas Poets
bull-jean slipn in & bull-jean & trouble excerpts from the bull-jean stories, in Role Call – A Generational Anthology Of Social And Political Black Literature & Art
Excerpts from love/rituals & rage and dyke/warrior-Prayers in Kente Cloth: Southwest Voices Of The African Diaspora
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and I are proud to say that a piece that we co-wrote is in: Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature. Edited By Ana-Maurine Lara, drea brown
A Tribute for raulrsalinas in QUEER CODEX: ROOTED!
a wo’mn called sir in First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far)
Street/Angels & Clarity in Check The Rhyme: An Anthology Of Female Poets & Emcees
Dona Julia in Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts
con flama excerpt in Is This Forever, Or What?: Poems & Paintings From Texas
amniotic/flow excerpt in Red Boots & Attitude: The Spirit Of Texas Women Writers
Generational Anthology Of Social And Political Black Literature & Art sonata blue excerpt in Ma-Ka Diasporic Juks: Contemporary Writings by Queers of African Descent
that beat in Does Your Mama Know: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories
Scholarly writings
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones’s Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ And The Power Of The Present Moment
Volume 110, No. 4
Winter 2022
The Yale Review
Francesca Royster’s Queering the Jazz Aesthetic: An Interview with Sharon Bridgforth and Omi Osun Joni Jones, in Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2013, Journal of Popular Music Studies
In Love and Abolition, Alison Rose Reed traces how the social life of Black queer performance from the 1960s to the present animates the unfinished work of abolition. I am proud to say she has included my work in her scholarship. More HERE.