Janelle M. Williams

Janelle M. Williams received her BA from Howard University and her MFA in creative writing from Manhattanville College. She was a 2017 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow. She is currently a flash fiction reader for Split Lip Magazine and a nonfiction editor for Inkwell Journal. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Passages North, Prairie Schooner, the Normal School, Kweli, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, SmokeLong Quarterly, midnight & indigo, Auburn Avenue, and elsewhere.

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A Sam Cooke Affair

Janelle M. Williams  | 
Issue 70.1 Fall 2021

1. I could rely on Sam Cooke to tell my story, his music or his melanin or his murder. The song Saint picked to sing the night we fell in love was a Sam Cooke song, “Bring It On Home to Me.” It was only two weeks prior that Saint asked me if the […]