Ancestral Meridians (ePub)

Odie Hawkins is one of the few original members of the world famed Watts Writers’ Workshop (founded by Budd Schulberg). His instructors were Louise Meriwether, John W. Bloch, Al Jenner, Robert Lewin and Harlan Ellison. “Ghetto Sketches”, his first published novel (Holloway House Publishing Co.) was on the required reading list (May 2010) of Professor Justin Gifford’s English Noir course, Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Margaret Burroughs made “Ghetto Sketches” required reading for her students at Kennedy-King College in 1973.
Mr. Hawkins is having a phenomenally prolific writing life. He has written screenplays, radio scripts, television (here in the USA and in Ghana, West Africa), stage plays, newspaper columns, short story collections and thirty (published) novels. He may not be “famous”, but he has received critical acceptance on several fronts. In January 2011, he was one of the panelists (Wanda Coleman, Emory Holmes, Dr. Roland Jefferson, and Professor Justin Gifford) at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference at the Hilton, LA Live.
In March 2016, he was a participant in a California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) event, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the “Watts Rebellion” that is usually labeled “a riot”. Mr. Hawkins has agreed to let this university archive his works.
Odie Hawkins, a pioneer in literary Afrikanity, takes great pride for being the originator of the Pan-African Occult genre, as exemplified by “Snake Doctor” and “Shackles Across Time”.
His works continue to take the reader into the “unusual”, to tell us something of things we didn’t know, and who he is.

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