Discipline: Literature – fiction

Candace Allen

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: London, UK
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018

Candace Allen is the author of Soul Music: The Pulse of Race and Music in which she investigated the personal, social and political power of music as viewed internationally, and Valaida, a novel chronicling the life of jazz trumpet player Valaida Snow. She has been a founding Trustee of the Chineke Orchestra since 2015 and is frequently asked for broadcast and newspaper comment on culture, race and politics by such as the Guardian and the BBC. In a previous life she was the first African-American female member of the Directors Guild of America, spending some 20 years in Hollywood film production. She lived in Berlin for several years in the 1980s and in London since 1994.

While at MacDowell she made significant progress toward completion of her third book and second novel, working title: After This/Our Redemption.

Studios

Star

Candace Allen worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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