Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center was founded as a writers development program
by Fred Hudson and Budd Schulberg in 1971.
With over a dozen Writing Workshops for beginning, intermediate and advanced students,
FDCAC enrolls hundreds of adult students a year. Poetry, short story, novel, screen
writing and freelance writing (for magazines and newspapers) are just some of the
workshops offered.
For more than a quarter of a century, the Center has launched the careers of many writers
whose work have been published by Doubleday, Random House, Harper & Row, E. P. Dutton,
Pantheon, Dial, and Harlem River Press, and started a number of young writers for stage,
screen and television on their way.
FDCAC presents 14 staged readings of stage plays each year. Eight are presented at the Shomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture, the others in the Center's main space.
The Center also produces the annual Black Roots Festival of Poetry, Prose, Drama and
Music, an unique forum for the leading writers of the African diaspora to read or
perform their work. Past participants include Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn
Brooks, Rita Dove, Terry McMillan, Nikki Giovanni, Paule Marshall, Chinua Achebe, Gordon
Parks, Quincy Troupe,and Derek Walcott.
The world famous Black Roots Festival of Poetry, Prose, Music and Drama which
provides a platform for the most prestigious Black writers from North America, Africa and
the Caribbean, has been an institution at The Center since 1972. The Festival has matured
from modest beginnings into a unique annual cultural event with broad literary
ramifications.
Watch for the next Black Roots Festival of Poetry, Prose, Music and Drama
in April 2005.
The Center also has an afterschool youth
component providing homework help, creative writing, and computer skills to students
ages 9 to 13, and a photojournalism workshop for teenagers.
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