Savannah is dedicated to social justice issues, especially those concerning Black womyn. She has also spoken at several book fairs, including the Charleston's Black Ink Festival, South Carolina Book Festival, Charleston's Capital Bookfest, book clubs, radio shows, and classes about her work. In 2007, Savannah released her first novel, Being Plumville, which earned Savannah SORMAG Readers’ Choice Awards in 2007, an Emma Award nomination for Debut Author of the Year at the 2008 Romance Slam Jam Conference and a Library Journal Self-e Selection in 2016. She completed her first original work, Reconstructing Jada Channing, as her senior thesis at Harvard University, earning the 2005 Dorothy Hicks Lee Prize for most outstanding thesis concerning African or African-American literature. Frierson realized writing was her calling her junior year of high school. This novel is a 2016 LIBRARY JOURNAL Self-E selection. Can a relationship rekindle and bloom under such adversity, or will it succumb in the battle for Plumville's status quo?

Set during the turbulent 1960s, Benjamin and Coralee experience change in a community unprepared and unwelcoming of it. Yet when her mentor provides a tutoring opportunity to increase her edge, she’s suddenly reunited with the white boy who'd meant too much to her as a child.and still did even now. And with her family and friends supporting her each step of the way, Coralee knows she will go far. With the distractions of playing football, being in a fraternity, and having his pick of the women on campus, he has little incentive to study-until his assigned tutor turns out to be a black girl from his past who'd never left his mind.or heart.Ĭoralee Simmons is determined to make it out of Plumville with a diploma in her hand and dignity in her stride, despite a social climate determined to stifle both. As a graduating senior at a local college, he’s poised for success, if only he can keep his grades up. Plumville, Georgia had an order to its way of life, and few ever upset it.īenjamin Drummond is heir to all Plumville had to offer-wealth, good looks, and a promising career as a future state judge.

Being plumville by savannah j frierson