Jamey Hatley

About

Jamey Hatley is a Memphian obsessed with stories in ruin, at the very edge of being forgotten. She was a prose fellow for the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award Winner, and the inaugural Indie Memphis Black Screenwriting Fellow (selected by Barry Jenkins). She is a staff writer for the television drama P-Valley and still at work on a novel.

Articles

Issue 71, Winter 2010

Hating the Blues

Handy was a formally trained musician who traveled all over the world. And though he wasn’t looking for the blues, the blues found him all the same.

By Jamey Hatley

Issue 100, Spring 2018

Read My World

I like to think about that name taking root in Alice Walker like morning glory, “that running and blooming vine,” as Walker writes.

By Jamey Hatley

Issue 111, Winter 2020

Talibah Safiya: Oracle of Castalia

A single heart, even mine, is an undeniably worthy place to start.

By Jamey Hatley

I’ll Bring You a Plate

At the end of a day of writing, cooking was how I returned myself to myself.

By Jamey Hatley