Kicking off another year, looking back on 2016 in my writing life–and what I might hope for in 2017.
For the Good of the Order: Writing Goals 2017
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The FIYAH This Time
“So give us your Black elves, your Black space captains, your Black heretics standing against prophecies and insurmountable odds. Send us your Black wizards and Black gods, your Black sergeants fighting on alien planets. …Because the future of genre is now. And the future ain’t going to write itself.”- writer Justina Ireland
Adventures and Misadventures in Worldbuilding and Storytelling
This month, my short story “The Things My Mother Left Me” was published in the special edition of People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy. It’s an effort in worldbuilding and storytelling some five years in the making.
The Nat Turner that Could Have Been: The Birth of a Nation’s Wasted Effort
When I walked in to see Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, I expected to be underwhelmed given the criticisms I’d heard about the film. I did not, however, expect it to be so dull. Because this film is about Nat Turner. And whatever else can be said about him, the slave rebel, mystic, revolutionary and preacher, was anything but.
Yes, Virginia, there are Spoilers.
Submitting (SFF) While Black
On SFF markets and the problem of diversity.
This is one of those long ones. Grab a snack.
Art by Joe Orlando. From the story Judgment Day! in the March-April 1953 issue of Weird Fantasy.
Phenderson Djèlí Clark 