A Sip, A Shout Out & A Sentence

A Sip, A Shout Out & A Sentence

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C. Elyse
Oct 30, 2023
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Hi Friends:

Because the function of writer’s block is to trigger belief in everything you’ve imagined, this issue includes:

A sip…

For the muse, it isn’t the spooky that makes the witching season… it is the Black Magic.

A shout out…

Regardless of your position on whether Black Speculative Fiction is a subset of one or more genres, note that traditional publishers recently credit Tananarive Due with defining what is sought in similar voices.

An author, educator, film historian, and producer whose accolades include recipient of the American Book, British Fantasy, Carl Brandon Kindred, Ember, Ignyte, and an NAACP Image, she is the creator of a wildly popular University course that explores racism and survival through the lens of Black horror film and fiction who also happens to have received two Bram Stoker nominations.

A former resident of Tallahassee, the first Florida city to host a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, she lauds having been parented by a…

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