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Mama Said: An Angels of Darkness Anthology
By: Miracle Austin, Anniee Bee, N.M. Chaney, Ginny Davis, C.Y. Marshall, Vivienne Neal, E.A. Noble, J.V. Sadler, Tessa Lee-Thomas, Lori Titus
Release: March 2026
Straight from your childhood nightmares . . . A dark fairytale anthology from all Black Women horror writers and the Angels of Darkness group. These original stories are cautious tales of what happens when we don't heed Mama 's warnings. The dark figure in the closet. The Devil known and unknown. Or a pair of loose lips. We all learn the hard way sometimes. Featuring stories by: Miracle Austin, ...
Mama Said: An Angels of Darkness Anthology
By: Miracle Austin, Anniee Bee, N.M. Chaney, Ginny Davis, C.Y. Marshall, Vivienne Neal, E.A. Noble, J.V. Sadler, Tessa Lee-Thomas, Lori Titus
Release: March 2026
Straight from your childhood nightmares . . . A dark fairytale anthology from all Black Women horror writers and the Angels of Darkness group. These original stories are cautious tales of what happens when we don't heed Mama 's warnings. The dark figure in the closet. The Devil known and unknown. Or a pair of loose lips. We all learn the hard way sometimes. Featuring stories by: Miracle Austin, ...
When Hinrich’s corruption has irreversible effects on the world, Chasity spends four days on an island trying to uncover a sought-after secret, and Jamar makes a supernatural deal that’s more than he bargained for - what do you get? Three short stories written by Chia L. Strickland.
Short Not Sweet
By: Chia L. Strickland
Release: January 2026
When Hinrich’s corruption has irreversible effects on the world, Chasity spends four days on an island trying to uncover a sought-after secret, and Jamar makes a supernatural deal that’s more than he bargained for - what do you get? Three short stories written by Chia L. Strickland.
A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal’s mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community. ailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” The Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. Kweli—“truth” in Swahili—marks its fifteenth anniversary with this luminous colle...
SING THE TRUTH: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection
By: Edited by Laura Pegram
Release: May 2025
A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal’s mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community. ailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” The Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. Kweli—“truth” in Swahili—marks its fifteenth anniversary with this luminous colle...
In this richly imagined and unconventionally told debut collection, Avitus B. Carle turns tradition on its head, discarding and reframing antiquated portraits of women and girls as damsels, princesses, and homemakers relegated to lives of cleaning and baking and waiting in towers to be rescued or to receive a truly forced first kiss. Instead, Carle’s characters face the world head-on in unique, bo...
These Worn Bodies
By: Avitus B. Carle
Release: November 2024
In this richly imagined and unconventionally told debut collection, Avitus B. Carle turns tradition on its head, discarding and reframing antiquated portraits of women and girls as damsels, princesses, and homemakers relegated to lives of cleaning and baking and waiting in towers to be rescued or to receive a truly forced first kiss. Instead, Carle’s characters face the world head-on in unique, bo...
Walk with me into the world of Black women and the taboo side is mental health. This book is a dive into my personal issues with suicide attempts and ideations, as well as a discussion on studies done and lack of them in relation to suicide in the Black community. Black women are expected to always be strong. Never have a problem that she can't solve. What a lot of people don't see is behind that ...
Clipped Wings
By: Candi Usher
Release: June 2024
Walk with me into the world of Black women and the taboo side is mental health. This book is a dive into my personal issues with suicide attempts and ideations, as well as a discussion on studies done and lack of them in relation to suicide in the Black community. Black women are expected to always be strong. Never have a problem that she can't solve. What a lot of people don't see is behind that ...
After her cellphone and other precious items go missing, Key is confused and rightfully angry. Magical shenanigans are at play and an elf boy is the culprit! Except he may not have taken her things for the reason she thinks. Is he a thief, a potential friend, or just a victim of circumstance?
Key & Zan - Stolen Introductions
By: D. T. Henderson
Release: April 2024
After her cellphone and other precious items go missing, Key is confused and rightfully angry. Magical shenanigans are at play and an elf boy is the culprit! Except he may not have taken her things for the reason she thinks. Is he a thief, a potential friend, or just a victim of circumstance?
How to Make a Space Masquerade artfully blends speculative fiction with Igbo cosmology, seamlessly merging the earthly realm with a dystopian world. It explores the complexities of the human spirit and the intersection of the two worlds. A girl facing erasure for carrying a virus defies the government to save her life through a trial cure. A space engineer must explain the existence of his human l...
How to Make a Space Masquerade
By: Mazi Nwonwu
Release: April 2024
How to Make a Space Masquerade artfully blends speculative fiction with Igbo cosmology, seamlessly merging the earthly realm with a dystopian world. It explores the complexities of the human spirit and the intersection of the two worlds. A girl facing erasure for carrying a virus defies the government to save her life through a trial cure. A space engineer must explain the existence of his human l...
Across multiple worlds in upheaval, a curious cast of Black queer characters must choose between what they already know themselves to be and what they might yet become in the cataclysm. A shapeshifter learns to embrace their body as it changes through a lunar cycle. A stranger’s visit disturbs three sisters sheltering from monsters that stalk the land. An archivist hears an irresistible call to th...
The Rupture Files
By: Nathan Alexander Moore
Release: April 2024
Across multiple worlds in upheaval, a curious cast of Black queer characters must choose between what they already know themselves to be and what they might yet become in the cataclysm. A shapeshifter learns to embrace their body as it changes through a lunar cycle. A stranger’s visit disturbs three sisters sheltering from monsters that stalk the land. An archivist hears an irresistible call to th...
All Shay wanted to do was make it out of the hood. She does all she can to not become a product of her environment. But once she makes it out and starts college nothing happened as she expected. Becoming a Sugar baby, finding her sister from another mister, and gaining a stoker. Who knew when you step into the real world it really is like a lifetime movie. Where will her path lead, and will it bre...
Haunting Pursuit
By: Shauntah Jones
Release: February 2024
All Shay wanted to do was make it out of the hood. She does all she can to not become a product of her environment. But once she makes it out and starts college nothing happened as she expected. Becoming a Sugar baby, finding her sister from another mister, and gaining a stoker. Who knew when you step into the real world it really is like a lifetime movie. Where will her path lead, and will it bre...
From the author Jalen Tellis comes a unique collection of three short stories, some of which have never been published and some that have. “When the night falls, the fear comes to the light.” In the afterword to his brand new first collection of three stories, Jalen Tellis dives into the lives of individuals who must deal with fear and ask themselves, “What’s true and not true?” We live in a worl...
Nightfall: Stories
By: Jalen Tellis
Release: January 2024
From the author Jalen Tellis comes a unique collection of three short stories, some of which have never been published and some that have. “When the night falls, the fear comes to the light.” In the afterword to his brand new first collection of three stories, Jalen Tellis dives into the lives of individuals who must deal with fear and ask themselves, “What’s true and not true?” We live in a worl...
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Mama Said: An Angels of Darkness Anthology
By: Miracle Austin, Anniee Bee, N.M. Chaney, Ginny Davis, C.Y. Marshall, Vivienne Neal, E.A. Noble, J.V. Sadler, Tessa Lee-Thomas, Lori Titus
Release: March 2026
Straight from your childhood nightmares . . . A dark fairytale anthology from all Black Women horror writers and the Angels of Darkness group. These original stories are cautious tales of what happens when we don't heed Mama 's warnings. The dark figure in the closet. The Devil known and unknown. Or a pair of loose lips. We all learn the hard way sometimes. Featuring stories by: Miracle Austin, ...
Mama Said: An Angels of Darkness Anthology
By: Miracle Austin, Anniee Bee, N.M. Chaney, Ginny Davis, C.Y. Marshall, Vivienne Neal, E.A. Noble, J.V. Sadler, Tessa Lee-Thomas, Lori Titus
Release: March 2026
Straight from your childhood nightmares . . . A dark fairytale anthology from all Black Women horror writers and the Angels of Darkness group. These original stories are cautious tales of what happens when we don't heed Mama 's warnings. The dark figure in the closet. The Devil known and unknown. Or a pair of loose lips. We all learn the hard way sometimes. Featuring stories by: Miracle Austin, ...
When Hinrich’s corruption has irreversible effects on the world, Chasity spends four days on an island trying to uncover a sought-after secret, and Jamar makes a supernatural deal that’s more than he bargained for - what do you get? Three short stories written by Chia L. Strickland.
Short Not Sweet
By: Chia L. Strickland
Release: January 2026
When Hinrich’s corruption has irreversible effects on the world, Chasity spends four days on an island trying to uncover a sought-after secret, and Jamar makes a supernatural deal that’s more than he bargained for - what do you get? Three short stories written by Chia L. Strickland.
A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal’s mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community. ailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” The Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. Kweli—“truth” in Swahili—marks its fifteenth anniversary with this luminous colle...
SING THE TRUTH: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection
By: Edited by Laura Pegram
Release: May 2025
A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal’s mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community. ailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” The Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. Kweli—“truth” in Swahili—marks its fifteenth anniversary with this luminous colle...
In this richly imagined and unconventionally told debut collection, Avitus B. Carle turns tradition on its head, discarding and reframing antiquated portraits of women and girls as damsels, princesses, and homemakers relegated to lives of cleaning and baking and waiting in towers to be rescued or to receive a truly forced first kiss. Instead, Carle’s characters face the world head-on in unique, bo...
These Worn Bodies
By: Avitus B. Carle
Release: November 2024
In this richly imagined and unconventionally told debut collection, Avitus B. Carle turns tradition on its head, discarding and reframing antiquated portraits of women and girls as damsels, princesses, and homemakers relegated to lives of cleaning and baking and waiting in towers to be rescued or to receive a truly forced first kiss. Instead, Carle’s characters face the world head-on in unique, bo...
Walk with me into the world of Black women and the taboo side is mental health. This book is a dive into my personal issues with suicide attempts and ideations, as well as a discussion on studies done and lack of them in relation to suicide in the Black community. Black women are expected to always be strong. Never have a problem that she can't solve. What a lot of people don't see is behind that ...
Clipped Wings
By: Candi Usher
Release: June 2024
Walk with me into the world of Black women and the taboo side is mental health. This book is a dive into my personal issues with suicide attempts and ideations, as well as a discussion on studies done and lack of them in relation to suicide in the Black community. Black women are expected to always be strong. Never have a problem that she can't solve. What a lot of people don't see is behind that ...
After her cellphone and other precious items go missing, Key is confused and rightfully angry. Magical shenanigans are at play and an elf boy is the culprit! Except he may not have taken her things for the reason she thinks. Is he a thief, a potential friend, or just a victim of circumstance?
Key & Zan - Stolen Introductions
By: D. T. Henderson
Release: April 2024
After her cellphone and other precious items go missing, Key is confused and rightfully angry. Magical shenanigans are at play and an elf boy is the culprit! Except he may not have taken her things for the reason she thinks. Is he a thief, a potential friend, or just a victim of circumstance?
How to Make a Space Masquerade artfully blends speculative fiction with Igbo cosmology, seamlessly merging the earthly realm with a dystopian world. It explores the complexities of the human spirit and the intersection of the two worlds. A girl facing erasure for carrying a virus defies the government to save her life through a trial cure. A space engineer must explain the existence of his human l...
How to Make a Space Masquerade
By: Mazi Nwonwu
Release: April 2024
How to Make a Space Masquerade artfully blends speculative fiction with Igbo cosmology, seamlessly merging the earthly realm with a dystopian world. It explores the complexities of the human spirit and the intersection of the two worlds. A girl facing erasure for carrying a virus defies the government to save her life through a trial cure. A space engineer must explain the existence of his human l...
Across multiple worlds in upheaval, a curious cast of Black queer characters must choose between what they already know themselves to be and what they might yet become in the cataclysm. A shapeshifter learns to embrace their body as it changes through a lunar cycle. A stranger’s visit disturbs three sisters sheltering from monsters that stalk the land. An archivist hears an irresistible call to th...
The Rupture Files
By: Nathan Alexander Moore
Release: April 2024
Across multiple worlds in upheaval, a curious cast of Black queer characters must choose between what they already know themselves to be and what they might yet become in the cataclysm. A shapeshifter learns to embrace their body as it changes through a lunar cycle. A stranger’s visit disturbs three sisters sheltering from monsters that stalk the land. An archivist hears an irresistible call to th...
All Shay wanted to do was make it out of the hood. She does all she can to not become a product of her environment. But once she makes it out and starts college nothing happened as she expected. Becoming a Sugar baby, finding her sister from another mister, and gaining a stoker. Who knew when you step into the real world it really is like a lifetime movie. Where will her path lead, and will it bre...
Haunting Pursuit
By: Shauntah Jones
Release: February 2024
All Shay wanted to do was make it out of the hood. She does all she can to not become a product of her environment. But once she makes it out and starts college nothing happened as she expected. Becoming a Sugar baby, finding her sister from another mister, and gaining a stoker. Who knew when you step into the real world it really is like a lifetime movie. Where will her path lead, and will it bre...
From the author Jalen Tellis comes a unique collection of three short stories, some of which have never been published and some that have. “When the night falls, the fear comes to the light.” In the afterword to his brand new first collection of three stories, Jalen Tellis dives into the lives of individuals who must deal with fear and ask themselves, “What’s true and not true?” We live in a worl...
Nightfall: Stories
By: Jalen Tellis
Release: January 2024
From the author Jalen Tellis comes a unique collection of three short stories, some of which have never been published and some that have. “When the night falls, the fear comes to the light.” In the afterword to his brand new first collection of three stories, Jalen Tellis dives into the lives of individuals who must deal with fear and ask themselves, “What’s true and not true?” We live in a worl...