February is African American History Month here in the United States. In 2013, when this series began, it was also Women in Horror Month (WiHM) which is now celebrated by many in March during Women's History Month. In 2013, as an Ambassador for Women in Horror Month, Sumiko Saulson put together the original book 60 Black Women in Horror at... Continue Reading →
Upward and onward for Black Women in Horror! Yet another award will be coming home to one of the many talented writers on our list. The Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA) just announced that the 2023 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Awards will be presented to Cerece Rennie Murphy (and posthumously to Greg Bear) at the 58th... Continue Reading →
February is African American History Month here in the United States. In 2013, when this series began, it was also Women in Horror Month (WiHM) which is now celebrated by many in March during Women's History Month. In 2013, as an Ambassador for Women in Horror Month, Sumiko Saulson put together the original book 60 Black Women in Horror at... Continue Reading →
This award-winning Bram Stoker nominee is also a bougie glamper and pet mom to a spoiled Fox Rat Terrier named Ceaira LaShae Napoleon Connor, who just so happens to have her own Facebook page.
Congratulations to the six 2022 Stoker Nominees on the Black Women in Horror Month List, Erin E. Adams, Tiffany D. Jackson, Paula D. Ashe, RJ Joseph, Sumiko Saulson, and L. Marie Woods (who made the ballot not once but twice!) Erin E. Adams made it to the Stoker Final Ballot in the Superior Achievement in... Continue Reading →
February 24, 2024 would have been Carolyn Saulson's 75 birthday. This is an excerpt from her novella "Living A Lie," which also appeared in Wickedly Abled. In the introduction to Wickedly Abled, Seruus Ualerium Tristissima Liber (Emily Flummox) says of the piece: “Carolyn Saulson’s ‘The Secret Life of Randolph James’ shows the problem with the... Continue Reading →
The 2019 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award-winner for Lifetime Achievement, Nisi co-founded the Carl Brandon Society in 1997 to help give people of color greater visibility in the science fiction and fantasy worlds. They are also the co-creator of “Writing the Other” workshops and have taught thousands of writers new ways of thinking about diversity and... Continue Reading →
By Sumiko Saulson Carolyn, Sumiko, and Eleanor The first poet I ever loved was my mother, Carolyn Saulson. When I was a little one still in pigtails back in the Seventies, she had already been published as a poet, whose poem about the darker sides of love graced a velvet poster sold in record stores... Continue Reading →
Zin Rocklyn The first time we fucked was at the back of the red barn on the Meyer’s property. His cock had a mean 30-degree angle and no amount of warming up could get a woman ready for such brutality against the splintery wall. When we finished, he kissed me tender, thinking the blood was... Continue Reading →
Telling Scary Stories is Good for You! It's also a lot of hard work and there's dozens of creatives behind the curtain making it happen! Here's a fantastic opportunity to support Black Women in Horror! Dusky Projects is accepting donations for their upcoming comedy/horror short "Affordable Housing". Contributions will go towards food & transportation for the... Continue Reading →
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