2021 has been a good year for writing!
If you’re so inclined, please consider these works for writing awards submissions. If you’d like to read any of them, I’m happy to send you links to MOBI or PDF versions.
Short Fiction: “I Want to Be Free”
The first-person account of “I Want to Be Free” could be the story of many Black women around the globe: a cycle of abuse starting at home and continuing to manifest itself through adult relationships. But what if the issue isn’t just abuse and a supernatural source is truly threatening a woman’s life? What if the cycle of abuse isn’t the only cycle she can’t quite break?
Story title: “I Want to Be Free”
Length: 4,119 words
Anthology: Paranormal Contact: A Quiet Horror Confessional
Publisher: Cemetery Gates Media
Publication Date: March 14, 2021
Short Fiction: “I Would Have Rescued Them All”
Kamyra Johnson has an important job to do. It’s her responsibility to make sure the
spirits of her deceased brothers and sisters are sent to their eternal rest when they’re stuck
in the human realm. Sometimes, the spirits didn’t go willingly and that’s when her job
was hard. But she still had an important job to do.
Story title: “I Would Have Rescued Them All”
Length: 1,196 words
Anthology: Campfire Macabre
Publisher: Cemetery Gates Media
Publication Date: January 5, 2021
Short Fiction: “Regrets Never Die”
Sometimes, one can forget the things they regret in life. Other times, the regrets just won’t die.
Story title: “Regrets Never Die”
Length: 3,992 words
Anthology: Diabolica Americana
Publisher: Keith Anthony Baird
Publication Date: October 28, 2021
Short Fiction: “Soulmates”
Leticia just knows she and Damien are soulmates—he needs a little convincing, though.
Despite the warning she gets from a practitioner about a love spell, Leticia moves
forward.
Story title: “Soulmates”
Length: 2,263 words
Anthology: Dark Dispatch Magazine, Issue 2: Deadly Love
Publisher: Dark Dispatch
Publication Date: October 2, 2021
Short Fiction: “Witness Bearer”
Charisse Morton has a gift that doesn’t always feel good. She’s charged with bearing witness to
injustice and recording the offenses for judgement. Once she accepts her role, she finally meets
her life partner, who absolves the offenses and clears the slate for more stories.
Story title: “Witness Bearer”
Length: 1,529 words
Anthology: Twisted Anatomy: A Body Horror Anthology
Publisher: Sci Fi & Scary
Publication Date: February 19, 2021
Short Non-Fiction: “Experience, Witness, Record: Legacy and Black Lives Lived in Circles in Candyman”
Anthony McCoy and Brianna Cartwright were bound by their intertwined legacies in inescapable roles of experiencing, witnessing, and recording Black trauma. From outward appearances, it seemed they were upwardly mobile and far removed from these experiences. Their circuitous paths, as detailed in Candyman, serve as templates for Black lives lived in circles, repeatedly leading back to the origins. This path is necessary in doing the painful work of calling out and mitigating future trauma in Black lives.
Essay title: “Experience, Witness, Record: Legacy and Black Lives Lived in Circles in Candyman”
Length: 1,121 words
Website: Dread Central
Publisher: Dread Central
Publication Date: October 4, 2021
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Please reach out to me at: horrorblackademic@gmail.com for links to digital copies.
Thank you for your consideration.
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