If you live in the Petersburg, Virginia area and you’ve been starving for more comic books and community, you’re about to get fed! The first PVA Comic Book Convention is Saturday, April 14th from 10am to 3pm at the Petersburg Public Library. Organizer, Henri Dozier, has lived in Petersburg for the last three years and is a graduate of Virginia State University. A comic book enthusiast, Dozier...
Tuere Ganges
Tuere Ganges
Tuere T. S. Ganges, a South Jersey native, writes in Baltimore, Maryland. She was a June 2009 recipient of the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her fiction has won prizes at the Philadelphia Writers Conference; and has appeared in the Shine Journal, Flask and Pen, Milspeak Memo, Mythium Literary Magazine, Wigleaf, Fiction Circus, and a Pushcart Nominated piece in Referential Magazine. Wilted and Other Stories, her collection of short fiction is available as an ebook on Amazon.com. When she isn’t trying to keep up with her teenaged children, she’s trying to keep up with her teenaged students. And when she’s had enough of that she entertains herself with countless games of Word Hero and live-tweeting.
That Time STEM and Sci-Fi Came Together
On Sunday, March 11th, just hours after the East coast experienced its own time change for Daylight Savings, BlackSci-Fi.com sponsored a screening for A Wrinkle in Time. The event took place at the Riverside Theater where many families arrived with their children to...
A Talk with the Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation Creative Team
Damian Duffy (Kid Code) and John Jennings (Blue Hand Mojo: Hard Times Road) adapted Octavia Butler’s Kindred into a graphic novel. Take that in for a moment. If you haven’t heard about it, get on board now because this visualization (Kindred: A Graphic Novel...
Comic Book Creator Uraeus Talks Black Heroes Matter
Comic book creator, URAEUS, went to the San Diego Comic Con with the idea of making a silent protest of wearing his #BlackHeroesMatter t-shirt. In turn, his message went viral. Though he never expected anything like this to happen, URAEUS has been working towards this...
Review: Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
Sheree Renee Thomas has a new book out! While that sentence was enough to make me want to read it, the collection of poems and short stories did not disappoint. Sleeping Under the Tree of Life has 49 poems and 6 short stories that share common themes of nature,...
Review: The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan
Minor Spoilers “You’re just joining us, and our story is already in progress. You never need to agree with us, but you have to trust us.” This line, uttered by the character Desiree Quicho at just about the midpoint of the book pretty much encapsulated what I’d been...
Review: Thug Angel- The Rebirth of a Gargoyle
Werewolves, vampires, and gargoyles? Oh my! I don’t think we’re in New York anymore. Have these demons and immortals always been around? If you read Thug Angel: The Rebirth of a Gargoyle by Jeff Carroll, you just might think so. Science fiction meets urban fiction as...
Review: The Chronocar
For the month of April, BlackSci-Fi.com will celebrate Kids, by featuring creators and works who/which are contributing to providing quality, fun, and educational works of art for children and teens. Our goal is to highlight the continued and past works of these...
The Power of Sheree
I always seem to have Dark Matter: Reading the Bones on my desk or table instead of sitting on the bookshelf. Hearing the voice of the woman who’d placed so many literary gems in my path would be a joy in itself. And then, she answered the phone and I was taken in by...
Follow Foxy Jazzabelle
BlackSci-fi.com celebrates Women’s History Month! Join us in our month long celebration of the history makers past, present, and future. I set things up the best that I could. I tried to angle my laptop so the camera wouldn’t see the mess in the corner. I made...
Review: Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, edited by Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell, seems like an amazing way to thank Delany for decades of great stories to read and inspiration for writers. Each of the 33 entries either hints at Delany's influence on the...