Shyheim, reader of books & 🥷

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Last month while I was in Winston-Salem I had the opportunity to sit down with Abrea Armstrong to talk about her debut novel Ferry Tales. The novel explores so many themes and if you couldn’t tell our conversation about it was seriously unserious. If you haven’t got Ferry Tales yet what are you waiting for?

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Welcome to day 10 of A Conjuror’s Quest in celebration of Black Speculative Fiction and Hoodoo Heritage Month. Today we’re talking about afrosurrealism Afrosurrealism is a transmedia genre, aesthetic and cultural movement that utilizes the uncanny, the bizarre and the absurd to depict Black being juxtaposed with our experience in the wake of colonization. Afrosurrealists are concerned with arranging contradictory images to probe intergenerational, transnational experiences with the absurdity and delusions of white supremacy. If you liked Sorry to Bother You, I Am A Virgo, Get Out, They Cloned Tyrone, Supacell and other Afrosurrealist movies and shows, then you gotta tap in. With that being said, grab ya gris gris, holy water or bag of salt because we going down to the crossroads to learn more about Black speculative fiction this month. You ready? And I’m curious 👀 what are some of your favorite Black high fantasy books? Sound off in the comments ⬇️ Black Books | Black Fantasy | Black Sci Fi | Black Horror | Black Historical Fiction | Black Men Read

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Week 1 of A Lake With No Bottom is going well as H.D. Hunter takes Sydney and his haunting around Atlanta. If you haven’t already, slide to your fave bookseller and cop that.