Category: Articles, News

News about current and upcoming genre media projects that include people of color. Info about historical projects, as well.

.@melodyMcooper puts a spotlight on women of color in the science fiction genre

LINK: Director Melody Cooper was chosen for the Meryl Streep funded program, The Writer’s Lab

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SFWA Reacts to #BlackSpecFic finding that sci-fi publishing is racist

LINK: Statement Regarding the Fireside Fiction Company Special Report

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Survey: Black Writers of Speculative Fiction

LINK: Learn More Here

Survey Participation Requirements:

You must have submitted at least one piece of short speculative fiction to a paying market in the last 12 months.
You do not have to be published in order to participate in the survey.
Speculative fiction includes fantasy, science fiction, horror, paranormal and all of their included subgenres. “Short” fiction includes shorts, novelettes, and novellas (under 40,000 words).
You must identify as Black or of the African Diaspora (to include mixed/biracial)

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Cree Summer: diversity in animation & the myth of the carefree black girl

LINK: Chances are you’ve heard Cree Summer‘s voice before.

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Manuscript 5229: the first UAE sci-fi, fantasy publishing house

LINK: Set up by Emirati novelist Noura Al Noman

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