Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology

 From the Voodoonauts Afrofuturist collective for Black science fiction and fantasy authors.

Every Black Child went to bed with their parents or grandparents telling them a story of old, of greatness or warning or joy. Black People the world over hold myriad and, sometimes, intermingled mythos, wives tales, and folklore. From John Henry to the Orisha, from impundulu to Candyman, the aziza and Baron Samedi, back to Bre’r Rabbit and Bast and T’Challa... These are the narratives, superstitions, and customs that Black People live with and that impact the way we walk through the world.

In "(Re)Living Mythology" authors from around the African diaspora reimagine and retell the myths, legends, and folktales they were told as children.

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Editor bios:



Shingai Njeri Kagunda is an Afrofuturist freedom dreamer, Swahili sea lover, Femme Q. Storyteller that hails from Nairobi, Kenya. She is currently pursuing a Literary Arts MFA at Brown University. She has written work that includes both poetry and prose, published or forthcoming in The Elephant, Omenana, and FANTASY magazine. Shingai's short story Holding Onto Water was longlisted for the Nommo Awards 2020 & her flash fiction was shortlisted for the Fractured Lit. Prize 2020. She has been selected as a candidate for the Clarion UCSD Class of 2020/2021. #clarionghostclass. She is also the co-founder of Voodoonauts: an afrofuturist workshop for black writers. Shingai despises exceptionalism as a politic, is a strong believer that magic exists in the shared space between memory and imagination, & has a personal vendetta against linear
conceptualizations of time.



Yvette Lisa Ndlovu is a Zim babwean sarungano. Her debut short story collection Drinking from Graveyard Wells (Univer sity Press of Kentucky, Spring 2023) was selected for the 2021 UPK New Poetry & Prose Series. She is pursuing her MFA at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she teaches in the Writing Program. She has taught at Clarion West Writers Workshop online and earned her BA at Cornell University. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Tin House Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. She received the 2017 Cornell University George Harmon Coxe Award for Poetry selected by Sally Wen Mao and was the 2020 fiction winner of Columbia Journal’s Womxn History Month Special Issue. She is the co-founder of the Voodoonauts Summer Workshop for Black SFF writers. Her work has been anthologized in African Risen (Tordotcom Publishing, 2022) and has appeared or is forthcoming in F&SF, Tor.com, Columbia Journal, Fiyah Literary Magazine, Mermaids Monthly, and Kweli Journal. She is currently at work on a novel. (twitter @lisa_teabag).



H.D. Hunter is a storyteller, teaching artist, and community organizer from Atlanta, Georgia. He’s the author of two self-published books as well as two forthcoming books, Futureland (Random House, 2022) and Something Like Right (FSG, 2023). He's also the winner of several indie book awards for multicultural fiction. Hugh is committed to stories about Black kids and their many expansive worlds. He loves vegan snacks, basketball, and stories that make you cry—but make you smile after. Check out Hugh’s work at thesoutherndistrict.com and follow him @hd_tsd.



LP Kindred is a Chicagoan Angeleno writer, editor, musi cian, and teaching artist of speculative and experimental fic tion from the axes of Black and Gay Identities. An alum of Hurston-Wright (2019), Voices of Our Nation Arts (2020), and Clarion (2022) Foundations, LP's fiction can be found in Fiyah Literary Magazine, LeVar Burton Reads, Speculative City, Escape Pod, and Queer Blades anthology. Kindred is a secondary co-founder to Voodoonauts, a grassroots collective addressing the isolation and under-representation of Black Creators in Speculative Fiction. When not lifting heavy things, eating good food, pretend ing to be fancy, or adultery-ing on his novel with other writing, LP can be found on That Damned Bird App and InfluencerGram @LPKindred