Afterlives 2023 was a lot of fun so we’re doing it again for 2024.
Vajra Chandrasekera did an amazing job as guest curator (and you can pick up his edition here, shipping now!).
For 2024’s stories we’re extremely excited to announce Sheree Renée Thomas will be our guest curator!
Submissions open September 4th for the 2024 edition of Afterlives.
You can find the guidelines and submission info here.
(please read the guidelines!)
About Sheree Renée Thomas
Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer and poet. She was honored as a Hugo Award and Ignyte Award Finalist twice, and won the Locus Award and is also a three-time World Fantasy Award-winning editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, Hoodoo, and Mississippi Delta conjure and has earned her fiction fellowships at the Millay Colony of the Arts, Bread Loaf Environmental, with the Cave Canem Foundation, and many others. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy. The author of three collections, including Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life, and Shotgun Lullabies, Sheree is a co-editor for Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue, and is the editor of the groundbreaking Dark Matter speculative fiction anthologies that first introduced W.E.B. Du Bois’s work as science fiction and explored 165+ years of Black Speculative Fiction. In 2023 she was honored with the Octavia E. Butler Award. She is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction and associate editor of the 49-year old, peer-reviewed literary journal, Obsidian.
Her poems appear most recently in This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets and The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. Her collaboration with artist Janelle Monáe on the “Timebox Altar(ed)” novelet appears in The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer (HarperVoyager), a New York Times bestseller. Sheree is a Marvel writer, including the novel, Black Panther: Panther’s Rage (Titan/Penguin Random House), an adaptation of Don McGregor’s legendary graphic novel, and her comic book debut, “The World Is Not Ready” featuring the Black Panther and Storm appears in Marvel Voices: Legends #1 (January 31, 2024). She has new stories in Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda and in Captain America: The Shield Sam Wilson (January 14, 2025). Her essays have appeared in The New York Times and Scientific American. She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee near a mighty river and a pyramid. Visit shereereneethomas.com
photo source: weird fiction con in Rhode Island
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