| Year |
Author |
Work |
Publisher |
Ref. |
| 2020 |
Tananarive Due* |
"Black Horror Rising" |
Uncanny Magazine, May-June 2019 |
[1] |
| Layla Al-Bedawi |
"Tongue-Tied: A Catalog of Losses" |
Fireside, January 2019 |
[1] |
| Charlie Jane Anders |
Our Opinions Are Correct |
— |
[1] |
| Annalee Newitz |
| Rochelle Spencer |
AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora’s Surrealist Fiction |
Routledge |
[1] |
| Ebony Elizabeth Thomas |
The Dark Fantastic |
New York University Press |
[1] |
| 2021 |
Tochi Onyebuchi* |
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest" |
Tor.com, June 2020 |
[2] |
| Tamara Jerée |
"How to Make a Family: Queer Blood Bonds in Black Feminist Vampire Novels" |
Strange Horizons, January 2020 |
[2] |
| Suyi Davies Okungbowa |
"The African Superhero and the Legacy of Captain Africa" |
Tor.com, August 2020 |
[2] |
| Tochi Onyebuchi |
"Fine Weather, Isn't It?" |
SWFA Bulletin #215 |
[2] |
| Nibedita Sen |
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Excellence" |
Uncanny Magazine, September-October 2020 |
[2] |
| 2022 |
Vida Cruz* |
"We Are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protagonist" |
Fantasy Magazine, August 2021 |
[3] |
| Monte Lin |
"Where Will You Place Us When We Are Dead?" |
Strange Horizons, June 2021 |
[3] |
| Arley Sorg |
"What You Might Have Missed" |
Uncanny Magazine, November-December, 2021 |
[3] |
| Fargo Tbakhi |
"Roundtable: The Palestinian Speculative" |
Strange Horizons, March 2021 |
[3] |
| N. A. Mansour |
| Rasha Abdulhadi |
| Troy L. Wiggins |
"The Necessity of Slavery Stories" |
Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2021 |
[3] |
| 2023 |
Dante Luiz* |
"The H Word: Horror in a Country that Is Not Afraid of Death" |
Nightmare Magazine, January 2022 |
[4] |
| Chesley Oxendine |
"Indigeneity in SFF Gaming: The Ongoing Need for Respectful, Native-Centered Storytelling" |
SFWA |
[4] |
| Wole Talabi |
"Preliminary Observations From An Incomplete History of African SFF" |
SFWA |
[4] |
| Joy Sanchez Taylor |
"The Line Between Science Fiction and Fantasy Is Blurring and I’m Into It" |
Apex Magazine, December 2022 |
[4] |
| LaDarrion Williams |
"When Black Boys Find Magic" |
FIYAH, Winter 2022 |
[4] |
| 2024 |
Lysz Flo* |
"The Magic is in the Roots: Cultural Reconnection Through Magical Realism" |
FIYAH, Winter 2023 |
[5] |
| Tania Chen |
"Symmetry, Horror, and Identity" |
Apparition Lit, April 2023 |
[5] |
| Maya Gittelman |
"To Every Other Jobu Tupaki After Jamie Lee Curtis’s Oscar Win" |
Tor.com, March 2023 |
[5] |
| L. Marie Wood |
"The H Word: The Fear Horror of Change" |
Nightmare Magazine, September 2023 |
[5] |
| Yi Izzy Yu |
"The Substitute" |
Unquiet Spirits |
[5] |
| 2025 |
Eugen Bacon, ed.* |
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction |
Bloomsbury Academic |
[6] |
| Ted Chiang |
"Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art" |
The New Yorker, August 2024 |
[6] |
| George M. Johnson |
Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known |
Farrar, Straus, Giroux |
[6] |
| Charley Palmer (illustrator) |
| Micaiah Johnson |
"All Insurrections Are Not Created Equal: On Writing Resistance After January 6th" |
Reactor, October 2024 |
[6] |
| Shrinidhi Narasimhan |
"In Other Wor(l)ds" |
Strange Horizons, September 2024 |
[6] |