Description - Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa by Cheryl S. Ntumy
A stunning collection in a stunning book, Cheryl Ntumy's fantasy and near-future sci-fi is powerful and unique. Cheryl Ntumy is a Ghanaian writer of short fiction and novels of speculative fiction. Her work has appeared in FIYAH Literary Magazine, Apex Magazine, World Literature Today and she's also been shortlisted for the Nommo Award for African speculative fiction, the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and the Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship. She is part of the Sauúti Collective, which created a shared universe for Afrocentric speculative fiction, and a member of Petlo Literary Arts, an organization that develops and promotes creative writing in Botswana. This collection features nine new stories, including 'Dream State', 'Clickbait' and 'The Feeding Grounds' with other popular tales, such as 'The Storymage' and 'The Way of Baa'gh' (A Sauútiverse story). The Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative. The books themselves are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover editions, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure. AUTHOR: Cheryl S. Ntumy is a Ghanaian writer whose work has appeared in FIYAH magazine and Apex Magazine, among others. She is part of the Sauútiverse Collective, which created a shared universe for Afrocentric speculative fiction, and Petlo Literary Arts, an organization that develops creative writing in Botswana. Hardback, Decorated page edges, luxury end-paper, special treatment PLC
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