Black Girl Literary Magazine

Series · 4 books · 2016-2017

By Rumbidzai Makanga, Jennifer Meacham, Nora Anthony, and more

Books in series

Black Girl Magic Lit Mag

Issue 1

2016

Black Girl Magic Lit Mag is a literary magazine created to address the lack of diverse, non-majority voices and characters in speculative fiction, especially Black women’s voices. Black Girl Magic Lit Mag believes that by showcasing stories featuring Black female voices and characters we can create a reflection of ourselves in the literature that we love, in a world where our images are constantly controlled, shaped, and distorted by those outside of our experiences. This issue features a range of stories spanning Paranormal, Steampunk/Horror, and Zombies, as well as interviews of the authors.

Black Girl Magic Lit Mag

Issue 3

2016

Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy... Black Girl Magic Lit Mag is a literary magazine created to address the lack of diverse, non-majority voices and characters in speculative fiction, especially Black women’s voices. Black Girl Magic Lit Mag believes that by showcasing stories featuring Black female voices and characters we can create a reflection of ourselves in the literature that we love, in a world where our images are constantly controlled, shaped, and distorted by those outside of our experiences . This issue contains four original story and one reprint.

Black Girl Magic Lit Mag

Issue 4: The Horror Issue

2016

Celebrate Black Speculative Fiction Month and Halloween with Black Girl Magic Lit Magazine's first ALL HORROR ISSUE.

Black Girl Magic Lit Mag

Issue 5: New Year, New Worlds

2017

Black Girl Magic Lit Mag is a quarterly literary magazine of speculative fiction featuring Black female main characters. In Issue 5, our all science fiction issue, it is entitled New Year, New Worlds. In For the Best we see a story of racial upheaval and tests of racial purity to determine who can live in the United States, harkening to a futuristic paper bag test. What happens to those who can’t pass? In Hybrid, we glimpse a future full of technological advances as well as danger of the worse kind. What happens when you ignore your own intuition in order to reveal long held secrets? What if your husband went on a routine space mission and all communication was lost? And after establishing communication, what would happen if the crew came back somehow different? For better or for worse, that’s the situation that our main character finds herself in, in Anomalies.

Authors

Armed with her camera and an overactive imagination, Auden hikes through forests in search of its hidden treasure. She holds a B.A. in English, an M.S. in Information and Library Science, an M.S. in Publishing Digital and Print and she studied Creative Writing in England. With Aubey LLC, she’s published several dark fantasy short stories and novellas as well as three novels in her Merging Worlds Series. She also published a world-building guide and a nature photography book. She lives in NY with her dog Oreo. Find her books on her website or at Aubey LLC.

Tonya Moore

Author · 2 books

Tonya R. Moore writes speculative fiction. Born and raised in Jamaica, she hopes to bring a fresh, new, West Indian perspective to the science fiction, fantasy, and horror universes. She is a Poetry Acquiring Editor at FIYAH Literary Magazine. She was also a Voodoonauts 2022 Fellow and a Finalist for the 2022 Analog Science Fiction & Fact Award for Emerging Black Voices.

Lori Titus

Author · 8 books

The Bell House: https://www.amazon.com/Bell-House-Lor... Hunting in Closed Spaces: http://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Closed-... The Guardians of Man: http://www.amazon.com/Guardians-Man-F... Lazarus: http://www.amazon.com/Lazarus-Lori-Ti... Marradith, Darkly https://www.amazon.com/Bell-House-Lor... The Moon Goddess: https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Goddess-M... Upcoming Releases: The Art of Shadows, #2 in The Marradith Ryder Series

Miri Castor is the author of Opal Charm: The Path to Dawn. She spent many recesses in middle school writing fantasy stories, with Opal Charm being one of many. She has written for Black Girl Magic Literary Magazine and was featured as a Spotlight New Author in 2016. Now attending a university on the East Coast, she studies biochemistry and will receive her B.S. in 2016. She enjoys playing video games, attending music concerts, and strolling through the City.

Kenesha Williams

Author · 1 books

K. Nicole Williams lives and writes in a quaint town in the Shenandoah Valley with her husband and three wonderful sons. She has been writing since the day her mother handed her a crayon, but has only started publishing her work in 2012. When she is not writing, she is either reading a good book or chasing after her boys.

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be everything under the sun: a teacher, a pilot, a firefighter, a lawyer, the President, a detective in the Special Victims Unit (thank you Law and Order), and a writer. Always a writer. No matter how everything else on that list might have changed, writer always stuck. Writing helped me find my voice, and sharing that voice with others is both the most terrifying and most exciting thing I have ever done.