{"product_id":"black-friday-short-stories-from-africa-hardcover","title":"Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCheryl S. Ntumy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEugen Bacon\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning collection in a stunning book, Cheryl S. Ntumy's fantasy and near-future sci-fi is powerful and unique.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCheryl S. Ntumy\u003c\/b\u003e is a Ghanaian writer of short fiction and novels of speculative fiction. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eFIYAH Literary Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eApex Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Sau?ti 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. With dark mysteries, cozy magical realism and cautionary tales, this collection has something for everyone, and 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 Sau?tiverse story). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugen Bacon\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword) is an African Australian author. She's a British Fantasy and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in the Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen was announced in the honor list of the Otherwise Fellowships for 'doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction'. \u003ci\u003eDanged Black Thing\u003c\/i\u003e made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a 'sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work'. Visit her at eugenbacon.com. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eFlame Tree Beyond and Within\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCheryl S. Ntumy \u003c\/b\u003eis a Ghanaian writer of short fiction and novels of speculative fiction, young adult fiction and romance. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eFIYAH Literary Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Apex Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBest of World SF Vol. 3\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYear's Best African Speculative Fiction 2022\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Her work has also been nominated for the Nommo Award for African Speculative Fiction, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and the Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship. She is part of the Sau?tiverse Collective, which created a shared universe for Afrocentric speculative fiction, and a member of Petlo Literary Arts, an organisation that develops and promotes creative writing in Botswana. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugen Bacon\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword) is an African Australian author. She's a British Fantasy and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in the Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen was announced in the Honor List of the Otherwise Fellowships for 'doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction'. \u003ci\u003eDanged Black Thing\u003c\/i\u003e made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a 'sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work'. 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