Black Speculative Fiction Month

 I had no knowing there was a Black Speculative Fiction Month until I got my newsletter from BookRiot.

Let’s start by giving credit to where credit is rightfully due: to Black speculative fiction writer Milton Davis along with writer Balogun Ojetade. Davis has written several books that center on speculative fiction and is revered as a leading voice in the Black speculative writing world. The purpose of the celebration is to highlight Black voices who are creating worlds that center their identity, culture, and imagination.

There is a discussion of hoodoo and a spotlight on several novels here. I would like to point out one since one of the co-authors is Zora Neal Hurston.

HOODOO BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON AND MARY FLEENER

Zora Neale Hurston is praised by many hoodoos and conjure workers for her anthropology and documented studies on hoodoo culture. In the late 1980s, a comic book was illustrated by Mary Fleener that turned her experiences into high contrast, black and white graphic novel. On the first pages, you see a shelf full of hard with things like chicken bones and mixtures of different recipes that all have unique purposes.

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