Most Recent: September 21, 2023
Nicole D. Sconiers is an author and screenwriter who blends horror, speculative fiction and humor in stories centering complex Black heroines. She is the author of Escape from Beckyville: Tales of Race, Hair and Rage, a speculative fiction short-story collection that has been taught at colleges and universities around the country. Her work has appeared in Nightmare magazine, Lightspeed magazine, Speculative City, NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcast, PodCastle, the Black Futures edition of Spelman College’s literary journal Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor and other publications and anthologies. Her short story “A Bird Sings by the Etching Tree” will appear in Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror, edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams, coming October 3, 2023 from Random House.