The Black Beans Writing Group
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. –Ursula LeGuin
The Black Beans Are:
- A New York City-based group that meets once a month.
- Four women who like to tell stories.
- Writers of speculative literature, which includes fantasy, science fiction, horror/dark fiction, and strange stories that fall off the map into the interstices of literature.
- Authors of other types of works, including poetry, essays, dissertations, and movie reviews, to name a few.
The Black Beans Are Not:
- Actually beans.
- Necessarily black.
- Obsessed with coffee.
Latest Publications:
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin. Forthcoming from Orbit Books in 2009.
“Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows” by N. K. Jemisin. Riffing on Strings. (reprint)
“Rats” by Veronica Schanoes. Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 21.
“Playing Nice With God’s Bowling Ball” by N. K. Jemisin. Forthcoming from Baen’s Universe in 2008.
“A Man, A Plan, A Banal - Dark Kingdom” by Genevieve Valentine. Fantasy.
“Black Feather” by K. Tempest Bradford. Interfictions.
