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Children’s fiction available elsewhere…
- Beats of War comic book series for 12+ years by Etienne Kubwabo on etianverse.com
Poetry pamphlets and collections available elsewhere…
- Radical Pairings (Oxford Brookes) by Clementine E. Burnley
- Where Decay Sleeps (Haunt Publishing) by Anna Cheung
- Bloodsongs (Tapsalteerie) by Mae Diansangu
- In Wolf’s Skin(Stewed Rhubarb Press) by Titilayo Farukuoye
- From Murky Waters, We Rise (Forrest Arts Publications) by Etzali Hernández
- be happy (Speculative Books), how to cook (Speculative Books), you are mistaken (The Rialto), by Sean Wai Keung
- Holy Boys (Polygon, forthcoming), by Andrés N. Ordorica
- Hinge (Oxford Brookes) Second Memory (Guillemot Press) by Alycia Pirmohamed
- Something Like Sugarbread, Ganyamatope In Living Spirit, (both Seeds of Thought), by Tawona Sitholé
Novels available elsewhere…
- The Way The Light Bends, by Lorraine Wilson – Longlisted for the BFSA Awards – Best Novel
- This Is Our Undoing, by Lorraine Wilson – Winner of the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards (Best Debut), British Science Fiction Award Longlisted, Kavya Prize and British Fantasy Awards Finalist.
Nonfiction available elsewhere…
- But We Did (404 Ink) by Titilayo Farukuoye
Plays (scripts) by Scottish BPOC Writers available elsewhere…