#BlackSpecFic
A Fireside Fiction Company Special Report
Since 2016 Fireside has been commissioning a Report on the state of representation of Black authors within the speculative short fiction market, and a Special Feature composed of accompanying essays in reaction to the Report.
2017
The 2017 #BlackSpecFic package is available as a PDF download for $5 on Gumroad. 100% of the money from each sale of the PDF goes directly into paying for next year’s #BlackSpecFic report and its accompanying essays.
As always, you can also read the report and essays online:
The 2017 #BlackSpecFic Report
by Cecily Kane
POB Scoring: Growth and Accountability
by L. D. Lewis
More Than Numbers
by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
Three Years Into the #BlackSpecFic Report
by Mikki Kendall
Fireside #BlackSpecFic Report Response
by Inda Lauyrn
On Gaming, Fantastic Racism, & Real World Bigotry
by Latonya Pennington
A Message From the Publisher
by Pablo Defendini
2016
The 2016 #BlackSpecFic Report
by Cecily Kane
The FIYAH #BlackSpecFic Roundtable
by The FIYAH Magazine Staff
A Note from the Editor of the #BlackSpecFic Responses
by Mikki Kendall
A response to the #BlackSpecFic Report
by De Ana Jones
Zero Percent Chance
by Chesya Burke
The Ones Who Walk Away from the Genres
by Jennifer Marie Brissett
Diversity Doesn’t Just Happen
by Maurice Broaddus
One Year Later and We Still Have Work To Do
by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
Addressing a problem
by Thea James
It’s Up to Us
by Pablo Defendini
2015
Antiblack Racism in Speculative Fiction (The 2015 #BlackSpecFic Report)
by Cecily Kane
A Note from the Editor of the #BlackSpecFic Responses
by Brian White
Ones and Twos and Rarely Threes
by Nisi Shawl
Opportunity Lost
by Mikki Kendall
Speculative Antiblackness
by Troy L. Wiggins
Two Percent
by Justina Ireland
Boldly Going Nowhere
by Tobias Buckell
We Are Writing the Future
by Anonymous
Interview with N.K. Jemisin
by Brian White
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