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After narrowly escaping with their lives with the magical mouthpiece from Demonica Shadows and her Minions of Darkness, Harmony, Eazy and Juan Carlos find refuge in the attic of small bakery owned by a sweet, elderly widower named Miss Sweetbread. She seems to understand their plight and offers to help in any way she can. But there is another reason why she wants to help. She is an angel secretly working to get the mouthpiece back to the Horn of Gabriel.

With Demonica in hot pursuit, The Walkers and Juan Carlos need all the help they can get. Eazy even finds work in a jazz and blues club called The Carnation Club, owned by an unscrupulous Frenchman, Jean-Pierre, who will do anything to get the horn for himself.

Harmony must find a way to get rid of Demonica and help her dad become young again. But, most of all, she must return the sacred and magical mouthpiece to the Horn of Gabriel and reunite her family.

It’s all up to Harmony!

About the Author

 

Craig Rex Perry - Craig Rex Perry is a native of Chicago, Illinois.  He attended the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago, American Academy of Art (Chicago), Parsons School of Design (L.A) and Altos de Chavon (Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic) where he studied under famed fashion illustrator, Antonio Lopez. With a signature flair uniquely his own, Rex is one of America’s premier fashion artists.  Intentionally known for his beautiful renditions of stylish men, women and children, Rex remains at the top of his game by designing and illustrations for global corporations.  Whether a fashion sketch, an apparel design for an animated cartoon, or a book illustration…the Rex style is recognized the world over. His book credits include: It’s Beginning to look a lot like Kwanzaa for Random House Disney; Over the River and Through the Woods for Jump at the Sun; All Things Bright and Beautiful for Hyperion Books for Children and the Empak Heritage Kids: Kumi & Chanti Tell the Story of Matthew Henson – An Empak “Black History” Publication Series: Black History at an Early Age. Rex currently resides in Altadena, California with his lovely wife Deanna and their two beautiful children, Isabella and Maxfield. You can see more about Rex at www.rexstudios.net

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Edited By: Quentin Vercetty and Audrey Hudson
Introduction by Nalo Hopkinson, Foreword by Zainab Amadahy

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This seminal collection consists of works from cross-generations and pan-national Black creatives and cultural producers from Canada. This generous book offers a glimpse of different innerstandings, a profound comprehension or conviction within one’s spirit or soul.

We consider the following: what does Afrofuturism look like from a Canadian perspective? What are the unique elements of artistic expression in Black Canadian art? Considering Canada’s history on Indigenous land, how do Black Canadians imagine their future in a colony that promotes erasure, yet claims multiculturalism? So ah wah dis? Qu’est-ce que c’est? Kisa sa ye?

Cosmic Underground Northside: An Incantation of Black Canadian Speculative Discourse and Innerstanding is an archival book comprised of diasporic dialogues around liberation and spirituality.

Significant contributions of poems, lyrics, proses, short stories and other expressive forms of literature along with vibrant illustrations, photography, posters, mixed-media digital and analog rendered artworks by over 100 prolific, gifted Black Canadian scholars and creatives. This is who we are.

“Draws in bold, broad strokes, in the here and now, the contours of a dazzling vision for the future. Each contribution is a priceless treasure, and an act of resistance.”
– The Right Honorable Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor General of Canada, 3rd Secretary General of the International Organization of la Francophonie

“Quentin VerCetty and Audrey Hudson have assembled a ground-breaking and delightful collection, Cosmic Underground Northside, which dreams a Black Canadian future in conversation with the past, present, and global Africa real and imagined. Thus, time, space and consciousness are collapsed because to have a Black future requires that we have a tremendous leap of imagination.”
– Dr. Afua Cooper, Professor of Black Studies at Dalhousie University, 2018 Poet Laureate of Halifax Regional Municipality. Author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada, and the Burning of Old Montreal

Release Date: October 14, 2022

About the Editors 

Quentin VerCetty - Quentin VerCetty (Lindsay) - also known as Di' rAstroNautty, is an award-winning visual griot (storyteller) and art educator who knows no boundaries when it comes to his creative expression. Since receiving his first award, the Governor General Bronze Medal Award for excellence in 2010 and recent accolade from the Ontario College of Art and Design University diversity award in 2015, VerCetty continues to strive for new heights in his professional creative work and community-based work along with his academic career. Currently building off his master's in art education thesis from Concordia University, Quentin explores speculative narratives like Afrofuturism addressing issues of representation, immigration, decolonization and other social and environmental issues through public art intervention. Quentin's work has been in numerous academic journals, magazines and a variety of publication. He enjoys good wine, conversation, chocolate, of course, art and traveling. In which his artistry and adventurous spirit have brought him to every populated continent on the planet Earth. His passion for artivism, using art as a tool for social change, lead to co-launching the Canadian chapter of the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAMCanada) in 2016 and has since then continued to spread it across the nation. Through his work, as an academic and as a creative, Quentin hopes to engage and inspire hearts and minds further with high hope to make the world a better place not only for today but for many tomorrows to come. 

Dr. Audrey Hudson

Dr. Audrey Hudson is an artist, educator, researcher and futurist. Audrey manages school and teacher programs at the Art Gallery of Ontario and teaches at OCAD University. She holds a PhD from University of Toronto/Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UT/OISE).

Most recently, Dr. Hudson co-edited a groundbreaking text entitled, In This Together: Blackness, Indigeneity and Hip-Hop, with a chapter, entitled, All eyes on Hip Hop: Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurities. Chapters and articles include: Where We @?: Blackness, Indigeneity and Hip-Hop’s Expression of Creative Resistance (co-authored); Here We Are On Turtle Island: Navigating Places, Spaces and Terrain; and Integrating Black lives into education: Black Lives Matter Freedom School.

Hudson believes the arts are a way to bring rich knowledge and voices of young people into spaces to discuss education, colonization, race, and relationship building between Black and Indigenous communities.

Dr. Hudson developed and taught the first course in Canada on the influence Hip-Hop has on design, entitled Hip-Hop & Convergence Culture at OCAD University. Hudson also co-developed and taught a graduate studies course at UT/OISE entitled, Desire and Change: Difficult Dialogues in Art and Art Education.

This book on Cosmic Underground Northside merges Audrey’s passion for art, social change and voicing astounding creative Black intellect.

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Sycorax’s Daughters, the Horror Anthology of fiction & poetry by African-American women, edited by Kinitra Brooks, PhD, Linda D. Addison & Susana Morris, PhD is coming February 2017 from Cedar Grove.

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A powerful, revealing anthology of dark fiction and poetry by Black women writers. The tales of what scares, threatens and shocks them will enlighten and entertain you.

Sycorax’s Daughters’ stories and poems delve into demons and shape shifters from Carole McDonnell’s “How to Speak to the Bogeyman” and Sheree Renée Thomas’ “Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight” to far future offerings from Kiini Ibura Salaam’s “The Malady of Need”, Valjeanne Jeffers’ steampunk female detective in “Mona Livelong: Paranormal Detective II” and others.

These thought-provoking twenty-eight stories and fourteen poems cover creatures imagined— vampires, ghosts, and mermaids, as well as the unexpected price paid by women struggling for freedom and validation in the past—slavery to science-fiction futures with transhumans and alternate realities.

Leave the lights on and join these amazing authors as they share their unique vision of fear.

With works from: Tiffany Austin • Tracey Baptiste • Regina N. Bradley • Patricia E. Canterbury • Crystal Connor • Joy M. Copeland • Amber Doe • Tish Jackson • Valjeanne Jeffers • Tenea D. Johnson • R. J. Joseph • A. D. Koboah • Nicole Givens Kurtz • Kai Leakes • A. J. Locke • Carole McDonnell • Dana T. McKnight • LH Moore • L. Penelope • Zin E. Rocklyn • Eden Royce • Kiini Ibura Salaam • Andrea Vocab Sanderson • Nicole D. Sconiers • Cherene Sherrard • RaShell R. Smith-Spears • Sheree Renée Thomas • Lori Titus • Tanesha Nicole Tyler • Deborah Elizabeth Whaley • L. Marie Wood • K. Ceres Wright • Deana Zhollis

Cover artwork by Jim Callahan

“Sycorax’s Daughters introduces us to a whole new legion of gothic writers.

Their stories drip with history and blood leaving us with searing images and a chill emanating from shadows gathered in the corner. This anthology is historic in its recognition of women of color writers in a genre that usually doesn’t know what to do with us.”
– Jewelle Gomez, author, The Gilda Stories

“”Shakespeare stole Sycorax’s point of view from the world. Sycorax’s Daughters draws that perspective to the fore, allowing Black women to explain themselves, and the evils they have experienced, to the delight of readers who are ready to hear.”– Book Riot

About the Editors

KINITRA BROOKS, PHD.

Kinitra Brooks, PhD., is an associate professor of English. Her articles have been published in African American Review, FEMSPEC, and Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. She lives in Antonio, Texas.

LINDA D. ADDISON

Linda D. Addison is a writer who has published more than 300 poems, stories, and articles, and the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award. Her work has published in anthologies such as The Beauty of Death and Scary Out There. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

SUSANA MORRIS, PHD.

Susana Morris, PhD., is an associate professor of African American Literature and the cofounder of the blog The Crunk Feminist Collective. She is the author of Close Kin and Distant Relatives. She lives in Auburn, Alabama.

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