Reading Day

[lydamorehouse]

Because I am prepping for my Loft class, I have been reading more than usual. I read several short stories, and watched some short film. The stories were:

”Going After Bobo” by Susan Palwick (Asimov’s, May 2000.)

“St. Juju” by Rivers Solomon (Verge, 2019.)
Justina Ireland’s “Theory of Flight” (Verge, 2019.)
“Aye, and Gomorrah” by Samuel Delaney.
“A Third of the Stars of Heaven” by Cadwell Turnbull (Lightspeed, 2017)
 

The short films were all from the African continent.

From Kenya: “Pumzi” (2009, dir. Wanuri Kahiu). Approx. 20 minutes.
Set in Zambia, directed by a Ghanaian-American: “Afronauts” (2014, dir. Frances Bodomo), approx 15 minutes.

Both were free on YouTube. I highly recommend “Pumzi.” It had especially cool world building. “Afronauts” is based on a true story that’s fairly bizarre. Apparently, there was a Zambian space program in the 1960s, kinda. The guy behind it was motivated to spread Christianity to the moon and Mars, though. And their main astronaut was a fifteen year old girl. Here is an article about it, if you’re curious. http://www.goodshortfilms.it/en/articles/afronauts-il-programma-spaziale-dello-zambia

I also spent part of the day recording and editing a video reading for Convergence, who are doing some kind of virtual programming throughout the pandemic, apparently. There is going to be a Q &A section that may be live Zoomed on August 23rd. I’m not a hundred percent clear on the concept. But, the reading portion is done and that’s a yay. (Oh, and, rachelmanija I read from and promoted the heck out of my story in His Magical Pet!)

You? How you been?

Comments

[abracanabra]

I am also going to be doing a reading as part of the CONvergence thing! To me it sounded as if they weren't sure if/how much time you would be using for a Q&A?

[lydamorehouse]

Me personally? I mean, I’m up for it, but if they are short for time...?

[rachelmanija]

How did I miss this. And also, YAY!