We are excited to announce that we’ve signed a deal with Linda D. Addison and Jamal Hodge for their collaborative poetry project titled Everything Endless. It contains 55 science fiction poems, in 4 sections that explore the universe from its biggest bangs to its tiniest discoveries. We haven’t seen a collaboration with this much star power in a long time and can’t wait to share these poems with you. “There is something magnetic in these poems. I thoroughly enjoyed the complexity of this collection and the way its working on so many levels sneaking in moments of humor between glimpses of awe,” says managing editor Jennifer Barnes.
About the Authors
Linda D. Addison grew up in Philadelphia and began weaving stories at an early age. Ms Addison is the first African-American recipient of the world renowned HWA Bram Stoker Award® and has received five awards for collections: The Place of Broken Things written with Alessandro Manzetti; Four Elements written with Charlee Jacob, Marge Simon and Rain Graves; How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend short stories and poetry; Being Full of Light, Insubstantial; Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes. In 2018, she received the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, Addison was designated SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry. She co-edited Sycorax’s Daughters anthology of horror fiction & poetry by African-American women with Kinitra Brooks PhD and Susana Morris PhD, which was a HWA Bram Stoker finalist in the Anthology category. She currently lives in Arizona and has published over 450 poems, stories and articles. Look for her story in the Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda anthology (Titan/Marvel).
Jamal Hodge is a multi-award-winning writer & filmmaker who has won over 100 awards. Jamal has directed the first season of Investigation Discovery Channel’s Primal Instinct, was a segment director for the PBS doc-series, Southern Storytellers (2022), and directed episode 5 of The Table on Black Oak TV (2024) currently working as a producer on the animated feature film Pierre the Pigeon Hawk (starring Snoop Dog, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Coolidge, and Whoopi Goldberg).Jamal’s writing has been nominated for a 2021 & 2022 Rhysling Award and his poem “Colony” won 2nd place at the 2022 Dwarf Stars. He is in anthologies with such notable writers as Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, and Josh Malerman. His collection The Dark Between the Twilight has been scheduleded for a May 2024 release along with his anthology, Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales scheduled for an October 4th, 2024 release. Bestiary of Blood notably has 16 Bram Stoker award winners and the first two black SFPA Grand Masters in science fiction within its pages. For more visit www.writerhodge.com
