Trouble the Waters:Tales from the Deep Blue
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 WORLD FANTASY AWARD AND LOCUS AWARD.
"Stories to make you feel infinitely hopeful."
— ZZ Claybourne, author of Afro Puffs Are the Antennae of the Universe
Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue gathers the tidal force of bestselling, renowned and exciting new writers from Lagos to New Orleans, Memphis to Copenhagen, Northern Ireland and London, offering extraordinary speculative fiction tales of ancient waters in all its myriad forms. Meet techno savvy water spirits, bayou saints and sirens, robots and river rootwomen, a pod of joyful space whales, and a castle of water-born terrors and mysteries. Including work by Nalo Hopkinson, Jaquira Diaz, Andrea Hairston, Linda D. Addison, Rion Amilcar Scott, Marie Vibbert, Maurice Broaddus, and other breakout beautiful voices, these stories and poems celebrate the most vital of elemental forces, water.
" No matter where you enter these stories, you will not leave unchanged; and when you return, you may find the stories themselves have transformed as well. A fantastic collection."
— Fran Wilde, author of Riverland and Updraft
Contributors
Linda Addison
Andrea Hairston
Pan Morigan
Sheree Renée Thomas
Ama Patterson
Nanna Árnadóttir
Marie Vibbert
Mateo Hinojosa
Gina McGuire
Shawn Scarber
Betsy Phillips
Christopher Caldwell
Maurice Broaddus
Nalo Hopkinson
Danian Darrell Jerry
Rion Amilcar Scott
Jamey Hatley
Henry Szabranski
Lyndsay Gilbert
Story Boyle
Kate Heartfield
Cecilia Quirk
Erica Ruppert
Jasmine Wade
Naila Moreira
Rylee Edgar
Susana Morris
adrienne maree brown
Maria Osunbimpe Hamilton Abegunde
Jaquira Diaz
Jacqueline Johnson
Heather Byrd Roberts
Editors:
Sheree Renée Thomas
Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, and the genius of the Mississippi Delta. Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Third Man Books 2020) is her debut fiction collection. She is also the author of the hybrid collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press 2016), longlisted for the 2016 Otherwise Award and honored with a PW Starred Review and Shotgun Lullabies (2011). She edited the World Fantasy Award-winning groundbreaking anthologies, Dark Matter (2000, 2004) and is the first to introduce W.E.B. Du Bois’s science fiction short stories. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in Marvel’s Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda edited by Jesse J. Holland, The New York Times, and The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (1945 – 2010) edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage 2020). She was honored as a 2020 World Fantasy Award Finalist in the Special Award – Professional category for contributions to the genre and is the Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949 and Associate Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, founded in 1975. She also reviews new books for Asimov’s. Sheree lives in Memphis, Tennessee, near a mighty river and a pyramid.
Pan Morigan
Pan Morigan is a Canadian/American author of poetry and surrealist fiction and a singer/composer. Her poetry collection, 5 Spirits in my Mouth was released with Querencia Press in May 2023. She has a short-story collection titled I, Musicbox, forthcoming with Querencia Press. Her short story, Severed Fruit was recently published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Her anti-real play with original music, titled I Sing Earth debuted at Hallie Flanagan Theater, Smith College. As a vocalist/songwriter, she has toured globally with author Andrea Hairston, composer Adele O’Dwyer, and vocalist Bobby McFerrin, among others. In collaboration with Andrea Hairston, (as music director of Chrysalis Theater,) she created and performed music and lyrics for over 30 original plays. She also worked as a composer and musician with directors, Wang Dao and Helen Suh, among others. Pan wrote and produced a recording of original songs titled, Wild Blue. (Hear at panmorigan.com) She produced a song collection/radio program for Public Radio International, Castles of Gold, Songs and Stories of Irish Immigration. She’s a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in music composition, a New England Foundation for the Arts Meet the Composer Grant, three composer residencies at Blue Mountain Center, and grants with Chrysalis Theater from the Ford Foundation and the NEA to produce Chrysalis Theater’s inter-cultural, multi-disciplinary theater works.
Troy L. Wiggins
Troy L. Wiggins is a writer and editor living in Memphis, Tennessee. Troy is co-editor of the World Fantasy Award-winning and Hugo nominated FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction and a co-editor of Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue (Rosarium). His short fiction and essays have appeared in Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History, Expanded Horizons, Memphis Noir, Uncanny, and Fireside Fiction Magazine. You can follow his musings on race and nerd culture at afrofantasy.net, and follow him on Twitter @TroyLWiggins
