Swooping back this very fine MLK Day with our first unthemed issue of 2026! Behold! Get yours! Tell a friend! fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

Happy New Year 🎉🍯☠️

Reminder that I am also an essayist! "Horror Needs Hoodoo" is both my love letter and call to action for Black creatives ✨ Read/buy my Nightmare Magazine essay: www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...

Today’s the day! My very first Reddit AMA has begun on r/fantasy! I’m very excited to talk to discuss horror, Hoodoo, and my debut horror novel, I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU! Come ask questions and check my Instagram stories throughout the day for updates. AMA: www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU is a published novel! My Gothic horror novel is a tribute to Black Appalachia, HBCUs, and Hoodoo, featuring a lesbian main character whose name and life mission are profoundly inspired by icon Zora Neale Hurston. Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr...

I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU is a published novel! My Gothic horror novel is a tribute to Black Appalachia, HBCUs, and Hoodoo, featuring a lesbian main character whose name and life mission are profoundly inspired by icon Zora Neale Hurston. Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr...

Two more days until my queer Southern Gothic horror novel, I'll Make a Spectacle of You, is out in the world!!! Here’s a short video about this book that I love. You can pre-order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr... #blackbooksky #booksky #southerngothic #horror

Two more days until my queer Southern Gothic horror novel, I'll Make a Spectacle of You, is out in the world!!! Here’s a short video about this book that I love. You can pre-order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr... #blackbooksky #booksky #southerngothic #horror

When I'm at conventions, I'm often asked: "What's the difference between dark fantasy & horror?" In this month's editorial, I talk a little about my thoughts. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

You can read an excerpt from I'll Make a Spectacle of You, my gothic horror debut with Hoodoo magic, now: www.hachettebookgroup.com/orbit-books/... You can pre-order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr... If possible, please request it from your local library! #booksky #blackhorror

Thank you, Becky Spratford and Library Journal, for this interview! I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU is my Southern Gothic HBCU horror novel with an all-Black and queer cast, out November 18, 2025. Read the full interview here: www.libraryjournal.com/story/LJ-Tal... #booksky #blackbooksky

Our website is up and running: roguestarmag.com

Happy Hoodoo Heritage Month!! If you read last month's newsletter, then you know all about "Horror Needs Hoodoo", the essay I wrote for Nightmare Magazine's 13th anniversary edition! Read now: www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t... #booksky #hoodoo #essay #hoodooheritagemonth

Charley's Honky-Tonk Mission: The Story of America's First Black Country Music Superstar is my debut picture book (in verse!). Available June 9, 2026! Gorgeously illustrated by Miguelina Milien -- look at this cover!! Published by PRH/Kokila Pre-order now 🎸🎶 bookshop.org/p/books/char... #booksky

Charley's Honky-Tonk Mission: The Story of America's First Black Country Music Superstar is my debut picture book (in verse!). Available June 9, 2026! Gorgeously illustrated by Miguelina Milien -- look at this cover!! Published by PRH/Kokila Pre-order now 🎸🎶 bookshop.org/p/books/char... #booksky

"I Know How to Walk with Cats (I Promise)" Read here: beatrice-winifred-ikers-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/i-know-how... This month's newsletter has my first tarot card of the month, I discuss my nonfiction essay, "Horror Needs Hoodoo", and this month's fragrance combo is Moroccan tea and guava.

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

I love working with Wendy and the @nightmare-magazine.com team, and I'm thrilled for them to publish my first non-fiction essay--and it's about Hoodoo!

This month's newsletter highlights my ongoing struggle to be patient with myself, how TikTok convinced me to listen to Baroque music, and how I'm finally plotting a romance novel 🥀 beatrice-winifred-ikers-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/baroque-mu...

Y'all ready?! ARCs for my Southern Gothic horror novel, I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU, set at an Appalachian HBCU, are now available to request for free on NetGalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... #BlackHorror #SouthernGothic #HorrorSky #BlackBookSky #2025Books

summertime ☀︎

"The phrase dark academia evokes haunted halls on elite campuses, dusty libraries and dour dorms, and toxic type-A friend groups." TODAY!! Updating the Curriculum: 2025 SFFH Dark Academia Novels You Won’t Want to Miss by @courtney-floyd.com FEATURING (cont') psychopomp.com/2025-dark-ac...

🩸Announcing my Goodreads giveaway!🩸 Enter for a chance to be 1 of 100 to read my Southern Gothic horror novel "I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU" before it publishes on November 18, 2025! This ebook giveaway runs from June 16 to July 14, 2025. Enter the giveaway now: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

🩸Announcing my Goodreads giveaway!🩸 Enter for a chance to be 1 of 100 to read my Southern Gothic horror novel "I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU" before it publishes on November 18, 2025! This ebook giveaway runs from June 16 to July 14, 2025. Enter the giveaway now: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Happy to see everyone loving Sinners! My book, I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU, is out November 18, 2025! It is - Southern Gothic horror - with a Hoodoo-based magic system - set at an Appalachian HBCU - full of religious horror - and features an all-Black + queer cast of characters Preorder now!

I've been weaving poetry.

THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN brings one of America's first Black superheroes back to life! You can back the project here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

Good morning! FIYAH Issue No. 34 is NOW LIVE! You don't want to miss this phenomenal collection of stories and poems. Download yours now 🔥🔥🔥 fiyahlitmag.com/issues/issue...

The cover for my Southern Gothic novella PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is here! Predatory morticians, Gullah funeral traditions & a city where your family is defined by how they care for their dead. Art: Greg Ruth, design: Christine Foltzer Pre-order: torpublishinggroup.com/psychopomp-c... #booksky

Cover reveal! Pre-order now!! "This heart-pounding Southern Gothic horror takes readers to Bricksbury University, the oldest and most storied HBCUs in the nation. But as one student is about to find out, a long history comes with a legacy of secrets." www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ill-make-a...

Cover reveal! Pre-order now!! "This heart-pounding Southern Gothic horror takes readers to Bricksbury University, the oldest and most storied HBCUs in the nation. But as one student is about to find out, a long history comes with a legacy of secrets." www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ill-make-a...

I love to look up the people they talk shit about on The Golden Girls.

Got my hydroponic garden set up! Fresh mint tea here I come 🌱

Presenting the cover and TOC for FIYAH Issue No. 34! Our second themed issue of the year 🔥 🔥🔥 Cover art courtesy of Raki Sy. fiyahlitmag.com/2025/03/05/i...

I'm here to tell you all that you need to go watch For the Win on Amazon Prime, a doc series about the NWSL, for many reasons but the most important one is that THEE @tamerra-griffin.bsky.social, all-star woso expert and one of my clients, is featured! Congratulations, Tamerra!

I prolly built them pyramids.

Luckily, I am finding writing Black historical non-fiction incredibly cathartic right now.

As a Pisces moon, I cried while explaining this last night. This is community. This is revolutionary. This is love.

My first Substack post is about my three upcoming projects: a Southern Gothic horror novel, a picture book biography, and a cyberpunk-y poem. You can also find this post on my website’s blog in my bio. open.substack.com/pub/beatrice...

Announcement: I've discovered lactonic perfumes.

hey! Fantasy Magazine is currently open to submissions from BIPOC writers (today through Jan 25th) send us your fantastic stories! full guidelines here (PLEASE read the full guidelines before submitting)

I still haven’t given up on this! I wanna go where everybody knows my name 😩

Who is ready to get into letter writing?

I hate that I can’t buy Netflix movies on DVD.

I used to SCREAM this song

Update: I love writing cyberpunk.

“For the majority of Black households in the U.S, the tradition of eating a bowl of black-eyed peas on New Year's Eve to bring in good luck and prosperity is second nature.” me, writing about Hoodoo & New Year’s Eve, for Essence #Hoodoo #HoodooSky www.essence.com/culture/why-...

“Above the Hungriest Dead” is my adult queer body horror short story. It’s available now in the Death in the Mouth Volume 2 anthology. The link is in my bio.

This is deeply important to me 🎄

Update: yes, I do.