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Yesterday felt like a perfect year. Today is a year where I have to hold on to the happy days and face some hard facts about aging. But even when it's raining we still can dance.

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Afrofuturism Salon at BeastCrawl

Beast Crawl readers for Afrofuturism Salon: Sumiko Saulson, Trey Keeve. Kevin Dublin and Nazelah Jamison Saturday April 18 at BAM HOUSE in Oakland 4-5:30

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Afrosurrealist Writers at Hayward LitHop!

Afrosurreal Writers’ Workshop to read from 5 pm to 6 pm on Saturday, April 25th at Stray Cap Theme: When Evil is Eternal, Justice Seekers Learn to Time Travel Ancestral warnings, visitors from uncertain futures beckoning us to change intervene on their behalf or change our ways before it’s too late, and voices from parallel dimensions or across the void Featuring readings by Audrey T.…

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Exciting news! Manor of Frights is now out on Audio Book! Check out this excerpt “Missing” by R.L. Merrill

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"Dance of Necromance, Poetry Book of the Dead" is available for prerelease at Mocha Memoirs Press!

Excited to announce that my book of horror poetry “Dance of Necromance, Poetry Book of the Dead” is available for prerelease at Mocha Memoirs Press! Pick up your copy here! “Dance of Necromance: Poetry Book of the Dead” is an Afrosurrealist book of dark speculative poetry embracing themes of death, rebirth, sacrifice, communication with the ancestors, the mysteries that lie beyond, and…

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BayCon 42: The Answer Guest of Honor

BayCon 42 is proud and privileged to welcome Sumiko Saulson as this year’s Poet-in-Residence. Sumiko is a two-time Bram Stoker Award® finalist for poetry, recognized for The Rat King (2022, Dooky Zines) and Melancholia (2024, Bludgeoned Girls Press). Their writing blends horror, Afrosurrealism, and speculative themes to explore grief, identity, and resilience. They are also an Elgin…

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Pick up some Doodooality for your stocking!

Why wait for Black Friday and waste your $$ on a big corporation when you can waste your money on us? Whether the people in your life deserve a politically provoking poetry chapbook OR a big fat lump of doodoo in their stockings, Doodooality: Shots Fired from Uranus is the PERFECT stocking stuffer! Only $6.969 (ahem: $6.97) per copy, what a bargain! $2 shipping and handling anywhere in the…

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Where to Find Us at Clockwork Alchemy!

Where to find me and Princess Chris Hughes at Clockwork Alchemy: 1) All Weekend in Author’s Alleyat our table in Author’s Alley,Aster (1st Floor) 2) TTRPG: In Nomine, Presenter Wizard LizardFriday, 1:00 pm–5:00 pm (4 hours)Peninsula 4 (2nd floor)IN NOMINE: Mad Science for the Hungry Soul Sacramento, 1851. As part of his quest to build an artificial God to replace the one in Heaven, Vapula…

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Join us at Sights and Sounds After Dark!

This is a FREE adult book Halloween themed book reading that I am participating in at KALW that is BIPOC-centering. Costumes optional! I will be reading horror erotica from my paranormal series The Metamorphoses of Flynn Keahi, and since they said event registration for Eventbrite is low, if you CAN come out, please get a FREE ticket on Eventbrite, thank you. Register on Eventbrite

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My Year in Prose Fiction

I feel super excited about how well things are going in my career as a horror poet, but at the same time I feel like I don’t want people to forget that I also write prose fiction. My poetry seems to be quickly overtaking and usurping my prose fiction career, but I also had three short stories out in the past year: “Blind Pig Shakedown” in The Green Hornet and Kato: Detriot Noir City, “Poppies for…

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Why is Poop Political?

On Saturday, President Trump posted an AI generated video of himself in a fighter jet wearing crown dumping shit onto the No Kings protestors. Around the same time, something was cooking in my brain about sentient poop. The feces, having become sentient, was in rebellion against humanity and seeking autonomy. And so I wrote this poem (which you will find in the soon-to-be released “Doodoodality:…

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enjoying your life is a subversive act

This is perhaps a controversial opinion, but I think that enjoying your life is a subversive act when you’re part of intersectional groups that are under attack by the government. And even though I haven’t seen it stated this way by others, I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only one feeling it. Me and Princess had a big fairy wedding, and I noticed that over the last week another couple in our…

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My Year in Poetry! Nine Anthologies I'm In.

Here is a round of the collections, anthologies, and magazines I’ve had poetry published in over the past year (it includes two December 2024 publications and the rest are 2025 to date). Proud to have had the opportunity to work with so many wonderful editors and to be a part of so many important, amazing, creative, fun and relevant works. Here are what they are and where to find them: “The…

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Throwback Press Clip from 1987!

From the Tenderloin Times, October 1987 Demonic Art Possesses the 509 by Preston Brady HI Art was frightening, so scary that I some passers-by were afraid to enter, ^even in broad daylight. But three neighborhood artists, Mars, Saito, and Sumiko Saulson weren’t about to settle for simply hanging some paintings on the walls. They completely transformed the 509 Cultural Center on Ellis Street…

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Come See Me at BayCon!

Here’s my BayCon Panel Schedule: Panel TitleDateStart TimeEnd TimeLocationIt was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Birth of Frankenstein7/4/202514:45:0016:00:00SierraPerforming Speculative and Horror Poetry7/4/202516:15:0017:30:00Newport BeachQuoth the Raven: Historical and Contemporary Speculative Poetry7/4/202522:00:0023:15:00SequioaDEI and the History of…

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The Green Hornet & Kato: Detroit Noir City Kickstarter Launching Soon!

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My Schedule at Necronomicon!

Friday August 16, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Gender and Weird Fiction, Gender As Weird Fiction — Biltmore Ballroom, Graduate 17th Floor.  A discussion of the intersection of gender identity and presentation with weird fiction, film, gaming, and arts. Panelists: Juicy Garland, Khôra Martel (M), Sumiko Saulson, Trisha Wooldridge Saturday August 17, 9:30 – 10:45 AM Freaky Black Art: History and…