Interview with Afro-futurist writer Agnes Gomillion

“I wanted people to reflect on their relative state of freedom.”

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Episode 67 – Agnes Gomillion – Show Notes

• Writes something every day – maybe poetry or notes but not necessarily her ‘work-in-progress’
• Poetry, songs and lyrical writing
• Sleep is writing fuel of choice
• Afrofuturism – lift the audience from reality for the purpose of looking back and better understanding African-American culture.
• Humanity with an African-American lens.
• Writing about the underlying person brings different people together.
• Perseverance
• ‘Story’ by Robert McKee – how to create a character and how to use structure to ‘show, don’t tell’.
• Having to incorporate more structure in the writing day with children
• Jesmyn Ward – Salvage the Bones, Stephen King
• Frederick Douglass inspired The Record Keeper with his spirit of freedom. The story of how someone overcomes their fear set in a dystopia after World War 3.
• Octavia Butler comparisons
• Working on the sequel – The Seed of Cain.

“Humanity with an afro-futurist bent.”

“Slavery is more than physical chains.”

Links

• Agnes on Facebook
• Agnes on Twitter
• Agnes on Instagram

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