--- title: First Peoples Shared Stories | Successful Submissions & Selected Stories description: "We’re pleased to announce the authors included in our upcoming anthology: First Peoples Shared Stories!" image: https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/hubfs/First%20Peoples%20Social%20post%20Hubspot%20header%2004.jpg --- - [Home](https://info.flametreepublishing.com/blog) | - [ Contact & About Us](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/contact-us) T H E   F L A M E   T R E E   B L O G ![Beautiful books, Timeless storytelling (4)](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Beautiful%20books%2c%20Timeless%20storytelling%20(4).png?width=3041&height=620&name=Beautiful%20books%2c%20Timeless%20storytelling%20(4).png)   # Flame Tree Fiction # First Peoples Shared Stories | Successful Submissions & Selected Stories Posted by [Catherine Taylor](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/author/catherine-taylor) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) We’re pleased to announce the authors included in our upcoming anthology: First Peoples Shared Stories! Earlier this year, we opened for submissions on this theme (whether speculative, fantastic, sacred or folkloric) from writers with appropriate heritage in order to widen the door to creativity, to celebrate the international diversity of indigenous backgrounds and storytelling cultures. The book, due to be published in early October 2022 (UK) and mid-November 2022 (North America), combines new and contemporary stories with classic and ancient origin stories and oral traditions from around the world, to bring new perspectives and attention to the legacy of Indigenous Peoples, First Peoples. Award-winning Māori novelist, short story writer, essayist, and editor Paula Morris provides the foreword, alongside an introduction by Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn, author of *Turtle Island: The Story of North America's **First People* and more. With invaluable editorial support from professor and Indigenous literature specialist Marc André Fortin, we’re delighted to have chosen the stories below for inclusion: ![First Peoples Social post Hubspot header 04](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/hs-fs/hubfs/First%20Peoples%20Social%20post%20Hubspot%20header%2004.jpg?width=610&name=First%20Peoples%20Social%20post%20Hubspot%20header%2004.jpg) An Unwanted Two-Spirit, and The Man Who Lost Himself by [Chukwu Sunday Abel](https://twitter.com/Sunabel73) Anansi, the World, and the Stories by [Laura Barker](https://twitter.com/LauraHannahBar) Potter’s Field by [Shelley Burne-Field](https://authory.com/ShelleyBurneField) Sunset on Mars by [Gina Cole](https://twitter.com/GinaColeWriter) Finding Home by [Kylie Fennell](http://kyliefennell.com) Sinking Cities by [Sophie Garcia](http://sophiegarcia.org/) Grass Dancer by [Owl Goingback](https://www.owlgoingback.com/) Imitate by [Shane Hawk](http://shanehawk.com) *Whole* by [Somto Ihezue](https://twitter.com/somto_Ihezue) *Little Pieces of Flint* by [D.K. Lawhorn](http://dklawhorn.com) *The Call of Ancestors*, and *Yeredzo River* by [Tsitsi Mapepa](https://www.highspotlit.com/the-authors?lightbox=dataItem-kq8pw6je) Buuts’ Ka Luuk’ by [Arnoldo Millán Zubia](https://twitter.com/ArnoMillZ) *Red Christmas*, and *Three Princesses* by [Paula Morris](https://www.paula-morris.com/) A Mother's Lament, and Biter’s Tale by [Weyodi OldBear](http://weyodi.com) A Mayan Story by [Claudia Recinos Seldeen](http://recinosseldeen.com) When Angels Come Knocking by [Drew Hayden Taylor](http://drewhaydentaylor.com) *Beaver’s Tail*, and *The Three Sisters*, and *Woodchuck Winter* by [Brigit Truex](http://booksandsuchbybrigittruex.wordpress.com) *Mexpakinte, the Shadow Woman* by [Pedro Vázquez Luna](https://www.mayavinic.com/) (told by [David J. Schmidt](http://www.HolyGhostStories.com)) Glade of the Uncles by [Jay Hansford C. Vest](https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncp/clist.aspx?id=4856) *Snow Blindness* by [Laika Wallace](https://laikacore.neocities.org/) These contemporary authors will appear alongside classic stories transcribed from oral traditions belonging to such peoples and cultures as Yana, Zuni, Blackfeet, Pima, Chippewa, Osage (Native American); Filipino; Tongan; Hawaiian; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander; Māori; Aztec, Maya, Mexican; Incan, Peruvian; Ugandan; Zanzibari; Tanzanian; Nigerian; Basotho; Ndau (Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi); Hausa (southern Niger and northern Nigeria); Manyema (Congo); Swahili (east Africa); Ekoi (Nigeria and Cameroon); Banyarwanda (Rwanda); and Zaramo, Chaga (Tanzania). Though we cannot hope to cover everywhere, we hope it offers a glimpse of the wealth – and importance – of storytelling heritage around the world. This book will be available to buy later this year via book stores, Amazon, and our website page for [First Peoples Shared Stories](https://www.flametreepublishing.com/first-peoples-shared-stories-isbn-9781839649424.html)! • Browse the full series of anthologies [here](https://www.flametreepublishing.com/gothic-fantasy-book-series-list.html). • Our most recent anthology publications are Christmas Gothic and Compelling Science Fiction: see the list of authors for those [here](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/gothic-fantasy-successful-submissions-christmas-gothic) and [here](https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/gothic-fantasy-successful-submissions-compelling-sciencefiction-0). • Watch out for future submission calls via our [newsletter](https://www.flametreepress.com/reader-exclusives/), [website](https://www.flametreepublishing.com/) and social media pages ([Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/flametreepress/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/flametreepress)) – including Immigrant Sci-Fi. 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