Support Diverse Fiction with Hen & Chick’s Kickstarter

Truthfully, BNP is no stranger to writer Tristan J. Tarwater and their body of work, which includes comics, fiction, and other written bits (see this gem of a short story for example). Fun fact: I first stumbled upon theirwork on Twitter two years ago when they were tweeting about their Kickstarter campaign then to fund a print run of their comic book, Shamsee: A Fistful of Lunars. Since then they kept writing, creating and adding great commentary as a person of color in an industry that is sadly not always safe nor easy to navigate if you aren’t a cis-gender white male. Which brings me to the project that they are currently campaigning to have funded: A print run of their fantasy series Hen & Chick. The novel has been delivered to subscribers on a monthly basis and has been available for purchase on several different platforms. We’ve covered it here on the site before. The Hen & Chick Kickstarter campaign would supply the funds to have the chapters collected, edited, and printed in both hard and soft cover editions, along with a few other fun goodies. Hen & Chick is the story of one young woman, Azria, who has been training most of her life to be a mage with a feeling in her gut that she’s made for something more, something bigger than the island that she’s grown up on. Each month that I’ve received a new chapter I’ve found a multi-layered story: not only is it a coming-of-age tale, I’ve found it to be a story of a young woman reconciling with her mother and choo…