Chance Calloway

ALLi Author Member

Location: United States of America (the)

Genres: Commercial Fiction, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, New Adult, Young Adult (YA), General Fiction, Multimedia, Humour, Romance, Children's general

Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Speaking Engagement/Lecture

Chance Sion-Raize Calloway is the author of several novels and book series including The Charismatic Chronicles, The Never Novellas, and The Gay Man’s Guide to Heterosexual Weddings. Calloway founded CSRC Storytelling for printed media in 2012 with a passion for creating and promoting stories that change how people see themselves and the world around them
In 2015, Calloway created the digital series Pretty Dudes, serving as showrunner and director for the LGBTQIA+ dramedy. Calloway and the series have picked up numerous awards, including Show of the Year at the 2017 National Youth Pride Services Awards and Best Music Video for the “Pretty Dudes Anthem” at the 2018 Asians on Film Festival, which Calloway co-directed with Gerry Maravilla. Pretty Dudes is currently available through Stoopid Ambitious, a streaming service and banner Calloway created as a hub for innovative and inclusive works by independent filmmakers with voices overdue for amplification.
All of Calloway’s most recent projects have been produced during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, in spite of his ongoing struggles with chronic homelessness. In the face of personal, global and systemic challenges, Calloway continues to focus his efforts on advocacy and change through art.

Chance Calloway's books

Peculiar, INC

After graduating high school in the small town of Brunswick, Georgia, Kimberly Hamilton prays that her future in Atlanta will bring something interesting and not-so-perfect. Moments after graduation, Kim finds herself at the crossroads of life and eternity. But accepting God's offer to continue her life on earth leaves her body capable of things she's only seen in movies. Discovering several similarly powered individuals, some mysterious and some malevolent, Kim and her friends set out, from the shores of the Atlantic to the skies above Annapolis, to discover what it means to be blessed, cursed, or maybe just…peculiar.

Peculiar, INC: The Super(Natural) Edition

After graduating high school in the small town of Brunswick, Georgia, Kimberly Hamilton prays that her future in Atlanta will bring something interesting and not-so-perfect. Moments after graduation, Kim finds herself at the crossroads of life and eternity. But accepting God's offer to continue her life on earth leaves her body capable of things she's only seen in movies. Discovering several similarly powered individuals, some mysterious and some malevolent, Kim and her friends set out, from the shores of the Atlantic to the skies above Annapolis, to discover what it means to be blessed, cursed, or maybe just…peculiar.

Adventures of a Laguna Witch, The

When Glam comes into possession of a dead witch's spellbook, she thinks a touch of enchantment is just what she needs to change her fortune. In this raunchy, supernatural comedy, follow Glam and her friends as they become embroiled in witch politics, mummy sex ed., and elven erotica. The Adventures of a Laguna Witch is pure magic in its impurest form.

Lost: A Never Novella

In this vibrant new story from C.S.R. Calloway, a newborn baby is taken by a Great Storm from his home in the Philippines to the northern shores of Neverland, where he is raised alongside the seven Sandcastle princes by their mother, the King.
When the unthinkable occurs, sending the young boy out into a world full of Never wolves and fairies, he faces all-new challenges when the impish Peter Pan makes a celebrated return to the island.
Lost follows one brave young warrior without a home, learning to make a place for himself in a fantastical and unforgiving world.

Pretty Dudes: The Novel

Based on the award-winning digital series—meet the ‘cosmetic genetics’: friends, lovers, and situational enemies who form a vibrant, unexpected harmony of comedy, romance, and drama.

Hector “Zario” del Rosario is excited to begin life as an openly gay man in Los Angeles, but he can’t keep his straight housemates out of his love life. After an intense breakup, his college friend Alexander organizes a high-stakes bet to find new romantic prospects for Zario.

Ellington Gomez has his hands full, usually with an assortment of beautiful women, but when he receives an SOS from his gay younger brother Marshall, it becomes clear that a little change might be the best thing for both of them.

Jericho “Jay” Kim doesn’t like staying in the same place long enough for the smell to stick, so when he moves in with struggling actor Sunji Spencer, he figures eight months, twelve tops. Only when Zario moves in does Jay manage to find an increasing amount of reasons to stay.

Pretty Dudes: The Novel brings Zario and his friends into a rich, textured new medium, combining their kaleidoscopic experiences into bold, ever-changing patterns of humor, heartbreak, and hope.

Shadows Uplifted Volume I: Black Women Authors of 19th Century American Fiction

"A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham—edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.

Shadows Uplifted collects and celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of these often unsung Black female writers, meticulously preserving their words while making them newly accessible to modern readers of all genders and backgrounds.

Collected here for the first time in a single volume are three fiction novels:
Frances E. W. Harper’s 1892 novel Iola Leroy, an examination of multiracial identity within one family during and after the Civil War.
Julia C. Collins’s 1865 novel The Curse of Caste, written the very year the Civil War ended and chronicling the lives of a mother and her daughter during the antebellum age.
A.E. Johnson's 1894 novel The Hazeley Family, telling the story of Flora Hazeley and the impact of her moral standings.

Shadows Uplifted Volume II: Black Women Authors of 19th Century American Personal Narratives & Autobiographies

"A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham—edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.

Shadows Uplifted collects and celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of these often unsung Black female writers, meticulously preserving their words while making them newly accessible to modern readers of all genders and backgrounds.

Collected here for the first time in a single volume are three personal narratives:
Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, Harriet E. Wilson’s 1859 critical look at Black life in the northern states and long considered to be the first novel published by a Black American woman.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself, Harriet Jacobs’s 1861 stark account of the journey she took to free herself and her children from enslaved life.
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House, Elizabeth Keckley’s 1868 autobiography detailing her life as a dressmaker for First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.

“Let us continue to uplift such shadows in our history, allowing them their corporeal bodies, flesh, blood, and melanated skin. Let us continue to uplift Black women: supporting and honoring their stories, their art, and their existence.” - C.S.R. Calloway

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