I need a vacation for like a month. And by vacation I mean my bed and zero obligations. Maybe a claw-foot tub.

If you're attending Flights of Foundry this weekend, you can catch me at 2 events! I'll be doing a reading from The Year of Return at hour 23 (for me, that's 3pm GMT today, Saturday) and moderating a panel called Honoring Indigeneity at hour 44 (for me, that's 12pm GMT tomorrow, Sunday).

So, in all the online chatter about Netflix's Wednesday when it first came out, somehow it never crossed my timeline that Wednesday's dance uses choreography from the Tag Team music video made for the 1993 Addams Family Values film.

So how is it possible that Saara El-Arifi published 5 books in 4 years and has another on the way?? I didn’t think anyone could frighten me more than R.F. Kuang! What are they drinking?

Why would the word be vicegerent instead of viceregent? 😞

Okay so apparently I have not written any short stories since Clarion West 2023. Jezos.

You’ve got to ask yourself sometimes, “Is it contradiction or is it nuance?”

I am a bit epic fantasy trilogy-weary right now, I think.

When the book tells you about the typeface it’s set in >>>>>

I just learned the word “melismatic” & I love it!

You would think somebody rearranged my insides last night but no. Leg day at the gym did this to me.

The Sauútiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: Sauúti Terrors! Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry. Jan 2026.

LETTER I: Friendship as a creative and healing Practice open.substack.com/pub/manywa/p...

The type of content I love to see.

My last 36 hours have been… ridiculous. When Poetra Asantewa said “This country will kill you,” I felt that. This place is full of preventable disasters.

Chale, my heart has really left this city. Sorry to Accra. But Accra is not sorry to me.

It’s okay that it’s bad before it’s good, sometimes.

As for the people in the country with the green and white flag, I don’t even know what caliber of miracles is keeping anyone sane.

Saying this from a place of hormonal imbalance & an unusually bizarre work day but: everybody who is worth their salt as far as sense & competency needs to get the hell out of this county ASAP & use all that sense somewhere it’s appreciated.

Today years old when I learned that it’s “in medias res” and not “in media res.”

🎉 We are thrilled to share that Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by @wtalabi.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 Aldiss Award 🎉 buff.ly/X6MvXau

I need less.

I loved the Open Book Festival when I attended in 2018, and I hope I get the chance to attend again, one of these years.

“Seriously, dude, [LLMs] are amazing. Why don’t you use them?” “Because I am a good writer.” 💀💀💀 remythequill.com/places-from-...

2025 NOVELLA FINALISTS ~ In the Shadow of the Fall by @tobiogundiran.com ~ The Year of Return by @akotowaa.bsky.social ~ The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar ~ Lost Ark Dreaming by @suyidavies.com

Maame Blue? One of the baddest to ever do it. 🕸️ Drinking “Bad Love” like water.

Systematically checking things off your to-do list, excellent dopamine hits. 🕸️

Yep. The billionaires & corporations who've taken over power structures don't want people happy, comfortable, creative, thinking, and worry-free. They want stressed-out, struggling, unhealthy, short-lived indentured servants because that's the only environment in which *they* know how to make money.

Die ghanaische Autorin @akotowaa.bsky.social stellte am Montag ihre Novelle "Das Jahr der Rückkehr" vor. Tina Adomako führte das Gespräch mit Akotowaa und Barbara Kemmler las aus der Novelle. Es war ein toller Abend! Herzlichen Dank an Akotowaa, Tina Adomako und Barbara Kemmler.

One of the most important essays ever written, I fear. open.substack.com/pub/mytholog...

people don't see artists (musicians, writers, crafters, etc) as laborers and that's the entire problem right there people are inclined to see creativity as a hobby or downtime activity, you can't make it actual real work, what rights do you possibly want when you're being a slacker with no ambition

I am so in love with this Shigidi cover.

ICYMI: The African Book Festival this year is offering assistance to members of book clubs in Africa who wish to attend! The deadline is 31st March. I’m still so deeply honored to be the festival curator this year. 🕸️ #ABF25

Have you ever tried to do gymnastics with a festival budget? Because…

Tightrope tippin’ between jaded and unquenchable hope. 🕸️

I cannot believe I am moving through my life as though I am not on the verge of collapse every 3 business days. Just sending texts and emails like everything is fine, you know.

Okay, I think I need this book like yesterday.

Presenting the cover and TOC for FIYAH Issue No. 34! Our second themed issue of the year 🔥 🔥🔥 Cover art courtesy of Raki Sy. fiyahlitmag.com/2025/03/05/i...

I actually love this song. I like making work that I like, years after making it. (I wrote this song in 2017.) music.apple.com/gh/album/her...

I love the main character of my WIP like she’s a real person. 💜

I just wanted to grow old writing my little stories, y'all. I wish I did not feel called upon to be a menace instead.

Getting (trad) published is a function of hard work and luck, mixed in proportions that you do not control. You can control how you work and how you learn craft, but please don't obsess over that which you can't change. I'll leave you with my father's maxim: "May luck find you working."

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Incredibly excited to announce myself as the curator of the next African Book Festival in Berlin! Excited to shine a spotlight on Ghanaian authors & speculative fiction this year. Let’s go! 🇬🇭🚀🕷️ #ABF25

My first nomination for The Year of Return! 🎉🥳

Seeing children flourish in the arts makes me incredibly happy.

...and if the careers of all your enemies were nothing but upward trajectories, would you maintain your inner equilibrium or seethe?

Selah. 🕸️ And that poem at the end? Whew. Desire brought me home open.substack.com/pub/alysiani...