The Treasury of British Comics Annual is out on the 12th November, featuring MYTEK THE MIGHTY, by: 📝 Script: @suyidavies.com ✏️ Pencils: @neocomicart.bsky.social 🎨 Colours: Barbara Nosenzo 🗨️ Letters: Jonathan Stevenson Available to pre-order now: https://bit.ly/44E9Eib

Says a lot about my current state of affairs that after I spent months trying to write and send a single newsletter, I managed to still mess it up by stating the incorrect month. This week's vibe: Big Yikes. suyidavies.com/campaigns/vi...

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

My state of mind over the past few weeks:

Congratulations to Guelph MFA alum @teresempierre.bsky.social on the release of #ASTHEEARTHDREAMS (House of Anansi), out now! Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.

Wake up, babe. We ordered a second moon from Temu.

Major congrats to @vajra.me & RAKESFALL for winning the 2025 Ursula Le Guin prize. Happy days for SFF!

"Peak Day", 2025. A new employee at a fulfillment centre gets an orientation from the only other human employee in their unit. Edited by @teresempierre.bsky.social. Published by @houseofanansi.bsky.social. On shelves now. (Hopefully on literally any other shelf than the Bad River's).

Books are really, really expensive right now. A much touted SFF hardcover release this week ran me ~$50 Canadian. I don't know how that's sustainable for a readership struggling with a crisis of affordability. I know there are ~reasons~ for this, but none of them reduces the sting.

We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰 fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

Happy book publication day to @tashasuri.bsky.social and The Isle in the Silver Sea!

"Peak Day", 2025. A new employee at a fulfillment centre gets an orientation from the only other human employee in their unit. Edited by @teresempierre.bsky.social. Published by @houseofanansi.bsky.social. On shelves now. (Hopefully on literally any other shelf than the Bad River's).

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today! This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic. In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook Available wherever books are sold. #booksky #Blackbooksky

Getting to actually sit in on a panel this morning at @canconsffh.bsky.social, listening to the insightful @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social @suyidavies.com Luke R.J. Maynard and Sienna Tristen talk the intricacies of Slow Fiction. #CanCon2025

Colossal congrats to the amazing @suyidavies.com and LOST ARK DREAMING!!! And to everyone nominated and who took away an Ignyte Award today. Always an amazing ballot.

Lost Ark Dreaming was one of just two nominees I sent in for the Hugo Awards in the Best Novella category. I gave it a strong recommendation in my review in 2024: skiffyandfanty.com/blog/book-re... I'm very happy to see its excellence recognized by the Ignyte Awards!

This week: basking in welcome good news & positive outcomes; swimming in anxiety over looming demands borne of said positive outcomes; feeling a bone-deep tiredness from the bodily work of managing said anxiety. Looking forward to this weekend's Can*Con to alleviate some of that.

Jubilation!

Nobody asked me for an acceptance speech, but I have one anyway, because what the heck; because I respect the thankless work the @theignyteawards.bsky.social does each year; because I'm glad for good trouble; because I'm honoured to be honoured. suyidavies.com/updates/lost... #2025IgnyteAwards

Holy shit, what????

I'm not sure how to feel about the burgeoning cottage industry of online bookish gossip. On one hand, spilling the tea may be cathartic---in the group chat, with your pals. Whole channels dedicated to dishing out tabloid-level recaps & exclusives on authors, publishers & Booktok? Hmm. I dunno.

It's @canconsffh.bsky.social next weekend! I'm excited for: snazzy new venue; time with friends old & new; dope panels & events + fave Toronto bookstore @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social; the thrill of enthusiastic readers; copious beers; etc. Thankfully, I have a slim schedule this year. See below!

Your dragons made it to Australia and have brought this mum and her son closer together in a cooperative endeavour instead of a zero-sum game that ends in tears for one of us. We came for the pretty dragons and stayed for the challenge of reaching prosperity with our scaly friends. Kid’s review: 5⭐️

Today, I learned, to my great pleasure (and slight alarm) that when we first moved to Canada, for 2-3 years, we lived next door to Canada's foremost Indigenous children's rights advocate, Cindy Blackstock. She even gave us her patio chairs. We still have them! www.canada.ca/en/women-gen...

If you're a BIPOC writer trying to find the time to finish your book or want personalised advice for tackling your writing projects, be sure to join us for the How To Finish Your Novel workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Nov 29 & 30 or get the video after! events.humanitix.com/how-to-finis...

There's still time to register for Suyi Davies Okungowa's How to Finish Your Novel! This workshop is all about giving you the tools and techniques you need to start and, yes, FINISH that book you've been working on. Join us on Nov 29-30 or get the video after! events.humanitix.com/how-to-finis...

Day 4 of Black Spec Fic month recs! 1. THE PALM-WINE DRINKARD by Amos Tutuola www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-palm-w... 2. SON OF THE STORM by Suyi Davies Okungbowa www.barnesandnoble.com/w/son-of-the... 3. Bonus from me: THE SUN FROM BOTH SIDES clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_05_19/ Share & enjoy!

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

I loved this chat! Could've gone for hours... Thanks to Marko, Lorraine and Suyi for sharing so freely 🖤

I am constantly re-learning what it meants to be human in this world, not because I'm a good writer, but because being a writer who wants to honestly represent the spectrum of humanity in literature forces me to reckon with, and be curious about, the world--and myself--in an honest manner.

Attn: Children of the dark! Join me and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social as we kick off spooky season in style and spend Saturday (yes, this weekend) talking about MONSTERS. How do you make a compelling monster? How do you create tension and fear? And is it horror or is it actually dark fantasy? 🧵⬇️

Yes.

I'm learning, slowly, that one way to survive the noise when creating is your work, is to set aside time for creating that is not your work. Creative practice--defined as you please--that sits in the quiet, that refills the well, that holds itself to little else but you, is crucial.

For the latest issue of @sarahgailey.bsky.social's Love Letters: Reasons to Be Alive, I wrote about a specific sound, a sound I crave when I need to go outside and, literally, touch grass. A reason to be alive, indeed. stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...

Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon?? Sounds like a book written for me!

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

Celebrate every day, etc // Celebrate Black History Month by reading these 16 sci-fi and fantasy authors who've shaped the genre winteriscoming.net/celebrate-bl...

"Track is like credit: it might be better to have none at all." I need this statement tattooed to my forehead because this the closest thing to the damn truth about how perceived "bad" sales--much of which have absolutely nothing to do with your own authorial efforts--follow you forever.

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

I see a lot of artists on here questioning whether they should be promoting their work in the current political climate. The answer is always yes. ART: books, music, film, painting, sculpture - all of it - is the most accessible way to communicate complex topics, ideologies and emotions.

"Violence is not simply an act, but a myth: a story through which societies interpret force, project meaning onto it, and either mobilize or demobilize political communities around it." www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

For the latest issue of @sarahgailey.bsky.social's Love Letters: Reasons to Be Alive, I wrote about a specific sound, a sound I crave when I need to go outside and, literally, touch grass. A reason to be alive, indeed. stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...

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Introducing TriCon! ✨May 15-17, 2026 in Kjipuktuk | #Halifax. Celebrating spec fic, we couldn't be prouder to have @amalelmohtar.com @englelaird.bsky.social and @kurestinarmada.bsky.social joining us as our Guests of Honour. Earlybird tickets available now! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/tricon-the...

Simultaneously there actually is an evil master plan - today's bullshit serves a bunch of ends: misogyny, patriarchy, eugenics, ableism, classism, erosion of science - and the mouthpieces are dullards with no thoughts in their heads whatsoever, just casual violence. Extremely irritating dystopia.

Imagine the guy who sounds like the air being slowly let out of a balloon offering autism-related recommendations. Truly a mirrorworld, that.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

GenV S2 pulled in the priest from Midnight Mass (Hamish Linklater) & turned up the volume & gore. But most importantly, the way it skewers right-wing rhetoric is such a wild watch in 2025. Particularly because it predicts to a T the post-assassination response we're witnessing in real time!

For an institution supposedly invested in the work of critical thinking, there seems to be so little application of it where it matters. If you're going to give students free access to a machine that fabricates knowledge-shaped objects, aren't you naturally suggesting that knowledge doesn't matter?