Made a vulnerable 2025 recap post on instagram 🥹❤️ www.instagram.com/p/DS7Ko04iHA...

Merry Christmas, everyone 🎄🎁❤️

A list of award-eligible gems from @plangdineple.bsky.social published this year, and where to find them. If you’ve enjoyed any of these stories and are in a position to nominate, we’d appreciate your vote. Links in thread. #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙

We're excited to announce a book deal with @naomieselojor.bsky.social for her novella THE CITY OF FACTORIES, which explores the effects of colonialism on Nigeria through a steampunk setting and fractured father/son relationship. Read more: links.ruadanbooks.com/eselojor #BookSky

My first book deal, guys!🥹❤️❤️❤️❤️. Thank you to everyone who has read and critiqued over the years. And thank you to @ruadanbooks for giving my book a home. Coming soon in 2026 You can read the full gist here. ruadanbooks.com/author-naomi...

2026-2027 is shaping up to be quite a time 🥹🙆🏻‍♀️🤍🙇🏻‍♀️ 📚

Hi everyone. Happy to say that I just signed my first book deal. More details coming soon ☺️❤️. I hope to be active on here as much as I can.

Hi everyone. Happy to say that I just signed my first book deal. More details coming soon ☺️❤️. I hope to be active on here as much as I can.

Want to explore Africanfuturism in your writing? 🌌 Join @naomieselojor.bsky.social as she leads a workshop on ‘Creating Africanfuturist worlds: Blending Tradition, Innovation and Imagination.’ 🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 6.30pm 📍Online 🎟️£8 (concs available)- book via link in bio 🔗 Access available.

I’ll be teaching a workshop guys! Please like and share. ❤️

Later at 5:30-6:30 PM, @naomieselojor.bsky.social will moderate "SFF’s Role in Revolution on the African Continent". With panellists @gabbyharry.bsky.social, @byanuoluwangozi.bsky.social, @nkereuwxm.bsky.social, @africansffhype.bsky.social and Khaya Maseko. #seattleworldcon2025

Such a nice surprise to find my story "Full, Empty Houses" on this list! Thanks @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social ! Read the story at @kaleidotrope.bsky.social kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

A great evening chatting with @aijiang.bsky.social about her new novella A PALACE NEAR THE WIND at Waterstones Covent Garden. Thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social and everyone who came out to listen to us and have books signed!

Please grab a copy!

You guyssss! I spent the entire day with my fren today 😍🥹❤️ @aijiang.bsky.social If you’re coming to water stones this evening to see Ai, please say hi. 👀

Happy Mother’s Day! 💓

Thanks so much for reading and reviewing. This story is very dear to me🥹❤️

Congratulations!!! @plangdineple.bsky.social So proud of you ❤️❤️❤️

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

Thank you so much for reading and sharing 🙏

Honored and excited to be a recipient of the SAFTA Summer 2025 Residency Fellowship and Grant✨

My very short story about a fleet of abandoned starships, Those Who Seek To Embrace The Sun, is out now in Lightspeed @lightspeedmagazine.com Read or listen! Thanks! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thos...

"Bernardo's timely tale is an affecting and thought-provoking science fictional allegory about the current state of humanity itself, and how dire straits lead us to extremes of both cruelty and compassion." — @victormanibo.com about my upcoming novella! Preorders are open! 🚀💀💰💉

Writers! Spread the word! Uncanny Magazine will be open for Flash Fiction submissions (750-1500 words) from March 24-28. www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

Hey Worldconners, 5 days left to nominate for the Hugos. Nominate what you love y'all! As I finalize my own nominees, here's a reminder than I have a few things eligible, special shout out to my BSFA & Locus listed novelette "Encore", which has already been picked for a "best of the year" anthology.

Y’all should read this. It’s one of the most beautiful stories I’ve ever read.

Thank you so much. I’m glad you liked it ❤️❤️❤️

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

I know there is a lot going on but if you want to hear me read a scene from my novel SHIGIDI in which a nightmare god wakes up with a divine hangover, check it out. And then get the book, its pretty fun, I've been told. 😐 astrapublishinghouse.com/product/shig...

You can now read our story, “Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows,” in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. This story navigates, in many ways, the Fattening Room tradition. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/into...

Voting for @apexmag.bsky.social's Readers' Choice Awards is open! My story "Complete Log of Week 893819 - Dana's Story" about a group of children interacting with weird animals in a mysterious orphanage in space, is eligible! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hexagon has been my most incredible creative venture thus far, but it’s time to say goodbye (for now). Read the full announcement of Hexagon’s hiatus on our website or Patreon. 🧡

This utterly brilliant story was written by @goosemixtapes.bsky.social when we were at Clarion West last fall, and it has remained with me ever since. And it has a dog too!🐕 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Thought I posted this already but I forgot (a lot happening haha). Thank you to every @bsfa.bsky.social member that nominated my work to the longlist (5 times!) and here's hoping some of them make it to the shortlist. Especially my collection CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS which is dear to my heart.

Pre-orders for my dark space opera DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE are OPEN!!! 💀🌌 If you want to embark on a doomed spaceship and hope it arrives safely on Earth, then you might dig my novella. Publication by Dark Matter Ink. Any boost is appreciated!💙 darkmattermagazine.shop/products/dis...

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WTBAP? THE ANTHOLOGY ISSUE V is finally out! Edited by @dontcallmeliv.bsky.social & @somtoihezue.bsky.social, available on the Shilitza website, Kobo, Amazon, and wherever books are sold. 16 hauntingly beautiful stories from all over Africa and the African diaspora ✨ www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/...

i’m so so happy and grateful to see that my story “faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye” published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social made the @bsfa.bsky.social longlist for best short fiction! 🥺

Had my first short story published two days ago. 🥹 There’s magic, there are drug addict elves and a cruel babalawo (witch doctor) who serves a forbidden god. There is a strange hungry market and a vengeful hunter. There is injustice and the loss of a child. willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/issue-5/

And the reviews are coming in! A brilliant and in-depth review of Will This Be A Problem (@willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social) The Anthology. Many thanks to @africansffhype.bsky.social and the wonderful people at the Journal of African Youth Literature. www.jaylit.com/a-review-of-...

thrilled to find not only Dragonfly but also my short story "One Becomes Two" published by @augursociety.bsky.social on the Recommended Reading List. joining so many incredible authors! 🥳 every single year i'm overjoyed by how much amazing SFF got pubbed!

Love this series. Y’all should definitely check it out!

HAPPY PUB DAY TO US🥳🥳🥳 Will This Be A Problem (@willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social): The Anthology is out! Edited by Olivia Kidula and yours truly, and available on Amazon, Kobo & wherever books are sold!!! These brilliant stories will stay with me—and you—forever✨ Link below👇🏽 a.co/d/hi6T45a

Tons of new people still flooding BlueSky every day. Here’s a great starter pack of Hexagon contributors to get you started with some fantastic follows in the spec-fic community. 🧡

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs you to tell your stories.

Take advantage of this if you can! Osahon's feedback led to me getting accepted into @kaleidotrope.bsky.social, which was on my wishlist last year. That can be you too 😁

A reminder that we are only open to submissions from authors we have previously published in Hexagon or MYRIAD! 🧡 Open until January 15. Email submissions directly to [email protected].

Thank you for 700 followers! 🙏🥹❤️🎉. I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday.

2024 Wrapped Writers Edition: •Won the Wilson Okereke prize for short fiction •Was a finalist for the Nommo awards. •Got into Milford, my first writing conference and first in-person workshop in North Wales.