HAPPY NEW YEAR! Authors and poets, submissions for our second themed issue are OPEN 🎉🎉🎉 Details here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

If you’ve been contemplating writing a story for our Anthology Call, you only have 3 days left to submit! A perfect way to close out your year is with Aroko. Happy Writing🖤. www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol... 📍Deadline Wednesday, December 31, 2025 📨: Submit to [email protected]

Perfect for a frosty day, Counting To A Hundred by @aishatuado.bsky.social is full of wintery magic and grief "The front door yawns wide; winter's teeth bared. Inside, loneliness prowls our home, a beast with misty bayou breath." www.heartlines-spec.com/counting-to-...

Make it an extra special Solstice by catching up on Sunday reads! 3 pieces from Issue 9 became free-to-read this week: Counting To A Hundred by @aishatuado.bsky.social I Consult a Spiritualist by @mernadyerskinner.bsky.social See You After Dark (When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder) by Laura DeHaan

Dr. @chesyaburke.bsky.social and I are editing an anthology surveying the evolution of Black literary horror. Tentatively titled Black Horror, Then & Next: We Have Always Dreamed in Darkness (FlameTree Press), here are the guidelines… blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Along with making art and designing for clients with @aroko.bsky.social, a huge part of my practice is teaching as a means to serve community. I reflected on my two years building a community and home in Oakland. www.aroko.world/two-years-of...

Read @kristenstain.bsky.social's first piece for us on their journey building a ceramics class for and by Black folks.

We kicked off our first monthly roundtable with our hot take on design, talking about the chasm between craft and performance. Tap in to read the full conversation here: www.aroko.world/monthly-roun...

Take a behind-the-scenes look at our design process and the lessons that shaped how we work today. Read our member interview with @mclc.bsky.social and @nellynkettles.bsky.social, introducing you to our Design department. www.aroko.world/creative-gro...

@aishatuado.bsky.social's new story is so, so haunting and beautiful!! An ethereal must read. "That's when I see them, children thin as morning's first ice, skin a translucent membrane with blue veins tracing frozen creek beds beneath." www.heartlines-spec.com/counting-to-... @heartlines-spec.com

Announcing our new TOC + cover art! Stories from Karama Neal, Timothy Ngome, Irene W Collins, Jordan Alexander, & Ella N'Diaye—poetry by Donnie Moreland, upfromsumdirt, & Aishatu Ado. Kymani Gayle with the 🔥🔥🔥 art! Behold our latest coming your way in mid January: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/12/15/f...

Loving the cover for our co-editor @pcverrone.com’s debut novel! 😍

Thrilled to be a 3rd place winner of the CRAFT Literary First Chapters Contest! The opening pages of my speculative horror novel + craft essay are now live.

A chilling story of magic, tradition, and power. A curse might bring some people to their knees, but fate had other plans for the three women in the story. @aishatuado.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

Wonderful story 👇

Yay! My story “Triple Body Walking” has won the 2025 @fracturedlit.bsky.social Ghost, Fable, and Fairy Tales Prize. 🖤

OUT TODAY! Thrilled to see my story "Counting to a Hundred" in the latest issue 9 of @heartlines-spec.com 🥹

My award eligibility post this year is very short and bitter. The Dragon, my second horror story, combines the folklore of my family’s village and the Nakba story of what happened to my family. It is available in Palestine -1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba. commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online. 🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines 🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

Join The Folklore Story Lab Part 2: (r)EVOLUTION (Diaspora & Lineage) with @aishatuado.bsky.social — an online writing session exploring African and diasporic folklore. 📅 Nov 22, 10 AM EST / 9 AM CST 🔗 Register (Free): bit.ly/wwfotg

Join The Folklore Story Lab: ROOTS (Africa) with @aishatuado.bsky.social — a generative writing session exploring African and diasporic folklore. 📅 Nov 15, 10 AM EST / 9 AM CST 🔗 Register (Free): us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Celebrating joy, creativity and cultural magic as sisters Mahie & Meron weave Ethiopian heritage into Halloween spellcraft— the creative forces behind Enday, a vibrant fashion brand. #HabeshaMagic www.aroko.world/habesha-magic/

What haunts us from childhood? Find out in my Halloween flash fiction www.aroko.world/ninja-turtle...

Halloween nostalgia with a twist, read @aishatuado.bsky.social's flash fiction now live at ÀROKÒ.WORLD www.aroko.world/ninja-turtle...

Love cinema that haunts and expands what Black stories can be? Read @aishatuado.bsky.social's latest piece on Eve’s Bayou. www.aroko.world/messy-by-des...

Campaign started for @roguestarmag.bsky.social. If we meet our $1200 goal, we'll be able to pay authors SFWA pro rates for fiction (one previously unpublished story quarterly) starting January 2026. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... (re-posted w/corrected link) #signalboost #writers #authors

We built intentional culture that has lasting impact. Read our new article on how we work and the work we’ve done. www.aroko.world/we-build-cul...

An ode to @aishatuado.bsky.social new article “Play is Medicine” what was games kept you up late at night? Drop them in the comments🎮

“We weren’t just playing; we were learning…how to laugh at failure and try again. What I didn’t know then is what researchers would confirm years later: those play sessions were not just fun. They were literally reshaping our brains” — Read the full article here. www.aroko.world/play-is-medi...

THE COOKOUT IS COMING! 👽🧚🏾‍♂️🥘 Our Kickstarter will be launching very soon! In the meantime, please sign up & be the first to know when we go live. It won’t happen without your help, so please share & keep watching this space! @press-android.bsky.social #Blacksky #SFF www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...

Don't miss this opportunity to work with Aishatu and encounter her brilliance!

Working with @aishatuado.bsky.social will be such a treat! She is such a talent. Do submit!

📢 Call for Submissions! I'm excited to share that I'm curating an Anthology with @aroko.bsky.social We are inviting writers from Africa & the Diaspora to send us stories that (re)imagine folklore, myths, and legends. 🗓️Deadline Dec 31 2025. ➡️More info at: www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...

📢 Call for Submissions! Àrokò invites writers from Africa & the diaspora to send us stories that reimagine folklore, myth, and legend. Deadline Dec 31 2025. www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...

@zariah-cam.bsky.social takes us through another money saving library experience that’s sure to put some money back in your pockets www.aroko.world/using-a-libr...

Stay cozy in style this fall with Aroko www.aroko.coop/product/supp...

Please back this new magazine! So proud of my friends 🙌🏾 Can't wait for this to launch ✨

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Our portfolio is up to date with new work from 2025. If you are looking for help with your brand, website, magazine, or more, hit us up! www.aroko.coop/work

145,000 young Nepalis turned Discord into a digital parliament and elected their country's first woman interim prime minister. Design reflects the values of those who wield it, not those who built it. www.aroko.world/discord-deci...

They called it beautiful, this bill that turns cupboards into graveyards and hospitals into ghosts. "Alaska's tundra cracks beneath the weight of drills that puncture permafrost—each wellhead a monument to extinction's acceleration." Read the full poem here: www.aroko.world/matricide/

Our first collection of products is available now! Check out more of the details on each piece on our aroko.world, and place your order on aroko.coop/shop.

Our first interview features Van Newman, the multi-talented writer, designer, and community builder who planted the seed that bloomed into Àrokò Cooperative.

@shakeil.bsky.social goes in on the best, worst, and weirdest album covers of the month

@zariah-cam.bsky.social is your guide for making the most out of your local library.

1/10 🚨 INTERACTIVE SF STORY: MEMORY FRAGMENTS 🚨 🧠 2187: Trillion neural implants crashed. 🕵️‍♀️ You: Memory Archaeologist excavating final moments Inspired by Carlos Hernandez, @csecooney.bsky.social @clarionwest.bsky.social workshop session ❤️ #Blacksky #WritingCommunity #Booksky 🎮 PLAY GAME ⬇️

Come join us with @radixcoop.bsky.social and many more amazing NYC organizations on July 26th at Another World in Brooklyn. We'll be there with all kinds of goodies, and will be answering questions about how to set up and run a cooperative. We hope to see you there!

Folks, can we please get this funded! This is a VERY reasonable goal for a whole anthology of fantasy comics by Black women, and LOOK HOW COOL IT IS.

🚀 TWO of my stories made it into the Afrofuturism Short Stories anthology 🥹 co-edited by Isis Asare! With foreword by @nisishawl.bsky.social. Out October 2025✨ #Blacksky #WritersOfBluesky #WritingCommunity #ShortStory #Blacksky #Afrofuturism #Anthology