There’s still time! Give the gift of nightmares to someone you hate—or love! Available at all the best bookstores, online and in your very own town 👻

Thank you, @hararereview.bsky.social for including Everything is Fine Here 💕

What are the chances they will let me harvest this little lemon when it’s good and ripe?

Don’t mean to brag, but I wrote five hundred words today. Someone give me a sucker😅 #Imwriting #memoir

We’re proud to congratulate Guelph MFA candidate Madeeha Hashmi, winner of the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Fiction for her short story “Thousands of Longings Like These.” We’re thrilled to see her writing receive this well-deserved attention!

Today is the LAST DAY to shop our Black Friday Sale online! Get 30% OFF BOOKS when you use the code: BLACKFRIDAY2025 (after discounts, before tax). 📚 Shop the sale here: houseofanansi.com

Do all the couples break up by the end of season two of Nobody Wants This?

Every Saturday morning I get to spend an hour or so at the Regina Floral Conservatory taking care of plants etc. when it isn’t flowering, which is a lot of the time, one might wonder why this plant is called bird of paradise. But it’s one of my favourites here. As kids we called it the crane plant.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I have a short story, Rapture, in Grain Magazine’s Fall issue, which is also the magazine’s 200th! Mine is predictably a mother-daughter story: grainmagazine.ca

"Thousands are escaping El Fasher with nothing but the clothes on their backs — help us raise $50,000 to keep them alive." #KeepEyesOnSudan www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Tiny ornamental pineapples I’m not allowed to eat though I keep wondering how many bites I’d get out of one of these. Has anyone ever tried eating these?

"Search African Futurism authors" just popped up at the top of my Instagram app. I took the time to coin and define africanfuturism yet people can't spell it. The spelling of the term is PART of the definition! Now it's been gotten wrong so often that AI have picked that up. Mscheeew, exhausting.

Congratulations, trace press, on another beautiful book!

I got both my Covid and flu shots yesterday and am now feverish and achy and moany and groany and very grateful I was able to just walk into my pharmacy and get both shots.

Introducing more guest authors at #VWF2025! We are just ONE WEEK away from the 2025 Festival. • Iryn Tushabe @wordsweaver.bsky.social • Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social • katherena vermette • Rachel Wada • Jess Walter @jesswalter.bsky.social • Jack Wang

Zukiswa Wanner and Other Global Sumud Flotilla Activists Released www.writingafrica.com/zukiswa-wann...

On Oct 23, Ziyad Saadi (Three Parties), Iryn Tushabe (Everything Is Fine Here), and Mike Curato (Gaysians) share stories about queer BIPOC characters discovering their place. Moderated by Hudson Lin + presented w/ @queerfilmfestival.ca writersfest.bc.ca/festival-eve...

Honestly also Ugandan dads…

Virtual festival day today! My panel is at 2PM EST which is noon in SK! See you there!

Adam @vitcavage.bsky.social is moderating this FREE virtual Brooklyn Book Festival international debut panel featuring Jinwoo Park, Aurora Stewart de Peña, Iryn Tushabe, and Ella Alexander! This Sunday! 2 pm EST! brooklynbookfestival.org/event/who-ne...

I’m so pumped to participate on this @bkbookfest.bsky.social panel this Sunday alongside fellow debut novelists @jinwoo-park.com, Aurora Stewart de Peña, and Ella Alexander. Moderated by Adam Vitcavage of @debutiful.bsky.social.

Tea Gerbeza, Roza Nozari and Ziyad Saadi shortlisted for the Writers' Trust of Canada's $12,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for 2SLGBTQ+ emerging writers #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/tea-ge...

Just spotted this: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for emerging BIPOC writers in Canada: an opportunity to work with Lindsay Wong arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/CA...

Danielle Smith should try reading a book before she bans one

The 2025 Austin Clarke Prize is open for submissions! This year's prize will be judged by Iryn Tushabe (fiction) & Faith Arkorful (poetry). To learn more & submit your work: ex-puritan.ca/news/the-202...

Has anyone written about how extraordinary that the leaders of France, the UK, Italy, Germany, Finland, NATO, and the EC had to accompany the leader of Ukraine to the White House because the leader of the US is a giant manbaby?

What’s with all the lip balms that make your lips tingle? Who asked for that?

Recently for @thecontinent.org : On @wordsweaver.bsky.social's Everything is Fine Here, a tale of sisterhood, society and self in #Uganda. Out now from @houseofanansi.bsky.social!

Here’s Everything is Fine Here having a little visit with Kierkegaard. If you know you know…

I have two male relatives (and counting) who plan to become novelists after they retire and they will publish blockbusters and get movie deals etc. But they also don’t read books right now because they haven’t got the time.

Congratulations to Su Chang (author of THE IMMORTAL WOMAN), Chyana Marie Sage (author of SOFT AS BONES), and Iryn Tushabe (author of EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE) for being featured on this list! www.cbc.ca/books/canadi...

Strong new evidence suggests that liquid metal from the center of the Earth is making its way up to the planet’s surface, potentially ferried through two monster-size blobs sitting at the core-mantle boundary. @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/earths-core-...

We’re so proud to see Iryn Tushabe, Chase Joynt, Emma Knight, Liann Zhang, and Phillip Dwight Morgan featured on CBC Books’ list of 22 Canadian Writers Making Their Mark in 2025. Congratulations to each of you on this well-deserved recognition.

• Everything Is Fine Here, fiction by @wordsweaver.bsky.social • Bluff, poetry by Danez Smith • Carousel Summer, middle grade graphic novel by @kagcomix.bsky.social

Look at the size of these water lilies at @rbgkew.bsky.social

Thank you for the shoutout!

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

“According to Audre Lorde, when she finally began to speak at five years old, she only spoke in poetry.” Alexis Pauline Gumbs, @alexispauline.bsky.social, reads from her book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, at the New York Public Library in September 2024. 📚💙

Treat yourself to The Butcher’s Daughter! “A penny dreadful whose most startling turns of plot seem worthy of Charles Dickens” raves The Wall Street Journal, “and whose most unexpected shocks lie in cunning wait until the final sentences.” bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This is one of my favourite readings of Everything is Fine Here, not least because Achen is the character I most identify with, the storyteller who is an open book when her partner Mbabazi is often so closed off.

When U.S.-supported soup kitchens in Sudan were forced to close because of Trump’s funding stoppages, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

It will never get old seeing my novel on an incredible list such as this one.

CBC Books Summer Reading List — lots to choose from! www.cbc.ca/books/summer...

Anytime someone you know mentions using ChatGPT or any other genAI, say "you know, I read this article about how incredibly bad for the environment genAI is" and refer them to this article.

On the back of a recent wave of AI shilling for use in "education", here's my second, tangential essay in the "I call bullshit" series: On not screwing over learners in my writing classroom by pretending generative AI will do them more good than harm. suyidavies.com/essays/i-cal...