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!

Audiobook Narrator Spotlight: Nneka Okoye www.thevoiceagency.co.uk/artists/nnek... “Write about this. Write that you’re embracing the woman your sister loves and that your sister is bawling her eyes out.” ~Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe @wordsweaver.bsky.social iryntushabe.com

"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...

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Iryn Tushabe / @wordsweaver.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/12-o...

Celebrating resilience, joy, and unapologetic truth. In her novel Everything Is Fine Here and in her feature with Literary Hub, Iryn Tushabe reminds us that even under oppression, Black queer joy shines brightly - weaving hope, resistance, and love into every page. Order your copy today!

My good friend @annykchoi.bsky.social and I are once again running Summer Scribes! If you’re an emerging author in Canada and you have questions about the writing process, feel free to register at annykchoi.com/august-2025/. It’s free of charge. This is our sixth year running this program! 😁

@michelletea.bsky.social‬ shares her favorite queer books and why she “feeds on queer literature.”

Law enforcement officials detained New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander at an immigration court on Tuesday as he attempted to escort a man out of the building.

It’s my birthday today! I’m reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland because I’m tired of my kids heckling me about being the grown ass woman that’s never read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Review to follow.

Thank you so much @robmclennan.bsky.social for these cool questions on process and writing life!

@wordsweaver.bsky.social‬ on writing stories of African Black queer joy under oppression as an act of faith.

Omg David, thank you. I truly can’t wait to read the Butcher’s Daughter. You are changing my relationship with horror in the most delicious way!

🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 We’ve got a ton of very good book recommendations for #PrideMonth. Here are just a few of them. How many have you read? 🔗 Find more books by LGBTQ+ authors here: houseofanansi.com/collections/... #booksky #lgbtq+ #canlit #litfic

People smell really nice in Halifax. They do!

This is a good piece by @janapruden.bsky.social. Qs: 1. This officer served in Calgary prior to Regina. Did similar crimes happen in Calgary? 2. If convicted, will his sentence reflect the scope & impact of his crimes? (It's not often the case for police.) www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I’m in love with all the rhododendrons and fragrant periwinkles in Halifax. I don’t see these nearly as much in Regina.

I spotted someone in the airport reading my book. My book! It took all my capacity for self control not to go up to them and say, “I wrote that.” I considered that they might not be enjoying it, and now I’m glad I’ve got a mask on. 🙈

I’m all for automation and what not, but why does every airport toilet flush itself the moment I sit down? Can’t be good conservation-wise. But also not good for my heart. Imma have a heart attack one of these days.

There was a power outage for an hour and I used it to justify my procrastinating.

This workshop is today! Don’t miss it. Support grassroots mutual aid networks on the ground.