Celebrating the incredible work of these Black authors all #BlackHistoryMonth long. Which of these books are on your TBR list? 🔗 Learn more about these books on HouseofAnansi.com#BlackHistoryMonth#BookSky #BlackBookSky

The Sameer Project has had to cut their water distributions by 50% due to a drop in donations. Can you spare $10 or $20 today? chuffed.org/project/help...

It’s always property over people. Kick a car and break a light? You deserve to die.

The Canadian made mystery thriller Wayward is an okay show, I guess. The best part is how Mae Martin keeps taking off their shirt for no apparent reason sometimes, and I’m here for that. Oh there the shirt goes!

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Environmental journalist Trina Moyles recalls the upwelling of wonder she felt when she first touched a bear cub as a child. Years later, face-to-face with a much bigger bear in the Alberta bush, that wonder turned into a primal battle over space: https://ow.ly/NNhY50XYhyP

For the first time since I started volunteering at my local floral conservatory, I’ve brought a plant home to try and rehabilitate. I have a soft spot for cyclamens and this one has a healthy tuber so fingers crossed.

Thank you for that wonderful lecture you just delivered to my MFA program, @alexanderchee.bsky.social. How to be a writer in this world? What to make, how to make.

Every time I update my computer or phone seems like a trick for Apple to force AI on me. All these “smart” things I then have to spend forever figuring out how to deactivate. Let me live!

Enuka Okuma joins my list of favourite actresses after the birth scene in #ThePitt.

Listening to the King’s MFA fiction cohort read from their works in progress is the perfect antidote to lingering pain from my dentist appointment earlier in the day. Storytelling rocks!

Starred reviews for Black Bear in @readbookpage.bsky.social and @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Writer Alice Cary says, “Black Bear is reminiscent of the very best nature writing, belonging on the shelf with Raising Hare, H Is for Hawk and Late Migrations.” What a surreal week! Thank you for reading.

So thrilled and a tad nervous! Congratulations to all the writers on the list!

Study shows draining prairie wetlands is increasing Canada’s carbon footprint www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A small but concrete task for today: Sameer Project told us on 12/25 that it costs $38 for 1 blanket, which can help keep a family that is in their 3rd winter in genocide (😢) warm. Can anyone join us today in donating the cost of one blanket to Sameer? Can you get 1 other person to join you?

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-...