I’m starting a book club on my Patreon! Join with as little as 1$ to vote on our read for January. I’ve chosen Drinking From Graveyard Wells by @yvettel.bsky.social, Jackal, Jackal by @tobiogundiran.com , and Skin Thief by @sillysyntax.bsky.social : www.patreon.com/posts/vote-f...

A brilliant student is doing their craft presentation on Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” which means I get to come into class with the rock I received when I was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award so we can have an immersive reading experience of that one scene😆🪨 @sjacksonawards.bsky.social

I’ll be judging this year’s Afritondo’s Short Story Prize! The theme is “Transition.” Open to African & Black writers. Cash prize $1,000. Deadline Dec 24. Guidelines below👇🏾 www.afritondo.com/call2026

Anyone know of any good craft essays or lectures or even video breakdowns on Crafting a Space Opera, Writing a Novella,the Structure of a Novella etc have a brilliant student this semester whose working on an independent project & would love to send them some space opera & novella resources.thanks!

Podcast: Slice of SciFi 1138 Publisher @rosariumbill.bsky.social on THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN, pulling the only issue from history, and writing new stories w/ @jijennings.bsky.social , @yvettel.bsky.social, @amazingdavidbrame.bsky.social #comics #afrofuturism www.sliceofscifi.com/2025/08/23/s...

It’s Miles MorlandFoundation fellowship app season!I’ve received lots of DMs for feedback on proposals which I’m always happy to do but I’ve gotten so many now that I unfortunately have to decline the rest.This guide is on how I structured my book proposal open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

🌀APPLICATIONS OPEN🌀overjoyed to share that I will be co-facilitating a writing residency at Oxbow School of Arts for emerging BIPOC writers. Shout to @ageedubb.bsky.social & Jazz for bringing this space together. Come join us among the beaches of Lake Michigan🌊 liturgy.my.canva.site?fbclid=PAQ0x...

New Substack post on the making of the comic book Lion Man & the Afrofuturism of reaching out across time to honor an ancestor’s buried legacy. So honored to have been involved in Lion Man open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

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“Dinosaurs Once Lived Here” by @yvettel.bsky.social is a haunting reflection on the end of the world, told in seven parts by the god of drunkenness. As the earth grows mouths and swallows its cities, starting with Lagos, the rest of the world barely notices...

It’s here!!!!! Me & @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are so excited to share the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurreal Special Issue. We had such a tough time selecting the final ToC, so many brilliant pieces! Will be sharing my favorites throughout the week strangehorizons.com/wordpress/

Happening in 10 mins!

Today's the first of our annual Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy Reading Series! We're thrilled to present tonight's reading featuring several Clarion West alumni, including @yvettel.bsky.social (CW ’22), F.E. Choe (CW ’23), @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social (CW ’23), and Chris Yin (CW ’24).

On @justkeepwriting.bsky.social this week, we're talking about SINNERS! I got to hang w/ @lpkindred.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @marshallcarrjr.bsky.social, @wilralston.bsky.social, & @yvettel.bsky.social for this awesome discussion! www.justkeepwriting.org/podcast/epis...

Talking Sinners with the awesome folks @justkeepwriting.bsky.social

Honored to be a finalist for the DAG Prize for prose writers “whose work expands the possibilities for American writing.” Thank you to the DAG Foundation & congrats to all the finalists! lithub.com/here-are-the...

Last day to submit to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealist Special Issue! Poems, stories & essays welcome🖤 if you loved watching Sinners, this is the issue for you! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Happy pub day to @utushimitwandi.bsky.social poetry collection “Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies.” We eating in every genre this year!!!

If you loved the AfroSurrealism of Sinners then you better be submitting your stories, poems & essays to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealism Special Issue👀Deadline April 30. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

RED ALERT! Some of my fav creators including @rosariumbill.bsky.social and @yvettel.bsky.social are doing a crowdfund to bring back Lion Man, one of the first Black superheroes. They only have a couple hours left and they still have to raise $3400. Please help!!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

Today’s the day! Submissions for the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealism Special Issue are now open! We’re excited to read your work👇🏾 strangehorizons.moksha.io/publication/...

Only TEN days left for THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN BackerKit Campaign Join @jijennings.bsky.social @yvettel.bsky.social David Brame, Damian Duffy, and me as we bring the ALL NEGRO COMICS (1947) hero back to life! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

Came across this article today about the UK adopting the Zimbabwean mental health model of Friendship Benches. I wrote about Friendship Benches in my book Drinking from Graveyard Wells but gave it a magical realist (psychological horror?) spin haha www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Reminder the AfroSurrealism special issue opens to submissions next week on April 15! Calling all poets & prose writers, send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN brings one of America's first Black superheroes back to life! You can back the project here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

@chidomuchemwa.bsky.social is an exciting new voice in African literature! I interviewed her about application process & experiences during the MMF fellowship year open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

Thrilled & humbled that my short story “Home Became a Thing with Thorns” is featured in an anthology alongside Kafka, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez & more! Wow what wonderful company of classic & contemporary fiction www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/p...

Super honoured to have a story from Issue V in this month's Reactor Mag Short Fiction Spotlight! "Dinosaurs Once Lived Here" by @yvettel.bsky.social is a beautiful and haunting flash featuring sentient wildfires, stolen suns and other world endings ✨ Read it here: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/issue-5/

“It is this world that makes monsters of us all.” This collection of speculative short stories by author Yvette Lisa Ndlovu ( @yvettel.bsky.social ) might be my favorite of the year so far (and it’s only February)! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Calling poets, prose writers, & essayists to submit to the AfroSurrealist Special Issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Eds. @yvettel.bsky.social & Shingai Njeri Kagunda are seeking worlds that slip b/t mundane, uncanny, ghostly, & futuristic. Submissions window is April 15 to April 30.

Calling poets,prose writers & essayists to submit to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealist Special Issue!Send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic. Me & @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are co-editing strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Boosting!!!!

Drinking from Graveyard Wells is available in both hardcover & paperback! www.amazon.com/Drinking-Gra...

There is a cool writing fellowship: in exchange for a grant you write 10k words a month for 12 months. There weren’t a lot of resources/info on the app so I interviewed author Mubanga Kalimamukwento about applying to the MMF fellowship on my Substack open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

There is a cool writing fellowship: in exchange for a grant you write 10k words a month for 12 months. There weren’t a lot of resources/info on the app so I interviewed author Mubanga Kalimamukwento about applying to the MMF fellowship on my Substack open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

"...an essential contribution to current discussions of decolonization. ...Hanchey’s unique perspective, presented through engaging and accessible writing, encourages readers to begin the difficult work of actively creating a more just and equitable decolonial future." 🙏🥰🥺😭

52. Drinking from Graveyard Wells by @yvettel.bsky.social Another one I have shouted about (lareviewofbooks.org/article/goin...)! Evocative and enraging, this collection is a must-read. How Yvette uses Afrosurrealism to reflect the violent absurdism of Black women's lived realities is genius.

sending a foundation 10k words a month in exchange for a grant!thinking of documenting each month on my new Substack newsletter. will be a mix of craft essays,maybe fellow interviews, writing process etc.hoping it can be a resource for future applicants & fellows brittlepaper.com/2024/12/anno...

Boosting!!

Happy Thanksgiving! Recently watched Simone Biles documentary, there is a moment when her mom brings out her quilt and it taught me a lot about writing, dedication to one's craft, rejections, & gratitude. Here are my thoughts on what writers can learn from it :) open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

been a season of Ls & rejections😭Thanks to the Miles Morland Foundation for the support to work on a new project in a genre I’m calling Postcolonial Ngano about dictator Mugabe rising from the dead to rule forever set in a fictional country called New Zimbabwe :) congrats all!

Congratulations to @yvettel.bsky.social and Frances Ogamba for winning the Miles Morland writing scholarship to work on their #africansff stories! 🎉👏🏾 milesmorlandfoundation.com/winners-of-t...

Including a lil write up on Griots & Galaxies (and my fave picture of me and our sound engineer, Bailey) csi.asu.edu/publications...

This is genuinely the best book I read in 2024. I recommend it to everyone ad nauseam.

This book is soooo good, y'all. Get yourself a copy.

This heart-to-heart conversation took place over the span of a year. Shingai & I talked about AfroSurrealism, your younger self as a kind of ancestor/spirit guide, & navigating disillusionment with publishing & the world alonghouse.com/a-long-talk-...

Been meaning to start a Substack, the grief of this week finally made me write something, to “go to work” in troubled times as Toni Morrison calls us to. Here is my first offering: lessons from two ancestors as an antidote to despair open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

Eligibility Post 2023: Book: DRINKING FROM GRAVEYARD WELLS (AfroSurrealist/horror/ weird fiction) Short Story: HIS THING (@LightspeedMag ) Zimbabwean gothic/Ngano retelling of a girl trapped in a sentient house of horrors that is controlled by her husband www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/his-...

My Zimbabwean gothic story or what I call domestic (Afro)surrealism about a Zim girl trapped in a sentient house that is controlled by her husband is out today from @lightspeedmagazine.com New rooms appear & disappear in this house of horrors. His Thing is also a retelling of my fav Ngano Simbimbino