Today August 15th is the last day to cast your vote for the Ignyte Awards! Go here to vote: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote

Officially ON VACATION! I'll be offline/off phone completely! If you miss me, check out my #ondemand #webinars SeraRivers.com/shop. In the meantime, I'll be reading for pleasure like a fiend! @v-e-tirado.com #TrishaTobias @literarydesiree.bsky.social @sj-fennell.bsky.social @novarensuma.bsky.social

Finally reading @literarydesiree.bsky.social & @sj-fennell.bsky.social anthology The Black Girl Survives In This One. Really good! @tananarivedue.bsky.social

Feeling so incredibly honored + grateful that THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE won the Locus Award for best anthology. Thank you to @locusmag.bsky.social + the voters! To all our readers who believed in this project! @sj-fennell.bsky.social + I appreciate you so much! locusmag.com/2025/06/2025...

Are you ready for the Locus Awards! Streaming starts at 5:45pm Pacific, awards start at 6:00pm Pacific! www.youtube.com/live... Join the celebration! #SFF #Fantasy #books #Booksky

Happiest of paperback pub days to THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE edited by @literarydesiree.bsky.social and @sj-fennell.bsky.social! @flatironbooks.bsky.social

2025 Ignyte Awards Finalists locusmag.com/2025/06...

It's a big day for SFF Awards! The Ignyte Awards have announced their 2025 finalists. Congratulations!! reactormag.com/2025-ignyte-...

So grateful to see THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE as a finalist for Outstanding Anthology in the amazing #IgnyteAwards! Thank you to our readers, those who nominated this book, and all who have supported it! And special shoutout to the amazing list of nominees we're so proud to be part of!

So excited to have THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE as a finalist for an Ignyte Award!

So grateful to be chosen to work with mentor ‪@nellcrossbeckerman.bsky.social‬ on refining my dream PB project. This is a new genre for me, and I'm excited to learn + grow through this awesome program. Thank you to the PBRisingStars team for all the work you do to foster new stories & new writers!

Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social for including THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE in your Sinners rec list!

we *literally just now* got a huge shipment of rad shit in at the shop.. just in time for indie bookstore uhhh, evening!

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We’re thrilled that THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE is up for BEST ANTHOLOGY in this year’s LOCUS AWARDS. We’re so proud of this book, so if you have a chance to cast a vote for us (or any of your favorites from this past year), please do! Vote here: poll.voting.locusmag.com

Excited to be teaching a speculative fiction writing workshop for BIPOC writers with Third Space by RWW (Roots. Wounds. Words) this spring! For more info + to register as a participant, go here: tinyurl.com/3wr5bwxy

Check out a few forthcoming works from Black authors -- She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor (sci-fantasy), Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles (horror), and The Devil Three Times by Rickey Fayne (supernatural)! Look out for these wherever you buy your books!

This short by one of the authors of the anthology was very spooky! I went ahead and added their other anthology to by tbr! @literarydesiree.bsky.social #theblackgirlsurvivesinthisone #booksky #diversebooksky

Happy World Read Aloud Day!   Writing can be a solitary process, but a writers' group valuing idea exchanges and viewpoints helped Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Read #NEHgov funded book “The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture”:   ow.ly/NAI350UR7Gm

Looking for something amazing to support this Black Futures Month? Check out and support the Prosper with Dragons kickstarter! Here more from @nickydrayden.bsky.social in her video below! And shoutout to the awesome @suyidavies.com 🐉 🖤

Excited that THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE is on the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2024 (along with many other amazing collections)! Thank you all for reading!

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

So glad you enjoyed it! 💜

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

I guess I'm trying this again. Hi Bluesky.