Spotlighting more gender-expanding genre fiction from 2022 & 2023: "Squire" (@nadiashammas.bsky.social & @saraalfageeh.bsky.social) winners of the 2023 @goldencobra.bsky.social "The Unbalancing" (@rblemberg.bsky.social) "Mage of Fools" (@genni.bsky.social) "The Way of Baa’gh" (Cheryl S. Ntumy)

@sauutiverse.bsky.social , @meerkatpress.bsky.social 💞

Edited by @genni.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social and Cheryl Ntumy. With cover insert art by @destructcode.bsky.social. @sauutiverse.bsky.social

The Sauútiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: Sauúti Terrors! Following Mothersound, return to the Sauútiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry. Jan 2026.

Flame Tree Publisher, Nick Wells, and Sauúti Collective co-editors, Eugen Bacon, Cheryl S. Ntumy and Stephen Embleton, are thrilled to share with you the cover of Sauúti Terrors. @genni.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social @nickwells451.bsky.social

THE NGA'PHANDILEH WHISPERER by @genni.bsky.social is a bold & fascinating sci-fi cosmic horror tale, setting up the Sauútiverse, rooted in African mythology, language, & culture. A review: fanfiaddict.com/review-the-n... @lordtbrffa.bsky.social @starsandsabers.bsky.social @sauutiverse.bsky.social

Great @locusmag.bsky.social of my @sauutiverse.bsky.social novella "Descent" published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com! "evocative descriptions and worldbuilding as well as some wonderful visceral writing" Awesome to see people have enjoyed the story. Read/Listen: clarkesworldmagazine.com/talabi_05_25/

Now available to watch: reading my @sauutiverse.bsky.social novella, 'Undulation', from Seattle Worldcon 2025 on Wednesday. @press-android.bsky.social vimeo.com/1109895345/3...

Check out ALL the awesome works available in The African SF Novels and Novellas Bundle from StoryBundle - Curated by our very own Sauúti, @genni.bsky.social – with a variety of pay tiers to suit. 👀 📖 📚 🔥 Including Cheryl S. Ntumy's Sauúti novella, "Songs for the Shadows"! storybundle.com/scifi

Also, I recommend covering *anything* the @sauutiverse.bsky.social is doing. It's all been so super!

If you're interested in African Fiction, please also follow the @sauutiverse.bsky.social for SO much book joy. If you're not? You really should get into it. The stories being told are as excellent as they are mind-changing. Which is precisely why they are being held back by the power structure.

😍🎁 @starsandsabers.bsky.social , @sauutiverse.bsky.social www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ng...

On Wed I’ll be reading from my 2024 Nommo winning novella, “Undulation”published in @sauutiverse.bsky.social anthology Mothersound.📖 “This a story of storytellers, of questioning the foundations of society, of mothers & their children, of finding your voice & finding the truth.” #SeattleWorldcon2025

READ SAUÚTI FLASH FICTION! 'Listen, Don’t Touch' by Cheryl S. Ntumy is now available free in @mythaxis.bsky.social Issue 42. 👀📖💫 mythaxis.co.uk/issue-42/lis...

Relatedly, will soon read/forthcoming: The Nga'phandileh Whisperer x @genni.bsky.social , another @sauutiverse.bsky.social novel(la) 👏🏿👏🏿, from @starsandsabers.bsky.social ! 💙📚

NOT voting for Wole does not preclude buying his books or supporting his work. Convergence Problems Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon Incomplete Solutions Unquiet On The Eastern Front Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art Follow and support the @sauutiverse.bsky.social

5 days! #fricanSFF @storybundle.bsky.social , @meerkatpress.bsky.social , @rdspress.bsky.social, @tachyonpub.bsky.social, @sauutiverse.bsky.social, @nalohop.bsky.social, @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @miltonmvmedia.bsky.social, @therisingtithes.bsky.social storybundle.com/scifi

Cover Reveal of the latest Sauúti work: @genni.bsky.social’s "The Nga'phandileh Whisperer" Out September 2025 from @starsandsabers.bsky.social jaylit.com/cover-reveal...

Cover Reveal of the latest Sauúti work: @genni.bsky.social’s "The Nga'phandileh Whisperer" Out September 2025 from @starsandsabers.bsky.social

Cover Illustration DETAIL @genni.bsky.social's "The Nga'phandileh Whisperer" I got to visualise an ominous moonlit scene alive with texture, colour and movement. @sauutiverse.bsky.social @starsandsabers.bsky.social More on the process: stephen.embleton.co.za/2025/05/cove... #bookcoverillustration

This was my 2nd Sauúti book - looking forward to diving into more stories from this wonderful collaborative story-universe! (p.s. I've been wondering - is there a Sauúti playlist? 👀)

💫🌟 Mothersound getting some love out there!

13 days to go! @storybundle.bsky.social @meerkatpress.bsky.social, @rdspress.bsky.social, @sauutiverse.bsky.social, @miltonmvmedia.bsky.social, @nalohop.bsky.social, @tachyonpub.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social, @therisingtithes.bsky.social storybundle.com/scifi

SAUÚTI NOVELLA: 'Descent' by Wole Talabi Take a deep dive into a new Sauúti story: Descent by @wtalabi.bsky.social available in the May 2025 edition of @clarkesworldmagazine.com clarkesworldmagazine.com/artbio_224/

Included in this fantastical lineup is the Sauúti Collective’s “Mothersound” anthology! 👀📖🔥

And yes, for those wondering, the name of one of the characters in this story is a reference to the wonderful @tananarivedue.bsky.social who kindly supported the inaugural @sauutiverse.bsky.social anthology. Just a little Tuckerization to say thank you and add your name to Sauuti lore!

Take a deep dive into a new Sauúti story out there: @wtalabi.bsky.social’s “Decent” out in Clarkesworld mag 📖👀

See you in 2026 horror fans! 🫡

Double the Terror! We’re super excited to share with you the authors and poets in Book 2 of Sauúti Terrors: The Dark Side by Flame Tree Publishing, distributed by Simon and Schuster. sauuti.com/sauuti-terro... #AfricanSFF @genni.bsky.social @xanwriter.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social

Our collection of Afro-centred Futurism essays is getting some well deserved acknowledgment out there 👏🏼🌟A finalist in the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Awards 🏆💫 including the @sauutiverse.bsky.social world building.

Sauúti Terrors is een collectie korte, speculatieve verhalen van Afrikaanse auteurs, die in twee delen zal worden uitgebracht bij Flame Tree. Kende je de Sauútiverse nog niet? Zoek dan de allereerste anthologie eens op, Mothersound. ❤️❤️

Thank you to @brittlepaper.bsky.social for supporting and spotlighting the Sauútiverse from its inception! 😱💀🪐🚀👻 READ HERE: brittlepaper.com/2025/03/flam... Sauúti Terrors will feature in Flame Tree’s Beyond and Within story collection series in two anthologies, published a year apart.

We’re super excited to share with you the authors and poets in the first anthology, Sauúti Terrors: The Dark Side by Flame Tree Publishing, distributed by Simon and Schuster. sauuti.com/sauuti-terro... @genni.bsky.social @xanwriter.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social

If you're a horror reader, I hope you know how incomprehensibly good this is going to be.

The Sauútiverse is expanding! Following our inaugural Locus and BSFA award nominated anthology Mothersound, more is coming. Bigger, bolder, better. With more stories set in this unique Afrocentric shared world. If you don't know what the Sauútiverse is, get familiar!

2) We published the first novella in the @sauutiverse.bsky.social, a thoughtful exploration of grief with a queer MC, and a foreword by @wtalabi.bsky.social. www.atthisarts.com/product/song...

It's official!! There's a new Sauúti anthology coming, in fact, it'll be a 2-book anthology about all things dark and scary in the Sauútiverse. I have a poem and a story in this anthology I cannot wait for you to read! 😍 jaylit.com/flame-tree-t... #booksky

Good news before a flight is a blessing. I hope. These are Sauúti terrors after all. Maybe a little turbulence?

The Terror is coming! We're proud to announce the upcoming publication of our 2-book anthology "Sauúti Terrors: The Dark Side" w/ Flame Tree Publishing facilitated by African Literary Agency 😱💀👻 Editors: Cheryl S. Ntumy @genni.bsky.social & @stephenembleton.bsky.social jaylit.com/flame-tree-t...

The “Mothersound” anthology is on SALE at Android Press!

It's my deepest pleasure to introduce you to Cheryl Ntumy's Ghanaian-inspired story collection Black Friday. @flametree.bsky.social, @simonschusteruk.bsky.social, @sauutiverse.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Black-...

Sauúti stories available to read online! Epistles to Our Mother' by Eugen Bacon 🪐🚀💫

I'm flying high! I mean, it's so cool to see a interview and profile of me in Selamta, the inflight magazine of Ethiopian airlines, talking about my novel SHIGIDI and African speculative fiction and recommending work by @pemiaguda.bsky.social TL Huchu, and @sauutiverse.bsky.social. Check it out!

Um... wow... just discovered I'm on the BSFA award longlist! My novella Waypoint Seven, nominated for best cover & best novella, the Afro-Centered Futurisms non-fiction antho for best collection, and my @sauutiverse.bsky.social story The Heretic Harmonic for best short story! 😱😍🤩

Super excited on so many levels about this @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special. 💞🙏🏾 @sauutiverse.bsky.social, @danhartland.bsky.social, @nalohop.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @wtalabi.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

I am very much looking forward to sitting down tonight and absorbing this article by a thoughtful critic, but for right now ... Hey! That's our @atthisarts.com @sauutiverse.bsky.social book! (!!!) ... !!! ... !!! ... 🥹 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Sauúti Collective member Eugen Bacon is contributing a weird west Sauúti story in this upcoming anthology — with a call for submissions soon. 🪐🚀💫

More Sauúti stories out there! Eugen Bacon’s “The Shadow Eater of Órino-Rin”. 🪐💫

'Undugu', on kindredship, now live. @sauutiverse.bsky.social, @bsfa.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, @wtalabi.bsky.social, @xanwriter.bsky.social, @destructcode.bsky.social vector-bsfa.com/2025/01/10/u...

Thanks to @dailymaverick.co.za for including our first anthology, “Mothersound” in this list 💫🚀👀🪐 www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...