Day 22 of Book Advent 📚 Nine Bar Blues by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Golden mermaids, curse-bound sisterhoods, poisoned landscapes & an otherworldly earth. Evocative, inventive & contemporary tales that haunt, uplift, & ascend, while moving with the rhythm of cultural change.

Science fiction readers, rejoice —F&SF, Analog, and Asimov’s are now available on Kindle Unlimited! Check out all of our subscription options: asimovs.com/product/the-...

Readers should check out Year's Best Death Stories, 2024, (not just because one of my stories is included). It's a good anthology edited by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social&Zines cost<than Corporate-run cable. psychopomp.com/product/afte... Free if you join the Patreon www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

I’m told by MRM that print copies of the latest issue are making their journey to readers from the warehouse! The issues of the other Must Read magazines are on their way as well. I’m looking forward to receiving my desk copies! Here are links: weightlessbooks.com/the-magazine... www.fandsf.com

THRILLED to share this wonderful review of THE MAP OF LOST PLACES from Locus Magazine! Congratulations to all our incredible authors!

who here is hyped for this? amazing cover, amazing stories the best death stories 2024, curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social available soon! available for FREE if you're a The Deadlands Patron 👀🖤💀 join here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...

you can also help us by simply getting your own, glorious, fungi-bedazzled FERRYMAN'S COIN psychopomp.com/product/ferr... OR help us all year and join our PATREON www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla... AND all paid patrons will receive this year's AFTERLIVES, edited by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social

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I'll be at the Southern Festival of Books later this month. @shereereneethomas.bsky.social will talk about how our characters, human or otherwise, face familiar struggles and triumphs, even in deeply unfamiliar landscapes (signing immediately to follow). www.sofestofbooks.org - admission is free!

Attention NYC residents! on Tuesday, October 14th, there will be a listening party and panel discussion celebrating the release of: Melvin Gibbs - 𝘼𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙖: 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝟮 featuring conversations with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social & Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) 7PM. 154 Orchard. Free w/ RSVP!

The next Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction will include my Curiosities review on the brilliant Afrofuturist novel Another Present Era by Elaine Perry. Salute to my editor @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Released in 1990, Perry's only published book was previously featured in @neglectedbooks.com

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Meet Flights of Foundry Guest of Honour for Editing Sheree Renée Thomas, an award-winning fiction writer, poet, editor, and curator.

F151 is off the printers! A special issue on 'women in the black fantastic' with features by Nisi Shawl and Sheree Renee Thomas. If you want to become a member of the SFF, you can join via the website. www.sf-foundation.org/new-membersh...

If you haven't already read this story by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social you should go read it today! @lightspeedmagazine.com

"I remember the place where nightflies sing like stars" Excited to look at poetry from @shereereneethomas.bsky.social this week! "The Nightflies" in @mythicdelirium.bsky.social !

We had such a wonderful conversation this morning! Thanks @shereereneethomas.bsky.social for sharing so much about your writing inspiration and process 😊

An amazing evening discussing ecology and lyricism with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social and @electricsheepsf.bsky.social including Thistle's gorgeous story in @pseudopod.org pseudopod.org/2025/04/11/p...

The journey so far. #gencon #afrofuturism @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Khaldoun Khelil, @daniandarrelljerry.bsky.social

Speculative fiction writers! Build global community & hone your craft in Tepoztlán, Mexico! 🇲🇽 I'm Sheree Renée Thomas, leading "Writing the Imagination" at Under the Volcano underthevolcano.org/sheree-renee... Apply for the Imagination Unbound Fellowship! underthevolcano.org/fellowship/t...

PRESS RELEASE Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!! curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social "This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next." thread/ psychopomp.com/announcing-t...

Excited to see that one of my best short stories yet, "How to Get Away with Living," published by Flame Tree Press, will find more readers. Incredibly honored to be among such brilliant writers. Thanks to the amazing @shereereneethomas.bsky.social for selecting my story for this anthology.

EXCLUSIVE Titan Preview: Black Panther: Panther’s Rage - An all-new re-imagining of the legendary Black Panther comics arc, Panther’s Rage, from an award-winning author. #BlackPanther @titanbooks.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Read the excerpt here:

Really happy that ‘Slickerthin,’ published last year in F&SF, gets a mention in the ‘Notable Stories’ section of Best American SFF 2025! Thanks so much to the editors @johnjosephadams.com and @nnedi.bsky.social, and congrats to the all the other authors here! 🥳

So excited for the release! Thanks again for the opportunity! 🧭 👻💖

It's here! 🗺️✨ Lesley Connor & I are ecstatic to share that The Map of Lost Places debuts TODAY! So grateful for our amazing contributors & the Apex Books team for bringing this vision of strange & haunted realms to life. Find your way to hidden worlds here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

“Thistle stepped over an upturned root that twisted from the dark, wet earth.” Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight by Sheree Renée Thomas Narrator: Premee Mohamed Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Chelsea Davis This story first appeared in Sleeping Under the Tree of Life

Half way thru AFRICA RISEN: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, ed. A few faves so far: -March Magic, WC Dunlap -The Soul Would Have No Rainbow, @yvettel.bsky.social -A Dream of Electric Mothers, @wtalabi.bsky.social -Simbi, Sandra Jackson-Opoku #BookSky #SFF 🪐📚

Nice review of The Map of Lost Places! www.danscifi.com/post/newrele... "You'll find a delectable smorgasbord in this anthology if you're interested in yarns exploring the creepy, insidious side of evil." The Map of Lost Places, which I edited with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, comes out 4/29!

Our annual conference, Flights of Foundry, is OPEN for registration! Check out our Guests of Honour: Sheree Renée Thomas for editing, Vajra Chandrasekera for prose, and Anna Martino for Translation. Sign up today! 👇👇👇 flights-of-foundry.org/

Los Angeles AWP visitors! Obsidian turns 50. Meet us at booth T366. Panel: "Obsidian at 50—Activating the Archive," Thurs, March 27, 1:45pm PT, featuring Duriel E. Harris, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Douglas Kearney, and Sheree Renée Thomas. mailchi.mp/e9ec5ec6d02b... #AWP25 #ObsidianLit #BlackLiterature

I don’t usually post on here, but for those still lurking on this app, I appreciate your posting good news when you can. I have some nice, unusual news. I was honored by the Memphis Alumnae Chapter of DST ♥️🤍with the Keeper of the Cultural Flame Award. As an AKA 💗💚 I am doubly honored, thank you!

Awards can conjure up FEELINGS. We all work damn hard at this. So few get long listed. Nominated. Finalized. Actually win The Thing. BUT WE CELEBRATE our peers who Also Work damn hard at this. That said...we're thrilled to see FIYAH fam REPRESENTING at the 55th Locus Awards! poll.voting.locusmag.com

Don't miss this Thursday's Town Hall, moderated by Obsidian Editor Duriel E. Harris 📣 Find out more about the Town Hall & RSVP for this free online event, Feb 27 at 6pm CT: bit.ly/ObsidianOnProcess

An Obsidian Town Hall! Panelists will discuss their processes of making witness-based art, as part of our Moral Witnessing Series. More info & RSVP: bit.ly/ObsidianOnProcess #ObsidianTownHall #MoralWitnessing #BlackLit #BlackPoetry #ObsidianCommunity #ObsidianContributors #ObsidianEditors #LitMag

Roberta Flack 🙏🏾🎼🎵 Stunned to learn she had passed on today. Oddly enough, said more about how I feel in the alt descriptions 🥹

Two daily #SmallPress #books from Third Man Books: When The World Wounds by Kiini Ibura Salaam www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/when... Nine Bar Blues by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social www.thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/nine... 💙📚 #BookSky #BlackSky #reading #shortstories #scifi @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social

This is brill - loving the deeper exploration of worlds in Monae’s music. And if there’s any time to read about the radical act of difference under totalitarianism it’s now. Her co-writers are here too: @weredawgz.bsky.social @eveewing.bsky.social @yohanca.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social

This thread is full of great recommendations. See what you can see.

Look what came in the mail yesterday! I'm excited to start this collection filled with stories from so many authors I enjoy and more that I've been meaning to check out. @shereereneethomas.bsky.social and @geraldcoleman.bsky.social are both big deals at this year's #JordanCon. 💙📚 #wotskies #booksky

REMINDER! we will be closing to submissions for our AFTERLIVES reprint antho (curated by the amazing @shereereneethomas.bsky.social) on JAN 31st!!! get those stories in if you published something about death in 2024 full details: psychopomp.com/afterlives-g...

I wrote an original story, “Exclusive Content,” featuring a new character for the new CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Shield of Sam Wilson anthology 😍 edited by Jesse J. Holland! It debuted Jan 14th! #afrofuturism #captainamerica #samwilson #marvel #titan #penguinrandomhouse titanbooks.com/71363-captai...

Bookmail! @lesleyconner.bsky.social @shereereneethomas.bsky.social

One of 13 luminaries such as @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, @daniandarrelljerry.bsky.social, @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social. Here's an excerpt from Kyoko M's story: www.marvel.com/articles/cul...

couple things: 1. send us your best death fiction for Afterlives 2024, curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social psychopomp.com/afterlives-g... 2. go order 2023 Afterlives curated by @vajra.me: psychopomp.com/product/afte... 3. that's it, if there were three things it would be "a few things"

The Map of Lost Places is up for preorder! With 22 stories from authors such as @briankeene.bsky.social @samitbasu.bsky.social @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social & @aijiang.bsky.social, this is @shereereneethomas.bsky.social and I's guide to the strange and surreal. www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18 of 20: ‘Nine Bar Blues’ by Sheree Renee Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social #Books #BookChallenge #BookSky

Today's #BogiReads short story recommendation thread: "Slickerthin" by Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social in F&SF Summer 2024, edited by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social! weightlessbooks.com/the-magazine... A story about humans and harpies living together, and a lot more -

On writer Henry Dumas: Despite his literary brilliance, Dumas became a tragic symbol of young black men slain by police. magazine.catapult.co/people/stori... @shereereneethomas.bsky.social #NYC #1960s #Writer

The Map of Lost Place, edited by me and @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, will be released in April 2025. If you're a book reviewer and would like a copy, please let me know!