"'The Matriarchs' by Malena Salazar Maciá... is a harrowing and emotional story about resilience and survival." Maria Haskins aka @mariahaskins.com has wonderful things to say about Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 in the February Locus Magazine aka @locusmag.bsky.social !❤️‍🔥 psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!! www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

New poem in Uncanny Magazine (@uncannymagazine.bsky.social) Issue 68! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/an-u...

Earlier this year, we awarded 10 wonderful recipients an OAC recommender grant & we just got the okay to share them! 🎊 CONGRATS to these incredible writers: ✨ @aijiang.bsky.social ✨ @thesuiway.bsky.social ✨ @aniyonsenga.bsky.social ✨ @manahil.bsky.social ✨ @snehaskanta.bsky.social Cont'd below👇

Happy Book Birthday! One year today! 🍾🥂 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @tobiogundiran.com, @xanwriter.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/au/afrocente...

Read my story about my Winx Club-inspired, eco-influencer idols!

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Anyone else experience One Battle After Another like a worst nightmare playing out?

2/12 #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts 💙📚 @teresempierre.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬ @aniyonsenga.bsky.social @suyidavies.com @chineloonwualu.bsky.social ‬@zalikarb.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ @ogre.red

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Holy Hugo Cats!!! WE ARE JUST $2975 AWAY FROM FUNDING YEAR 12!!!! 🦄😸

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2/12 As the Earth Dreams includes stories by: Trynne Delaney, francesca ekwuyasi, Whitney French, @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, Chimedum Ohaegbu, @suyidavies.com, @chineloonwualu.bsky.social, Lue Palmer, Terese Mason Pierre, and @zalikarb.bsky.social. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books

7/12 Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga (@aniyonsenga.bsky.social) wrote, amongst other things, ‘Fell Our Selves’ in GigaNotoSaurus ‪(@giganotosaurus.bsky.social): giganotosaurus.org/2023/02/01/f... & ‘Tornadoes, Grief, and Poutine’ in Augur Magazine (@augursociety.bsky.social): augursociety.org/tornadoes-gr...

Catch my story and stories from awesome authors in this fire lineup!

WorldCon panels dropped and I guess they've decided to jump on the right wing's train of strawmen about the gay agenda? Please, if anyone in their life has encountered a bookstore giving them half a dozen sapphic recs with 'strong women leads' let me know so I can shop there

"can i venmo u?" the way that I have to remind americans that venmo is exclusively a u.s. thing and people outside the u.s. have literally no way of using it and sometimes have no need of an app of that nature

I had two dreams where I was reading one of my short stories in front of a crowd. Normally when I read in dreams, I can’t make out anything on the page, but this time I was reading full excerpts. The stories don’t exist in real life.

Kickstarter for Uncanny is live folks! Time to support your fave

Love it when my nightmare features running away from airbender assassins

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Congrats to all winners and finalists! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, @dilmandila.com.web.brid.gy, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @tobiogundiran.com, @xanwriter.bsky.social locusmag.com/2025/06/2025...

Vote for 'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' in the Ignyte Awards!

I dreamt that I visited a cafe in Sydney that served nice mille crepe cake, and now I want mille crepe cake from this fictional cafe.

May showers bring June summer? Please?

Locus Awards - top 10! Congrats 🎉. 🙏🏾 voters! 💞 @bloomsburylit.bsky.social, @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, @dilmandila.com.web.brid.gy, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, @xanwriter.bsky.social , @tobiogundiran.com

Dustin's new employer, Akeza, is going on a pilgrimage to honour her dead father. Little does he know the journey will be just as important for him. Sweeping adventure science fantasy with lots of heart by @aniyonsenga.bsky.social in @giganotosaurus.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2023/02/01/f...

Our protagonist runs into a baby umuriro on her way to campus. But, unlike her Izuban heritage, Delta is not friendly to dragons. It's now a race against The Watchers to get Riro to freedom. Heart-pounding tale by @aniyonsenga.bsky.social in @apparitionlit.com 🪐📚 apparitionlit.com/who-defies-t...

Yoooo, I got longlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize! It’s one of those rejection letters that feels like a win. To think I made the top 201 stories out of 7,920 (2.5%)! Keen to discover the shortlist soon! #CWprize commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-...

Freelancers deserve fair rates! Sign the petition: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...

The biggest April fools joke is this “spring weather”

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

I'm so glad this woman is home safe and that she had a network of people who worked tirelessly to bust her out of these for-profit gulags. Now imagine being a poor woman (or man) of no means with no one to advocate for you and being trapped in this system... Read this whole article, I beg of you.

This is huge! Big congrats to @genni.bsky.social 🎊 for making this book happen!

When I'm re-reading a section of my story draft and my editor brain goes, "There's no saving it. We'll have to rewrite this part from scratch." 🥲

2024 Award eligibility post Poetry “Festival of Scales and Teeth“ in Uncanny Magazine Issue 60 Nonfiction “Chapter 8. Afrofuturism and Exploring Cultural Identity as a Process of Becoming” in Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction edited by Eugen Bacon

Canadians! If you're not familiar with the CSFFA, it's the voting body behind the Prix Aurora / Aurora Awards. Strongly recommend joining up, as a membership is only $10 and gets you electronic copies of most everything that makes the final ballot--it's a steal of a deal!

Just came across this show and I’m so angry it wasn’t up and down the TL. Do you know how many Black folks are dying to see contemporary witches? I’m annoyed! But glad I found it now

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...