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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...

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

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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...

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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...

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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/...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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@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...

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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...

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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/

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“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/...

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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.

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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...

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Boosting!!!!

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

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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...

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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...

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"...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." 🙏🥰🥺😭

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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...

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Boosting!!

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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...

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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!

submitted 165 days ago • 4 comments

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...

submitted 165 days ago • 1 comment

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

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

submitted 171 days ago • 2 comments

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

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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-...

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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...

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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-...

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