Iryn Tushabe (she/her)

Introducing more guest authors at #VWF2025! We are just ONE WEEK away from the 2025 Festival.

• Iryn Tushabe @wordsweaver.bsky.social
• Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social
• katherena vermette
• Rachel Wada
• Jess Walter @jesswalter.bsky.social
• Jack Wang

Zukiswa Wanner and Other Global Sumud Flotilla Activists Released South African writer, publisher, and activist Zukiswa Wanner and other participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla arrived safely in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, after thei...

Zukiswa Wanner and Other Global Sumud Flotilla Activists Released
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Woohoo 🙌 🎉 🥳

On Oct 23, Ziyad Saadi (Three Parties), Iryn Tushabe (Everything Is Fine Here), and Mike Curato (Gaysians) share stories about queer BIPOC characters discovering their place.
Moderated by Hudson Lin + presented w/ @queerfilmfestival.ca

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Honestly also Ugandan dads…

Virtual festival day today! My panel is at 2PM EST which is noon in SK! See you there!

Honestly what passes for critique these days…

Adam @vitcavage.bsky.social is moderating this FREE virtual Brooklyn Book Festival international debut panel featuring Jinwoo Park, Aurora Stewart de Peña, Iryn Tushabe, and Ella Alexander!

This Sunday! 2 pm EST!

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I’m so pumped to participate on this @bkbookfest.bsky.social panel this Sunday alongside fellow debut novelists @jinwoo-park.com, Aurora Stewart de Peña, and Ella Alexander. Moderated by Adam Vitcavage of @debutiful.bsky.social.

Ooh are you writing memoir now or rolling your eyes at someone else’s self indulgence?

Tea Gerbeza, Roza Nozari and Ziyad Saadi shortlisted for $12K 2SLGBTQ+ emerging writers prize | CBC Books The Canadian writers are honoured for their debut books.

Tea Gerbeza, Roza Nozari and Ziyad Saadi shortlisted for the Writers' Trust of Canada's $12,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for 2SLGBTQ+ emerging writers #CanLit
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for emerging BIPOC writers in Canada: an opportunity to work with Lindsay Wong Arsenal Pulp Press is a book publisher in Vancouver, Canada with over 300 titles currently in print, which include literary fiction and nonfiction; cultural and gender studies; LGBT and multicultural ...

Just spotted this: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for emerging BIPOC writers in Canada: an opportunity to work with Lindsay Wong arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/CA...

Happy birthday, Suyi!

Danielle Smith should try reading a book before she bans one

The photo is an announcement for The Ex-Puritan's 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. The submission deadline is October 24, 2025. First prize: $1000, runner-up: $200. On the left is a photo of poetry judge Faith Arkorful against a purple background. On the right is a photo of fiction judge Iryn Tushabe against a blurred background.

The 2025 Austin Clarke Prize is open for submissions! This year's prize will be judged by Iryn Tushabe (fiction) & Faith Arkorful (poetry). To learn more & submit your work: ex-puritan.ca/news/the-202...

Has anyone written about how extraordinary that the leaders of France, the UK, Italy, Germany, Finland, NATO, and the EC had to accompany the leader of Ukraine to the White House because the leader of the US is a giant manbaby?

What’s with all the lip balms that make your lips tingle? Who asked for that?

Interesting!

So, uhm, quick question…

Snippet from the article on a prepared background of an iPad on a bunch of open books. --- The Continent 9 AUGUST 2025 ISSUE 208 REVIEW JACQUELINE NYATHI Society, sisterhood and self Growing up is difficult enough. Protecting family secrets makes it harder. SISTERHOOD is at the heart of Iryn... Aine is as naive about the world as you might expect her to be, and appears to be in the habit of exposing secrets ⁃ either without meaning to, or while hoping for the best. Like the fact that her older sister Mbabazi is bae'd up - with a woman - in Uganda, infamous for its anti-homosexualitylaws. Everything is Fine Here doesn'ttake on so much the macro politics as it does the personal ones: how Aine's indiscretion affects her family and her relationship with Mbabazi. And if that isn't enough for readers, she also goes on a grand adventure one memorable night. The vivid descriptions of the locations in the novel contrast semi-rural small- town living with life in the big city, Kampala. Descriptions of life at Pike Girls' School will be familiar to anyone who went to boarding school. The novel is full ofheartand wonderful characters, and Tushabe accompanies its main themes of sexuality, family (chosen family included) and coming of age with a close and moving study of bereavement. Everything is Fine Here is excellent modern African literature that scores highly in the "not about war, poverty or Aids, please" category, making the point that African lives have complexity...

Recently for @thecontinent.org : On @wordsweaver.bsky.social's Everything is Fine Here, a tale of sisterhood, society and self in #Uganda.

Out now from @houseofanansi.bsky.social!

Here’s Everything is Fine Here having a little visit with Kierkegaard. If you know you know…

Right? I was like okay good luck, cuz!

I have two male relatives (and counting) who plan to become novelists after they retire and they will publish blockbusters and get movie deals etc. But they also don’t read books right now because they haven’t got the time.

CBC Books' writers to watch: 22 Canadian writers making their mark in 2025 | CBC Books CBC Books has announced this year's writers to watch list! Here are 22 Canadian writers on the rise in 2025.

Congratulations to Su Chang (author of THE IMMORTAL WOMAN), Chyana Marie Sage (author of SOFT AS BONES), and Iryn Tushabe (author of EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE) for being featured on this list!

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Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface | Quanta Magazine Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved.

Strong new evidence suggests that liquid metal from the center of the Earth is making its way up to the planet’s surface, potentially ferried through two monster-size blobs sitting at the core-mantle boundary. @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/earths-core-...

That menacing tool is too close to your ear…

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We’re so proud to see Iryn Tushabe, Chase Joynt, Emma Knight, Liann Zhang, and Phillip Dwight Morgan featured on CBC Books’ list of 22 Canadian Writers Making Their Mark in 2025.

Congratulations to each of you on this well-deserved recognition.

• Everything Is Fine Here, fiction by @wordsweaver.bsky.social
• Bluff, poetry by Danez Smith
• Carousel Summer, middle grade graphic novel by @kagcomix.bsky.social