Micaiah Johnson

A stack of books in the background with white text over read text circles reading: “R Camden, 10 Writers House” body of the text reads: Celebrating 10 Years of Writing Excellence 2015-2025 Join us in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Writers House! October 23, 2025 Writers in Camden-Deena ElGenaidi, Micaiah Johnson, and Brook McClurg 7 p.m. | Campus Center Multipurpose Room

My last public event on the east coast for a bit! Will she be reading from the newly announced ghost book? Will she make it on time?? These questions and more answered tonight!!

I literally MADE IT for this lol the other seagull memes didn’t have the right urgency!!

I have had such a good week of conversation and I am so excited to keep it going today!!

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Olive green background image with elvish looking person wearing an Orange fuzzy cloaca and carrying a shepard’s crook: Text reads: “JOIN MAVEY BOOKS ON FRIDAY OCT 17 7.30PM SCI-FI & FANTASY FEST AUTHOR TALK FT. BESTSELLING AUTHORS YUME KITASEI (SALTCROP), AMANDA FOODY (A FATE SO COLD), MICAIAH JOHNSON (THOSE BEYOND THE WALL) & JULIA VEE (PEARL CITY)”

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Publisher’s Marketplace posting. Publishers in dark blue font with Marketplace in red font. “Deal Report” on the right side of the heading, also in dark blue. Text below reads: THE UNHAUNTING By Micaiah Johnson Imprint: Putnam October 13, 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize finalist Micaiah Johnson's THE UNHAUNTING, in which a young Black woman joins her friends to renovate a Confederate-era plantation house, where past and present begin to blur uncomfortably, pitched as Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE meets Toni Morrison's BELOVED, for fans of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Stephen Graham Jones, to Ruoxi Chen at Putnam, at auction, for publication in fall 2026, by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English). Foreign: rokumura@penguinrandomhouse.com Film/TV: Josie Freeman, CAA

It’s official! Book news appropriate for the season

A flyer advertising The Traveling SFF Book Festival, New York City, Monday, Oct 13th, 6:30 pm, with Micaiah Johnson, Yume Kitasei, Matthew Kressel, Veronica Roth, and Julia Vee. Panel Discussion: History & Speculation. Author photos and covers of their recent titles line the bottom of the flyer.

The text of the Traveling SGG Festival full schedule and panelists can be found here: https://www.yumekitasei.com/travelingsffbookfestival

This Monday, I'll be participating in the Traveling SFF Book Festival, hosted by Yume Kitasei, with Micaiah Johnson, Veronica Roth, and Julia Vee. At PT Knitwear, 180 Orchard St, Oct 13th, 6:30pm. @yumewrites.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @veronicarothbooks.com @juliavee.bsky.social

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

White text over a dark background with fall leaves. Heading reads “Micaiah Johnson October events” body reads “6:30 pm October 13 P&T Knitwear Lower Eastside, NY The Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Festival’s “History & Speculation” with Veronica Roth, Yume Kitasei, Julia Vee, & Matthew Kressel 7 pm October 15 GreedyReads Remington Baltimore, MD The Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Festival’s “The Power of ‘What If’” with Sarah Pinkser, Yume Kitasei, Ray Naylar, & Julia Vee 7:30 pm October 17 Mavey Books (Aardmore) Philadelphia The Traveling Science Fiction & Fantasy Festival’s “Culture & Science Fiction Fantasy” with Yume Kitasei & Julia Vee 3-6 pm October 18 The Hidden Door Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Presents “We Demand Stories: Death Reimagined” with Leah Richards, Claire Cooney, Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde 7:00 pm October 23 Rutgers Writers House Camden, NJ Rutgers Camden’s “Writers in Camden 10 Year Anniversary Reading” with Deena Elgenaidi & Brooke McClurg”

Finally getting around to posting my October events!

There may be one or two more later additions, but I am excited about all of these and I hope to see you guys there!

I JUST KNOW IT’S GOING TO BE SO GOOD!!

(If we can try to support living authors, that would be especially neat btw)

YES OBVS YES

See how she’s TEASING ME?? Like I don’t already visit my Bookshop preorder of Year of the Mer like a kid shaking their Christmas presents??

Anyway pre-Order LD’s book so we can all wait together!

Save the date! @csecooney.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @smartinez-conde.bsky.social @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social
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The 10 Best Sci-Fi Audiobooks of All Time Why read boring paper when you could listen to audio signals beamed into your brain via machine? Now THAT is sci-fi.

My book was named one of Mary Sue’s 10 Best Sci Fi Audiobooks of all time! *cheers*

It appears I’m the only non-man and one of only two nonwhite people on the list. *boos*

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I need you guys to understand I have written/thought SO MUCH about the racialization of robots and even I am too bored to take most of this “clanker” discourse seriously.

You’re all wrong and you’re all right but social media doesn’t incentivize nuance enough to be the place for this discussion.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

“Demagogue shot by radical” is in fact a pretty common life outcome for demagogues. The problem here isn’t that the accurate narrative is complicated or hard to comprehend but that it’s socially inconvenient and gets scary people to yell at you.

Let this be a lesson to anyone else who hasn’t read @delilahsdawson.bsky.social! House of Idyll is out now so you can rectify that!

The Space Between Worlds NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens the very fabric of the multiverse in this stunning debut, a powerful examinatio...

I wish I could remember who I saw recommend "The Space Between Worlds" by @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social so I could thank them. It's been a while since I fell into a book's world so instantaneously. And the audiobook narrator is fantastic.
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It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.

For long takes that are mostly about niche economics, I’ve liked a few by @unlearnecon.bsky.social (though I did watch his videos on mute at first after living in TN and haven’t yet forgiven him for being English and not some dude from Chattanooga)

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OMG THANK YOU SO IS YOURS!!

It is wild having a *real* “keynote” when that’s usually just what my friends call the ensuing rant that happens when I’ve had half a gin & tonic and some unwitting victim mentions any aspect of American history/race/robots. But now there’s a MICROPHONE!

It has been so hard not talking about this, but I am so excited to be an invited speaker at @sirensconference.org. YOU GUYS THEY ARE GIVING ME A WHOLE KEYNOTE TALK I WILL NEVER SHUT UP AGAIN!

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

i find it really telling all the people agreeing with this are men and meanwhile i've read more wide-ranging sci-fi pubbed by non-cis men / marketed as sci-fi in the last 5-6 years than ever? (Rivers Solomon, Alix Harrow, Micaiah Johnson, Mir Lafferty, Yoon Ha Lee, SB Divya, Bethany Jacobs, et al)