Sheree Renée Thomas

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

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Residency: January 9-24, 2026

Fellowship Deadline September 1, 2025

Results October 1, 2025.

Workshop enrollment on a rolling basis

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Sheree Renée Thomas - Under The Volcano The award-winning speculative fiction writer and editor Sheree Renée Thomas will lead her popular master class covering science fiction, fantasy, and other expectation-defying works of the imagination...

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

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Such a great story!

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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."

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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.

Loved your story!

Thank you!

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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.
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Read the excerpt here:

Is Apex attending GenCon? Could sell/sign there. I think at least three authors will be there.

Elise! 😞🌿🌻 So sorry to hear of your mother’s passing.

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! 🥳

Wonderful, Phoenix! Congrats

Wow! Thanks @gwynnega.bsky.social @pauljessup.com. I’m gonna give this some thought, especially since I’ll be revisiting the physical location that inspired the story later this summer

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

Thank you! 🌿💫

Thank you all for such a wonderful production! 🔥 Enjoyed it from beginning to end 💫🌿😍🌻

Green and yellow and gold compass and arrows with dark branches entwined, map making tools and twisting vines that evoke a dark forest

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:
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PseudoPod 971: Tree of the Forest Seven Bells Turns the World Round Midnight Thistle stepped over an upturned root that twisted from the dark, wet earth. “Your mama live near the river?” “Naw.” “Your mama live in a tree?” “Nope.” “Then what we doing?” “Mama the river and the…

“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

Cover of AFRICA RISEN: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight Cover image: painting of a Black youth with braids in a stylized astronaut suit on a leafy background; there is a sticker from the Humboldt County Library, CA obscuring the subtitle Cover art by Manzi Jackson based on photo by CreativeSoul Photography

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 🪐📚

Glad you’re enjoying the stories 💫

#NewRelease The Map of Lost Places: Stories from Strange and Haunted Recently, Apex contacted me to review their newest anthology, The Map of Lost Places. Since I'm getting back into taking review requests aft

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!

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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! 👇👇👇
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Ha! I saw the library on wheels and made a video of it, but didn’t realize one of my books was on the cart. How nice!

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.
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Yes, it sure did, thank you

Glass, Diamond-shaped trophy award on a crystal base atop wood credenza

A shiny, gleaming assortment of awards, trophies, and medallions against a blue-green backdrop atop a wood credenza

Sheree and her husband, smiling before the red Keeper of the Cultural Flame Award backdrop / step-and-repeat vertical banner

Mrs. Claudia Stansbury, Mrs. Sheree Renée Thomas, Mrs Carrie L. Harris, Mrs. Bev Johnson

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!

TLC! My era! 😂🤣

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Welcome to the Locus Awards Poll. Deadline for voting is April 15. You can return and edit or add to your ballot up until the deadline.

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