Shingai

COPIOUS amounts of gratitude to everyone who submitted to our Special Call issue 100. As much as we don't get to publish it, I want to say we were in awe of many of the submissions we did receive. May all your queer, trans, & migrant stories and poetry find homes that celebrate and honour you 💕✨📜📝

Please follow and read @fantasymagazine.bsky.social.
Issue 99 which will be dropping over the next month has stories that may make you cry, poetry that speaks to the interstices of the politics of our moment, and interviews that made me personally want to go back to my writing desk and create. 💕

Being an editor has been such an expansive experience in every way, and between Podcastle and Fantasy I am eternally grateful for every writer that has trusted me with their words. 🩵
A little shout out to Toni Morrison who has been a literary editorial ancester North Star on this journey.

what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.

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Some news: Issue 99 of Fantasy will be the last issue... (For now)
Read our publisher, Sean's statement for more.
As heartbreaking as this news is, I'm incredibly proud of the work we've put out this year & I'm grateful for our team, esp. my co-editor @arleysorg.bsky.social!

I don't know @lpkindred.bsky.social personally, but I've heard his name countless times in the SFF circles I run in because of his many good works. That's what happens when you do good: you leave ripples that grow into waves of goodness for others. I donated here to say thanks. I hope you will, too.

LP's birthday is today, so you can give him a birthday gift and help him stay in school as a nontraditional student!

Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred Hey y'all, I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026

Please help @lpkindred.bsky.social stay in school in these difficult times. He's a great person who's had a rough go and deserves all the good things.

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Big up to our gal Shingai for staying hard with the work, for slaying hard with the work.
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When I read this novella in submissions, I knew we had to have it. The story is dark and timely, focusing on damaged systems: bodies and planets, human and animal. We are more alike than not, every person a world being ravaged by changing climates: environmental, emotional.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Fantasy Magazine - issue 98 | Psychopomp Fantasy Magazine Issue 98 features work by: Eleanor Ball, Christian Emecheta, Sunwoo Jeong, Mateo Perez Lara, Tracie McBride, Eleanna Castroianni

Tomorrow is... 🧙🏽Fantasy Friday!🐉

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Wake up, babe. We ordered a second moon from Temu.

Not from temu🤣🤣🤣 I'm crying!

Congratulations to @vajra.me for winning the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for his ferociously visionary RAKESFALL! & congratulations to all the finalists; I can confirm that this was an enormously challenging decision to make--because each novel in the shortlist was worthy of winning in its own way.

Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....

Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners.

It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!

Now available!
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SERIOUSLY happy for Shingai, who works hard on their craft and still puts their heart into the things they write!

They are also a 2x Hugo Finalist for co-editing PodCastle, a BFA finalist, have appeared on the Locus Rec List several times, and more. Don't miss out - read their work!

2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...

The Ignyte Awards are AWESOME! Congratulations to the winners and finalists!

We are extremely happy for our Co-Editor Shingai Njeri Kagunda aka @shingai-be-like.bsky.social - who won for novelette We Who Will Not Die, and was part of two winning groups!❤️‍🔥

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hey, so if you love what we do

(and boy, do we love putting amazing work out there!!)

consider joining our patreon (as little as $2 a month!): www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

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🩵🩵🩵 love you bb!

Genuinely couldn't be more proud of my sibling, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social. They're work is always breathtaking and so full of life, they're one of the best in the game rn 🖤

Yo! The Ignytes don't miss. They don't miss. Great choices all round. Congratulations to all the winners!

Congratulations @shingai-be-like.bsky.social!❤️‍🔥

2025 Winner Outstanding Novelette: WE WHO WILL NOT DIE by Shingai Njeri Kagunda

@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE
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Congratulations to all the winners! Especially thrilled for @shingai-be-like.bsky.social's win for her powerful novelette "We Who Will Not Die" from @psychopomp.com. Thought-provoking and gorgeous!

Thank you so much Laura! 🩵

Congratulations @shingai-be-like.bsky.social! Very well-desrved!

Thank you 🩵☺️

*screaming crying throwing up in a good way* lol I will have more writerly words to share my gratitude at some point in the future. ✨🪐

P.s I was so deeply honoured to be on that ballot list with my Clarion sib @olivasthewriter.bsky.social whose novelette Sangronas! Un Lista de Terror is phenomenal💃🏾

You and me both Suyi! Lol. Super well deserved! 🩵