DaVaun Sanders

Okay can't lie the Pringles ad made me lol 🤣

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Bad Bunny won the Super Bowl

Didn't they make this Hail Mary movie already? Sunshine happened right??

There are days I’m proud I went down swinging and days I’m ready to hang all of this up. Gonna go touch grass and enjoy some unnaturally warm winter sunshine. Happy Black History Month y'all.

In the meantime, FIYAH fam, please know I’m reaching out to these busters on your behalf. I encourage ALL authors to search their work. I’m really curious if your summary aligns with your piece. (Mine didn’t.) @jenny8lee.bsky.social idk if you’re still around, but shame on you for this mess.

webpage to download a short story pdf by Gene Wolf, "A Cabin on the Coast"

Other SFF publications include @asimovssfmag.bsky.social @tordotcom.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com. The OG Dark Matter anthology is here. Some records link to what I presume are pirating sites for download?? Here's an example from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction:

screenshot text: For Film Industry Industry professionals—from screenwriters to producers—can quickly discover and evaluate short fiction on Writing Atlas with author info, loglines, summaries, and searchable data. Writing Atlas Pro brings you additional searchable information on characters, settings, rights status, and agent contacts so you can connect with the right people. And we can help you track those rights down.

SFF markets are not lucrative. We’re on the wrong side of an impossible margin. This shit does not get us exposure nor help us pay authors. Shitty summaries do a disservice to authors’ work (of course there’s a subscription tier.)

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screenshot text: Selected Publications The New Yorker Harper's Magazine FIYAH Story Magazine6 Asimov's Science Fiction Amazon Original Stories The Atlantic Monthly The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Esquire

(IDK if I can't download just bc I don't have a site account.) The Writing Atlas is (or has a framework in place for) stealing authors’ work. There’s a fucking FIYAH collection on the site. Shame on whoever is contributing w/o author consent, and on the site for allowing it in the first place.

Distraught, enraged, and tired. An author cc’d @fiyahlitmag on an email to The Writing Atlas, a site dedicated to “cataloging short stories.” There are 130 FIYAH stories listed with (presumably) AI summaries. Some have LINKS to a Dropbox folder. Our issues aren’t publicly available for scraping.

Gonna log off this app for the rest of the weekend but I wanted to boost this.

If you are interested in participating in the nomination process for the Ignyte awards we have an application.

Our awards are very dear to me. I thought the dire urgency of them would fade. I was wrong. We keep going 🖤

The WAY I needed to see this.

Mockup of book Year of the Mer by L. D. Lewis wherein a blue mermaid tail and tentacles writhe out of a roiling gray ocean around an ornate trident. Book One: 4/7/26. Cover by Micaela Alcaino

Flat image of a book cover: Year of the Mer by L. D. Lewis wherein a blue mermaid tail and tentacles writhe out of a roiling gray ocean around an ornate trident

An even better look at the gorgeous Year of the Mer book 1 (of 2) cover! I gasped just about to death when they told me THEEEE Micaela Alcaino was the one doing it.

You can (and should) pre-order it wherever you pre-order your books. Out April 7, 2026. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Year-o...

GAWD I hate how this AI is being stuffed into every damn crevice of our lives. No, I do not need a WHOLE DAMN PERSONAL email response to a friend shat out of the ether, imitating me poorly and making up facts that I might say. Who asked for this??? It's really about to be postcards around here

This is such a fun project, especially in these times we inhabit. Please share to help bring it to life!!!

On of the best lit mags out here, period!
Show them all some love!

Mayor Mamdani inside the Louis Armstrong House Museum

Mayor Mamdani looking at artwork of Louis Armstrong

A trumpet player

A signed photo of Louis Armstrong

I kicked off Black History Month in Corona at the home of Louis Armstrong, who lived in our city for more than 30 years. Walking through his house and hearing how much New York meant to him was a powerful reminder of what this city owes to Black artists and culture.

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Everyone's struggling & the world's on fire so I'm sorry to ask, but I need your help again.

If you could donate and/or share my Go Fund Me campaign, it would go a long way to helping me pay for increased costs for my breast cancer treatment. Details in my update.

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Today's Short Fiction Read.

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Awwww thanks for reading! I'm proud of how it came out

A climate fiction dystopia where the descendants of Mardi Gras krewes are holding together all that's left of the world with a little help from Stevie Wonder 🌀

Black resilience and community is my favorite thing to write about apparently. Loved this piece and I hope you do too ❤️

Between all of the meals at my Blaxican best friend's house growing up AND living in Arizona for 20+ years, it is a damn shame I haven't learned how to make tamales yet

There's so much Labrinth working into the playlist for this WIP and the way the algorithm is confounded 🤌🏾

Keep checking in on your people, some of them need it. Please take care of yourselves as best you can while you continue dealing with your personal mountains. If writing is part of that, we're here for you. If priorities mean stepping away, take our love with you & we'll be here when you get back.❤️❤️

So many folks in my circle are getting crushed on all sides. In the streets resisting these goons, surviving this storm, making ends meet--on top of all the other weekly madness. It feels damn weird to beat the drum about stories and upcoming issues as if our lives aren't in a meat grinder.

Before Kent State, there was the Orangeburg Massacre at South Carolina State.

We're not trying to one-up you. We're demanding that you put the pieces of the puzzle together.

If you're being at all honest, you know that, at this point, "abolish ICE" is the mainstream moderate position.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

okay at least it's not some mysterious setting I haven't clicked