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Seeing My Work Through Other Artists’ Eyes πŸ•ΈοΈ Issue 17 How Moses Leo brought the woman-centered magic of my Year of Return novella to the Berlin stage

I cried.
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13.10.2025 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re all about to be in wearable hell I’m rapidly running out of body parts to do my job.

This week's Optimizer is about the very special wearable hell I've been living in recently... and how it's all coming for you too if Big Tech gets its way.

www.theverge.com/column/79793...

10.10.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I need a vacation for like a month. And by vacation I mean my bed and zero obligations. Maybe a claw-foot tub.

02.10.2025 05:27 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you're attending Flights of Foundry this weekend, you can catch me at 2 events!
I'll be doing a reading from The Year of Return at hour 23 (for me, that's 3pm GMT today, Saturday) and moderating a panel called Honoring Indigeneity at hour 44 (for me, that's 12pm GMT tomorrow, Sunday).

27.09.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So, in all the online chatter about Netflix's Wednesday when it first came out, somehow it never crossed my timeline that Wednesday's dance uses choreography from the Tag Team music video made for the 1993 Addams Family Values film.

20.09.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So how is it possible that Saara El-Arifi published 5 books in 4 years and has another on the way?? I didn’t think anyone could frighten me more than R.F. Kuang! What are they drinking?

19.09.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why would the word be vicegerent instead of viceregent? 😞

18.09.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wait, I just remembered I wrote one this year. Under Clarion West-like duress (I had a 48-hour deadline).

18.09.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve done some revisions of previously drafted short stories, including CW stories. And I’ve done lots of writing for the novel-in-progress. But my brain has apparently put the knowledge of how to send a story from idea to draft into a jammed junk drawer. 2 years. Zero short stories.
This is GHETTO.

18.09.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Okay so apparently I have not written any short stories since Clarion West 2023.
Jezos.

18.09.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You’ve got to ask yourself sometimes, β€œIs it contradiction or is it nuance?”

18.09.2025 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am a bit epic fantasy trilogy-weary right now, I think.

17.09.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When the book tells you about the typeface it’s set in >>>>>

17.09.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just learned the word β€œmelismatic” & I love it!

13.09.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You would think somebody rearranged my insides last night but no. Leg day at the gym did this to me.

12.09.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover of sauuti Terrors anthology

Cover of sauuti Terrors anthology

The SauΓΊtiverse keeps expanding! Behold the cover for our 2nd anthology: SauΓΊti Terrors!

Following Mothersound, return to the SauΓΊtiverse - our collectively-built, Afrocentric, matriarchal shared-world of strange planets & sound magic - for dark fantasy, SF & horror stories & poetry.

Jan 2026.

09.09.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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LETTER I: Friendship as a creative and healing Practice A love letter to friendship, to co-creation, and to showing up with care. If you have been longing for deeper connections or wondering how to build them with intention, this one is for you.

LETTER I: Friendship as a creative and healing Practice
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07.09.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The type of content I love to see.

04.09.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My last 36 hours have been… ridiculous.
When Poetra Asantewa said β€œThis country will kill you,” I felt that.
This place is full of preventable disasters.

02.09.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Chale, my heart has really left this city. Sorry to Accra. But Accra is not sorry to me.

31.08.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s okay that it’s bad before it’s good, sometimes.

31.08.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

😭😭😭😭

31.08.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As for the people in the country with the green and white flag, I don’t even know what caliber of miracles is keeping anyone sane.

26.08.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I mean, how can we be drowning in mediocrity & thinking it’s cute?

26.08.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Saying this from a place of hormonal imbalance & an unusually bizarre work day but: everybody who is worth their salt as far as sense & competency needs to get the hell out of this county ASAP & use all that sense somewhere it’s appreciated.

26.08.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

😭

26.08.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today years old when I learned that it’s β€œin medias res” and not β€œin media res.”

21.08.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ‰ We are thrilled to share that Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by @wtalabi.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 Aldiss Award πŸŽ‰

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20.08.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

I need less.

21.08.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I loved the Open Book Festival when I attended in 2018, and I hope I get the chance to attend again, one of these years.

21.08.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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