@lolashoneyin.bsky.social
Writer • Publisher • Bookseller • Festival organiser •
🌟 AUTHOR OF THE MONTH: LOLA SHONEYIN 🌟
We’re celebrating the brilliant Lola Shoneyin all July! 📚
We’re kicking off with her Northern Lights Series — delightful picture books that spotlight Northern Nigerian life, culture & values. Stay tuned for more gems! ✨
#LolaShoneyin
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06.08.2025 00:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hallo!!!! 🥰🥰🥰
06.08.2025 00:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We had a blast!
#BookStormGoals
#ChildrensBooks
#NigerianIllustrators
What a marvellous few days it has been. From Uppsala to Bologna to Bordeaux, talking about writing, books, illustrations and festival curation. Missing Lagos like crazy.
05.04.2025 08:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Following the completion of an Illustrations course delivered by tutors at Mimaster, Bookstorm is excited to announce that 2 brilliant 🇳🇬 illustrators Kayode Onimole @kroplex & Chiamaka Chukwu have been invited to participate in the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.
02.03.2025 05:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Thank you!!
02.03.2025 05:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I had a wonderful chat with @nnedi.bsky.social, who is a complete joy. Look out for a new episode of @goldsborobooks.bsky.social podcast, Confessions of a Book Collector, this weekend.
20.02.2025 16:23 — 👍 56 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0Yes! 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
14.01.2025 03:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Your suspension of disbelief switch needs some grease.
24.12.2024 05:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Honoured to meet and host the grande dame of Brazilian literature Conceição Evaristo at Ouida, Lagos yesterday evening.
A big thanks to everyone who came to celebrate Brazilian cinema, literature, food and music with us. Yes, we made akaraje.
I love Alan Bennett’s work ♥️
07.12.2024 05:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Busy day today with a couple of interviews at the bookstore. Then Toriola turned up! It would have been creepy to reveal how often I have thought of him, his siblings and the smell of their kitchen, forty-four years ago. ♥️
04.12.2024 20:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Welcome to @bsky.app !! ♥️♥️♥️
02.12.2024 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I love it!! ♥️
02.12.2024 01:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I love discovering old photos of my parents. This one is from 1975.
01.12.2024 11:23 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yep! I totally screwed up and forgot about this post, partly because I didn’t see the replies. Next year!!
29.11.2024 15:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m only there to share news. The place is awful. Chin up ♥️
21.11.2024 21:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Tell me about a writer whose writing journey has inspired you and win an Ake Festival ticket. I’m giving away 10 tickets. ♥️
20.11.2024 09:01 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Two birds made their nests in my home office window sill. Now I have two eggs in each nest but I rarely see the birds. Not sure what to do…
17.11.2024 10:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So excited to share this with the world…finally!
#AkeFest24
Lola Shoneyin reading her books to students.
Visited the American International School to read to the pupils and talk about writing.
14.11.2024 16:26 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I really want to use this platform more.
30.08.2024 15:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🖤 Maravillosa esta pieza poética, "A Fragile State," declamada por la escritora Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social sobre la fragilidad de las libertades democráticas, acompañada de danza, visuales y música de Made Kuti (nieto de Fela).
#Africa #Freedoms #Democracy
youtu.be/qfjvorIJhUA?...
For a lot of us, losing Twitter isn’t really about losing ties to the company itself. It’s losing 10+ years of real, asynchronous communities, professional development, the ability to get gigs and clients, the ability to promo/share your art on an extremely broad scale. The loss of that has impact.
24.07.2023 14:51 — 👍 12450 🔁 3124 💬 213 📌 375This two-day public holiday already feels like a weekend so I am going to treat it accordingly.
28.06.2023 08:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria was a trip!
25.06.2023 23:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
