Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga
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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga
@aniyonsenga.bsky.social
writer extraordinaire~ Spec fic is my jam. Words in Uncanny Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways,
GigaNotoSaurus, Augur Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH, Apparition Lit, etc.
EN/FR/JP. she/her. Photo by Madeeha Photos. https://www.aline-mweziniyonsenga.com/
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I should introduce myself! I'm Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga. I write speculative fiction about migrant experiences with the help of a lion goddess, dragon rights activists, tornado aunties, shapeshifting ships, and the occasional ghost. Links to my work on my website: www.aline-mweziniyonsenga.com
Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga
Writer of speculative fiction mixing place and tongue with magic and ghosts
www.aline-mweziniyonsenga.com
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"'The Matriarchs' by Malena Salazar Maciá... is a harrowing and emotional story about resilience and survival."

Maria Haskins aka @mariahaskins.com has wonderful things to say about Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 in the February Locus Magazine aka @locusmag.bsky.social !❤️‍🔥

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Fantasy Magazine - issue 99 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 features work by: Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Malena Salazar Maciá, Eleanor Glewwe, Alex Jennings, Cory Farrenkopf, and M. L. Krishnan
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February 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!!

www.neonhemlock.com/were-here
we're here — neon hemlock
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December 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Earlier this year, we awarded 10 wonderful recipients an OAC recommender grant & we just got the okay to share them! 🎊

CONGRATS to these incredible writers:

@aijiang.bsky.social
@thesuiway.bsky.social
@aniyonsenga.bsky.social
@manahil.bsky.social
@snehaskanta.bsky.social

Cont'd below👇
November 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Read my story about my Winx Club-inspired, eco-influencer idols!
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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OR purchase a copy today to read the full issue!

Issue 8.2 features...

✒️ "Mother Tree’s Idols” by @aniyonsenga.bsky.social
✒️”Of Blood and Pomegranates” by @sokhan.bsky.social
✒️ “The Event Horizon of Honey” by @ludoclast.bsky.social

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Augur Issue 8.2 Augur Magazine Issue 8.2 - Augur Literary Society
Augur Magazine Issue 8.2 asks you to exist in the in-between, in the cycles where yes, all things grow and die–but all things also live, vibrantly, exquisitely, and unapologetically–in revolutions whe...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION
October 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Anyone else experience One Battle After Another like a worst nightmare playing out?
October 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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September 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Holy Hugo Cats!!! WE ARE JUST $2975 AWAY FROM FUNDING YEAR 12!!!! 🦄😸
KEEP REPOSTING, SPACE UNICORNS! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is 90% funded with ONLY 6 DAYS TO GO!! We just need $4544 to have a 12th year of amazing stories, poetry, essays, interviews, podcasts, and art! buff.ly/HPEcU9t
August 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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August 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Space Unicorns! The The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is now 90% funded! KEEP THIS ROLLING, SPACE UNICORNS!!!
ICYMI, PLEASE REPOST! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is 88% funded with ONE WEEK TO GO! We are $6K away from funding a 12th year of Uncanny Magazine! WE CAN DO THIS MAGICAL THING, SPACE UNICORNS!!! buff.ly/HPEcU9t
July 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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2/12 As the Earth Dreams includes stories by: Trynne Delaney, francesca ekwuyasi, Whitney French, @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, Chimedum Ohaegbu, @suyidavies.com, @chineloonwualu.bsky.social, Lue Palmer, Terese Mason Pierre, and @zalikarb.bsky.social. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books
July 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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7/12 Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga (@aniyonsenga.bsky.social) wrote, amongst other things, ‘Fell Our Selves’ in GigaNotoSaurus ‪(@giganotosaurus.bsky.social): giganotosaurus.org/2023/02/01/f... & ‘Tornadoes, Grief, and Poutine’ in Augur Magazine (@augursociety.bsky.social): augursociety.org/tornadoes-gr...
Fell Our Selves - GigaNotoSaurus
Content warning: death and suicide ideation Here Dustin “And this is the control room!” Dustin stifled a yawn. His new employer bounced on her toes, sprightly for a predawn start. Her coily hair bounc...
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July 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Catch my story and stories from awesome authors in this fire lineup!
AS THE EARTH DREAMS, edited by Terese Mason Pierre, is a ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers.

AS THE EARTH DREAMS is out October 14th, learn more here: houseofanansi.com/products/as-... #booksky #blackbooksky
July 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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WorldCon panels dropped and I guess they've decided to jump on the right wing's train of strawmen about the gay agenda? Please, if anyone in their life has encountered a bookstore giving them half a dozen sapphic recs with 'strong women leads' let me know so I can shop there
July 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"can i venmo u?" the way that I have to remind americans that venmo is exclusively a u.s. thing and people outside the u.s. have literally no way of using it and sometimes have no need of an app of that nature
July 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I had two dreams where I was reading one of my short stories in front of a crowd. Normally when I read in dreams, I can’t make out anything on the page, but this time I was reading full excerpts. The stories don’t exist in real life.
July 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM