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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga
@aniyonsenga.bsky.social
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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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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · Nov 18
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
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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!!

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December 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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New poem in Uncanny Magazine (@uncannymagazine.bsky.social) Issue 68! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/an-u...
An underground butterfly - Uncanny Magazine
Floating fluff is fairy dust, pollen on the subway. A green caterpillar climbs my sleeve, so I place it on the windowsill. It crawls up its surface. Light flashes onto us as we speed past a park. Then...
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January 6, 2026 at 10:03 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

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The background has an image of flowers with a purple overlay. A white rectangular border surrounds the image. Inside the border, at the top of the image is the Ontario Arts Council logo and the Augur logo. In between these two logos are a white plus sign. at the top is the logo of the Ontario Arts Council, and next to it is the logo of Augur in white text. Below it reads: “‘25 recommender grant recipients” in white text and followed below reads: “The 10 SFF poets & writers who blew our socks off” in white text. Underneath it are the Ontario Arts Council grant recipients we recommended in 10 white text bubbles: “Ai Jiang, Anna Sui, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Manahil Bandukwala, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Fareh Malik, Tanaz Bhathena, Benjamin Ghan, Connor Lafortune, and Kamila Rina” in black text. There is a dark purple bar and inside it reads: "2026 applications open now! Check the Ontario Arts Council website for info" in white text. At the bottom reads: “Fiction | Poetry | Short Fiction Writers” in white text.
November 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Happy Book Birthday! One year today! 🍾🥂 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @tobiogundiran.com, @xanwriter.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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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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🏆 @suyidavies.com @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social, @wtalabi.bsky.social, @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social , @stephenembleton.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @tobiogundiran.com @xanwriter.bsky.social
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Eugen Bacon, Wole Talabi, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and Other African Writers Shine at 2025 Ignyte Award - JAY Lit
Winners of the 2025 Ignyte Awards have been announced, recognizing outstanding contributions in speculative fiction. Several Africa writers were among those celebrated across major categories and they...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION
2025 Winner Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Eugen Bacon
October 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Anyone else experience One Battle After Another like a worst nightmare playing out?
October 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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2/12 #SmallPress #books #BookSky #DSPBposts 💙📚 @teresempierre.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬ @aniyonsenga.bsky.social @suyidavies.com @chineloonwualu.bsky.social ‬@zalikarb.bsky.social ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ @ogre.red
Book cover for Black Notes: Young Black Voices, edited by Althea Prince (Insomniac Press), with a cherry-red hand upraised in a fist similar to a black power salute, but holding a fountain pen. As far as I can tell, this book is out of print. Book cover for As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories (House of Anansi), with a bee in neon blue, pink and purple against a black background. Edited by esteemed poet Terese Mason Pierre, this bold and innovative anthology of speculative short fiction reveals and uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reveries, reflections, experiments, and hopes of Black writers in Canada. Featuring stories by the editor, Trynne Delaney, francesca ekwuyasi, Whitney French, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Chimedum Ohaegbu, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Chinelo Onwualu, Lue Palmer, and Zalika Reid-Benta. Ten breathtaking stories explore natural and urban landscapes, living and dead relationships, economic catastrophe, love, and desire--all while celebrating the persistent and ever-changing self, and envisioning beautiful Black futures. https://houseofanansi.com/products/as-the-earth-dreams Book cover for bilingual science fiction poetry collection A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness: Poems of a Fabled Universe by Angela Acosta (Red Ogre Review‬), with a creature with a blonde mohawk, dark skin, fuchsia eyes and ears, and scarring in neat lines around the eyes and lips. Nominated twice (2024 and 2025) for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association’s Elgin Awards. https://ogre.red/press/books/2023-chapbook-acosta-angela/ Book cover for A House Unsettled by Trynne Delaney (Annick Press), with a bouquet of roses rising out of a skull. With her dad’s incarceration, escalating fights with her mom, and an overbearing stepdad she’s not sure she can trust, Asha is desperate for the fresh start promised by a move to the country. Her great aunt Aggie’s crumbling, pest-ridden house isn’t exactly what she had in mind, but the immediate connection she makes with her new neighbor Cole seems like a good sign. Soon, though, Asha’s optimism is shadowed by strange and disturbing occurrences within the old house’s walls: footsteps stalking the halls; a persistent chill; cold hands around her neck in the middle of the night . . . Fearing for her loved ones’ safety–and her own–Asha seeks out the source of these terrifying incidents and uncovers secrets from the past that connect her and Cole’s families and reach into the present. But as tensions with her mom and stepdad rise and Cole withdraws, Asha is left alone to try and break the cycle of violence that holds them all in its haunting grip. https://www.annickpress.com/Books/A/A-House-Unsettled
September 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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August 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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August 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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
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Catch my story and stories from awesome authors in this fire lineup!
houseofanansi.bsky.social House of Anansi Press @houseofanansi.bsky.social · Jul 16
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
The cover of AS THE EARTH DREAMS: BLACK CANADIAN SPECULATIVE STORIES, edited by Terese Mason Pierre, features a blue and purple bug on a black background.
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
Panel Description from WorldCon 2025 Strong Woman Lead =/= LGBTQIA= Tagged Culture/DEI Room 420-422 9-10am Have you ever walked into a bookshop and asked for books with strong women leads? Perhaps you've requested that love not be a major plot point? Has the staff excitedly passed you half a dozen books that, though good, have a bit of a repeating theme? Here we ask the question: Why do authors/bookshops assume the only way to have a strong woman lead is to make them gay with a woman love interest and prevent men characters from rising over the background? Isn't it possibly to have a book with strong women and men characters in it and not have them fall in love?
July 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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"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
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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