Exodus Oktavia Brownlow
@coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social
It’s Ex! 🤓
Author. ✍🏽
Sewist. 🪡
Editor. 📑
Fashion Designer in Formation. 📐🎨✂️
Blackhawk, Mississippi. 💚
https://www.exodusoktaviabrownlow.com
Author. ✍🏽
Sewist. 🪡
Editor. 📑
Fashion Designer in Formation. 📐🎨✂️
Blackhawk, Mississippi. 💚
https://www.exodusoktaviabrownlow.com
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We're writing spec flash tomorrow in my workshop! Thanks so much for this terrific resource, @mynachang.bsky.social 💙
August Spec Flash Roundup!
With
@smallwondersmag.com
@flashfictiononline.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
@flashpointsf.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
@naturefutures.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@escapepod.org
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social
@yourimpossiblevoice.com
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With
@smallwondersmag.com
@flashfictiononline.bsky.social
@apexmag.bsky.social
@flashpointsf.bsky.social
@factorfourmagazine.com
@naturefutures.bsky.social
@hexliterary.bsky.social
@okaydonkeymag.com
@escapepod.org
@molotovlitzine.bsky.social
@yourimpossiblevoice.com
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Flash Roundup * August 2025
A gathering of recent speculative flash & micro fiction, each presenting a tiny-yet-powerful universe. How tiny? About one-thousand words for flash; four-hundred words for micro. The word count…
mynachang.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
We're writing spec flash tomorrow in my workshop! Thanks so much for this terrific resource, @mynachang.bsky.social 💙
Is it some kinda rule of the universe that all folks named “Hannah” are some of the nicest, most decent folks you’ll ever met? 🧐I have never known a MEAN Hannah!
August 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Is it some kinda rule of the universe that all folks named “Hannah” are some of the nicest, most decent folks you’ll ever met? 🧐I have never known a MEAN Hannah!
At that age where I NEED to eat a little something before I take my daily supplements or else nausea ensues… 🫠
August 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
At that age where I NEED to eat a little something before I take my daily supplements or else nausea ensues… 🫠
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TONIGHT!
Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social)
Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me!
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social)
Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me!
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
August 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
TONIGHT!
Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social)
Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me!
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
Join us for the virtual book launch of @writesloud.bsky.social collection: FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT (@stanchion.bsky.social)
Readers include: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, @toddedillard.bsky.social, @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social, and me!
Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
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Our submissions are now ✨ open✨ again, so here's a reminder of what we're looking for:
✨ Voice-driven writing
✨ Fresh, authentic, & unpublished work
✨ Compelling voices
✨ Voice-driven writing
✨ Fresh, authentic, & unpublished work
✨ Compelling voices
August 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Our submissions are now ✨ open✨ again, so here's a reminder of what we're looking for:
✨ Voice-driven writing
✨ Fresh, authentic, & unpublished work
✨ Compelling voices
✨ Voice-driven writing
✨ Fresh, authentic, & unpublished work
✨ Compelling voices
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Jackson, Mississippi, a primarily black city and the state’s capital, hasn’t had a proper running water treatment facility since late August of 2022.
Mississippi becomes the fourth state to deploy National Guard troops to Washington, DC. governorreeves.ms.gov/governor-ree...
Governor Reeves Statement On Mississippi National Guard Deployment to Washington, D.C.
Governor Tate Reeves today released the following statement on approving the deployment of approximately 200 Mississippi National Guard Soldiers to Washington , D.C.:
governorreeves.ms.gov
August 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Jackson, Mississippi, a primarily black city and the state’s capital, hasn’t had a proper running water treatment facility since late August of 2022.
Feeling very thankful to all of the amazing writers who have responded with a beautiful “Yes!” when I’ve asked for arcs to review their work. 💚It’s quite a privilege, and I feel so honored that folks trust me to adore their books with as many wonderful words as necessary. ✨
August 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Feeling very thankful to all of the amazing writers who have responded with a beautiful “Yes!” when I’ve asked for arcs to review their work. 💚It’s quite a privilege, and I feel so honored that folks trust me to adore their books with as many wonderful words as necessary. ✨
My Black Vamps Only (as in Black vampire characters exclusively) Movie Birthday Party is coming up soon, and I’m finding it obscenely hard to focus on anything else. 😅I feel like a kid. I haven’t had a birthday party since I was about 14! I’m excited! Hehe 🤭🤭🤭
August 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My Black Vamps Only (as in Black vampire characters exclusively) Movie Birthday Party is coming up soon, and I’m finding it obscenely hard to focus on anything else. 😅I feel like a kid. I haven’t had a birthday party since I was about 14! I’m excited! Hehe 🤭🤭🤭
My plum-cherry wine is FINISHED, ya’ll! Look at the COLOR on my pretty boozy baby! 🥰😍🥰She’s a whole Backwoods Blackhawk Brewer Babe! 🤭🤭🤭
August 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My plum-cherry wine is FINISHED, ya’ll! Look at the COLOR on my pretty boozy baby! 🥰😍🥰She’s a whole Backwoods Blackhawk Brewer Babe! 🤭🤭🤭
Y’all reading, writing, or relaxing today? Or a lil of all three? 😇
August 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Y’all reading, writing, or relaxing today? Or a lil of all three? 😇
I’m having a 🧛🏾🧛🏿🧛🏼♂️Movie Party for my birthday this year, and decided to bring out these beautiful crystal shot glasses that my beloved bat babe @kcmeadbrewer.com gifted me years ago!
They have clovers on them for luck which—considering how strong I make my drinks?—might be what the guests need! 🤭🤭🤭
They have clovers on them for luck which—considering how strong I make my drinks?—might be what the guests need! 🤭🤭🤭
August 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I’m having a 🧛🏾🧛🏿🧛🏼♂️Movie Party for my birthday this year, and decided to bring out these beautiful crystal shot glasses that my beloved bat babe @kcmeadbrewer.com gifted me years ago!
They have clovers on them for luck which—considering how strong I make my drinks?—might be what the guests need! 🤭🤭🤭
They have clovers on them for luck which—considering how strong I make my drinks?—might be what the guests need! 🤭🤭🤭
Baby, I just know some artist’a throw a $12k price tag on this for sale in somebody’s gallery. 😅
Here’s where things stand on the brownie front:
August 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Baby, I just know some artist’a throw a $12k price tag on this for sale in somebody’s gallery. 😅
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🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words!
Pre-order link in comments!
Pre-order link in comments!
August 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🌸COVER REVEAL🌸 for MORE FLOWERS & it’s a beauty! I’m grateful to so many: @triohousepress.org, @krisbigalk.bsky.social, @natashakane.bsky.social & to @fascicles.bsky.social, @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, & @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social for their kind, generous words!
Pre-order link in comments!
Pre-order link in comments!
My latest arc: “Patchwork a Sewist’s Diary” by Maddie Ballard publishing with Tin House on October 21st, 2025!
THIS sewist and baby fashion designer cannot WAIT to get into this beauty!
😍
Review coming soon!
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THIS sewist and baby fashion designer cannot WAIT to get into this beauty!
😍
Review coming soon!
🪡💚🪡
August 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My latest arc: “Patchwork a Sewist’s Diary” by Maddie Ballard publishing with Tin House on October 21st, 2025!
THIS sewist and baby fashion designer cannot WAIT to get into this beauty!
😍
Review coming soon!
🪡💚🪡
THIS sewist and baby fashion designer cannot WAIT to get into this beauty!
😍
Review coming soon!
🪡💚🪡
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Yay!
Peep my story in the TOC
A tale about a fraught and complex mother-daughter relationship, a genius scientist who uses math to open up the cosmos, and using love to navigate unbearable grief.
Excited to share it later this week.
And the other stories here? Incredible.
Peep my story in the TOC
A tale about a fraught and complex mother-daughter relationship, a genius scientist who uses math to open up the cosmos, and using love to navigate unbearable grief.
Excited to share it later this week.
And the other stories here? Incredible.
August 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Yay!
Peep my story in the TOC
A tale about a fraught and complex mother-daughter relationship, a genius scientist who uses math to open up the cosmos, and using love to navigate unbearable grief.
Excited to share it later this week.
And the other stories here? Incredible.
Peep my story in the TOC
A tale about a fraught and complex mother-daughter relationship, a genius scientist who uses math to open up the cosmos, and using love to navigate unbearable grief.
Excited to share it later this week.
And the other stories here? Incredible.
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Seriously you guys, with a late surge before Tuesday's publication day, there's a chance to push @writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's First Kicking, Then Not into an unprecedented 4th printing! That'll get Hannah another $350 and 15 more author copies! If you want this book (& you should) do it!
August 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Seriously you guys, with a late surge before Tuesday's publication day, there's a chance to push @writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's First Kicking, Then Not into an unprecedented 4th printing! That'll get Hannah another $350 and 15 more author copies! If you want this book (& you should) do it!
Took like a 3-hour nap after SEVERAL nights of the worst insomnia I’ve ever had. Then ate a bonkers big bowl of popcorn AND a brown sugar poptart.
Baby, I don’t even know. 🤪
Baby, I don’t even know. 🤪
August 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Took like a 3-hour nap after SEVERAL nights of the worst insomnia I’ve ever had. Then ate a bonkers big bowl of popcorn AND a brown sugar poptart.
Baby, I don’t even know. 🤪
Baby, I don’t even know. 🤪
Fresh from the UPS—ARC of Nikesha Elise Williams’ debut novel “The Seven Daughters of Dupree” dropping on January 27th, 2026!
I can’t get enough of this COVER!
😍
Reading and book review in-progress!
💚
I can’t get enough of this COVER!
😍
Reading and book review in-progress!
💚
August 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Fresh from the UPS—ARC of Nikesha Elise Williams’ debut novel “The Seven Daughters of Dupree” dropping on January 27th, 2026!
I can’t get enough of this COVER!
😍
Reading and book review in-progress!
💚
I can’t get enough of this COVER!
😍
Reading and book review in-progress!
💚
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The 2025 Best of the Net Anthology is now live! Read work from this year's winners and see the full list of finalists here! bestofthenetanthology.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The 2025 Best of the Net Anthology is now live! Read work from this year's winners and see the full list of finalists here! bestofthenetanthology.com
I am writing the most challenging work of my life, thus far, and all I can do is giggle and journal about it. 😅
August 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I am writing the most challenging work of my life, thus far, and all I can do is giggle and journal about it. 😅
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PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb
August 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb
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Reminder! My online book launch is August 19th! ❤️
And joined by a 🔥🔥🔥 lineup: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social @anniejowrites.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social
RSVP (and get the link):
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
And joined by a 🔥🔥🔥 lineup: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social @anniejowrites.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social
RSVP (and get the link):
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
August 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reminder! My online book launch is August 19th! ❤️
And joined by a 🔥🔥🔥 lineup: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social @anniejowrites.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social
RSVP (and get the link):
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
And joined by a 🔥🔥🔥 lineup: @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social @anniejowrites.bsky.social and @avitusbcarle.bsky.social
RSVP (and get the link):
www.eventbrite.com/e/hannah-gri...
Day two of writing.
I think I get why some writers received the fates they did. 😅I don’t like describing writing as “work” but it is QUITE a practice, and putting 4+ hours in, day to day, is a LOT.
I think I get why some writers received the fates they did. 😅I don’t like describing writing as “work” but it is QUITE a practice, and putting 4+ hours in, day to day, is a LOT.
August 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Day two of writing.
I think I get why some writers received the fates they did. 😅I don’t like describing writing as “work” but it is QUITE a practice, and putting 4+ hours in, day to day, is a LOT.
I think I get why some writers received the fates they did. 😅I don’t like describing writing as “work” but it is QUITE a practice, and putting 4+ hours in, day to day, is a LOT.
Birthday Month! 🥰💚Virgo Gang-Gang! 🤭
August 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Birthday Month! 🥰💚Virgo Gang-Gang! 🤭
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“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.
July 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.