Moriam E. Kuye
@moriamekuye.bsky.social
🌜writer / Clarion '24 / first-year MFA (Fiction) @ UMN / rollerskater / Nigerian-British🌛
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@Clarion alum @larazontally.bsky.social has teamed up with @clarionwest.bsky.social alum @huwevansart.bsky.social (and others) to found Homeward Books, a new small press! Support their Kickstarter campaign today!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...
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The Witch of Prague, from Homeward Books!
Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
@Clarion alum @larazontally.bsky.social has teamed up with @clarionwest.bsky.social alum @huwevansart.bsky.social (and others) to found Homeward Books, a new small press! Support their Kickstarter campaign today!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...
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Canada's Aurora Awards ceremony starts at 2pm Pacific. My novel Blackheart Man is shortlisted for it. YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy2k...
The 2025 Aurora Awards
YouTube video by Mark Leslie Lefebvre
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August 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Canada's Aurora Awards ceremony starts at 2pm Pacific. My novel Blackheart Man is shortlisted for it. YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy2k...
Last year, I was in San Diego at the Clarion Workshop and had the best time! This year, I’m prepping for a big move and write-a-thoning with my awesome alumni-friends, Jai, Anj, and weeg bree. Check out our pages and consider supporting 💜
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July 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Last year, I was in San Diego at the Clarion Workshop and had the best time! This year, I’m prepping for a big move and write-a-thoning with my awesome alumni-friends, Jai, Anj, and weeg bree. Check out our pages and consider supporting 💜
clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...
clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...
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We’ve reached over $2000!
We’re pushing for our $15,000 goal, and have a very special Write-a-thon incentive to offer.
Donate $750 or more (which can be spread across multiple writers) to have your name, or a name of your choosing, immortalized in text by the renowned Kim Stanley Robinson!
We’re pushing for our $15,000 goal, and have a very special Write-a-thon incentive to offer.
Donate $750 or more (which can be spread across multiple writers) to have your name, or a name of your choosing, immortalized in text by the renowned Kim Stanley Robinson!
July 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
We’ve reached over $2000!
We’re pushing for our $15,000 goal, and have a very special Write-a-thon incentive to offer.
Donate $750 or more (which can be spread across multiple writers) to have your name, or a name of your choosing, immortalized in text by the renowned Kim Stanley Robinson!
We’re pushing for our $15,000 goal, and have a very special Write-a-thon incentive to offer.
Donate $750 or more (which can be spread across multiple writers) to have your name, or a name of your choosing, immortalized in text by the renowned Kim Stanley Robinson!
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I wrote all about my experience at Readercon and the Shirley Jackson Awards! www.juliarios.com/why-didnt-yo...
Why Didn't You Just Leave won the Shirley Jackson Award!
I am honored, surprised, and delighted that our ghost story book won this award! Editing it, and translating the two stories by Alberto Chimal and Raquel Castro, was a truly wonderful experience
www.juliarios.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I wrote all about my experience at Readercon and the Shirley Jackson Awards! www.juliarios.com/why-didnt-yo...
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If you are *at all* interested in thinking about genre fiction in general and the weird in particular, then reading what Zach writes really is giving yourself an excellent present.
Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned to know what the difference is between weird fiction and horror. www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...
The H Word: The Profane Illumination of the Weird - Nightmare Magazine
Weird fiction, it seems, is having a moment in the zeitgeist; horror, we’re told, is also having a moment in the zeitgeist. It isn’t surprising, given the state of the world, that these two modes are ...
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July 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you are *at all* interested in thinking about genre fiction in general and the weird in particular, then reading what Zach writes really is giving yourself an excellent present.
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We’ve reached over $1000 in donations! We’re so grateful to all our donors.
We still have some way to go to reach our target. So, consider supporting the workshop by donating or sponsoring one of our amazing Write-a-thon writers! Spread the word 🚀
clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...
We still have some way to go to reach our target. So, consider supporting the workshop by donating or sponsoring one of our amazing Write-a-thon writers! Spread the word 🚀
clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...
Clarion Write-a-Thon
The Clarion Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) charitable status
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July 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We’ve reached over $1000 in donations! We’re so grateful to all our donors.
We still have some way to go to reach our target. So, consider supporting the workshop by donating or sponsoring one of our amazing Write-a-thon writers! Spread the word 🚀
clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...
We still have some way to go to reach our target. So, consider supporting the workshop by donating or sponsoring one of our amazing Write-a-thon writers! Spread the word 🚀
clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...
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This is 💯
@mariaschrater.bsky.social is amazing with poetry and I miss working with her at @apparitionlit.com — but it warms the cockles of my barnacle heart to see her producing a whole issue 😍
@mariaschrater.bsky.social is amazing with poetry and I miss working with her at @apparitionlit.com — but it warms the cockles of my barnacle heart to see her producing a whole issue 😍
Issue 57 of Eye to the Telescope is here!
The theme is Birds, edited by @mariaschrater.bsky.social 🦉🪺
check it out here:
eyetothetelescope.com/archives/057...
The theme is Birds, edited by @mariaschrater.bsky.social 🦉🪺
check it out here:
eyetothetelescope.com/archives/057...
Eye to the Telescope
Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
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July 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is 💯
@mariaschrater.bsky.social is amazing with poetry and I miss working with her at @apparitionlit.com — but it warms the cockles of my barnacle heart to see her producing a whole issue 😍
@mariaschrater.bsky.social is amazing with poetry and I miss working with her at @apparitionlit.com — but it warms the cockles of my barnacle heart to see her producing a whole issue 😍
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This October, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my first edited anthology, "As The Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories."
Haunting. Reflective. Charged. And everything in between. 💜🩵🖤
Preorders and contributor list at the link below!
houseofanansi.com/products/as-...
Haunting. Reflective. Charged. And everything in between. 💜🩵🖤
Preorders and contributor list at the link below!
houseofanansi.com/products/as-...
As the Earth Dreams
A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy. This bold and innovative anthology of speculative short ficti...
houseofanansi.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This October, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my first edited anthology, "As The Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories."
Haunting. Reflective. Charged. And everything in between. 💜🩵🖤
Preorders and contributor list at the link below!
houseofanansi.com/products/as-...
Haunting. Reflective. Charged. And everything in between. 💜🩵🖤
Preorders and contributor list at the link below!
houseofanansi.com/products/as-...
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We’re cheering on our dedicated writers working towards their Write-a-Thon goals! Check out their pages and show them support via the link below! 🖊️✨
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Clarion Write-a-Thon
The Clarion Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) charitable status
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July 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
We’re cheering on our dedicated writers working towards their Write-a-Thon goals! Check out their pages and show them support via the link below! 🖊️✨
clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...
clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...
I love to see this! Sydney is so amazing and talented. Huge congrats @sydneyficant137.bsky.social! 💜
Our book Mapping New Stars is a finalist for a World Fantasy Award!!
Thank you to our contributors for their invaluable work, the UP Press for giving MNS a home, & my co-editors @sundialgirl.bsky.social & Anna Sanchez for making this book a reality ❤️
Please cross your fingers for us ✨
Thank you to our contributors for their invaluable work, the UP Press for giving MNS a home, & my co-editors @sundialgirl.bsky.social & Anna Sanchez for making this book a reality ❤️
Please cross your fingers for us ✨
Special Award, Professional (continued)
Gabriela Lee, Anna Felicia Sanchez, and Sydney Paige Guerrero, for Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction (The University of the Philippines Press)
David Thomas Moore, for editorial work with Solaris/Rebellion
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Gabriela Lee, Anna Felicia Sanchez, and Sydney Paige Guerrero, for Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction (The University of the Philippines Press)
David Thomas Moore, for editorial work with Solaris/Rebellion
(Continued next...)
July 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I love to see this! Sydney is so amazing and talented. Huge congrats @sydneyficant137.bsky.social! 💜
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⚡New Story!⚡
'Til Earth and Heaven Ring' is a historical piece in @strangehorizons.bsky.social Afrosurrealism special issue!
Inspired by Robert Smalls' self-emancipation, this is a story about strangeness, risk, art, and of course, about freedom.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
'Til Earth and Heaven Ring' is a historical piece in @strangehorizons.bsky.social Afrosurrealism special issue!
Inspired by Robert Smalls' self-emancipation, this is a story about strangeness, risk, art, and of course, about freedom.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
Till Earth and Heaven Ring
The first time Theo saw the Henrietta up close—dead of night, moon hanging low like ripe fruit behind the foremast, shrouded in fog—well, he felt something. Something fear-shaped but with a finer p…
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July 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
⚡New Story!⚡
'Til Earth and Heaven Ring' is a historical piece in @strangehorizons.bsky.social Afrosurrealism special issue!
Inspired by Robert Smalls' self-emancipation, this is a story about strangeness, risk, art, and of course, about freedom.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
'Til Earth and Heaven Ring' is a historical piece in @strangehorizons.bsky.social Afrosurrealism special issue!
Inspired by Robert Smalls' self-emancipation, this is a story about strangeness, risk, art, and of course, about freedom.
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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The reviews are in!
Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time by Rasheedah Phillips
review by Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction edited by Eugen Bacon
review by A. S. Lewis
The Afrofuturist Evolution by Ytasha L. Womack
review by Jacqueline Nyathi
Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time by Rasheedah Phillips
review by Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction edited by Eugen Bacon
review by A. S. Lewis
The Afrofuturist Evolution by Ytasha L. Womack
review by Jacqueline Nyathi
July 6, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The reviews are in!
Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time by Rasheedah Phillips
review by Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction edited by Eugen Bacon
review by A. S. Lewis
The Afrofuturist Evolution by Ytasha L. Womack
review by Jacqueline Nyathi
Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time by Rasheedah Phillips
review by Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction edited by Eugen Bacon
review by A. S. Lewis
The Afrofuturist Evolution by Ytasha L. Womack
review by Jacqueline Nyathi
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The Clarion Write-a-Thon is up and running! Do you have any writing goals in mind? Sign up and join our list of amazing participants to help us reach our $15,000 goal! 🚀
Find more about signing up and donating at:
clarionwriteathon.org/writerstips/
Find more about signing up and donating at:
clarionwriteathon.org/writerstips/
July 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Clarion Write-a-Thon is up and running! Do you have any writing goals in mind? Sign up and join our list of amazing participants to help us reach our $15,000 goal! 🚀
Find more about signing up and donating at:
clarionwriteathon.org/writerstips/
Find more about signing up and donating at:
clarionwriteathon.org/writerstips/
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New story! "The Best Way to Survive a Tiger Attack" by A. W. Prihandita! buff.ly/7211uCO
July 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
New story! "The Best Way to Survive a Tiger Attack" by A. W. Prihandita! buff.ly/7211uCO
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Strange Horizons is delighted to present our special issue on AfroSurreal SF, edited by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu and Shingai Njeri Kagunda.
Read the entire issue - with stories, poetry, essays, and reviews - here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/is...
Read the entire issue - with stories, poetry, essays, and reviews - here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/is...
30 June 2025
The Afrosurrealist Special Issue, funded by our 2024 Kickstarter.
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July 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Strange Horizons is delighted to present our special issue on AfroSurreal SF, edited by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu and Shingai Njeri Kagunda.
Read the entire issue - with stories, poetry, essays, and reviews - here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/is...
Read the entire issue - with stories, poetry, essays, and reviews - here:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/is...
Excited to see my Clarionmate @julialicia.bsky.social in this issue! 💜
The TOC for FF#27, coming your way Q1 2026, is now complete at 39,000 words!
Stories by Anya Leigh Josephs, @katharinetyndall.bsky.social, @rossshowalter.com, @ewenmaer.bsky.social, @catenotkate.bsky.social, @julialicia.bsky.social, and @jyzh.bsky.social!
Stories by Anya Leigh Josephs, @katharinetyndall.bsky.social, @rossshowalter.com, @ewenmaer.bsky.social, @catenotkate.bsky.social, @julialicia.bsky.social, and @jyzh.bsky.social!
June 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Excited to see my Clarionmate @julialicia.bsky.social in this issue! 💜
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The Clarion Write-a-Thon will be starting up again in just a few days! Get on top of your writing goals by joining us from June 29 to August 9 to raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Sign up through the link below! 🖊️🖊️🖊️
clarionwriteathon.com
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Clarion Write-a-Thon
The Clarion Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) charitable status
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June 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The Clarion Write-a-Thon will be starting up again in just a few days! Get on top of your writing goals by joining us from June 29 to August 9 to raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Sign up through the link below! 🖊️🖊️🖊️
clarionwriteathon.com
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Ahhhh I am so glad to see Anselma's work celebrated! 💜Huge congrats!!!
🎊 And the Nebula for Best Novelette goes to... "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being" by @awprihandita.bsky.social (@clarkesworldmagazine.com). Congratulations!!! #Nebulas2025 🥳🥳🥳
June 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Ahhhh I am so glad to see Anselma's work celebrated! 💜Huge congrats!!!
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Hi everyone, we are running out of time for our fundraiser. We want to keep doing what we do and uplifting writers at every stage of their careers.
Please visit igg.me/at/locusmag2... to see all the ways your donation will be rewarded! We love you! Like and share if you can. Thank you. 💌
Please visit igg.me/at/locusmag2... to see all the ways your donation will be rewarded! We love you! Like and share if you can. Thank you. 💌
May 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hi everyone, we are running out of time for our fundraiser. We want to keep doing what we do and uplifting writers at every stage of their careers.
Please visit igg.me/at/locusmag2... to see all the ways your donation will be rewarded! We love you! Like and share if you can. Thank you. 💌
Please visit igg.me/at/locusmag2... to see all the ways your donation will be rewarded! We love you! Like and share if you can. Thank you. 💌
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Have a new story, “The Adjutant’s Dinner Guest,” in this upcoming antho from Flame Tree Press, Fever Dreams, edited by Mark Morris. If you enlarge the cover you can see the terrific list of authors in it.
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Have a new story, “The Adjutant’s Dinner Guest,” in this upcoming antho from Flame Tree Press, Fever Dreams, edited by Mark Morris. If you enlarge the cover you can see the terrific list of authors in it.
So excited for the class of 2025! Hope you all have as fantastic a time as I did! 💜
We are so excited to announce our talented cohort of writers for the 2025 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Congratulations to these incredible writers! We cannot wait to meet you all in San Diego!
April 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
So excited for the class of 2025! Hope you all have as fantastic a time as I did! 💜
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The finalists for the prestigious Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire have been announced, and my novella “Kid Wolf & Kraken Boy” is on the ballot in the “NOUVELLE ÉTRANGÈRE / FOREIGN SHORT FICTION” category!
I am so moved and grateful to the awards jury and to my incredible publisher, Le Bélial’!
I am so moved and grateful to the awards jury and to my incredible publisher, Le Bélial’!
April 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The finalists for the prestigious Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire have been announced, and my novella “Kid Wolf & Kraken Boy” is on the ballot in the “NOUVELLE ÉTRANGÈRE / FOREIGN SHORT FICTION” category!
I am so moved and grateful to the awards jury and to my incredible publisher, Le Bélial’!
I am so moved and grateful to the awards jury and to my incredible publisher, Le Bélial’!
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Submissions for our Afrosurrealist Special Issue are open now until April 30th for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction!
Find out more about what the editors are looking for and the link to submit in the Call for Submissions at the link in our bio!
Find out more about what the editors are looking for and the link to submit in the Call for Submissions at the link in our bio!
April 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Submissions for our Afrosurrealist Special Issue are open now until April 30th for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction!
Find out more about what the editors are looking for and the link to submit in the Call for Submissions at the link in our bio!
Find out more about what the editors are looking for and the link to submit in the Call for Submissions at the link in our bio!