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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
@yvettel.bsky.social
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Sarungano. Author of Drinking from Graveyard Wells. Tin House Scholar. CW ‘22 Voodoonauts Cofounder

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A brilliant student is doing their craft presentation on Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” which means I get to come into class with the rock I received when I was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award so we can have an immersive reading experience of that one scene😆🪨 @sjacksonawards.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I’ll be judging this year’s Afritondo’s Short Story Prize! The theme is “Transition.” Open to African & Black writers. Cash prize $1,000. Deadline Dec 24. Guidelines below👇🏾

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Afritondo Short Story Prize 2026 - Theme, Judges, Guidelines — Afritondo
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October 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Anyone know of any good craft essays or lectures or even video breakdowns on Crafting a Space Opera, Writing a Novella,the Structure of a Novella etc have a brilliant student this semester whose working on an independent project & would love to send them some space opera & novella resources.thanks!
September 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Podcast: Slice of SciFi 1138

Publisher @rosariumbill.bsky.social on THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN, pulling the only issue from history, and writing new stories w/ @jijennings.bsky.social , @yvettel.bsky.social, @amazingdavidbrame.bsky.social #comics #afrofuturism

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“The Adventures of Lion Man”: Bill Campbell on recovering history | Slice of SciFi
Publisher Bill Campbell talks about Rosarium Publishing’s new graphic novel compilation The Adventures of Lion Man, reprinting the lone 1947 comic featuring Lion Man, plus 3 new stories by John…
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August 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
yvettel.bsky.social
It’s Miles MorlandFoundation fellowship app season!I’ve received lots of DMs for feedback on proposals which I’m always happy to do but I’ve gotten so many now that I unfortunately have to decline the rest.This guide is on how I structured my book proposal
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The Book Proposal that Landed me a $18,000 Writing Fellowship
How I structured the Book Proposal for the Miles Morland Fellowship
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August 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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🌀APPLICATIONS OPEN🌀overjoyed to share that I will be co-facilitating a writing residency at Oxbow School of Arts for emerging BIPOC writers. Shout to @ageedubb.bsky.social & Jazz for bringing this space together. Come join us among the beaches of Lake Michigan🌊
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August 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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New Substack post on the making of the comic book Lion Man & the Afrofuturism of reaching out across time to honor an ancestor’s buried legacy. So honored to have been involved in Lion Man
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New Substack post on the making of the comic book Lion Man & the Afrofuturism of reaching out across time to honor an ancestor’s buried legacy.
August 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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August 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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“Dinosaurs Once Lived Here” by @yvettel.bsky.social is a haunting reflection on the end of the world, told in seven parts by the god of drunkenness.

As the earth grows mouths and swallows its cities, starting with Lagos, the rest of the world barely notices...
Excerpt from "Dinosaurs Once Lived Here" by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu from Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Displayed on a teal background with abstract circular accents and the WTBAP logo. The excerpt reads: Gods love a good party, and it is the scribe spirit’s duty to record everything heavenly decrees, the songs of the angels, and even the gossip the harmattan spirits and sandstorm whisper to each other as they kiss. Anansi’s cousin, the spirit of drunkenness, who once lived on the earth as a human, tells the best stories at parties. But he has a hard time minding his cups, forgetting details and changing names and the order of events. What he doesn’t remember, he invents. The scribe spirit writes everything down as told. Anansi’s cousin recalls from wine-sloshed memory what unfolded when a planet called earth met its demise. Foreword by Olivia Kidula for "Dinosaurs Once Lived Here" by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Displayed on a teal background with orange and turquoise accents, the WTBAP logo and stylised quote marks. The text reads: This theme that reality lies in the telling echoes in Yvette Lisa Ndlovu’s “Dinosaurs Once Lived Here”. Anansi’s cousin, the spirit of drunkenness, who once lived on the earth as a human, tells the best stories at parties. But he has a hard time minding his cups, forgetting details and changing names and the order of events. What he doesn’t remember, he invents. The scribe spirit writes everything down as told. The will of the storyteller blurs the line between fact and fiction
July 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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It’s here!!!!! Me & @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are so excited to share the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurreal Special Issue. We had such a tough time selecting the final ToC, so many brilliant pieces! Will be sharing my favorites throughout the week

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Strange Horizons
A Magazine of Speculative Fiction
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July 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Happening in 10 mins!
jabartlesauthor.bsky.social Jason A. Bartles @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social · Jun 6
Come see some wonderful people, and myself, at the Clarion West '25 Alumni Reading!

I've got a fun story about a disco light who is feeling her age. 🪩😱☠️

June 25, 8:00 p.m. Eastern

@yvettel.bsky.social
F.E. Choe
& Chris Yin
@clarionwest.bsky.social

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Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy: Alumni Reading June 25 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (Pacific Time / (8:00 pm Eastern) The Clarion West Summer Reading Series will be held virtually and streamed live over Zoom during the Six-Week Workshop. Join us for our first event, a reading featuring recent Six-Week Workshop alumni Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (CW ’22), F.E. Choe (CW ’23), Jason A. Bartles (CW ’23), and Chris Yin (CW ’24). There will be time for audience Q&A following the reading. You will be able to submit questions in the webinar.
June 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Today's the first of our annual Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy Reading Series! We're thrilled to present tonight's reading featuring several Clarion West alumni, including @yvettel.bsky.social (CW ’22), F.E. Choe (CW ’23), @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social (CW ’23), and Chris Yin (CW ’24).
Graphic has blue background and abstract lines with text: Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy: Alumni Reading. June 25, 5-6:30 PM PDT Featuring: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (CW '22), Jason A. Bartles (CW '23), F.E. Choe (CW '23), and Chris Yin (CW '24). Images of all four authors looking fabulous are overlayed in circles.
June 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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On @justkeepwriting.bsky.social this week, we're talking about SINNERS! I got to hang w/ @lpkindred.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @marshallcarrjr.bsky.social, @wilralston.bsky.social, & @yvettel.bsky.social for this awesome discussion!

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Episodes | Just Keep Writing
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May 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Talking Sinners with the awesome folks @justkeepwriting.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Honored to be a finalist for the DAG Prize for prose writers “whose work expands the possibilities for American writing.” Thank you to the DAG Foundation & congrats to all the finalists!

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Here are the finalists for the $20,000 DAG Prize for Literature.
Today, the DAG Foundation announced the five finalists for the DAG Prize for Literature, a new annual award that grants $20,000 to “an early-career prose writer whose work expands the possibi…
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May 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Last day to submit to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealist Special Issue! Poems, stories & essays welcome🖤 if you loved watching Sinners, this is the issue for you!

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Last day to submit to the AfroSurrealist Special Issue
April 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Happy pub day to @utushimitwandi.bsky.social poetry collection “Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies.” We eating in every genre this year!!!
April 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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If you loved the AfroSurrealism of Sinners then you better be submitting your stories, poems & essays to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealism Special Issue👀Deadline April 30.

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Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call
The editors for the AfroSurrealism Special invite you to submit fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
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April 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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RED ALERT!

Some of my fav creators including @rosariumbill.bsky.social and @yvettel.bsky.social are doing a crowdfund to bring back Lion Man, one of the first Black superheroes. They only have a couple hours left and they still have to raise $3400. Please help!!!

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The Adventures of Lion Man
THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN brings one of America's first Black superheroes back to life! From the minds of Eisner Award winners John Jennings and Damian Duffy, Bill Campbell, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, and E...
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April 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Today’s the day! Submissions for the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealism Special Issue are now open! We’re excited to read your work👇🏾

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April 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Only TEN days left for THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN BackerKit Campaign

Join @jijennings.bsky.social @yvettel.bsky.social David Brame, Damian Duffy, and me as we bring the ALL NEGRO COMICS (1947) hero back to life!

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April 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Came across this article today about the UK adopting the Zimbabwean mental health model of Friendship Benches. I wrote about Friendship Benches in my book Drinking from Graveyard Wells but gave it a magical realist (psychological horror?) spin haha

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April 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Reminder the AfroSurrealism special issue opens to submissions next week on April 15! Calling all poets & prose writers, send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic @strangehorizons.bsky.social

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April 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN brings one of America's first Black superheroes back to life! You can back the project here:

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April 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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@chidomuchemwa.bsky.social is an exciting new voice in African literature! I interviewed her about application process & experiences during the MMF fellowship year

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The 10k Words Project: An Interview with Chido Muchemwa on the Miles Morland Writing Fellowship
"To anyone taking up the fellowship, I would advise before they begin that they think about what they want the year to give them beyond that manuscript."
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March 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM