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Moustapha Mbacké Diop
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🇸🇳 || Medical Doctor || SFF/H Writer || FR/ENG/WO || Words in Omenana, ITAL, Fractured Lit, Haven Spec. The Year's Best African Spec Fic (2021). Africa Risen. Blackened Roots. F&SF. The Dark.|| he/him
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Super excited to share that I have a new story in Issue 120 of The Dark 🖤

It's a bizarre little thing with supernatural kidnappings and nameless horrors. You can read it here:

www.thedarkmagazine.com/apostasy-in-...

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Cover of Issue 120 of The Dark magazine featuring a woman standing in a forest with a raven in flight in a corner. The story’s title “Apostasy in Fruit” written above the picture of the inside of a fig.
May 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Curses! Is such a creepy, fun show! The premise is that a family of four finds out that the artifacts inside the manor they live in are cursed, because they were stolen by an ancestor/colonizer in their line. So they have to return each artifact to the people/communities…
Poster of Dreamworks’ Curses! featuring the main characters (the Vanderhouven family: Alex and Sky parents of Horus and Pandora; and the keepers of the Restricted Wing: an animated wooden Celtic statue named Stanley and a bodyless pirate skull with an eyepatch and braided bear named Larry). They’re standing again a green background under a full moon, staring in awe at a hand-shaped briar vine with thorns.
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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For my Francophone mutuals: je participe à une discussion portant sur “La Fabrique du fantastique : écrire et dessiner, filmer le fantastique” que vous pouvez suivre dans 10 minutes sur ce lien : youtube.com/live/COS9hLC...

En espérant vous y voir ✨
Poster sur le panel : La Favrique du Fantastique avec les intervenants : Dounia Charaf, Anouk Arnal, Moustapha Mbacké Diop, Catherine Dufour, Pascal Malosse, et Moussa Sako.
November 24, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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Award eligibility post 👀

This year I’d like to highlight this story for your consideration: The Ndayaan Sea is 4000 words, and it’s Dark Fantasy/Horror inspired by a Senegalese folktale. It’s been published in the Winter issue of F&SF. Thank you so much 🤍
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First paragraph of The Ndayaan Sea by Moustapha Mbacké Diop “I didn’t know for how long I had been roaming the Ndayaan Sea. Its water, white as the breastmilk spewing from a newborn’s lips, seemed to sweep me toward madness. The blood didn’t circulate into my vessels, my raw hand. Unknown things flickered in and out of the corners of my eyes, taunting me with silence. Surely, they were outraged, mocked my intrepidity. How could a powerless witch dare to venture into the Ndayaan Sea? (…)”
November 19, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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Book cover of The Fox Wife by Yangze Choo, depicting a woman with Chinese attire in red, with a hat on her back walking through a snowy forest. She’s alongside a body of water where the reflection of a white fox is juxtaposed to her.
November 16, 2024 at 11:08 PM
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Book cover of Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde, with an abstract face among flowers of different colors and shapes over a black background.
November 16, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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Cover of The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi, with the main character standing on what looks like a shadowy stage, with angel wings tucked under her arm.
November 16, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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Ooh me me 👀

(I won’t post any commentary along with the covers, but take it as a “yes, you need to read this now!” 🙂‍↕️”
The words “get to know my reading taste for every like I will post one book I love” over a white background.
November 16, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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The latest issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is out! It includes my short story The Ndayaan Sea, which is a dark reimagining of a Senegalese folktale. I’m so glad it marks my debut in F&SF ✨

Digital copies available here: weightlessbooks.com/the-magazine...

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February 22, 2024 at 5:51 PM