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Nwuguru, Chidiebere Sullivan
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Medical Lab Scientist | Data Scientist/Analyst | Poet | Winner: 2024 Rhonda Gail Williford Award, 2021 Write About Now “Cookout” Poetry Prize | Finalist: 2024 Ignyte Award, 2023 Rhysling Award | Nominee: Pushcart Prize, Best of The Net Award, Forward Prize
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Nwuguru, Chidiebere Sullivan @nwuguruchidiebere.bsky.social · Dec 18
I'm so happy to share that I was recently selected as a finalist for the just concluded 2024, Eucalyptus Poetry Contest🥰🥰. Below is the poem that earned me the spot😊.

Click the link below to listen to the poem:

m.soundcloud.com/eucalyptus-2...

#writingcommunity #writers #poetry
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I recently got my contributor’s copy from @thedeadlands.com🇺🇸. It’s amazing to equally share that this particular poem is currently standing as a finalist for this year’s Rhysling Award, and I hope it wins it🤲🙌.
June 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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issue 97 of Fantasy Magazine is LIVE!

featuring works by:
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Aishat Yahkub
Seoung Kim

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June 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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From the other side of hope, I’m excited to share that my poem has once again been listed as a finalist for this year’s Rhysling Award.

For the 5th time in 3 consecutive years, my works have been nominated for both Rhysling and Ignyte Awards🤭🥰
May 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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thedeadlands.com
so excited to see the talented @alwayscoffee.bsky.social, @nwuguruchidiebere.bsky.social, and Ayòdéjì Israel with poems from our own pages on the Rhysling finalist lists!!
sfpoetry.bsky.social SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · May 5
Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Finalists!

The Rhysling jury has selected 50 short poems and 25 long poems from the longlist of nominees, each of which will appear this year's Rhysling Anthology.

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May 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
nwuguruchidiebere.bsky.social
I recently got my contributor’s copies from @arcpoetry.bsky.social and Prism International. I hope you find these poems worthy of your engagement. Thank you so much 🥰🥰🤗.
April 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I am so happy to share that my work has just been nominated for this year's Rhysling Award🤗😊🎉. For three years now, my works have consistently finished either as a finalist for the Rhysling Award or the Ignyte Award, both of which are very prestigious awards that celebrate Sci-Fi writers worldwide.
March 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Rhysling noms are out! Congrats to all, including @feliciafm.bsky.social, @akualezlihope.bsky.social, @bethcato.bsky.social @pedroiniguez.bsky.social @alwayscoffee.bsky.social, @marisca.bsky.social, @nytebird45.bsky.social, @nwuguruchidiebere.bsky.social, and many whose handles I don't know!
March 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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February 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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thedeadlands.com
well, beloveds, it's TOC'o Tuesday! and this skeleton has all the bones 💀 🖤

issue 36 brings new stories and poetry, wisdom from our resident necromancer and other non-fic, and of course that glorious new cover!

read on!

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October 15, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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February 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll?

Try "The Golden Tooth: A Solo Show by Orion Cabrera" by William Alexander! (@willalex.bsky.social)

You can read it here!
https://buff.ly/40WT1fQ
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 61, “Queen of Seven Kingdoms” by Julie Dillon: a queen sits on her throne in the center facing the reader with a smile, wearing a crown with a golden crescent and a pink-purple dress. She is surrounded and being cuddled by seven men of a wide variety of skin tones and hair color, all shirtless and with toned bodies. They also wear simple coronet bands, and the quote says, "ORION: I met the Admiral of the Ocean Sea at a wedding. I’m not going to say his name. Not here. Not yet. Macbeth doesn’t really show up for every new staging of the Scottish Play, but the Admiral is always listening and hungry for praise. I come to bury him instead."
February 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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February 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Because today is Valentine
February 14, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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February 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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—Maggie Smith
February 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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February 12, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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We're now accepting submissions for our next Open Issue

There's no theme, so please send us your best stories, essays, and poems. We're excited to read what you've been working on!

Submit by March 15 at ironhorse.submittable.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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ICYMI, Great news, Space Unicorns! "Six Uncanny Magazine Stories Are on the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading List and Locus Award Poll"! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/six-uncanny-magazine-stories-are-on-the-2024-locus-recommended-reading-list-and-locus-award-poll/
Uncanny Magazine Issue 61 cover, Queen of Seven Kingdoms by Julie Dillon, with Uncanny title on top, November/December 2024, and credits on the bottom. The cover depicts a queen sitting on her throne in the center facing the reader with a smile, wearing a crown with a golden crescent and a pink-purple dress. She is surrounded and being cuddled by seven men of a wide variety of skin tones and hair color, all shirtless and with toned bodies. They also wear simple coronet bands.
February 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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ICYMI, Congratulations to Nghi Vo! Nghi Vo's short story “Stitched to Skin like Family Is” is on the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading List! You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/stitched-to-skin-like-family-is/
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 57, “Forever Traveler” by Antonio Javier Caparo: In the background, a sky of a light purple color with clouds has a flock of white birds flying by. A tall, majestic tree stands in the middle, trunk thick and illuminated by the sun. A bald man in an astronaut's suit is sitting with his legs crossed and eyes closed. He looks like he is meditating; on his right side, his helmet rests on the ground, and the quote says, "My stitches laddered their way up the split seam, in and out one side, across, and then in and out the other. When you pulled the thread through, if you had done the job right, it closed the seam like it had never been torn at all."
February 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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ICYMI, Congrats to Uncanny Poetry Editor Betsy Aoki & Interviewer Caroline M. Yoachim! Betsy’s “And to Their Shining Palaces Go” and Caroline’s “Our Chatbots Said I Love You, Shall We Meet?” & “We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read” are also on the Locus List!
Betsy Aoki Caroline M. Yoachim
February 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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The 2024 Locus Poll which determines the Locus Awards is FREE TO ALL! Uncanny Magazine is eligible for a Locus Award in the Best Magazine category, and Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas are eligible in the Best Editor category! GO DO THE THING!! https://poll.voting.locusmag.com/
Uncanny Thomases Broci’s Lunacy Act 1 cover art of Uncanny Magazine issue 59 with the title and list of authors below. Art depicts a woman in a red dress and orange hair lifted up as if the wind is blowing it up from underneath. Her hands are over a glowing crescent moon. Behind her are trees and glowing turquoise butterflies.
February 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Issue 3 is out Feb 14th, featuring @lenaozge.bsky.social @steverinod.bsky.social @julieirigaray.bsky.social @juliesheridanpoet.bsky.social @courtludwick.bsky.social @jermcurtin.bsky.social @enochjones.bsky.social @hitenchojer.bsky.social and many more. Image shows detail of art by Elena Gual
#poetry
February 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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#DailyHaikuPrompt
#ocean
#senryu

let us overcome
a tsunami of hate with
an ocean of love
January 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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There really aren’t enough beetle poems. Here’s a great one by @eugenialeigh.bsky.social which I discovered through Pádraig Ó Tuama’s podcast:
#poetry
Poem text reads: How the Dung Beetle Finds Its Way Home by Eugenia Leigh The Milky Way's glinting ribbon helps the dung beetle roll his good ball of shit back to the ones he loves. But blind him to the sky with as little as a hat, and he will swerve like a drunk who, if he makes it home alive, might find the family, soured with waiting, gone. Drawers cleared, beds cold, even the watercolor ark of giraffes and raptors pulled from the face of the fridge. See? I want to tell my missing father, it's a metaphor so simple it's almost not worth writing down: even beetles need the stars to nudge them back to where they need to be when they need to be there— toward their little ones' gummy grins ever pardoning the grisliest parent. Poem text reads: (2/2) I am thirty-four with a son the day my mother tells me she enrolled in a four-day seminar about how to be a good mom. A little late, I know. Once, in a rage, I left my husband and our sleeping child. Where did you go, friends ask when I tell the story. I wish I'd had a grander plan. I wish I'd stood on the roof of our building and, empowered by that single Brooklyn star, I'd ripped up the book of my parents' sins. Or I wish I could tell someone the truth: that I fear I am the kind of woman who could leave the one good family God had the gall to give her. Really, I sat on the stairwell leading up to the roof and wept until a large bug threatened my life, at which point I recalled the dung beetles, stopped blaming my parents, and— thanking the metaphorical stars— I rolled up my pile of shit and trudged back home.
January 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM