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Shingai
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Writer. Reader. Swahili Sea Citizen. Voodoonauts co-creator. Podcastle Magazine Co-Editor. Fantasy Magazine Co-Editor. Octavia Butler scholar at Clarion.
New worlds in our Lifetime ❤️
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kwonleyiswriting.bsky.social
I don't know @lpkindred.bsky.social personally, but I've heard his name countless times in the SFF circles I run in because of his many good works. That's what happens when you do good: you leave ripples that grow into waves of goodness for others. I donated here to say thanks. I hope you will, too.
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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bogiperson.bsky.social
LP's birthday is today, so you can give him a birthday gift and help him stay in school as a nontraditional student!
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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rsagarcia.bsky.social
Please help @lpkindred.bsky.social stay in school in these difficult times. He's a great person who's had a rough go and deserves all the good things.

www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...
Donate to Keep LP in School Spring 2026, organized by LP Kindred
Hey y'all, I'm LP Kindred, a Chicagoan-Angeleno writer/editor/teaching artist/culture work… LP Kindred needs your support for Keep LP in School Spring 2026
www.gofundme.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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suyidavies.com
Big up to our gal Shingai for staying hard with the work, for slaying hard with the work.
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theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE
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2025 Winner Outstanding Novelette: WE WHO WILL NOT DIE by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
October 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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ecatherine.com
When I read this novella in submissions, I knew we had to have it. The story is dark and timely, focusing on damaged systems: bodies and planets, human and animal. We are more alike than not, every person a world being ravaged by changing climates: environmental, emotional.
psychopomp.com Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 19d
our latest novella by @klschroeder.bsky.social is

- avail for preorder
- cover revealed
- f*cking exquisite

check out the cover

check out the author interview

pre order the book TODAY

it's really really good you can TOTALLY TRUST US ON THIS

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No One to Hold the Distant Dead: A Cover Reveal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Inga Nyström chose to leave Earth and help the colony of Nordenmark escape a looming ecological disaster.
psychopomp.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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bookshop.org
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
Tomorrow is... 🧙🏽Fantasy Friday!🐉

Stop by to see what the latest read is!

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Meanwhile... if you like what we do: Subscribe!❤️‍🔥

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Fantasy Magazine - issue 98 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 98 features work by: Eleanor Ball, Christian Emecheta, Sunwoo Jeong, Mateo Perez Lara, Tracie McBride, Eleanna Castroianni
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October 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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suyidavies.com
Wake up, babe. We ordered a second moon from Temu.
abbyhiggs.bsky.social Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · Oct 20
Red alert, poets! We now have two moons! I repeat: we now have two moons
NASA CONFIRMS EARTH NOW HAS TWO MOONS UNTIL 2083 Discovered this year but traveling with us since the 1960s, the small asteroid will drift away in 2083
October 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
Congratulations to @vajra.me for winning the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for his ferociously visionary RAKESFALL! & congratulations to all the finalists; I can confirm that this was an enormously challenging decision to make--because each novel in the shortlist was worthy of winning in its own way.
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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seraph76.bsky.social
Black queer surfers. Black queer bank-robbers. Black queer sea monsters. Black queer sorcerers. Black queer rootworkers. Black queer sailors. Black queer saints. Black queer sinners.

It’s Black!
It’s queer!
It’s Here!

Now available!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (pre-order) — neon hemlock
A collection of short stories. Publication date: October 14th, 2025. An 8” x 5” paperback. 188 pages. This is a pre-order—any other books ordered with it will ship when the pre-order is ready to ship....
www.neonhemlock.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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arleysorg.bsky.social
SERIOUSLY happy for Shingai, who works hard on their craft and still puts their heart into the things they write!

They are also a 2x Hugo Finalist for co-editing PodCastle, a BFA finalist, have appeared on the Locus Rec List several times, and more. Don't miss out - read their work!
October 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
The Ignyte Awards are AWESOME! Congratulations to the winners and finalists!

We are extremely happy for our Co-Editor Shingai Njeri Kagunda aka @shingai-be-like.bsky.social - who won for novelette We Who Will Not Die, and was part of two winning groups!❤️‍🔥

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2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards
OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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thedeadlands.com
hey, so if you love what we do

(and boy, do we love putting amazing work out there!!)

consider joining our patreon (as little as $2 a month!): www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla...

or supporting our coin fundraiser (this year's is SO GOOD): psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

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thedeadlands.com The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · Oct 14
guess what?

it's TOC'O TUESDAY!! 🌮 💀

and issue 40 is AMAZING

featuring guest fiction editor @vajra.me!!

are you ready?

thread/
October 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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olivasthewriter.bsky.social
Genuinely couldn't be more proud of my sibling, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social. They're work is always breathtaking and so full of life, they're one of the best in the game rn 🖤
shingai-be-like.bsky.social Shingai @shingai-be-like.bsky.social · Oct 13
*screaming crying throwing up in a good way* lol I will have more writerly words to share my gratitude at some point in the future. ✨🪐

P.s I was so deeply honoured to be on that ballot list with my Clarion sib @olivasthewriter.bsky.social whose novelette Sangronas! Un Lista de Terror is phenomenal💃🏾
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION
October 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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wtalabi.bsky.social
Yo! The Ignytes don't miss. They don't miss. Great choices all round. Congratulations to all the winners!
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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intokazi-v.bsky.social
Congratulations @shingai-be-like.bsky.social!❤️‍🔥
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE
psychopomp.com/we-who-will-...
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2025 Winner Outstanding Novelette: WE WHO WILL NOT DIE by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
October 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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theignyteawards.bsky.social
@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE
psychopomp.com/we-who-will-...
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2025 Winner Outstanding Novelette: WE WHO WILL NOT DIE by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
October 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the winners! Especially thrilled for @shingai-be-like.bsky.social's win for her powerful novelette "We Who Will Not Die" from @psychopomp.com. Thought-provoking and gorgeous!
October 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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foxesandroses.bsky.social
Congratulations @shingai-be-like.bsky.social! Very well-desrved!
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE
psychopomp.com/we-who-will-...
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2025 Winner Outstanding Novelette: WE WHO WILL NOT DIE by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
October 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
shingai-be-like.bsky.social
*screaming crying throwing up in a good way* lol I will have more writerly words to share my gratitude at some point in the future. ✨🪐

P.s I was so deeply honoured to be on that ballot list with my Clarion sib @olivasthewriter.bsky.social whose novelette Sangronas! Un Lista de Terror is phenomenal💃🏾
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION
2025 Winner Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Eugen Bacon
October 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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lpkindred.bsky.social
Shout out to lil sis @shingai-be-like.bsky.social for her Ignyte Award Winning novelette WE WHO WILL NOT DIE from @psychopomp.com.. I believe this is her second @theignyteawards.bsky.social.
theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE
psychopomp.com/we-who-will-...
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2025 Winner Outstanding Novelette: WE WHO WILL NOT DIE by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
October 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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cypayseur.bsky.social
Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews

Fantasy Magazine #98 Autumn 2025 (4 originals, 2 poems)

A grim issue all told, with some lingering on death and family and justice (or a lack thereof). The poetry strikes a bit more of a defiant tone, especially Eleanor Ball's "All of Our Mothers Are Dead"
October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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fantasymagazine.bsky.social
it's here!!✨

ISSUE 98

out NOW in full for subscribers

and check out the free roll-out here (and hit that subscribe button if you'd like to read the full issue now): psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Fantasy Magazine - issue 98 | Psychopomp
Fantasy Magazine Issue 98 features work by: Eleanor Ball, Christian Emecheta, Sunwoo Jeong, Mateo Perez Lara, Tracie McBride, Eleanna Castroianni
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September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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“Dinosaurs Once Lived Here,” by @yvettel.bsky.social
“The Clans” by Tonny Ogwa
“The Language We Have Learned to Carry in Our Skin” by Shingai Kagunda @shingai-be-like.bsky.social
Excerpt from Strange Horizons Review of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Design is set on a teal background with curved orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. Text reads: Colonisation and racism are also recurring themes. In “Dinosaurs Once Lived Here,” a story chronicling the many ways the planet Earth might have ended, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu writes, “Empathy only blooms for faces the colour of snow mushrooms, so the world blinks and continues about their day, sipping mimosas at overpriced brunch spots with grass walls.” In “The Clans” by Tonny Ogwa, meanwhile, a priest is “governing” over a group of clans, the white man granting “[t]he Clans and other African clans the rights to be people, albeit to lesser degrees of ‘peopleness.’” An excerpt graphic from “If Memory Serves” by Kevin Rigathi, published in Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology. Design is displayed on a teal background with orange and teal accents, the WTBAP logo at the top, and the story title and stylised quote marks at the bottom. Main text reads: Shingai Kagunda’s “The Language We Have Learned to Carry in Our Skin” reimagines Desmond Tutu’s famous line as something more insidious. “When the missionaries came to Africa,” Tutu reflected, “they had the Bible, and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.” In Kagunda’s world, the colonial project doesn’t end with the land being taken; it continues in the mind. The white man lures the empire’s subjects into backroom deals, offers them a taste of power, and spits down vita—a parasitic creature of war, ukatili, brutality, violence, whichever you want to call it—between the lips of the new national leaders. Once inside, the vita speaks through you, bends your thoughts to its will. The newly minted national leaders, the empire’s chosen successors, find themselves repeating the coloniser’s violence back to their people, their agency already eaten away from within.
September 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
In “The Language we have learned to Carry in Our Skin,” @shingai-be-like.bsky.social exposes how colonialism left behind a language of violence embedded in leaders, institutions and everyday life.

Full story in Issue V of WTBAP? The Anthology: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2025/04/25/t...

#africansff
Excerpt from Shingai Kagunda's “The Language We Have Learned to Carry in Our Skin”, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Displayed on a reddish background with abstract circular accents and the WTBAP logo. The excerpt reads: “Actually, your Baba is right to some degree; it started when they left. Remember what I said, ehh? That independence does not equate to freedom. So now, that will be useful to understand this story. When Uhuru’s father took the seat for presidency, you know there are all these photos of him smiling and shaking the hand of the British Prime Minister. Like almost every other president that chased the wazungu out of their countries during those last days, the wazungu were still here. After they had packed all their suitcases and cried about leaving their big farms and their workers who they had grown to love, their governors made a promise that they would always have something to come back to in the colonies.” Introduction by Olivia Kidula for "The Language We Have Learned to Carry in Our Skin” by Shingai Kagunda published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Displayed on a red background with teal and grey accents, the WTBAP logo and stylised quote marks. Main text reads: In Shingai Kagunda’s “The Language We Have Learned to Carry in Our Skin”, a story where many things happen behind closed doors, a character probes the significance of seeing and understanding the world as it is. Shingai shows us the battle between colonial narratives and African traditions and how one of the scars left behind is a sense of limited agency in shaping one’s temporal destiny. We see how language, through both its use and omissions, can be used to distort lived realities, the contours shaped and reshaped amid the dance of punctuation.
September 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM