Toni Ann Johnson
@toniannj.bsky.social
Novelist and short story writer
Flannery O’Connor Award for
Light Skin Gone to Waste
Screenwriter of Ruby Bridges and Step Up 2
Flannery O’Connor Award for
Light Skin Gone to Waste
Screenwriter of Ruby Bridges and Step Up 2
Pinned
Toni Ann Johnson
@toniannj.bsky.social
· Jun 18
Cover reveal! I’m so pleased with the artwork by Christian Noelle Charles that the design team at University Press of Kentucky chose for my forthcoming book But Where’s Home?
My childhood friend Annie Rudden sent me this hardcopy of the Publishers Weekly Endnotes feature on my book. I only had the online version and I appreciate this so much!
November 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
My childhood friend Annie Rudden sent me this hardcopy of the Publishers Weekly Endnotes feature on my book. I only had the online version and I appreciate this so much!
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What a great mini-feature on this new work by @toniannj.bsky.social, published by @kentuckypress.bsky.social Screen Door Press imprint, edited by @crystalwilki.bsky.social #ReadUP
An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest book.
How ‘But Where’s Home?’ by Toni Ann Johnson Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the author’s latest book.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
What a great mini-feature on this new work by @toniannj.bsky.social, published by @kentuckypress.bsky.social Screen Door Press imprint, edited by @crystalwilki.bsky.social #ReadUP
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November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Getting people back to their families, giving them a chance in court.
Bonded detainees have a better chance at getting a lawyer ands a better chance at staying with their families.
Consider donating to @cluejustice bond fund. www.cluejustice.org/detained-imm...
Bonded detainees have a better chance at getting a lawyer ands a better chance at staying with their families.
Consider donating to @cluejustice bond fund. www.cluejustice.org/detained-imm...
October 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Getting people back to their families, giving them a chance in court.
Bonded detainees have a better chance at getting a lawyer ands a better chance at staying with their families.
Consider donating to @cluejustice bond fund. www.cluejustice.org/detained-imm...
Bonded detainees have a better chance at getting a lawyer ands a better chance at staying with their families.
Consider donating to @cluejustice bond fund. www.cluejustice.org/detained-imm...
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Getting people back to their families. Consider donating to @cluejustice ‘s bond fund www.latimes.com/california/s...
ICE nabbed this L.A. grandma four months ago. This week she was reunited with family
Emma De Paz, 58, was among the street vendors detained in June when federal immigration agents swept through the Home Depot in Hollywood.
www.latimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Getting people back to their families. Consider donating to @cluejustice ‘s bond fund www.latimes.com/california/s...
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I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
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just a reminder that there were people of the time — and of the same class and station — who saw this stuff and thought, "yeah this is bullshit"
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
just a reminder that there were people of the time — and of the same class and station — who saw this stuff and thought, "yeah this is bullshit"
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I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.
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@grantginder.bsky.social, @lukeepplin.bsky.social, and @toniannj.bsky.social are a few of the greats already slated for 2026.
You can support The Chills at Will Podcast here: www.patreon.com/chillsatwill...
You can support The Chills at Will Podcast here: www.patreon.com/chillsatwill...
August 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM
@grantginder.bsky.social, @lukeepplin.bsky.social, and @toniannj.bsky.social are a few of the greats already slated for 2026.
You can support The Chills at Will Podcast here: www.patreon.com/chillsatwill...
You can support The Chills at Will Podcast here: www.patreon.com/chillsatwill...
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Y'all, Desiree knows what she's talking about, she has written a historical novel that is sadly prescient/timely.
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/06/...
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/06/...
July 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Y'all, Desiree knows what she's talking about, she has written a historical novel that is sadly prescient/timely.
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/06/...
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/06/...
My forthcoming linked collection But Where’s Home? Is available for preorder on Amazon and on the University Press of Kentucky website.
www.amazon.com/But-Wheres-H...
www.amazon.com/But-Wheres-H...
But Where's Home?: A Novella and Stories
But Where's Home?: A Novella and Stories [Johnson, Toni Ann] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. But Where's Home?: A Novella and Stories
www.amazon.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My forthcoming linked collection But Where’s Home? Is available for preorder on Amazon and on the University Press of Kentucky website.
www.amazon.com/But-Wheres-H...
www.amazon.com/But-Wheres-H...
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The best kind of summer is an LGBTQIA+ summer 🏳️🌈 ☀️
The Most Anticipated Queer Books for Summer 2025 - Electric Literature
Celebrate Pride Month and beyond with new titles from Lydi Conklin; Chloe Caldwell; and Electric Literature’s first book, "Both/And"
buff.ly
June 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The best kind of summer is an LGBTQIA+ summer 🏳️🌈 ☀️
Cover reveal! I’m so pleased with the artwork by Christian Noelle Charles that the design team at University Press of Kentucky chose for my forthcoming book But Where’s Home?
June 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Cover reveal! I’m so pleased with the artwork by Christian Noelle Charles that the design team at University Press of Kentucky chose for my forthcoming book But Where’s Home?
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The Trumpists talk a lot about representing “real America.” How much of a bizarre propagandistic lie this is was on full display yesterday - when a vast, heterogeneous coalition of people mobilized in protest while all the regime offered was an embarrassing, lame, sad excuse of a military parade.
1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...
More than 1M descend on Boston Common for Pride, No Kings rallies
The Boston Pride Parade and No Kings march converged Saturday in downtown Boston.
www.wcvb.com
June 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Trumpists talk a lot about representing “real America.” How much of a bizarre propagandistic lie this is was on full display yesterday - when a vast, heterogeneous coalition of people mobilized in protest while all the regime offered was an embarrassing, lame, sad excuse of a military parade.
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“I had to do the emotional recovery work to be able to access forgiveness and develop empathy and then go back and infuse that into the writing.”
#writing #memoir #books
substack.com/@aimeeliu/no...
#writing #memoir #books
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On Writing 'The River's Daughter'
A conversation with debut author Bridget Crocker about inspiration, perspiration, salvation and the grace of nature and memoir writing
substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“I had to do the emotional recovery work to be able to access forgiveness and develop empathy and then go back and infuse that into the writing.”
#writing #memoir #books
substack.com/@aimeeliu/no...
#writing #memoir #books
substack.com/@aimeeliu/no...
I’m honored to judge this story collection contest for the James Baker Hall Foundation and Accents Publishing.
Submissions are open through June.
www.accents-publishing.com/contest.html
Submissions are open through June.
www.accents-publishing.com/contest.html
April 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I’m honored to judge this story collection contest for the James Baker Hall Foundation and Accents Publishing.
Submissions are open through June.
www.accents-publishing.com/contest.html
Submissions are open through June.
www.accents-publishing.com/contest.html
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It’s finally happening!!! I’ll be in conversation w/ @toniannj.bsky.social at Chevalier Books at 6:30 March 11th to launch ALTERATIONS!!
February 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
It’s finally happening!!! I’ll be in conversation w/ @toniannj.bsky.social at Chevalier Books at 6:30 March 11th to launch ALTERATIONS!!
Thank you, Crystal Wilkinson! I’m so pleased my book will be one of your first publications! And congrats to Avery Irons!
uknow.uky.edu/arts-culture...
uknow.uky.edu/arts-culture...
UK’s Crystal Wilkinson selects inaugural winners of Screen Door Press
uknow.uky.edu
December 9, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Thank you, Crystal Wilkinson! I’m so pleased my book will be one of your first publications! And congrats to Avery Irons!
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uknow.uky.edu/arts-culture...
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I was so thrilled to review Danzy Senna's COLORED TELEVISION for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Senna's novel is not only thought-provoking, but also an absolute blast to read. highly recommend both checking out the novel & checking out my thoughts on it here:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-sh...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-sh...
A Show About People Like Them | Los Angeles Review of Books
Olivia Stowell considers Danzy Senna’s new novel “Colored Television.”
lareviewofbooks.org
November 22, 2024 at 6:03 PM
I was so thrilled to review Danzy Senna's COLORED TELEVISION for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Senna's novel is not only thought-provoking, but also an absolute blast to read. highly recommend both checking out the novel & checking out my thoughts on it here:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-sh...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-sh...
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