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

🌀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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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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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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Happy pub day to @utushimitwandi.bsky.social poetry collection “Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies.” We eating in every genre this year!!!

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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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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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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Thrilled & humbled that my short story “Home Became a Thing with Thorns” is featured in an anthology alongside Kafka, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez & more! Wow what wonderful company of classic & contemporary fiction

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Drinking from Graveyard Wells is available in both hardcover & paperback!

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There is a cool writing fellowship: in exchange for a grant you write 10k words a month for 12 months. There weren’t a lot of resources/info on the app so I interviewed author Mubanga Kalimamukwento about applying to the MMF fellowship on my Substack

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Happy Thanksgiving! Recently watched Simone Biles documentary, there is a moment when her mom brings out her quilt and it taught me a lot about writing, dedication to one's craft, rejections, & gratitude. Here are my thoughts on what writers can learn from it :)

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been a season of Ls & rejections😭Thanks to the Miles Morland Foundation for the support to work on a new project in a genre I’m calling Postcolonial Ngano about dictator Mugabe rising from the dead to rule forever set in a fictional country called New Zimbabwe :) congrats all!

This heart-to-heart conversation took place over the span of a year. Shingai & I talked about AfroSurrealism, your younger self as a kind of ancestor/spirit guide, & navigating disillusionment with publishing & the world
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Been meaning to start a Substack, the grief of this week finally made me write something, to “go to work” in troubled times as Toni Morrison calls us to. Here is my first offering: lessons from two ancestors as an antidote to despair

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Eligibility Post 2023:
Book: DRINKING FROM GRAVEYARD WELLS (AfroSurrealist/horror/ weird fiction)

Short Story: HIS THING (@LightspeedMag )
Zimbabwean gothic/Ngano retelling of a girl trapped in a sentient house of horrors that is controlled by her husband
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My Zimbabwean gothic story or what I call domestic (Afro)surrealism about a Zim girl trapped in a sentient house that is controlled by her husband is out today from @lightspeedmagazine.com New rooms appear & disappear in this house of horrors. His Thing is also a retelling of my fav Ngano Simbimbino