We are thrilled to share that Njelle "Njara" Hamilton & Koye Oyedeji will be joining us this February as our 2024 Debut 40 Residents. ⁠🥳🥳🥳

Massive congratulations to @NjelleHamilton (big up Caribbean writers 🥳), to Koye and to Tamara Love. Their writing, their VOICES, and craft are stunning! It was an absolute joy getting to read their wonderful work and always an honour to be part of the selection process. 👏🏾👏🏾

Hopefully this cowardly decision just means more people will read this beautiful novel.

Portland, pull up!

@zzpacker The Madwoman in the Classroom I feel like students don't read (or teachers don't teach) as wide a swath of short fiction as in previous eras. I'd love to be wrong. Jim McPherson was the first black winner of the Pulitzer, IIRC. It's a shame he's read and recognized so little in the larger world of American

Introducing the Arsenal 2024/25 away kit. From Africa, to The Arsenal, and back again. 🌍 🎥 Arsenal

Thoughts on Arsenal’s new away kit, Gooners? 👕 #afc

See it dere, “inspired by Africa,” Arsenal man dem rocking the red, black and green 🙌🏿

So I suppose I should dust off this account and do something with it Tis the times after all…

Our 2024 fiction issue is online now, featuring stories from Anna Badkhen, Nikki Ervice, Bret Anthony Johnston, Susan Minot, Koye, Derek Palacio, and more, plus poetry by @MJArlett, @MEspadaPoet, and Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي, and a portfolio by Adam Ekberg: vqronline.org/fiction-2024

Alligator knocks out the trapper after being taunted

vqronline.org/fiction-2024/f… New story out in Virginia Quarterly Review summer fiction issue! It’s a story on how awry things can go when we try to force fill the vacuums in our lives. Have a ganders…

“Pause that moment between the trip and the impact. Stretch it over the eighteen months between my sister’s passing and now. It is that fright, constant and prolonged.” Read “Well-Made Flesh,” new fiction by Koye from our latest issue: vqronline.org/fiction-2024/f…

- James Baldwin talking about Love.

Albert Camus, on gratitude

from the diary of virginia woolf

We are excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 Granum Foundation Prize. Check it out at granumfoundation.org!

Kanyinsola Olorunnisola (KÁNYIN), Tega Oghenechovwen (Tega), and Koye Oyedeji (Koye) Make 2024 Granum (Granum Foundation) Prize Longlist jaylit.com/kanyinsola-olo…

— James Baldwin.