🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Congratulations to Farzana Doctor, whose upcoming young adult novel has made 49th Shelf's Fall Fiction Preview! Full preview here: bit.ly/3zZOAXD Pre-order here: bit.ly/45kL85O

SoundBites Emerging Artist Retreats for music - August 31st. FREE to selected participants. Accepting submissions now. artgalleryofhamilton.com/program/soundb…

📣 Exciting news! The AKO The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced the 2024 shortlist! 🇳🇬 @UcheAnne, Dr. Samuel Kolawole, @PemiAguda 🇬🇭 Tryphena Yeboah 🇿🇦 Nadia Davids 🇿🇼 Honorable mention: Yvette Ndlovu £10,000 prize: Winner announced on 17th Sept Congrats to all! brittlepaper.com/2024/07/2024-a…

The Caine Prize for African Writing announces 2024 shortlist, including: Tryphena Yeboah for ‘The Dishwashing Women’ Nadia Davids for ‘Bridling’ Samuel Kolawole for ‘Adjustment of Status’ Uche Okonkwo for ‘Animals’ Pemi Aguda for ‘Breastmilk’

One of the things that Montreal isn't very good at lately is introducing writers to each other or giving them rooms to simply get together in. i'm hoping to change that, with help from TWUC: ⛳️ announcing Writers' Room #1. if you ✍️, join us!

‘I never tell he wotless father ’bout this, and I never tell he neither. I did hold back because I didn’t want no man—not even my son—to love me for land.’ ‘Terre Brulée’ by Celeste Mohammed was shortlisted for the 2024 #CWprize. 🖌️ Judah Chrichlow addastories.org/terre-brulee/

November 2023, five Alchemists convened to discuss their radical visions of the beautiful world. Their treatises have been captured and luminously expanded in the pages of this book with an introduction by Christina Sharpe. FIVE MANIFESTOS FOR THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD is out today!

1/ Join me this Thursday at The Art Gallery of Hamilton. I’ll be chatting with moderator Rookz about my SoundBites Exhibit, the inspiration, stories behind the scenes and the connection between all the mediums in this multi disciplinary show. This is immersive & interactive.

Happy release day to Fawn Parker and HI, IT'S ME, out today from McClelland & Stewart! 🪑🤎 Order here: bit.ly/3MOxyPE

Be Gay, Do Crime cover reveal is live now over at Autostraddle along with early access to Temim Fruchter ‘s brilliant story ‘Redistribution’ - go check it out!!🌈🔪 autostraddle.com/check-out-the-…

In their debut novel-in-stories “Vagabonds!,”the Nigerian writer and visual artist pursues an alternate reality of their mind, taking on, among other subjects, social normalcy, gender, and queerness. opencountrymag.com/the-overlappin…

Share the #CWprize! Almost half of last year’s entrants heard about the competition through friends or writing groups. By sharing this prize with your network, you could catalyse their career and help them gain attention from international publishers. commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-pr…

The first draft of my novel is complete. Amid my life's storms, it was a joy to write, to lean into my wilder literary impulses. Now, the really fun part begins.

Always a good day when a reader says they lobe your book

Always a good day when a reader shows your collection love. Thank you!

So excited to share that our middle grade anthology #TodayIAm is a finalist for the Forest of Reading RED MAPLE AWARD!!! So grateful to everyone involved with the project and thrilled that a collection of short stories will be read in classrooms across the country this year!!

Congratulations to David Huebert (OIL PEOPLE), Carol Off (AT A LOSS FOR WORDS), and Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen (INVISIBLE PRISONS) on being featured on the Globe and Mail's fall preview!

a huge victory for Compartmentalizing™

The list is out! My TOP BOOK PICKS of this Season. Great for your #readinglist or #classroom With Trevor Noah Matthew R. Morris Eternity Martis afua cooper Vivian Yejide Kilanko Abi Daré francesca #education #books #literature #blackbooks House of Anansi Press PenguinRandomHouseCA