Congratulations Dashiel Carrera and everyone Dalkey Archive ! 🦌 This is wonderful news. I've added a deer emoji (in color!) too. Who says I'm useless at twittering?

At last I've found time to write about the game I invented for my new novel series set in a future Disunited States, where the myth of Flying Africans isn't simply a story, and where dreams and yearning become one. torforgeblog.com/2022/08/02/inv…

Looking forward to this NAIBA breakfast event on August 10. Just visited the wonderful @BlacksburgBooks , our local independent bookstore. Got a few things. Going back for more. Bookstores are a very bad influence....

Thanks so much, Karla karla fc holloway . Hope u know how much your work has meant to me and to many others. #WintergreenWomenWriters. Here's my new essay out today on the TOR blog about inventing a game for this futuristic series. torforgeblog.com/2022/08/02/inv…

"An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are." ~ James Baldwin

Oops! Too late, Viktor! Just checked and I'm "mixed" already. My late English mother and late Jamaican father courageously decided many decades ago to ignore racists and love across race. Amor vincit omnia. (Latin for "We mixed are here to stay.")

Great to speak with NAIBA this morning, along with Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden is out! , Silas House 📘 Ewan Morrison . Got books by Ruthanna and Silas below, & am eager to buy Ewan's. Thanks to all the independent bkstores (& libraries too!)-culture's courageous custodians.

Thrilled to join PBS Books Author Talk with leslyepenelope on Aug 15, a prelude to Library of Congress #NatBookFest. Our latest novels are set in DC. Mine in the future, hers in the past. Can't wait to see some of you on Sep 3 when I'll be in conversation with Brooke Blanchard (B.L. Blanchard) is only on IG.

Classrooms are not safe spaces. If we want to protect young people in the future, we must face the fact that we have failed them in the past. Those of us who know the hell of mass shootings &/or have written about it understand the danger. Read Elizabeth Williamson's Sandy Hook.

Only a week to go until the #NatBookFest in DC. Looking forward to being among readers and writers on Sep 3, talking about Altered Americas with Brooke Blanchard (B.L. Blanchard) is only on IG, signing books, and attending sessions. Grateful to be celebrating books in person again.

With Brooke Blanchard (B.L. Blanchard) is only on IG in the Library of Congress for #NatBookFest. Join us in conversation about Altered Americas in our novels #flyingthecoop and #thepeacekeeper, 4:25 on Sat 3.

At the Library of Congress for a writers reception before the #natbookfest on Sat Sep 3. instagram.com/p/CiDTfVpOio2/…

Looking forward to the panel and book signing at the wonderful Bookmarks Festival, Winston-Salem, NC, on Sat Sep 24.

Glad to be speaking at the Library of Virginia in Richmond this coming Friday lunchtime. One of the best libraries in the US, with wonderful librarians and staff.

Signing books at Bookmarks Festival in Winston-Salem. Had a great panel with TJ and T Kingfisher,

Professor Janine Joseph gave a wonderful reading that featured some of our own MFA students. How lucky we are to have this gifted poet and teacher here with us at VT.

Looking forward to the 2023 Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville on F Mar 24 to talk about Flying the Coop, the latest novel in my slave narrative trilogy set in a future Disunited States. Don't miss Ross Gay, Lisa Russ Spaar, Matthew Vollmer, Sofia Samatar & others.

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This is a momentous day. There is now a very good chance we will soon have the first-ever female, biracial president. Women and mixed race people, let's have her back. #BiracialWomenUniteforKamala Thanks for passing the torch, Joe! Your legacy is set.