I had several classes with her younger brother in college and have admired her for 30+ years.
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I had several classes with her younger brother in college and have admired her for 30+ years.
Had to update the graphic because Midlife Calculus has also won —get this—the McMath Award for Poetry! I will laugh every time at how perfect that is.
Ah! So maybe I should be helpful about precise recommendations. lol
I agree. Have you read The Practice The Chain The Horizon by Sofia Samatar?
Maybe that’s a novella. Maybe so is Murder by Memory
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57TH NAACP IMAGE AWARDS® DEATH OF THE AUTHOR A NOVEL Nnedi Okorafor NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR WINNER OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK - FICTION
Photo taken by Nollywood director Tchidi Chikere, 😏
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR has won the 2026 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction!!
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Sigh…wow. 🥹
No joke. I imagined tiny armor-clad people scribbling in their journals at a tavern table. #weeknightwriters
Thanks! I will endeavor to use this advice for success instead of justification for crawling back in bed. 😬
Midlife Calculus wins poetry book prizes. Book cover pictures a water glass half full superimposed with diagrams and equations. Two winners seals and authors photo float above the text praising the collection.
Despite the absolute dumpster fire that is this January… this also happened!
Indiana beating Alabama is so dumbfounding, Bluesky algorithms have concluded it must be basketball.
This line 💎->: "Throughout her career, she has resisted narrow categorizations, coining the term 'Africanfuturism' to describe speculative work that centers African culture and perspectives rather than simply placing Black characters in Western futurist frameworks." brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nned...
I’ve been recommending it to everyone.
Happy #JellyfishDay! The oceans are increasingly full of these gelatinous invertebrates, provoking a range of responses in humans, from disgust to awe. The biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was most certainly in the latter camp... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ernst-haeckels-jellyfish
Purple first on a 5/5 difficulty day! I’ll take it.
congrats!
They didn't just call them iBabbleFish? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t...
YES! I have 2 or 3 vibes with no discernable plots -- MCs but no distinct personalities. What is the next step? I'd take it if I knew!
Just finished this book by @yarntheory.bsky.social and highly recommend it. You will be transported and better equipped to live in these times.
Asimov, Butler, Le Guin
selfie of woman standing in endless cornfield smiling at camera with words "back home in Indiana" superimposed on the blue sky
Introducing myself as an Indiana writer who is looking for a Northern Indiana writing community. While I've published primarily poetry, I read copious amounts of science fiction and am shifting gears to writing in that genre. & I've just made a website page tracking my adventure into a homemade MFA!
Just finished it. Fantastic. Brilliant ending. How could I not respond via socials?!? And now I must find someone to talk about it with! (Hope this makes the Window of Love) ❤️
deep breath. rest. then get back at it.
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
#BookSky
The “Origin Story” for Austin’s song “Where It Gets Exciting” involves David Bowie, John Lewis, and… JJ Redick? Yes, really!
Fiber optic internet finally restored post-Helene!
You might be a granola Mennonite if you have names for your chickens.
Share the names of your chickens! #GranolaMennonite
I’ve read a lot of her stuff but not that one —yet. Will look it up.