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Sheree Renée Thomas

@shereereneethomas.bsky.social
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Award-winning author, poet, Hugo Award-nominated editor TONGE I DREAM IN, MOJORHYTHM & NINE BAR BLUES, MARVEL'S Black Panther: PANTHER'S RAGE novel, AFRICA RISEN and TROUBLE THE WATERS, NYTimes bestselling collab w/ Janelle Monáe on THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN

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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
😍 Holding the Capclave GoH book, ROOTS TO TOUCH SKY 🌿Thanks to Gayle Surrette & Paul Haggerty of WSFA Press in Rockville, MD, for producing this lovely signed & numbered edition mini hc. This contains original tales & reprints. Deepest gratitude for the gorgeous cover art by Brianna McCarthy!
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good seeing you again, Miguel. Sounds great 💫
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Ser Darth 🔜 Capclave @capclave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rosie just got her wings on the latest WSFA Press book release Roots to Touch the Sky by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Available at the Capclave dealer's room this weekend. They make great gifts
Rosie posing with two copies of Roots to Touch the Sky on each side of her. She is on the side table in the hallway of the hotel. 

She bought tie copies one to keep and another time give, as WSFA Press books make great gifts
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On the road (train tracks!) to Capclave! See you & Rosie there 💫🚆 Roots to Touch Sky! 🌿🪐
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy pub day to @davaun.bsky.social DaVaun Sanders and this brilliant anthology! A story close to my heart is finding fresh readers today over at Reactir Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social to celebrate the launch. Dive in and enjoy the journey!
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dreaming in Tongues: Review of Sheree Renée Thomas’s The Tongue I Dream In from @pmpress ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/08/17/d...
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Dreaming in Tongues: Review of Sheree Renée Thomas’s The Tongue I Dream In
Sullivan Summer Under Review:The Tongue I Dream In. Sheree Renée Thomas. PM Press, September 2026. Reading Sheree Renée Thomas’s The Tongue I Dream In, as the mercury tops triple digits in my city,…
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Excited to see my new special signed & numbered mini-hardcover of stories supporting the good people at Capclave via WSFA Press. Beautiful art by Brianna McCarthy of Trinidad and Tobago. See you & this year’s new GoH’s soon in Rockville, MD! 💫🌿
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😂😍
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Many thanks to Kate & Brandon, Charm City, Red Emma’s, Carla Du Pree, Jason Harris, Stephanie Henderson, Dr. Lawrence Brown, and my fellow panelists Cerece Rennie Murphy, Dr. Nadine Finigan-Carr, B. Sharise Moore, & the wonderful readers & audiences at the 2026 Baltimore Book Fest! A fun time!
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thank you!
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thanks, Emmalia! Our stories born in the air can live on the page as well
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So thrilled this volume is out! Use the special code for my birthday month to get a 20% discount 😍
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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New book out from "noted Afrofuturist" @shereereneethomas.bsky.social! With secret (shhh!) code SEPTEMBER you get 20% off at check out. "Taste with this book’s tongue the salty sweetness of her world." pmpress.org/index.php?l=...
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The Tongue I Dream In
Sheree Renée Thomas The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home.
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Kev McVeigh @kevmcv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Two gorgeous covers by Amin Qutteineh and Caitlin Mattisson for two excellent collections by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.
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In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts
A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s certainly different from what I imagined as a 9 year old
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Indianapolis! Join me next Thursday, September 17 @ 7 PM for the Annual Ray Bradbury Memorial Writer’s Talk at the Kheprw Institute / Ujamaa Books, presented by the Ray Bradbury Center (theraybradburycenter.org) for Festival 451indy.  Free with RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/festival-4...
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Ray Bradbury Center | Ray Bradbury Center
“Imagination should be the center of your life.”
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think we were supposed to fill out a different form if it was a book that was published traditionally. I didn’t find out till after I had sent mine. I sent a corrected one.
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good not Hood! 😒😂
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Looking forward to my conversation with the multigifted Jamal Hodge @twistedspinebooks.bsky.social, celebrating his new poetry volume, I’m Not a Hood Person, I’m a New Yorker from @crystallake.bsky.social Tonight @ 7:10 pm in Williamsburg, Brooklyn 💫
Jamal’s book cover featutes a shadowy Statue of LiberyPianoFolksCool book display
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Saying @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social is more than enough, but the table of contents is FUCKING STELLAR (pardon my French): Linda Addison, @tananarivedue.bsky.social, @victorlavalle.bsky.social, @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, Wrath James White…
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Justin C. Key @justinkey.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I have a brand spanking new short story, AUSTIN’S MEMORANDIUM, out now in the latest issue of Tar Baby Magazine! Guest edited by the one and only @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Link in the comments! #afrofuturism #scifi #bookstagram
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
An oldie but goodie rec for writers (for novelists but helpful to those writing short stories) Susan Bell’s The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself (2008). She treats revision as an art form & offers examples, a case study that you can follow w/ some cool interviews.
A photo of the book cover that looks like a composition, notebook, sort of, with “artful” added it to the title using proofreader insertion marks in red ink.
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just spent some time with the director of the Ray Bradbury Center in Indianapolis. Such a special space! And Jason is a wonderful storyteller!
I’m sitting in Ray Bradbury’s writing chair in a room full of his personal collection, listening to JasonJason Aukerman, Director of the Ray Bradbury Center & Indiana University ProfessorRay Bradbury’s paint-splattered wooden desk Ray Bradbury’s favorite writing desk
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Today is August 4, 2026". Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day!
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
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hell yea depression is pumpkin flavored now @liminalclown-e.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
WHY WONT ANYONE HELP HELP!!!!! HELP!!!!!! HELP!!!! STOP BEING A VOYEUR & HELP ME!!!!! HELP!!!!! HELP!!!!!! HELP!!!! STOP BEING A VOYEUR & HELP ME!!!!! HELP!!!!! Linktr.ee/hiitsbritt { #mutualaid #bipocmutualaid #homelesssky #mutualaidrequest #helpsky #fundsky #mutualaidvoid #keepfolksalive }
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homeless: 16 months, deeply marginalized, & chronically ill household. will not survive without help. pls help answer if thriving is possible.
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Rest in power to the legendary Betye Saar, a true master who turned assemblage into a sacred language of Black imagination & survival. I wrote about her enduring impact & the brilliant creative lineage of her 3 daughters in my book, THE TONGUE I DREAM IN, out soon from PM Press. We owe her so much.
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Check out @wtalabi.bsky.social’s review of RING SHOUT ON SATURN by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social: “Thomas doesn’t offer easy reading. She offers a sense of deep thought, beauty and wonder in motion.”
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Ring Shout on Saturn by Sheree Renée Thomas: Review by Wole Talabi - Locus
Ring Shout on Saturn, Sheree Renée Thomas (Third Man Books 979-8-99248-383-3, $21.95, 334pp, tp) June 2026. Cover by Amin Qutteineh & Caitlin Mattisson. If Mojorhythm was Sheree Renée Thomas's opening invocation, then Ring Shout on Saturn, the second volume in her Root and Sky sequence of short story collections, feels like an intimate ritual. In my review of Mojorhythm, I noted: Thomas skillfully wields literary tools to induce a heady …Read More
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Thank you!
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'm so honored! The Tongue I Dream In received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. It's wonderful to see this collection of poetry, essays, and stories recognized before its August 25th release in the PM Press Outspoken Authors series. Read the review here: blog.pmpress.org/2026/06/11/t...
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The Tongue I Dream In— Starred Review in Publishers Weekly - PM Press
Publishers Weekly The 36th installment of the publisher’s Outspoken Authors series (after Ian Shoales’s Veni Vidi Venti) showcases the many extraordinary talents of World Fantasy Award winner Thomas (...
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thanks, Lisa!
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thank you, Morgan!
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Loving the brilliant artwork & stunning visual choices Caitlin Mattisson made for MOJORHYTHM. Here is a closer look at the first book in the Root and Sky series, available now from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social
Green and pink cover of.Mojorhythm highly detail art similar to old funkadelic and George Clinton album cover covers. Characters and icons from the stories burst from a burlap Mojo bag like a bouquet.Stack of three copies of the book a top a colorful, BAULE cloth on the table. Blue, yellow, white abstract & geometric pattern on the clothFull cover jacket of the book bat copy spine and cover. The dominant colors are apple, green and pink or magenta.A copy of the book on a wooden table with a back jacket facing the viewer. Jacket copy with black text over an apple green background with colorful Milagros and icons, little mojos all around the border.
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Thank you! The multitalented Caitlin Mattisson literally rocks
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
So happy that my new fiction collection, RING SHOUT ON SATURN from @thirdmanbooks.bsky.social is in the world. And it recently received a review by novelist & engineer @wtalabi.com in the June 2026 @locusmag.bsky.social 💫🪐🌿. Get both from your fave booksellers 😍 More deets here: l1nq.com/okwechh
A reader holding up a purple copy of Ring Shout on Saturn by Sheree Renée ThomasNovel Memphis bookstore display of Ring Shout on Saturn and Mojorhythm. Stacks of books
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Universal Write Publications, LLC @uwpbooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Can a hip-hop album function as theory? Can it preserve historical memory? Can it offer a framework for understanding power, institutions, identity, & futures? Limited Time 20% Discount Code: IC-JUNETEENTH DOI: doi.org/10.65724/GYM... @walterdgreason.bsky.social @hiphoped.bsky.social
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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This Must-Have Monday I have TWENTY-FIVE new books to ft! Incl 🪐off to Saturn with @shereereneethomas.bsky.social! 💎kidnappings in a ballroom from @sherwood.bsky.social! 🍞an omnibus of @angelaslatter.bsky.social's Sourdough universe!
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Afrofuturism, sapphic mermaids, and – hexing the moon?!
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Magic! She & her team were wonda-ful, pure Electric Lady energy
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Congrats to Linda D. Addison @nytebird45.bsky.social & Jamal Hodge on their newest honors! Two fine poets and another example of the beauty in mentorship & collaboration.
Grand Master of Speculative Poetry Linda D. Addison with curly auburn hair wearing a blue and gold caftan dress holds her Bram Stoker Award next to co-author Jamal Hodge in a suit & a newsboy hat, holding his award.Two Bram Stoker Awards resting atop the Stokercon awards dinner program.
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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Nother small press: @pmpress.bsky.social does anarchist titles including the Outspoken Authors series founded by Terry Bisson. My 1st book edit for them is a collection of stories, poetry, essays, art by @nicolaz.bsky.social. Soon: The Tongue I Dream In by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social. pmpress.org
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Delivering bold political ideas and vital stories to all walks of life. Book By Book, Brick By Brick.
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Memphis, let's celebrate the release of my new collection, RING SHOUT ON SATURN! 🪐Tune in to WREG Channel 3 on 6/8 @ 9 am for a live morning interview Then 6/9 @ 6 PM, join me at Novel for a discussion & signing in conversation w/ the brilliant Troy L. Wiggins! Details at novelmemphis.com
Photo of Sheree with a fluffy Afro and colorful peplum blazer, Troy wearing glasses & a light blue shirt, and a cover of Ring Shout on Saturn with various illustrated figures dancing on the rings of Saturn with a bright purple background.
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Here are some recent photos I took along the Mississippi River at Tom Lee Park
Giant white clouds against a blue gray sky, and the Mississippi River below, with dark green trees.
Giant white clouds against a blue gray sky, and the Mississippi River  below, lined by trees. You can see a foot path in the distance.Orange wildflowers and tall green weeds with the river behind them and President’s Island near the Arkansas (West Memphis) side of the river
A close-up of the orange wildflowers. They look like butterfly milkweed to me.
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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
From Reckoning X, our special issue on communication in environmental justice, "Chickasaw Bluff Blues", a poem in which @shereereneethomas.bsky.social does amazing things evoking music with rhythm and repetition: reckoning.press/chickasaw-bl...
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Chickasaw Bluff Blues | Reckoning
Mississippi flows carries secrets in silt the bronze serpent’s scales Cicada static rasps against the high noon sun Trilobite locked in the bluff’s ancestral stone silence Oil refinery flare stains th...
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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Oil refinery flare stains bruised twilight sky Prayer flag tied to an oaken branch flutters from Lookout Mountain’s slope hope you will read this powerful, slow-building poem by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, at @reckoningmag.bsky.social reckoning.press/chickasaw-bl...
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Chickasaw Bluff Blues | Reckoning
Mississippi flows carries secrets in silt the bronze serpent’s scales Cicada static rasps against the high noon sun Trilobite locked in the bluff’s ancestral stone silence Oil refinery flare stains th...
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Grateful for this thoughtful review of MOJORHYTHM in Locus. It is excellent to have @wtalabi.com back in the critic’s chair.
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Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Thank you for the generous review, Wole. It’s wonderful to have your voice back in Locus, and I appreciate you spending so much time with the collection.
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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
You have to be an attendee of the @tricon-hfx.bsky.social conference to go to these and others' panels and @tridenthalifax.bsky.social readings but good news: we still have some tickets left! tricon-halifax.com 📚🪐 #YHZ #HaliSky #SFFH #SciFi #WritingCommunity #BookSky
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Joanne Merriam @ TriCon
Friday May 15, 1 pm
Joanne Merriam (mod), Joe Mahoney, Kate Phillips, and Vanessa Ricci-Thode
Lunenburg Room, Westin, 1181 Hollis St

Saturday May 16, 5 pm
TriCon Reading Series
Phoebe Barton, Madona Skaff-Koren, Joe Mahoney, Eric Choi, and Joanne Merriam
Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 1256 Hollis St.

Sunday May 17, 8 am
The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty
Sonia Urlando (mod), Terese Mason Pierre, Tiff Morris, and Joanne Merriam
Maritime Room, Westin, 1181 Hollis St
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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: boy maybe: poems by W. J. Lofton, @beaconpress.bsky.social & The Lilac People: A Novel by Milo Todd, @catapultbooks.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers
Book cover for boy maybe: poems by W. J. Lofton (Beacon Press): Shortlisted for Gay Poetry in the Lambda Literary Awards (winners announced June 12th): https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/. W. J. Lofton writes vivid, accessible poems that channel the energy, urgency, ambitions, joys, and sorrows of a young Black queer artist. They are about love and flirtation, sweet tea and hot sauce, God and family, life and death, police brutality and extrajudicial killings. His verses honor some of the young lives extinguished by these killings—Breonna Taylor, Kendrick Johnson, Ahmaud Arbery. He also pays tribute to some of the towering figures of Black culture who have come before him—Richard Pryor, Assata Shakur. His style is endlessly propulsive, informed by some of the Harlem Renaissance greats—Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks—but also transforming that rich tradition for the present day. https://www.beacon.org/boy-maybe-P2153.aspxBook cover for The Lilac People: A Novel by Milo Todd (Counterpoint Press): In 1932 Berlin, a trans man named Bertie and his friends spend carefree nights at the Eldorado Club, the epicenter of Berlin’s thriving queer community. An employee of the renowned Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute of Sexual Science, Bertie works to improve queer rights in Germany and beyond. But everything changes when Hitler rises to power. The Institute is raided, the Eldorado is shuttered, and queer people are rounded up. Bertie barely escapes with his girlfriend, Sofie, to a nearby farm. There they take on the identities of an elderly couple and live for more than a decade in isolation. In the final days of the war, with their freedom in sight, Bertie and Sofie find a young trans man collapsed on their property, still dressed in Holocaust prison clothes. They vow to protect him—not from the Nazis, but from the Allied forces who are arresting queer prisoners while liberating the rest of the country. Ironically, as the Allies’ vise grip closes on Bertie and his family, their only salvation is to flee to the United States. Brimming with hope, resilience, and the enduring power of community, The Lilac People tells an extraordinary story inspired by real events and recovers an unknown moment of World War II and trans history. Shortlisted for Transgender Fiction in the Lambda Literary Awards (winners announced June 12th): https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/. https://www.counterpointpress.com/books/the-lilac-people/
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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
My short story “The Candy Aisle” appears in Citywide Lunch today! Keep reading at: citywidelunch.wordpress.com/the-candy-ai... #shortfiction #shortstory #citywidelunch #fiction #mosquitoes
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“The Candy Aisle” by Joanne Merriam.
My first impression of Phillip is that he is blessed with ignorance. Ignorance of the importance of a good first impression, not to mention the finer points of fashion.

My netting is tight and full-body, designed for under street clothes; looks chic where it drapes over the sweet little pillbox hat I always wear. He’s taken his off, lulled by the airlocks and security sweeps and dragonflies into thinking he’s safe inside the mall. That kind of thinking can get you killed. Instead of frowning at him (wrinkles, you know) I relieve my feelings by giving him a level, unsmiling look.
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