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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Check out 'Extracted from an unravelled braid' in Uncanny Magazine Issue 70!

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"Mother Tree’s Idols” by @aniyonsenga.bsky.social explores the tension between destruction and renewal. 🌱 Read it now 👉 augursociety.org/mother-trees...

An illustration of three women posing with a purple overlay. One is looking forward on the left, one is facing slightly right on the right and holding flames, and the one in the middle is kneeling on the ground, looking down at a white glowing plant. There is a quotation mark in pink, and beside it reads: “Augur Magazine 8.2” in white text and beside it is a white square outline. Below is a white box, and inside it reads: “I launch into the usual spiel. What people don’t often notice through the livestreams is the faint glow around the Mother Tree’s roots. Our city is aglow with the vegetation that the Mother Tree feeds. Because of the ecosystem centred around our Mother Tree, our city enjoys life” in black text. Underneath is the cover of Augur Issue 8.3, and beside it is a white rectangle that reads inside: “Mother Tree’s Idols, Aline-Mwezi Nyonsenga” in purple text. At the bottom of the image reads: “Read for free at augursociety.org/mother-trees-idols” in white text.

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Happy to announce that we've acquired "Ketia pathwalks home for a breath" by @aniyonsenga.bsky.social for FF#30! Aline-Mwezi's work has previously appeared in Augur, Uncanny, and FIYAH, just to name a few.

"Ketia pathwalks home for a breath" by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga: schools for the diaspora / the comforts of home / the unstable outside world

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

So excited to share this short story with the world in 2027!

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"'The Matriarchs' by Malena Salazar Maciá... is a harrowing and emotional story about resilience and survival." Maria Haskins aka @mariahaskins.com has wonderful things to say about Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 in the February Locus Magazine aka @locusmag.bsky.social !❤️‍🔥 psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

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Fantasy Magazine - issue 99 | Psychopomp

Fantasy Magazine Issue 99 features work by: Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, Malena Salazar Maciá, Eleanor Glewwe, Alex Jennings, Cory Farrenkopf, and M. L. Krishnan

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!! www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

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we're here — neon hemlock

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Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Earlier this year, we awarded 10 wonderful recipients an OAC recommender grant & we just got the okay to share them! 🎊 CONGRATS to these incredible writers: ✨ @aijiang.bsky.social ✨ @thesuiway.bsky.social ✨ @aniyonsenga.bsky.social ✨ @manahil.bsky.social ✨ @snehaskanta.bsky.social Cont'd below👇

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Read my story about my Winx Club-inspired, eco-influencer idols!

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Anyone else experience One Battle After Another like a worst nightmare playing out?

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Holy Hugo Cats!!! WE ARE JUST $2975 AWAY FROM FUNDING YEAR 12!!!! 🦄😸

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

CALL THE NEIGHBORS & WAKE THE KIDS! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is 94% funded with just FIVE DAYS TO GO! If you want to see a 12th year of Uncanny Magazine, NOW IS THE TIME TO JOIN THE SPACE UNICORN RANGER CORPS! buff.ly/HPEcU9t

Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Space Unicorns! The The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is now 90% funded! KEEP THIS ROLLING, SPACE UNICORNS!!!

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

2/12 As the Earth Dreams includes stories by: Trynne Delaney, francesca ekwuyasi, Whitney French, @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, Chimedum Ohaegbu, @suyidavies.com, @chineloonwualu.bsky.social, Lue Palmer, Terese Mason Pierre, and @zalikarb.bsky.social. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #SmallPress #books

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

7/12 Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga (@aniyonsenga.bsky.social) wrote, amongst other things, ‘Fell Our Selves’ in GigaNotoSaurus ‪(@giganotosaurus.bsky.social): giganotosaurus.org/2023/02/01/f... & ‘Tornadoes, Grief, and Poutine’ in Augur Magazine (@augursociety.bsky.social): augursociety.org/tornadoes-gr...

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Fell Our Selves - GigaNotoSaurus

Content warning: death and suicide ideation Here Dustin “And this is the control room!” Dustin stifled a yawn. His new employer bounced on her toes, sprightly for a predawn start. Her coily hair bounc...

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Catch my story and stories from awesome authors in this fire lineup!

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Pooja @forgottensaves.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

WorldCon panels dropped and I guess they've decided to jump on the right wing's train of strawmen about the gay agenda? Please, if anyone in their life has encountered a bookstore giving them half a dozen sapphic recs with 'strong women leads' let me know so I can shop there

Panel Description from WorldCon 2025
Strong Woman Lead =/= LGBTQIA=
Tagged Culture/DEI
Room 420-422 9-10am
Have you ever walked into a bookshop and asked for books with strong women leads? Perhaps you've requested that love not be a major plot point? Has the staff excitedly passed you half a dozen books that, though good, have a bit of a repeating theme? Here we ask the question: Why do authors/bookshops assume the only way to have a strong woman lead is to make them gay with a woman love interest and prevent men characters from rising over the background? Isn't it possibly to have a book with strong women and men characters in it and not have them fall in love?

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"can i venmo u?" the way that I have to remind americans that venmo is exclusively a u.s. thing and people outside the u.s. have literally no way of using it and sometimes have no need of an app of that nature

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I had two dreams where I was reading one of my short stories in front of a crowd. Normally when I read in dreams, I can’t make out anything on the page, but this time I was reading full excerpts. The stories don’t exist in real life.

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Kickstarter for Uncanny is live folks! Time to support your fave

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Love it when my nightmare features running away from airbender assassins

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Vote for 'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' in the Ignyte Awards!

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I dreamt that I visited a cafe in Sydney that served nice mille crepe cake, and now I want mille crepe cake from this fictional cafe.

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

May showers bring June summer? Please?

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Read #AfricanSFF!🫵🏾 @africansffhype.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Dustin's new employer, Akeza, is going on a pilgrimage to honour her dead father. Little does he know the journey will be just as important for him. Sweeping adventure science fantasy with lots of heart by @aniyonsenga.bsky.social in @giganotosaurus.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2023/02/01/f...

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Fell Our Selves - GigaNotoSaurus

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Read #AfricanSFF!🫵🏾 @africansffhype.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Our protagonist runs into a baby umuriro on her way to campus. But, unlike her Izuban heritage, Delta is not friendly to dragons. It's now a race against The Watchers to get Riro to freedom. Heart-pounding tale by @aniyonsenga.bsky.social in @apparitionlit.com 🪐📚 apparitionlit.com/who-defies-t...

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Who Defies the Watcher - Apparition Literary Magazine

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Yoooo, I got longlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize! It’s one of those rejection letters that feels like a win. To think I made the top 201 stories out of 7,920 (2.5%)! Keen to discover the shortlist soon! #CWprize commonwealthfoundation.com/short-story-...

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Commonwealth Short Story Prize - Commonwealth Foundation

The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). The competition is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country wh...

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The biggest April fools joke is this “spring weather”

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The Sauúti Collective @sauutiverse.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Double the Terror! We’re super excited to share with you the authors and poets in Book 2 of Sauúti Terrors: The Dark Side by Flame Tree Publishing, distributed by Simon and Schuster. sauuti.com/sauuti-terro... #AfricanSFF @genni.bsky.social @xanwriter.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I'm so glad this woman is home safe and that she had a network of people who worked tirelessly to bust her out of these for-profit gulags. Now imagine being a poor woman (or man) of no means with no one to advocate for you and being trapped in this system... Read this whole article, I beg of you.

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Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This is huge! Big congrats to @genni.bsky.social 🎊 for making this book happen!

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