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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

My mini poem, titled, "Where do you go when the Genocide is too Loud" is out today on @adimagazine.bsky.social 🎉 Incredibly honoured that the editors chose to give this piece a home. And, as always, #FreePalestine 🇸🇩

In the cracks
between
my teeth, where
my prayers
take shape.
In the hollow
of my palms, where
they are answered.

FATIMA ABDULLAHI
Fatima Abdullahi is a writer across genres
She won the 2025 Isele Poetry Prize, placed
second in the 2023 Dreamfoundry
Emerging Writer's Contest, and was runner
up in the 2023 Valiant Scribe Poetry
Competition. She was also one of the five
winners of the Abebi Afro-nonfiction
Award for her essay "Roots." Her carefully
crafted works have appeared in several
literary spaces, including: Dark Matter
Magazine, Augur Magazine, Midnight &
Indigo, Isele Magazine & Lolwe, among
others. She stands for truth and freedom
from oppression, and is a staunch advocate
of the Palestinian cause.

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

"Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud?" asks Fatima Abdullahi in this new poem, out today from Adi. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/whe...

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Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud?

In the cracksbetweenmy teeth, wheremy prayerstake shape.In the hollowof my palms, wherethey are answered.

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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Just finished Fatima Abdullahi's "Roots that Abide" and it is such a good read. Home-seeking in a world where everyone has a quiet little gift.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I won the 2025 Isele Poetry Prize yesterday!! 🎉🎉 Thank you greatly for the honour @iselemagazine.bsky.social I feel so overwhelmed 🥹 You can read all 3 poems here: iselemagazine.com/2024/04/30/t...

Pictures of the three winners of the Isele prizes set agains a bue and red background. First is of me, a black woman wearing a hijab and sporting a nose ring. My picture is un black and white.

The other two pictures are portraits of two black men, in colour.

The same picture as the first image, now with accompanying twitter post that says:

Meet the winners of the 2025 lsele
Prizes!
Josiah Ikpe's "Not Like Other Boys"
wins the lsele Short Story Prize.
Tolu Daniel's '"Notes of a Nonresident
Alien" wins the Isele Nonfiction Prize.
Fatima Abdullahi's "Three Poems" wins the lsele Poetry Prize

Fatima Abdullahi Wins the Isele
Poetry Prize for " Three Poems'
Fatima Abdullahi's poems contain profound emotion and lyrical precision, rendering personal grief as a collective experience. Each piece in the trio explores loss from different angles--ageing, the death of a father, and emotional detachment in mourning-with imagery that is tender, raw, and hauntingly memorable. The poems are remarkable not only for their technical control and intertextual references (from Dylan Thomas to Diana Der-Hovanessian), but also for their ability to collapse vast emotional landscapes into intimate, carefully wrought lines. Abdullahi's voice is clear-eyed and compassionate, making space for silences shadows, and the unspoken ways grief reshapes us. The work asks us to sit with our
own losses and reconsider what it means to remember.
Read "Three Poems" by Fatima Abdullahi.

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Liam Brazier @liambrazier.com · 28/05/2025

Another #StarDraws p-p-p-portrait as we celebrate and mourn the last of #Andor. #148 B2EMO #B2 #b2emo #b2emodroid #starwars #starwarsart #droids #droid #davechapman #matthewdenton #joshualee

Portrait illustration of B2EMO from Andor.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

#Andor reminded me why I absolutely loathe Krennic

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Posting my #Andor season 2 watch thread here. I truly don't think I'll ever love another show as much I love this one. Ep1: "You're coming home to yourself. You've become more than your fear." 😭 The way Cassian always finds himself in these improbable situations 😂 Also, KRENNIC!! 😡 #AndorSpoilers

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

this is literally fraud. You did not sign authors with the promise to pay their due if you made a profit, you committed to pay them for their work that they delivered and has sold. At the very least this publisher needs to be blacklisted, but hope there are also legal consequences somehow

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Sometimes the know-it-all nature of social media just gets on my nerves and I start deleting whole posts, lol.

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clare @sadderlizards.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

i’m gonna tell the flowers what you did. and then they’ll tell the bees and the bees will tell the birds. good luck next time you come to the meadow bro

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Read #AfricanSFF!🫵🏾 @africansffhype.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The King of Nafaati washes up in the village of Makeri. There's been a coup. It's not his first time there, though the last time he was much happier. Now he's back to ask them to fight in his war. Jinns & romance in this fantasy by @fatii-tii.bsky.social lolwe.org/the-weight-o...

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The Weight of Our Walls - Fatima Abdullahi | Lolwe

A short story by Fatima Abdullahi

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Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Our friends over at the Watermelon Grant announced the 2025 recipients. Congratulations to Ibtisam Barakat ابتسام بركات for poetry and Monir Mtoor (Nissan) for prose 🎉 This Watermelon Grant is for Palestinian speculative arts creators. Learn more at www.ldlewiswrites.co...

Ibtisam Barakat is the 2025 winner for prose

Monir Mtoor (Nissan) is the 2025 winner for prose

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Read #AfricanSFF!🫵🏾 @africansffhype.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Yani can hear houses talk. There's snarky ones, old & young ones, jaded ones & kind ones. Like his childhood bungalow, who was soft and gentle. Can he ever find another house like that? Lovely whimsical story by @fatii-tii.bsky.social in @augursociety.bsky.social augursociety.org/roots-that-a...

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Roots That Abide by Fatima Abdullahi

Read Roots That Abide by Fatima Abdullahi from Augur Magazine Issue 7.3.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

For my first eligibility season, I would be grateful if #ASFS members would consider my story, "Roots that Abide", for nomination in the short story category of the 2025 #NommoAwards It was published in @augursociety.bsky.social You can read it here: augursociety.org/roots-that-a... Thank you!

Yani was six years old the first time
he heard a house talk. Perhaps it had
happened earlier, before he learned to
push words out of his mouth, but that
was the first he could really remember.
He'd climbed out the window to slip
his legs through the balcony's rusted
railings while his mother aggressively
cleaned the apartment when a hoarse
voice said wearily, Do you think she
could be more careful? My floors
aren't what they used to be.
He'd stood suddenly, limbs jerking in
surprise, & his mother-just days from
escaping his father's cruel fists-had
jumped a foot in the air, clutching the
broom in her hand.
He eyed the run-down building.
"Mama, the house wants you to be
more gentle."
"Oh," his mother said, blinking
"Alright."
And tell her it's alright to hurt, the
house said gently, at the disregard of
those who should care. She doesn't
have to keep the pain in anymore.
She's free.
Yani relayed the message, & watched
his mother shudder & sink to the floor, her face buried in her hands.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

90% of writing happens away from the keyboard. In the shower. On a walk. In the car. Wherever you & your thoughts are alone together, that's when writing happens. If you find yourself stuck, staring at a blinking cursor, unable to find the words, don't be afraid to step away & find somewhere quiet.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I said the sane on twitter. Both guys were not actually douches this early in the books. Gawyn only became that guy after he heard about Mogase. And Galad... Galad was never arrogant, just extremely self righteous. And yes, there's a difference between the two.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Commiserations with the folks having to stay up till midnight/3am for the show's drop, but this is what us GMT folks endured for 2 seasons. It's our time to shine now 😂😅 Slept like a baby, & in 2 hours it'll be 8am for me, & I'm not even fasting today so I'll even get breakfast 🤭 #TheWheelOfTime

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Jessie @sarcasmwelcome.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I hate this. Everything in me feels like it's shrinking into tiny bits for having to do this, but I have nothing else at this time. Please share. [alt text for the link photo: a tan 3 month old pitbull puppy lies on his back with his puppy grin aimed at the camera] gofund.me/4568d3a8

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Donate to Need To Get Over This Final Hill To Hit The Homestretch, organized by Jessica Wooldridge

Hello again, Despite all my best efforts working 7 days a… Jessica Wooldridge needs your support for Need To Get Over This Final Hill To Hit The Homestretch

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The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Sharing again because that like number needs another couple of zeroes. Seriously. Go read this. Is so good.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

You heard the woman! Do it now 🫵🏾😅

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I almost started crying I'm not even joking. Idk where this side of me is coming from 🤣 I kept looking at everyone and thinking: my babies! 🥹

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I'm literally shaking right now you don't understand 😭

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

THAT WAS THE GREATEST EPISODE OF TV WOT HAD EVER GIVEN ME. You heard it here first, I am once again a BELIEVER #TheWheelOfTime

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

So pleased to announce my second publication of the year! 🎉🥳 I wrote parts of this essay while at the Abebi Award Residency & I'm so happy M & I saw it's value & gave it a home 🥹 I have another pub with them coming later this year too! Read here: www.midnightandindigo.com/unclaimed-un...

Art accompanying the essay. It shows
a camera with an eye captured in
it's lens. Underneath is the title of
the essay: Untethered, unclaimed,
unbroken, written in bold pink font with a tiny picture of my face next to it. Next to that is a small blurb from the essay itself.

An excerpt from the essay. It says: It is a Saturday, and the sweltering Nigerian sun seems to have a point to prove, or a vendetta. I walk toward the cavernous hall, following my mother’s uneven steps. She has had arthritis for several years now, and a host of other problems that have permanently altered the way she walks. Like Chinonso Nzeh lamented so heart wrenchingly in his award winning essay, my mother is “slipping away.”

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Look at my baby standing up to his mom 🥹

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

May you always have water and shade 🥹

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Can't believe they still found a way to put Josha in a wig I'm never gonna be free 😭 (he looks good tho)

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

All my excitement is on twitter btw I can't keep crossposting it's so tiring 😅

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Need somebody to combine all the still images from the trailer into one long ass thread my brain is overloaded 😭 #TheWheelOfTime

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tanneroftarth @tanneroftarth.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

please unfollow/unsubscribe from daniel greene. he is a disgrace as a human being and his presence should not be tolerated in any community www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/...

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From the Fantasy community on Reddit: Fantasty BookTuber and Author Daniel Greene accused of Sexual Assault, cheating, and cease and desisting allegations

Explore this post and more from the Fantasy community

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Cris @ancaldazarr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASgw... Daniel Greene is a disgusting filthy rapist. This video covers all of it with RECEIPTS but this is extremely hard to watch. All my thoughts and support are with Naomi and possible other victims of this twisted fucking man. #WoTSkies

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I Received a CEASE AND DESIST from Daniel Greene

YouTube video by Naomi King

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Long time no post but guess who just won her first award for nonfiction? That's right, ME!! 🥹 For the past 3 days, I've been at the Abebi Award for Afro-nonfiction writer's Residency & I can honestly say my life has been changed beyond measure. I love these women so much & will cherish them always!

A certificate from the abebi award for
Afro-nonfiction. It says:
This is awarded to fatima Abdullahi
as a notable entry of the 20224 Abebi
award for Afro-nonfiction for "Roots"

A photo of me in a long brown dress
and a mustard yellow hijab

А photo of the five winners of the word
plus the founder. l'm in the far right

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Alhamdulillah for a new year! 🎊🎊

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

❗️Update: it worked a bit u guess. I didn't get those debilitating cramps I usually get but I also still had to take Diclofenac alongside the tea because I was still in pain. I started taking it a week before & it somehow delayed my period for 4 days 🫠 Ah well. Conclusion: 6/10

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Katherine V Huntley @kvallie.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The story of Yusra, the Palestinian archaeologist, who discovered Tabun 1, the skull of a neanderthal, on Mount Carmel, has always stuck w/ me. I'm excited someone made a documentary about her. I hope it gets the support it needs. #archaeology #history www.palestinefilminstitute.org/en/sheffield...

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Yusra — Palestine Film Institute

After discovering a photo from the 1930s featuring an Arabic woman and a British archaeologist, director Salim Abu Jabal becomes intrigued: the Palestinian woman in the picture appears to have discove...

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