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Human Writes Now @humanwritesnow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“Taha’s voice … helps one to remember that the world’s cruelty is never final while a single human being tends the flame of conscience.” Please follow/support creators like Yahia Lababidi. #palestinianwriter #arabwriters #diversewriters #author #writer #writers #WritingCommunity #poetry #poet

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Human Writes Now @humanwritesnow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Submit works written in/translated into English now for The Markaz Review literary prizes for emerging/established writers from SWANA (Southwest Asia/North Africa/Middle East) & its diasporas. #menaauthor #menawriter #arabwriters #arabauthors #asianwriter #asianauthor #diversevoices #diversewriters

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Kweli Journal @kwelijournal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

NEXT Week‼️ The Art of the Short Story Workshop—a safer space for writers of color, including Black, Indigenous, SWANA, AAPI, Latine, LGBTQ+ writers, led by Kweli Founding Editor/Publisher Laura Pegram. ➤Craft seminars ➤In-class writing ➤Masterworks study ➤Peer reviews MORE INFO at link in bio 👆🏿👆🏾

Image: Sepia photo of a writer of color discussing their work. TEXT: THE ART of the SHORT STORY WORKSHOP A SIX-WEEK INTENSIVE
BEGINNING JULY 14, 2026
ENDING AUGUST 18, 2026
Kweli

Image: Quote graphic featuring a testimonial from Delia Selina Taylor, 2022 Kweli Fellow. Text: "Never has my work been taken so seriously or held with such keen attention and care. For the first time in a long time, my work as a woman of color, and all my intersectionalities, was not only centered, but celebrated, and for that, I am forever grateful to my amazing and talented cohort, the fantastic workshop and masterclass leaders, and the inimitable and gracious Laura Pegram, who created
this beautiful community."
-DELIA SELINA TAYLOR

Image: quote graphic featuring a testimonial from a workshop participant. Text: "Laura's workshop is an oasis. The safe place I truly needed. She creates the space we writers of color dream of, whether we're just setting out as wide-eyed apprentices, or we're seasoned writers."
-FELICIA JANET WARD
2002 Stegner Fellow,
Katherine Ann Porter Prize Winner
THE ART OF THE SHORT STORY WORKSHOP ATTENDEE

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Human Writes Now @humanwritesnow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Please support underrepresented creators like Azhar Writing Prize winners Natalia Boumatar (1st) Lara Atallah (2nd) Wiam El-Tamami (3rd) Dwan Kaoukji (HM) #arabwriters #arabauthors #arabicliterature #menacreatives #menaauthor #menawriter #diversewriters #diverseauthors #diversereads #diversevoices

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Sabriga Turgon @sabriga.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"In 1950, the FBI opened a file on a woman in the Midwest. She wasn't a spy. She was a blacklisted female writer who made the mistake of documenting how American women starved." Meridel Le Sueur: the woman who refused to stop writing. lnkd.in/g9xZjRZH

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Mollie Mol @mollie.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026

Kentucky, don’t sleep (🙏🏽 @j-blockbuster.bsky.social)! Artists & Afros, Kentucky’s largest #BlackArt show, curated by Shauntrice Black is expanding and open for #BlackArtists to apply. #BlackFineArt

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Human Writes Now @humanwritesnow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Please follow/support underrepresented creators like Clare Campbell of Prickly Thistle textiles and Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi of Witches of Scotland, who designed the Witches of Scotland memorial tartan. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s... #womenartists #womensart #art #artsky #artist

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See the New Tartan Pattern Created to Honor Women Accused of Witchcraft in Scotland Between 1563 and 1736

The black, red, gray and pink design honors the thousands of individuals—mostly women—who were persecuted under the Scottish Witchcraft Act

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CultureBrew.Art @culturebrewart.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#CBAOpportunity: Black Theatre Workshop has put out a CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for the BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP'S ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM 2026/27! APPLY HERE: culturebrew.art/oppo... #CultureBrewArt #CultureBrewArtists #IBPOC #BIPOC #BIPOCArtists #IBPOCArtists #CanadianArtists #ArtistMentorship

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Every Day Is Juneteenth @everydayjuneteenth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

For Pride Month, explore a new world of books by Black LGBTQIA+ authors on our Black Pride reading list. Sincerely, A BLACK-Owned Online Bookstore ✊🏾📚 #pridemonth #juneteenth #blackmusicmonth #booksky #blackbooksky #blacksky shop.mrwelltravelled.com/collections/...

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Black Pride

Explore a new world of books by Black LGBTQIA+ authors.

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Human Writes Now @humanwritesnow.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Candi’s WIP: Autumn becomes weary and detached from people with epilepsy after the trauma of her brother's death from SUDEP. There is a change of heart. #inclusivebooks #diversewriters #diversevoices #diversebooksky #diversereads #diversesky #writer #writers #WritingCommunity #Books #Booksky

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Native American Media Alliance @nativealliance.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

6th Annual Native Writers Seminar Final Deadline 4/27 2025 Fellow Richard DeVore shares how this program acts as a catalyst for Indigenous creators showing the power of Native writers when they lead the narrative APPLY nama.media #nativeamericanwriters #Screenwriting www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOUw...

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6th Annual Native American Writers Seminar Video Testimonial - Richard DeVore

YouTube video by SKINSFEST

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Jay Haynes @justinhayneswriter.com · 20/04/2026

Pausing this morning's #5amwritersclub to celebrate the LA Times awarding me their Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction this past weekend. I'm gobsmacked and grateful. #5amwritersclub #debutauthor

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

SUMMER OFFICIAL IS OUT NOW! 🛹🩵🍦 You can get signed copies and swag from Reparations Club and The Ripped Bodice! rebekahweatherspoon.... #LesbianVisibilityWeek #booksky #YABookSky #blackbooksky

Her CLUELESS crush is the only one
who can hide SAYLOR from
her mother and her millions of followers!
Summer Official by Rebekah Weatherspoon
Book cover: Summer Official by USA TODAY bestselling author Rebekah Weatherspoon
A plus size brown skinned black girl carrying a skateboard and wearing crop black tshirt that says Queen of Hearts in white lettering and black jeans and black vans, walking hand in hand with a light skinned black girl with blond hair. She is wearing a white tank top, demon shorts, white ankle socks and green converse. She has a blue cast on one arm with doodles all over it. They are walking through an illustrated Venice beach. The Venice over head sign has been replaced with the book title Summer Official.

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Indigenous Editors Association @indigeditors.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? Did you know that the IEA is celebrating National Poetry Month this Thursday by hosting a conversation with two amazing, Indigenous poets, Jake Skeets and Billy-Ray Belcourt?

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First American Art Magazine @firstamart.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

On April 19, Brazil's Indigenous Peoples' Day, Duhigó Tukano (Tukano), Abrão Mayoruna (Matsés), and Reby Ferreira (Munduruku) reaffirm art as a tool for cultural affirmation and combating historical stereotypes. www.acritica.com/entretenimen...

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Protagonismo e resistência: artistas indígenas rompem silêncios e ocupam espaços

No Dia dos Povos Indígenas, Duhigó Tukano, Abrão Mayoruna e Reby Ferreira reafirmam a arte como ferramenta de afirmação cultural e combate a estereótipos históricos

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Beirut born artist Helen Zughaib mixes familiar imagery to bridge East and West #WomensArt

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Museum of International Folk Art @folkartmuseum.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Opening June 7 at the Museum of International Folk Art: I Am Clay: Acoma Life in Figures, the first exhibition devoted exclusively to the figurative pottery of Acoma Pueblo. Community-curated. 120+ works. A story told from within. #IAmClay #AcomaPueblo #IndigenousArt #MOIFA

Acoma clay figure holding a painted pot, wearing bead earrings and a geometric skirt; exhibition title "I Am Clay."

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Fearless, a collective of activists/artists building a movement of women across India and South Asia, who use art to reclaim public space for women #WomensArt

Photo of two women sitting on top of a high wall which has a mural on it featuring Indian womend and rhe word 'fearless'

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20/04/2026

Hundreds of beaded bags and pouches are among the thousands of historic items that will be returned to the Umatilla Indian Reservation. theoregonian.visitlink.me/89_hbJ 📸: Tamástslikt Cultural Institute #nativeartifacts #nativeart #umatillaindianreservation #oregon #theoregonian

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Wyrd Women @wyrdwomen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

South African photographer and filmmaker Zanele Muholi self-identifies as a visual activist, and their development as a photographer is deeply intertwined with their advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ community in South Africa and beyond. #QueerArt #RepresentationMatters #WomensArt #WyrdWomen

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Zackery Dean BirdFaraway @illustriouscrow.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Apsaalooke Saints: Tomorrow Is Forever Serving as a bridge between ancestral depth and modern presence this piece stands as a reminder that we are our own sacred iconography. We carry our history forward, all the while proving that traditional ways are cornerstones of contemporary society.

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It's publication day for Iman Humaydan's SONGS FOR DARKNESS, tr. Michelle Hartman, and author & translator talk with us about songs as memory, as solidarity, as resistance: arablit.org/2026/03/10/w...

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In Conversation: Songs as Memory, as Solidarity, as Resistance

Iman Humaydan, Michelle Hartman, and Emma Hardy discuss the new translation of Iman’s book “Songs for Darkness” and songs as a tool for the transmission of memory, of solidarity, and as…

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Talonbooks @talonbooks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The new work of autofiction Growing My Way Home by award-winning Sḵwx̱wú7mesh author @raveonstudio.bsky.social is here! Growing My Way Home traces Ashton’s experiences as a thirteen-year-old drug dealer, a fifteen-year-old parent, and finally an author and artist. talonbooks.com/books/growin...

A spread of copies of Growing my Way Home by Jenn Ashton.

On the cover: the top third and bottom fifth are solid light tan panel. The top, in a serif font, bears the title "Growing" in Green and on the next line in burgundy "My Way Home". The subtitle is "Stories of "Resilience and Care"

Then middle is a lovely painting with collage-esque effects of a greenhouse, trees to the left, pinecone, legs, flowers, and a house.

The bottom reads "Jenn Ashton"

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Salema📚💙 @salemah.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I’m 71% through The Poet Empress & usually I’d finish it up at work but I’m certain imma end up crying and I can’t do that at my desk so I may wait until I’m off. There’s no romance but this love story is so gut wrenching. Possible #1 book of the year! #Booksky #Diversebooksky #fantasy

The cover of The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Absolutely loved this verse-novel by @unembarrassable.bsky.social! It follows a non-binary British-Tamil teenager who joins a youth theatre group, experiences first love, and finds their voice. Highly recommend. 📚🏳️‍🌈 📚💙

Bad Queer by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan. A non binary teenager with brown skin wearing a turquoise hat and pink shirt.

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