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Litquake @litquake.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nafissa Thompson-Spires: The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford 🗓️Oct. 21 | 6 PM - 7:30 PM 📍Museum of the African Diaspora, SF 🎟️FREE, $10-$15 suggested donation Co-presented with Museum of the African Diaspora @nafissa.bsky.social

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surlyspice she/her @surlyspice.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

THE FOUR WIVES AND FIVE DEATHS OF RICHARD MILFORD by nafissa thompson-spires @nafissa.bsky.social is available 10/13/26 from @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social #DebutNovel #murder #moonshine #truth #clash #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 9/1!

book cover for the four wives and five deaths of richard milford by nafissa thompson-spires with green lettering over a cream background accented with dark starbursts, a cat, and a rat with a red starburst around its head

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Kweli Journal @kwelijournal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The NEW issue of @kwelijournal has just dropped. READ NOW on our website → www.kwelijournal.org/currentissue It's our summer issue featuring: ARTWORK: "African Women" by Varnette P. Honeywood POETRY from: Diana Farid Mahtem Shifferaw 🧵 1/2

Image: "African Women" by Varnette P. Honeywood. This print is from the private art collection of Nivea Castro.

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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Today's 1000 Words letter is from the talented @nafissa.bsky.social, and she gives us all kinds of tips for tricking your brain into doing the work. #1000wordsofsummer 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/1000-words...

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1000 Words of Summer 2026 - Day 5

Because writing is a joyful act.

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Also new to the Warren Wilson Fiction Faculty this upcoming semester is @nafissa.bsky.social. Nafissa is the author of Heads of the Colored People, which won the PEN Open Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

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Nafissa Thompson-Spires @nafissa.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I’m teaching two @tin_house craft intensives this fall 🙌🏾☺️. The first one, October 18th, is called For Art’s Sake. Registration is $75, and there is a scholarship available. Full course description below:

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Dare to create boldly and bravely at the 2025 Tin House Autumn Online Workshop – a place where reinvigorated myths, alternate histories, and the deeply uncanny are all welcome! Let you own unique storytelling take flight and apply today! Apply: tinhouse.com/workshop/aut...

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Kweli Journal @kwelijournal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

ICYMI: Registration is now OPEN for Kweli’s 2025 Color of Children’s Literature Conference, April 4 – April 6 in NYC. #Kweli25 Join us for three full days of #kidlit master classes, craft talks, readings + MORE! 🎟️ REGISTER at Link in our bio

Image: Registration announcement featuring an illustration of girls of color, standing arm in arm, as they look out at an ocean wave. TEXT: REGISTRATION NOW OPEN, 2025 Keveli Color of Children's Literature Conference, Friday, April 4th • Saturday, April 5th • Sunday, April 6th
Sponsored by The Racial Literacy Project. kwelijournal.com #Kweli25 Art by Cozbi A. Cabrera from Brown Girl, Brown Girl by Leslé Honoré

Program announcement for keynote presentations at Kweli25 featuring publicity photos of participating authors, Vashti Harrison and Traci N. Todd. Text: Vashti Harrison IN KEYNOTE CONVERSATION WITH
Traci N. Todd, Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference, April 4-April 6, 2025 #Kweli25 kwelijournal.org

Program announcement for keynote presentations at Kweli25 featuring publicity photo of participating author, Erin Estrada Kelly. Text: Erin Entrada Kelly, KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference, April 4-April 6, 2025 #Kweli25 |kwelijournal.org

Program announcement for keynote presentations at Kweli25 featuring publicity photo of participating author, Arlene Elizabeth Casimir. Text: Arlène Elizabeth Casimir, KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference, April 4-April 6, 2025, #Kweli25 |kwelijournal.org

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Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com · 07/12/2024

My husband has been in the hospital for a low white blood cell count, zero neutrophils, and plenty of opportunistic infections with no end in sight. I’m raising money to help pay for my lodging, which I’m doing to be closer to the hospital. NO PRESSURE at all, but if you’d like: gofund.me/23f3543a

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Donate to Help Esme Stay Close to Chris in Hospital, organized by Esmé Weijun Wang

My name is Esme Weijun Wang and I'm an author, speaker, and teacher. My hus… Esmé Weijun Wang needs your support for Help Esme Stay Close to Chris in Hospital

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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 22/11/2024

Good morning. Please join me in donating to this Palestinian family. Any amount helps! Thank you for your generosity.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Please welcome—and support—the trans poet librarian @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social who is raising funds for his legal fight for accountability with his employer.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

A bright spot next week is that I have the honor of doing this with the amazing @rokwon.bsky.social:

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

hello! I've compiled a list of 2024 books I'm anticipating from women of color & here it is, a bonanza of novels, essay collections, memoirs, & more electricliterature.com/75-books-by-...

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75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024 - Electric Literature

We couldn’t be more excited for these highly anticipated books to hit shelves in the coming year

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Please consider donating to a close friend of mine in Durham who has had an unimaginably difficult time and needs money to fix or replace her car so that she can support her lovely kids. Even a couple hundred more dollars will make *all* the difference.

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Need car to go to work and for my girls, organized by Artis Parker

Hello my name is Artis I had a car it stop working transmission and Cadillac con… Artis Parker needs your support for Need car to go to work and for my girls

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Greg Mania @gregmania.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

perfect sunday to melt into the couch with one of my favorite authors @nafissa.bsky.social

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Jenn Baker (she/her) @jbakernyc.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

Launching my debut YA FORGIVE ME NOT in a month! First up, Queens #NYC and DC! On August 15, I'll bring in convo w/ bestselling authors Renée Watson & Brendan Kiely (link to register below). #2023debuts www.eventbrite.com/e/forgive-me-not…

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Jenn Baker (she/her) @jbakernyc.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Black-owned #Bookstore Adanne in #Brooklyn also needs support as they are forced to vacate their space. Please #Donate and/or #share. www.ifundwomen.com/projects/adanne-…

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

thinking yet again of this poem by Naomi Shihab Nye: No Explosions To enjoy fireworks you would have to have lived a different kind of life

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