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Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I read @yvettel.bsky.social's Worry Dolls from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social's Forged in FIYAH! anthology. An exploration of being BIPOC in a wyt institution, as well as getting unwanted "help."

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

“Bad Apples” is out today! A vampire story about a Zimbabwean mother who buys a coffin one day while running errands & decides to abandon her children to become a vampire. What does it mean to be a “good woman”? Is a “good woman” one who denies her hunger? theseventhwave.org/publication/...

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Bad Apples - Seventh Wave

"I was 15 years old when my mother decided to become a vampire."

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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Catch up on Adventures of Lion Man, a comic book collection that includes the original 1947 story reprinted for the first time, as well as three brand new stories. 🔗 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-advent...

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The Adventures of Lion Man|Paperback

The Legend of Lion Man Lives AgainIn 1947, Orrin C. Evans created one of the world's first Black superheroesLion Man! Appearing in the only issue of All Negro Comics, superhero history was forev...

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I’m starting a book club on my Patreon! Join with as little as 1$ to vote on our read for January. I’ve chosen Drinking From Graveyard Wells by @yvettel.bsky.social, Jackal, Jackal by @tobiogundiran.com , and Skin Thief by @sillysyntax.bsky.social : www.patreon.com/posts/vote-f...

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Vote for January's Book Club Read | Sonia Sulaiman

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A brilliant student is doing their craft presentation on Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” which means I get to come into class with the rock I received when I was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award so we can have an immersive reading experience of that one scene😆🪨 @sjacksonawards.bsky.social

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I’ll be judging this year’s Afritondo’s Short Story Prize! The theme is “Transition.” Open to African & Black writers. Cash prize $1,000. Deadline Dec 24. Guidelines below👇🏾 www.afritondo.com/call2026

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Afritondo Short Story Prize 2026 - Theme, Judges, Guidelines — Afritondo

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Anyone know of any good craft essays or lectures or even video breakdowns on Crafting a Space Opera, Writing a Novella,the Structure of a Novella etc have a brilliant student this semester whose working on an independent project & would love to send them some space opera & novella resources.thanks!

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It’s Miles MorlandFoundation fellowship app season!I’ve received lots of DMs for feedback on proposals which I’m always happy to do but I’ve gotten so many now that I unfortunately have to decline the rest.This guide is on how I structured my book proposal open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

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The Book Proposal that Landed me a $18,000 Writing Fellowship

How I structured the Book Proposal for the Miles Morland Fellowship

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🌀APPLICATIONS OPEN🌀overjoyed to share that I will be co-facilitating a writing residency at Oxbow School of Arts for emerging BIPOC writers. Shout to @ageedubb.bsky.social & Jazz for bringing this space together. Come join us among the beaches of Lake Michigan🌊 liturgy.my.canva.site?fbclid=PAQ0x...

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

New Substack post on the making of the comic book Lion Man & the Afrofuturism of reaching out across time to honor an ancestor’s buried legacy. So honored to have been involved in Lion Man open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

“Dinosaurs Once Lived Here” by @yvettel.bsky.social is a haunting reflection on the end of the world, told in seven parts by the god of drunkenness. As the earth grows mouths and swallows its cities, starting with Lagos, the rest of the world barely notices...

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It’s here!!!!! Me & @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are so excited to share the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurreal Special Issue. We had such a tough time selecting the final ToC, so many brilliant pieces! Will be sharing my favorites throughout the week strangehorizons.com/wordpress/

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Strange Horizons

A Magazine of Speculative Fiction

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Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Today's the first of our annual Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy Reading Series! We're thrilled to present tonight's reading featuring several Clarion West alumni, including @yvettel.bsky.social (CW ’22), F.E. Choe (CW ’23), @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social (CW ’23), and Chris Yin (CW ’24).

Graphic has blue background and abstract lines with text: Summer of Science Fiction & Fantasy: Alumni Reading. June 25, 5-6:30 PM PDT

Featuring: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (CW '22), Jason A. Bartles (CW '23), F.E. Choe (CW '23), and Chris Yin (CW '24).

Images of all four authors looking fabulous are overlayed in circles.

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Honored to be a finalist for the DAG Prize for prose writers “whose work expands the possibilities for American writing.” Thank you to the DAG Foundation & congrats to all the finalists! lithub.com/here-are-the...

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Here are the finalists for the $20,000 DAG Prize for Literature.

Today, the DAG Foundation announced the five finalists for the DAG Prize for Literature, a new annual award that grants $20,000 to “an early-career prose writer whose work expands the possibi…

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Last day to submit to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealist Special Issue! Poems, stories & essays welcome🖤 if you loved watching Sinners, this is the issue for you! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Last day to submit to the AfroSurrealist Special Issue

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Happy pub day to @utushimitwandi.bsky.social poetry collection “Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies.” We eating in every genre this year!!!

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

If you loved the AfroSurrealism of Sinners then you better be submitting your stories, poems & essays to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealism Special Issue👀Deadline April 30. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call

The editors for the AfroSurrealism Special invite you to submit fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 18/04/2025

RED ALERT! Some of my fav creators including @rosariumbill.bsky.social and @yvettel.bsky.social are doing a crowdfund to bring back Lion Man, one of the first Black superheroes. They only have a couple hours left and they still have to raise $3400. Please help!!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

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The Adventures of Lion Man

THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN brings one of America's first Black superheroes back to life! From the minds of Eisner Award winners John Jennings and Damian Duffy, Bill Campbell, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, and E...

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Today’s the day! Submissions for the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealism Special Issue are now open! We’re excited to read your work👇🏾 strangehorizons.moksha.io/publication/...

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Bill Campbell @rosariumbill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Only TEN days left for THE ADVENTURES OF LION MAN BackerKit Campaign Join @jijennings.bsky.social @yvettel.bsky.social David Brame, Damian Duffy, and me as we bring the ALL NEGRO COMICS (1947) hero back to life! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/r...

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Came across this article today about the UK adopting the Zimbabwean mental health model of Friendship Benches. I wrote about Friendship Benches in my book Drinking from Graveyard Wells but gave it a magical realist (psychological horror?) spin haha www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Reminder the AfroSurrealism special issue opens to submissions next week on April 15! Calling all poets & prose writers, send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Thrilled & humbled that my short story “Home Became a Thing with Thorns” is featured in an anthology alongside Kafka, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez & more! Wow what wonderful company of classic & contemporary fiction www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/p...

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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Super honoured to have a story from Issue V in this month's Reactor Mag Short Fiction Spotlight! "Dinosaurs Once Lived Here" by @yvettel.bsky.social is a beautiful and haunting flash featuring sentient wildfires, stolen suns and other world endings ✨ Read it here: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/issue-5/

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Nina James @thewanderingreader.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

“It is this world that makes monsters of us all.” This collection of speculative short stories by author Yvette Lisa Ndlovu ( @yvettel.bsky.social ) might be my favorite of the year so far (and it’s only February)! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Calling poets, prose writers, & essayists to submit to the AfroSurrealist Special Issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Eds. @yvettel.bsky.social & Shingai Njeri Kagunda are seeking worlds that slip b/t mundane, uncanny, ghostly, & futuristic. Submissions window is April 15 to April 30.

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Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call

The editors for the AfroSurrealism Special invite you to submit fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Calling poets,prose writers & essayists to submit to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealist Special Issue!Send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic. Me & @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are co-editing strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call

The editors for the AfroSurrealism Special invite you to submit fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Drinking from Graveyard Wells is available in both hardcover & paperback! www.amazon.com/Drinking-Gra...

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

There is a cool writing fellowship: in exchange for a grant you write 10k words a month for 12 months. There weren’t a lot of resources/info on the app so I interviewed author Mubanga Kalimamukwento about applying to the MMF fellowship on my Substack open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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Inbox | Substack

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

sending a foundation 10k words a month in exchange for a grant!thinking of documenting each month on my new Substack newsletter. will be a mix of craft essays,maybe fellow interviews, writing process etc.hoping it can be a resource for future applicants & fellows brittlepaper.com/2024/12/anno...

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Announcing the Winners of the ₤18,000 Morland African Writing Grant

The Miles Morland Foundation has revealed the four exceptional recipients of the 2024 Morland African Writing Scholarships. Selected from nearly 500 applications submitted by published authors across ...

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving! Recently watched Simone Biles documentary, there is a moment when her mom brings out her quilt and it taught me a lot about writing, dedication to one's craft, rejections, & gratitude. Here are my thoughts on what writers can learn from it :) open.substack.com/pub/yvetteli...

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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

been a season of Ls & rejections😭Thanks to the Miles Morland Foundation for the support to work on a new project in a genre I’m calling Postcolonial Ngano about dictator Mugabe rising from the dead to rule forever set in a fictional country called New Zimbabwe :) congrats all!

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Soila Kenya @soila.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Congratulations to @yvettel.bsky.social and Frances Ogamba for winning the Miles Morland writing scholarship to work on their #africansff stories! 🎉👏🏾 milesmorlandfoundation.com/winners-of-t...

The Miles Morland writing scholarship winners 2024 announcement

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Sarah IS LOOKING FOR WORK!!! @killianfantasy.blacksky.app · 11/11/2024

This book is soooo good, y'all. Get yourself a copy.

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