Every food product is suddenly made in Canada. Yes, I’m looking.

This handmade book about Black Fairies will be at Word Vancouver Sept 19th. Under Robson square at the Ice Rink. Along with stickers and bookmarks of the characters. Only four copies of the book will be available. #wordvancouver #vancouver #blackfaires #robsonicerink #mythictexture

My baby board book about Black Fairies. I handmade this book out of cereal boxes. Four books will be available at Word Vancovuer in Sept at Robson Square. I’m thinking about doing a kickstarter for 50 books. Comment if you want it. Canada Only shipping. I don’t want to deal with tariffs.

Writing friends, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is offering a two-week Fantastic and Futuristic Writers Residency in September 2027, with faculty @amalelmohtar.com, Anuja Varghese, and Alaya Dawn Johnson. You want to do this! www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

Fantastic and Futuristic Writers Residency 2027

The Fantastic and Futuristic Writers Residency is a 12-day self-directed residency offering dedicated writing time within a vibrant literary community.

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Man. I did a mini nano in August. Just writing tons of stuff that was just telling myself the story. That’s the rough draft and she looks exactly how I feel about it.

Elle Cordova@ellecordova.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

New issue of Tar Baby with new stories by me and Ishmael Reed! tarbaby.com/shop/p/issue...

Issue #5: AFRO FUTURE / DARK MATTERS — TAR BABY

Issue No. 5 of Tar Baby Quarterly, guest edited by acclaimed writer and editor Sheree Renée Thomas, explores Black speculative imagination through the theme “Afro Future / Dark Matters.” The issue br...

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If you're wondering why authors are getting so rabid here: First Anthropic stole our books. Then we got denied compensation because of US unjust copyright law and publishers failing to meet their contractual obligations. Then publishers and agents apparently claimed author shares. Now this.

Trent Kallust@badger597.bsky.social · 2w ago

@courtneymilan.com I just pulled this from a post over on Facebook, felt like it might be info worth sharing...

Man. I did a mini nano in August. Just writing tons of stuff that was just telling myself the story. That’s the rough draft and she looks exactly how I feel about it.

Elle Cordova@ellecordova.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

Yall have a week to sign up for my online Yearlooong in Speculative Fiction class and get you a $100 discount: hugohouse.org/product/year... And here is the pretty picture they gave me to share so you see how cool and surpassingly strange we can be together:

lol. This is what I mean. Canada with a black maple leaf vs Canada with a red maple leaf + a cow are two different things

akemiart@akemiart.bsky.social · 3w ago

All these food scare shenanigans have me looking up if whatever I’m buying is 100% Made inside Canada. Surprisingly, a made in Canada sticker doesn’t actually mean that.

My art in story form! Enter the world of Mythic Texture, an imaginative creation story of Black Cosmology. The book features Black creator gods and goddesses like Earth Seed, Star Maker, and more. www.amazon.ca/Mythic-Textu...

Mythic Texture: Black Fantasy Art Book

Mythic Texture: Black Fantasy Art Book: Akem: 9781738840632: Books - Amazon.ca

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This book is like reading a dream. The language is clean and precise and there is nothing vauge or dreamlike about it. At the same time it describes an unimaginable dream world and state that lives beside reality. The Famished Road by Ben Okri.

This book is like reading a dream. The language is clean and precise and there is nothing vauge or dreamlike about it. At the same time it describes an unimaginable dream world and state that lives beside reality. The Famished Road by Ben Okri.

lol. This is what I mean. Canada with a black maple leaf vs Canada with a red maple leaf + a cow are two different things

akemiart@akemiart.bsky.social · 3w ago

All these food scare shenanigans have me looking up if whatever I’m buying is 100% Made inside Canada. Surprisingly, a made in Canada sticker doesn’t actually mean that.

Opinions wanted. If you were the only Black person in a dance class, exercise class, etc. And every song played was filled the N word - I don’t care if it’s a Black person singing it. Would you feel comfortable in that class? Or would you leave? Or would you…?

Opinions wanted. If you were the only Black person in a dance class, exercise class, etc. And every song played was filled the N word - I don’t care if it’s a Black person singing it. Would you feel comfortable in that class? Or would you leave? Or would you…?

Not THE Dolly Parton!

Dolly Parton Wink

ALT: Dolly Parton Wink

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Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

All these food scare shenanigans have me looking up if whatever I’m buying is 100% Made inside Canada. Surprisingly, a made in Canada sticker doesn’t actually mean that.

I’ve let myself down a lot these past few years. I’m now seeing progress in that I’m letting myself down in different ways, not getting stuck in the same rut. So… progress?

Tortoise Struggles to Climb Slippery Slide

ALT: Tortoise Struggles to Climb Slippery Slide

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I’ve let myself down a lot these past few years. I’m now seeing progress in that I’m letting myself down in different ways, not getting stuck in the same rut. So… progress?

Tortoise Struggles to Climb Slippery Slide

ALT: Tortoise Struggles to Climb Slippery Slide

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I’m imagining this is the only media of MJ left in the distant future. It’s accepted as the official document. Then someone comes along with a conspiracy theory. You know he had a sister named Janet that was a popular singer too. www.imdb.com/title/tt1137...

I’m imagining this is the only media of MJ left in the distant future. It’s accepted as the official document. Then someone comes along with a conspiracy theory. You know he had a sister named Janet that was a popular singer too. www.imdb.com/title/tt1137...

I really hate trying to edit an old file only to discover that I no longer have the fonts.

Jake Crying

ALT: Jake Crying

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I really hate trying to edit an old file only to discover that I no longer have the fonts.

Jake Crying

ALT: Jake Crying

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Capoeira: First Steps has launched on Amazon. It's available on both Kindle and as a physical book. Please request it to your libraries and local stores. Or simply share it. www.amazon.com/Capoeira-Fir... Stickers at www.mythictexture.com #capoeira #martialarts #mythictexture

Maaaan. Requesting my own books at the library feels like I'm being caught in the act of doing something nefarious.

a man in a suit is dancing in front of a sign that says a on it .

Alt: a man in a suit is dancing in front of a sign that says a on it .

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I finally have a youtube for sketch and art processes. Please follow me there. Those youtube streets are harsh.

Mythic Texture@mythictexture.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I finally got a youtube channel yesterday! Please share and subcribe. I'll be putting up the sketches from planned, future books. youtu.be/K6cFJ0l5RDo?...

My baby board book about Black Fairies. I handmade this book out of cereal boxes. Four books will be available at Word Vancovuer in Sept at Robson Square. I’m thinking about doing a kickstarter for 50 books. Comment if you want it. Canada Only shipping. I don’t want to deal with tariffs.

ONLY 9 HOURS TO GO of the Uncanny Magazine Year 13 Kickstarter!! We still have 2 more original art cover stretch goals to reach - YOU can make it happen Space Unicorns!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...