Fabienne Josaphat
@fabyjosaphat.bsky.social
Author, PEN Bellwether Prize 2023 Fiction, poetry, art Kingdom of No Tomorrow, Algonquin 2024
I had so much fun teaching this creative writing workshop on the narrative power of silence that I had to write this craft essay about it. Sharing here: open.substack.com/pub/fabienne...
Say Less: A Craft Essay on Subtext
I tought a workshop on the narrative power of the unsaid - for my paid subscribers: craft lesson and prompts!
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I wrote a new entry in my Substack this week! Consider subscribing for a full breakdown of how casting your characters might help you finish that novel! fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...
If Your Characters Were Actors
An unapologetic writing trick that brings your characters to life
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I keep forgetting this platform, hoping to be better at sharing on here this new year. Check out my Substack recap/looking ahead mashup.
I wrote an essay on loss that is really a eulogy of a man who impacted me greatly. The essay is about how his loss was my first experience with grief as a child. Where would you submit such a piece?
Sharing my last Substack once more. Subscribe! I'd love to grow a little community of readers and fellow writers/thinkers. open.substack.com/pub/fabienne...
In the Mood for Love (and Unafraid)
Writing about love is serious business and serious literature - writing prompts included for my paid subscribers
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When you read a book and love it and then take the time to post a review online, it means SO MUCH to the writers. Thank you.
Dancing in the Baron's Shadow by @fabyjosaphat.bsky.social Nicolas, a bourgeois socialist is sent to the notorious Fort Dimanche prison by dictator Papa Doc's militia, and his brother Raymond must try to save him. 💙📚 [ #booksky #historicalfiction #bookrecommendations ]
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
A man on a horse walks into the sea and disappear. It's a story about erasure and how Haitian art resists it. Read the full story here: fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/a-man-on-a...
Writing ancestors in fiction is not just woo woo stuff. I wrote about that in my new essay: fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/is-the-anc...
Is the Ancestor in the room right now?
Ancestors, dreamwork, and writing from the ancestral well - craft essay
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My week teaching Fiction as Resistance went just as expected: magical. I wrote about here: fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/the-magic-...
The Magic Was Already in the Room
On mentoring writers of color and the radical joy of storytelling
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Guitar from Sinners + Jamea Richmond-Edwards dragon rider = art as ancestral tech. I wrote about this in my Substack! Let me know your thoughts. fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/they-put-t...
They Put the Ancestors In the Group Chat
The Incredible Time-Bending Magic of Sinners & Jamea Richmond-Edwards' Art - an essay
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Please join us in congratulating @agasendorf.bsky.social ! Florida Humanities has chosen "Dressing The Saints" as its 2025 "Great Reads from Great Places" selection. "Dressing The Saints" will be featured at the National Book Festival on September 6th in Washington D.C.
Thank you, Fabienne, for addressing an important topic in such a beautiful way. We're so grateful to have given it a home. 💜 blreview.org/fiction/what...
What They Will Say – Bellevue Literary Review
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I wrote this short story for my mother, and all the women navigating loneliness. Thanks @blreview.bsky.social for giving it a home ✨️. Read it here in their Body Politic issue ⬇️
It's really the little things, like decluttering my desk in the morning and writing morning pages instead of end of day journaling, that make me feel a bit more motivated. Reading list for the class I teach next week: Fiction as Resistance.
So Napoleon Bonaparte gets movies made after him but where are the movies about the Black soldier who challenged him and paid the price? I wrote about Alexandre Dumas and his drive to rewrite his father into history. fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
I have created every single excuse to avoid work today. I just sat down and then got up to go moisturize my hands.
I had fun writing this for my Substack newsletter, and it comes with a poem in it. Subscribe for more 😊 fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/mango-beef...
Two poems written in three past two days. I like this streak. 🦋
Looking for Japanese cafés in Miami that serve coffee, matcha, pastries etc...
My handsome old man is at the groomer today and I'm having separation anxiety. I miss him. I realize how much I love having him by my side every day 💕
Lovely poetry reading with some incredible poets friends 🧡
I actually wrote today. A tiny flash piece. This is a gift.
I'm definitely the person watching back to back true crime shows for the soothing effect. No bueno.
a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
ALT: a gazelle is looking at a bowl of popcorn ..
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O MIAMI! Come to @booksandbooks.bsky.social Friday night to hear me yak about my new book, WELCOME TO #FLORIDA! There's no dress code, so you don't have to wear your dress-up la chanclas. But your emotional support iguana MUST be on a leash. www.booksandbooks.com/event/an-eve...
An Evening with "Florida Literary Legend" Craig Pittman - Miami Events Calendar | Books & Books
“A wonderfully entertaining and informative book by a deft and deeply knowledgeable writer. Florida abounds with fascinating stories, and nobody tells them better than Craig Pittman.”—Dave Barry, New ...
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