Busayo
@busayo.bsky.social
Writer. Doctor Words in: SmokeLong, Gone Lawn, Augur Mag, Inner Worlds, etc. Pushcart nominee. Wigleaf Top 50. Just happy to be here. https://busayomoji0.wixsite.com/a-busayo
It's been raining a lot So, I wrote a blog post about rain and about the seasons changing And about it being five years since I started writing on my blog! Been a while since I wrote something so metaphorical. It felt good, like a weight lifted off me Felt lighter & looser Was truly born to write
Today is the last day to take advantage of this! Buy a copy of gorgeous stories set in alternative futures 😊
Busayo@busayo.bsky.social · 2mo agoSoo.... something fun! This anthology that features my work is on sale right now in the UK via Waterstones. You can pre-order within the next few days and get 25% off. Read some amazing stories that reimagine African futures. Check it out on Waterstones' website.
Wonder if Ire can tell how beloved he is by the Internet. Weeeeee 💗
Maudi63@maudi63.bsky.social · 3mo agoNo matter what kind of day you are having, this👇 will make it better. 🥹 🚲 ❤️
Announcing the brilliant shortlists for this year's Welkin Genre Prize. Congratulations to the writers of these wonderful pieces. If you're on the list, please feel free to celebrate wildly, but don't say which title is yours as judging is still ongoing: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press...
Welkin News | MattKendrick.co.uk
A writing prize open to all forms of narrative prose, be that flash fiction, short-short, vignette, haibun, hermit crab, prose poem or work that sits outside such labels.
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Soo.... something fun! This anthology that features my work is on sale right now in the UK via Waterstones. You can pre-order within the next few days and get 25% off. Read some amazing stories that reimagine African futures. Check it out on Waterstones' website.
Busayo@busayo.bsky.social · 4mo agoExcited to have my work titled "Translocation" forthcoming in the Flametree Africanfuturism anthology! I've been keeping this news to myself for a while now, so I'm happy it's finally out. Read more here on the flame Tree press blog. blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
I still think about the ending of Arundhati Roy's "Mother Mary Comes To Me" from time to time...
The plan is to somehow finish Seishi Yokomizo's 6-part series in the next few months. I love it when a translation is done in a way that makes it a simple, easy to follow read. Didn't get into Japanese art from Manga or anime. But I guess a 6-part mystery series has roped me in 😄
Can't wait to read through the winning stories. This list is always full of beauties!
Sudha Balagopal@sudhab.bsky.social · 3mo agoClang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷
I've been reading a lot more consistently since March. Averaging about 5 books or so a month, and I think it's a great idea to start one of those fun threads where you post the books you've been reading. So, here we go. (And, I am very open to book recommendations!)
Excited to have my work titled "Translocation" forthcoming in the Flametree Africanfuturism anthology! I've been keeping this news to myself for a while now, so I'm happy it's finally out. Read more here on the flame Tree press blog. blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Gothic Fantasy | Successful Submissions | Africanfuturism Short Stories
We’re very excited to announce the authors included in our upcoming anthology: Africanfuturism Short Stories!
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Thank you so much to Epistemic Lit, for featuring me (and my work!) for women's history month. It's such an honour. Thank you for the shout-out! 💗💗
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now!@epistemiclit.bsky.social · 7mo ago#WomensHistoryMonth BUSAYO AKINMOJU @busayo.bsky.social Busayo appears in in Issue 2: Happy Place with the story “In Two Fingers” — 1/ epistemiclit.com/past-issues/...
"The Belly of the Rock” by @busayo.bsky.social is a story of ancestry and the bond between a mother and daughter. Read it here 👉 augursociety.org/the-belly-of...
Sharing this a bit late, but my story here at Augur Magazine is now free to read! Enjoy 😊😊
Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE !@augursociety.bsky.social · 7mo ago"The Belly of the Rock” by @busayo.bsky.social is a story of ancestry and the bond between a mother and daughter. Read it here 👉 augursociety.org/the-belly-of...
Hope I'm not too late! Published a story last year, so here's my awards eligibility post "The Belly Of The Rock" featured in Augur Magazine. Here's where I talk about the story on my blog. busayomoji0.wixsite.com/a-busayo/pos... (Link to story is in the blog post!)
The Belly Of The Rock: Notes On A Story
But really, there is something quite noble about how sacrificial love can be. How it will chase you to infinity, just to make sure you are okay. To convince you that you are worth fighting for.
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Honoured to have my work be nominated for a Pushcart prize by Inner Worlds! Awesome to have it alongside works I enjoyed reading as well.
Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · 11mo agoRead this year's Pushcart nominated stories! Lungs by @busayo.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/lungs-by-bus... Come F*** Yourself by @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/come-f-yours... Grand Mal by @marybuchanan.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/grand-mal-ma... 1/2
🥁 It's Pushcart time! 🥁 Almost impossible to choose again, but here are our 2025 nominees: Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju Come F*** Yourself by Sylvie Althoff Grand Mal by Mary Buchanan Deliver by Safiya Cherfi They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky Strangler Fig by Katharine Tyndall
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
Took a social media break and only got back recently. So, I'm a little late in sharing the latest on the blog Here's the story of the story "The Belly Of The Rock" gets examined here: my thought process, my inspiration, everything! Because... why not? busayomoji0.wixsite.com/a-busayo/pos...
The Belly Of The Rock: Notes On A Story
But really, there is something quite noble about how sacrificial love can be. How it will chase you to infinity, just to make sure you are okay. To convince you that you are worth fighting for.
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Throwing my hat into the ring for #AugurMicros2025 Here's my short piece titled "Garden" @augursociety.bsky.social
Thank you for being ever so supportive!!
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now!@epistemiclit.bsky.social · last yr.“That is what haunts us, keeping a thing that hurts alive. Without even asking who decided this is the way it must be done.” Read the backstory and don’t me as the piece itself! #EpistemicLitFamily
Here's the (promised!) blog about my recent story. I go into the thought-process behind the themes of my story "Lungs" My notes on how a "ghost" story should be in conversation with the world it is written in/to/for. And more! busayomoji0.wixsite.com/a-busayo/pos...
Lungs: Notes On A Story
#ShortStory I do not like ghost stories, but I found myself writing one.
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Read 'Lungs' then read @busayo.bsky.social's excellent blog post exploring the opportunities and responsibilities facing writers when we summon phantoms in our work. busayomoji0.wixsite.com/a-busayo/pos...
Lungs: Notes On A Story
#ShortStory I do not like ghost stories, but I found myself writing one.
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Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · last yr."If a family was like an animal to be drawn and quartered, which side gets the heart? Does the blood ever ache for what could have been? The paths it used to know." Read 'Lungs' by @busayo.bsky.social in our latest issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/lungs-by-bus... #SpeculativeFiction #SpecFic
Wrote blog posts about my most recent pieces. Because I love writing about the inspiration behind my works. One of them drops tomorrow! I'll be sharing the story behind the story of "Lungs" recently published in @innerworlds.bsky.social Excited to share it!
Oof Those lines came straight from the heart. If you haven't read my piece titled "Lungs" Catch up here.
Inner Worlds@innerworlds.bsky.social · last yr."If a family was like an animal to be drawn and quartered, which side gets the heart? Does the blood ever ache for what could have been? The paths it used to know." Read 'Lungs' by @busayo.bsky.social in our latest issue: inner-worlds.ghost.io/lungs-by-bus... #SpeculativeFiction #SpecFic
Some days you're so productive. Other days you avoid the blank page and scroll through socials on your laptop. The duality of the writer's life ☺️
“Lungs” by @busayo.bsky.social in @innerworlds.bsky.social Ghostly tale exploring what it means to be family inner-worlds.ghost.io/lungs-by-bus...
Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju
Fingers twisted from arthritis. A wet bandage over his right hand seeping a wound the local healer had inflicted. Trying, failing, to fix a hand only decade shy of a century.
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Busayo@busayo.bsky.social · last yr.It is raining publications this week! And I'm excited to share another one.
Just read "Lungs" by @busayo.bsky.social in Issue 8 of @innerworlds.bsky.social! Very rich & vivid prose in this familial ghost-story inner-worlds.ghost.io/lungs-by-bus...
Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju
Fingers twisted from arthritis. A wet bandage over his right hand seeping a wound the local healer had inflicted. Trying, failing, to fix a hand only decade shy of a century.
inner-worlds.ghost.io