Today August 15th is the last day to cast your vote for the Ignyte Awards! Go here to vote: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote
The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · last yr.The #IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works are:
Desiree S. Evans
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✍🏾 📚 Author & Editor • Southern girl • Spinner of speculative tales for kids, teens + adults • BUY the Locus Award Winning + Ignyte Award Finalist + Indie-Bestselling THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE today! @Flatironbooks • linktr.ee/literarydesiree
The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · last yr.
Officially ON VACATION! I'll be offline/off phone completely! If you miss me, check out my #ondemand #webinars SeraRivers.com/shop. In the meantime, I'll be reading for pleasure like a fiend! @v-e-tirado.com #TrishaTobias @literarydesiree.bsky.social @sj-fennell.bsky.social @novarensuma.bsky.social
Finally reading @literarydesiree.bsky.social & @sj-fennell.bsky.social anthology The Black Girl Survives In This One. Really good! @tananarivedue.bsky.social
Feeling so incredibly honored + grateful that THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE won the Locus Award for best anthology. Thank you to @locusmag.bsky.social + the voters! To all our readers who believed in this project! @sj-fennell.bsky.social + I appreciate you so much! locusmag.com/2025/06/2025...
2025 Locus Awards Winners
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2025 Locus Awards on June 21, 2025, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Authors Sarah Gailey and Tochi Onyebuchi were…
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Are you ready for the Locus Awards! Streaming starts at 5:45pm Pacific, awards start at 6:00pm Pacific! www.youtube.com/live... Join the celebration! #SFF #Fantasy #books #Booksky
I am NOT going to stop screaming about injustice. I also need to celebrate wins, including @literarydesiree.bsky.social and @sj-fennell.bsky.social winning Locus Award for Anthology with "The Black Girl Survives in This One" and Locus Celebrating Excellence in Genre to @theignyteawards.bsky.social
Happiest of paperback pub days to THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE edited by @literarydesiree.bsky.social and @sj-fennell.bsky.social! @flatironbooks.bsky.social
It's a big day for SFF Awards! The Ignyte Awards have announced their 2025 finalists. Congratulations!! reactormag.com/2025-ignyte-...
Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Ignyte Awards - Reactor
Congratulations to everyone!
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So grateful to see THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE as a finalist for Outstanding Anthology in the amazing #IgnyteAwards! Thank you to our readers, those who nominated this book, and all who have supported it! And special shoutout to the amazing list of nominees we're so proud to be part of!
The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · last yr.The #IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works are:
So excited to have THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE as a finalist for an Ignyte Award!
The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · last yr.The #IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works are:
So grateful to be chosen to work with mentor @nellcrossbeckerman.bsky.social on refining my dream PB project. This is a new genre for me, and I'm excited to learn + grow through this awesome program. Thank you to the PBRisingStars team for all the work you do to foster new stories & new writers!
PB Rising Stars@pbrisingstars.bsky.social · last yr.PRESENTING: the 2025 PB RISING STARS mentees, runners up, and honorable mentions! 🤩🤩🤩 We’re thrilled to work with our 28 new mentees, and we’re so proud of our RUs and HMs. CONGRATS TO ALL! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social for including THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE in your Sinners rec list!
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · last yr.Still looking for something to fill the long hours spent not watching Sinners? Here are 20 more books to read that might scratch that itch... #booksky reactormag.com/what-to-read...
we *literally just now* got a huge shipment of rad shit in at the shop.. just in time for indie bookstore uhhh, evening!
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Eden Royce@edenroyce.bsky.social · 2y agoThe cover for my Southern Gothic novella PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is here! Predatory morticians, Gullah funeral traditions & a city where your family is defined by how they care for their dead. Art: Greg Ruth, design: Christine Foltzer Pre-order: torpublishinggroup.com/psychopomp-c... #booksky
We’re thrilled that THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE is up for BEST ANTHOLOGY in this year’s LOCUS AWARDS. We’re so proud of this book, so if you have a chance to cast a vote for us (or any of your favorites from this past year), please do! Vote here: poll.voting.locusmag.com
Excited to be teaching a speculative fiction writing workshop for BIPOC writers with Third Space by RWW (Roots. Wounds. Words) this spring! For more info + to register as a participant, go here: tinyurl.com/3wr5bwxy
Check out a few forthcoming works from Black authors -- She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor (sci-fantasy), Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles (horror), and The Devil Three Times by Rickey Fayne (supernatural)! Look out for these wherever you buy your books!
This short by one of the authors of the anthology was very spooky! I went ahead and added their other anthology to by tbr! @literarydesiree.bsky.social #theblackgirlsurvivesinthisone #booksky #diversebooksky
Happy World Read Aloud Day! Writing can be a solitary process, but a writers' group valuing idea exchanges and viewpoints helped Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Read #NEHgov funded book “The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture”: ow.ly/NAI350UR7Gm
Looking for something amazing to support this Black Futures Month? Check out and support the Prosper with Dragons kickstarter! Here more from @nickydrayden.bsky.social in her video below! And shoutout to the awesome @suyidavies.com 🐉 🖤
Nicky Drayden@nickydrayden.bsky.social · 2y agoHappy Black Futures Month yall! Celebrate by watching this goofy Origin Story video, then head over to our Prosper with Dragons Kickstarter that just launched today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/115... We've got 17 backers already! Who's next? So excited to finally share this with y'all! 🐉
Excited that THE BLACK GIRL SURVIVES IN THIS ONE is on the Locus Recommended Reading List for 2024 (along with many other amazing collections)! Thank you all for reading!
Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 2y ago2024 Recommended Reading List locusmag.com/2025/02...
our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
So glad you enjoyed it! 💜
armyofdigeridoos 📚🐍🐈⬛@armyofdidgeridoos.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories, edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell This may be the best horror anthology I’ve ever read. Every single story in this collection is a five-star read: chilling, brutal, and beautiful in equal measure. #booksky 📚🩸
It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.