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Shingai

@shingai-be-like.bsky.social

Writer. Reader. Swahili Sea Citizen. Voodoonauts co-creator. Past Podcastle Magazine Co-Editor & Fantasy Magazine Co-Editor. Octavia Butler scholar at Clarion. New worlds in our Lifetime ❤️

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Cynthia Gómez@cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Muñeca is a short, sapphic, delightfully-paced dance between a cleaning lady’s witchy daughter and a gothic sleeping beauty — except the sleeping beauty isn’t as asleep as everybody thinks she is, and she is very out for revenge about it." Yeeeeee. Also, T.K.'s blade book is a delight.

T. K. Rex@tkrex.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New from T. K. Rex! (me) (hi) (it's my newsletter) shoutouts: @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv...

Arley Sorg@arleysorg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

So many wonderful reads, orgs, & ppl on the Ignytes list! I'm EXTREMELY happy to see Ichthyosis by ML Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social included! @shingai-be-like.bsky.social & I are proud of everything we did with @fantasymagazine.bsky.social and it's SO COOL to see this story be celebrated!!!

The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists in Outstanding Short Story are: Autogas Ferryman – @champwongs.bsky.social Because I Held His Name Like A Key – @aimeeogdenwrites.com Commensalism, Or the Labyrinth’s Vessels – @nkereuwxm.bsky.social (1/2)

OUTSTANDING SHORT STORY for speculative works ranging from 2,000-7,499 words Autogas Ferryman – Champ Wongsatayanont (Nightmare Magazine) Because I Held His Name Like A Key – Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons) Commensalism, Or the Labyrinth’s Vessels – Albert Nkereuwem (Will This Be a Problem) Ichthyosis – M.L. Krishnan (Fantasy Magazine) The Octopus Dreams of Personhood – Hannah Yang (Diabolical Plots)
Shingai@shingai-be-like.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My second book is coming out with my favorite press!!! 🥰😍 I might be the star that is about to explode lol

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The next announcement for the upcoming crowdfund is a short story collection! We are hype to announce LET THE STAR EXPLODE, a collection of short stories by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social 💫 Shingai Njeri Kagunda's work is tender and sharp, vulnerable and powerful. We can't wait to share it with you.

LET THE STAR EXPLODE Shingai Njeri Kagunda
Tractor Beam@tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you were programmed to be respectable, what would you do to break your code? In "Mycelium Memory Makes A Monster," Imani is imprisoned by a cop and finds an unlikely ally in the Once Girl Made of Mycelium, a vast, interconnected network of fungi. Read the full story out now on Tractor Beam! 🍄📖✨

Mycelium Memory Makes a Monster | Tractor Beam

If you were programmed to be respectable, what would you do to break your code?

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Tractor Beam@tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is your sign to ask your local bookstore to carry @tkrex.bsky.social's debut book, The Wildcraft Drones!! Pre-order link below 💙 #clifi #soilpunk #sciencefiction

The Wildcraft Drones

Check out The Wildcraft Drones - <p>Can machines rewild us?</p><p>An AI breakthrough connects a team of scientists with a wild dolphin, but progress is neck-and-neck with climate breakdown. Class diff...

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T. K. Rex@tkrex.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My latest newsletter, with shoutouts to @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social @stelliform.press @magicrobotcarnival.com @elijahkinchspector.com @shingai-be-like.bsky.social @bookshop.org @fabulistmag.bsky.social & @publisherswkly.bsky.social buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv...

Tade Thompson@tadethompson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One of the things I frequently have to tell editors is how a particular construction is a Nigerian use of English. It probably feels/reads wrong to British or American ears. It's not wrong. It's how we remixed it.

T. K. Rex@tkrex.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My book is at the printers and also @shingai-be-like.bsky.social wrote me the most beautiful blurb gonna turn off the phone now and pretend like this is the only thing happening for the rest of the day 💖

Stelliform Press@stelliform.press · 5mo ago

We are excited to share this beautiful blurb from Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Ignyte winning author of & This Is How To Stay Alive. Thank you Shingai! The Wildcraft Drones have now infiltrated the printer and are befriending it and convincing it to join the rewilding revolution. We wish them success <3

"The Wildcraft Drones weaves the many realities of a world where the soil, technology, wild creatures, and wild people collaborate on communicating through and past the bounds of language. When evolution is the only constant, these stories insist on centering the protection of those on the margins of power concentration. A reminder that if we do not see ourselves as part of the collective, we lose the tools to save ourselves." — Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Ignyte award-winning author of & This Is How To Stay Alive
Shingai@shingai-be-like.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I have a new story out! 🌱🔆 I gave a lot of what I'm feeling about this moment in time over to the story, and I'm excited for folks to check it out! If you're into Black queer baddies collaborating with the earth to destroy systems of power then you may like this one.

Tractor Beam@tractorbeamearth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you were programmed to be respectable, what would you do to break your code? In "Mycelium Memory Makes A Monster," Imani is imprisoned by a cop and finds an unlikely ally in the Once Girl Made of Mycelium, a vast, interconnected network of fungi. Read the full story out now on Tractor Beam! 🍄📖✨