New to Bluesky! Yes, late to the party. Best time to announce that my short story ‘Of All Who Dream’ appears in @lightspeedmagazine.com this August! It’s a tale that tries to peer beneath the hood of what makes up consciousness and reality. Get epub: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/light...

I love curated “Best-Of” SFF anthologies. There's something about someone collecting stories & saying, “Here, you should read these. Sadly there are fewer Best of anthologies every year. You can help reverse the trend with Locus's new anthology by Friday Aug 7! www.kickstarter.com/projects/204...

Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1

Delve into the creative worlds of the finest minds writing contemporary science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

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Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 2d ago

Everyone! Funding ends Fri Aug 7 @ 6PM PDT. We are so close to reaching our $60k goal (adding a novella), but our DREAM GOAL gets us original cover art and allows us to double pay contributors. We want to show more love to our authors & you can help @ kck.st/4wtYJ6X !

“SAUÚTI TERRORS is a great addition to what I hope is the growing Sauúti universe” @Gabino_Iglesias reviews new anthology edited by @genni.bsky.social, Cheryl Ntumy & @stephenembleton.bsky.social

Sauúti Terrors edited by Eugen Bacon, Cheryl Ntumy & Stephen Embleton: Review by Gabino Iglesias

Sauúti Terrors, Eugen Bacon, Cheryl Ntumy & Stephen Embleton, eds. (Flame Tree Collections 978-1-83562-640-5, $26.99, 416pp, hc) March 2026. Cover by Akintoba Kalejaye. When I’m not writing nov…

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Y'all! Locus has tagged me in for their inaugural Year's Best anthology! Support the project and your boy will make an appearance, brining some @sauutiverse.bsky.social flavor. Check it out and toss a coin if you can.

Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 6d ago

We only have 8 days left everyone!! We would really like to make this anthology the best it can possibly be, + ensure the novella makes it in! Back today to unlock digital content and choose your reward tier! http://kck.st/4wtYJ6X

Mirari Press did it again! 🔥👀 Mirari asked me to illustrate firstly the reissue of their first published author and title "The Tilted Pentagram" by Matthew MacDevette to coincide with the release of Book 2, "Archive of the Sixth" in what will be "The Last Reformation Series".

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FinnCon was awesome! Getting to be on a panel with Adrian Tchaikovsky was incredible. Thank you @saranorja.bsky.social for moderating our discussion! My presentation about @sauutiverse.bsky.social also went super well & I sold lots of books. Already looking forward to next year! 😍 #booksky

What we hear is that this family is going to make their angst EVERYBODY’S problem; sounds like @stephenembleton.bsky.social agrees. Be the first to find out: pre-order @xanwriter.bsky.social's Born of Malice now, wherever books are sold. Order: links.ruadanbooks.com/BOM #BookSky #darkfantasy

You’ll love to hate Xan’s cast of characters! 🔥📖

Ruadán Books@ruadanbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

What we hear is that this family is going to make their angst EVERYBODY’S problem; sounds like @stephenembleton.bsky.social agrees. Be the first to find out: pre-order @xanwriter.bsky.social's Born of Malice now, wherever books are sold. Order: links.ruadanbooks.com/BOM #BookSky #darkfantasy

I was asked to design & illustrate the cover for this amazing anthology of short stories & poetry by young African emigrants who have found themselves journeying to Australia. Something I understand, finding yourself in a strange land, trying to figure out where you fit in. 📖 ❤️💫 @genni.bsky.social

✨ Coming Soon ✨ The Night The Stars Came Close, edited by moi and Dominique Hecq, cover art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social. The creative heart of a James Cook University project on #refugee youth resettlement in Australia. 📚 #RefugeeResettlement #CreativeWriting #AusLit #JCU

Sauúti means voice. Come hear what happens when voices build a world. Join us as we explore: 🔶 The architecture of co-creation 🔶 Voice and ownership in a shared world 🔶 Worldmaking as African self-determination 🔶 Sound, orality, and magic 🔶 The craft gains of collaboration 🔶 Growing the world

3 members of the Sauúti Collective: J. Umeh, Cheryl Ntumy, and Stephen Embleton will join ASFS to talk about co-creation, collaborative worldmaking, and working inside the first African shared science-fantasy universe. 🗓 Saturday 27 June 2026 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sauuti...

The Sauútiverse: J. Umeh, Cheryl Ntumyand Stephen Embleton in Conversation

How do you build a world together and keep it alive? Join us as we explore Voices Building Worlds: Co-Creation and Collaboration

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Congratulations to @wtalabi.com for his Sauútiverse novella, "Descent", published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, being a finalist in the 2026 @theignyteawards.bsky.social! 🚀💫📚 Read the Full List of Finalists: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/current-fina...

Well then! My @sauutiverse.bsky.social novella DESCENT is a finalist for the best novella Ignyte Award! The Ignytes mean a lot to me because of what they represent. Community, care, consideration. 🙏🏾 I'm thrilled to share the spotlight with so many excellent authors (hi again @amalelmohtar.com!)

The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists in Outstanding Novella are: Audition for the Fox – @mcflycahill90.bsky.social Descent – @wtalabi.com Psychopomp & Circumstance – @edenroyce.bsky.social The Iron Below Remembers – @sharangbiswas.bsky.social The River Has Roots – @amalelmohtar.com

Congrats to our fellow Sauúti @genni.bsky.social and her @sauutiverse.bsky.social novel! 🚀❤️🔥

The Sauúti Collective@sauutiverse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social for WINNING GOLD! Her Sauúti novella, 'The Nga’phandileh Whisperer', has won in the 2025 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Awards (Gold) in the Multicultural Category 🏆 AND is a finalist in the Fantasy category. www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winne...

My current read! Read the first quarter in one day (which is a lot for me).

The Sauúti Collective@sauutiverse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Sauútiverse was represented by @genni.bsky.social and @wtalabi.com for the Sauúti Terrors launch at Swancon in Perth last weekend. 🚀💫📚 It was an amazing reception of the Sauutiverse down under with signings galore! Get your copies: sauuti.com/sauuti-terro...

The Sauútiverse was represented by @genni.bsky.social and @wtalabi.com for the Sauúti Terrors launch at Swancon in Perth last weekend. 🚀💫📚 It was an amazing reception of the Sauutiverse down under with signings galore! Get your copies: sauuti.com/sauuti-terro...

Happy Birthday to Stephen Embleton, author of SOUL SEARCHING, a science fiction thriller. Tense, exciting and thoughtful, it was a finalist for the African SF Society NOMMO Award for best sf novel from Africa. Read it now! www.guardbridgebooks.co.uk/books/SoulSe...

Swancon #booklaunch event next weekend, Sun 31 May! @wtalabi.com and I will be launching Sauúti Terrors in Perth. I'll also be presenting The Nga'phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella.💞 @flametree.bsky.social, @sauutiverse.bsky.social, @starsandsabers.bsky.social, www.swancon.com.au

For a while, I have been developing a typeface, a headline font, which I took inspiration from many of the forms in the Vai syllabary (the Vai people from Liberia) and the Beria script (Chad/Sudan).

It was a pleasure to have been included in this discussion yesterday, hosted by @britfantasysoc.bsky.social: Language in SFFH – Origins & Culture. 💫 Thanks to @justmarvewrites.bsky.social for the brilliant questions & gathering the perspectives of R.S.A Garcia, Shay Kauwe, Arkady Martine, and myself

REVIEW: Sauúti Terrors – @arleysorg.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com 🔥⭐ "If you love quality short fiction told by an assemblage of skilled writers, and particularly if you love imaginative, boundary-pushing science fiction, you should get this book." www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/b...

Book Review: Sauúti Terrors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton, and Cheryl S. Ntumy, eds. - Lightspeed Magazine

Arley Sorg recommends the new Flame Tree Collections anthology Sauúti Terrors.

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I would say that Sauúti Terrors released. I am grateful and glad to see the @sauutiverse.bsky.social still going, because it's, I think, the best thing going in taking a visionary approach to literature, and it's mostly ignored also for Reasons.

The award for Best Short Non-fiction goes to: Eugen Bacon for Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other

Join moderator Marve Michael Anson and panellists Stephen Embleton, R.S.A. Garcia, Shay Kauwe, and Arkady Martine as they discuss the merging of culture and language on the page. Find out more about our panellists here: tinyurl.com/bfsori. #SFFH #AuthorTalk #WritingCommunity #Language #BookSky

Our language is a reflection of who we are – the history, beliefs and values we hold – and the culture we live in. The same is true for the worlds we write. But where do you draw inspiration? How do you construct a language that honours its origins while animating your story? #BritishFantasySociety

I’m really looking forward to this discussion. In excellent company, and can’t wait to hear everyone’s perspectives. Join us. 🎤 Language in SSFH.

British Fantasy Society@britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our third panel of BFS Online: Language in SFFH takes place Saturday 18th April 2026, 4pm to 5pm (BST). Origins & culture Ticket: tinyurl.com/sffhlang @rsagarcia.bsky.social @justmarvewrites.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social @byzantienne.bsky.social

So richly narrated! Sauúti Terrors out in audiobook 🎤🎵

The Sauúti Collective@sauutiverse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sauúti Terrors, in all its auditory glory, is OUT NOW as an audiobook. 🔊💫 From @recordedbooks.bsky.social the terror is available wherever you get your audiobooks, with narrators Christel Mutombo and Kofi Boakye. 🔊💫 @genni.bsky.social @stephenembleton.bsky.social rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

The British Fantasy Society is excited to announce our next event day, taking place on Saturday 18th April 2026, 10am to 6pm (BST). BFS Online: Language in SFFH Language is vast and flexible, providing writers a broad platform on which to build their world. Ticket: tinyurl.com/sffhlang

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