@jdridges
Poetic storyteller nourished by presence, soul-filling food, truthful stories, among other delights. Voodoonauts, S.E.E., & R.W.W. alum. SISTORIES LEI fellow. khōréō magazine copyeditor. Anathema | In Verse coeditor. jeanedridges.carrd.co.
So you have to upload video/audio media as well to do Patreon Drops, live & learn, but never fear February Prompt #1 is here 🌋🦴〰️✊🪸: www.patreon.com/posts/februa...
Without 🔔🔔, you can still throw some love, & if you give it a go, a little of how it went or what sparked.
@aishatuado.bsky.social
Can you guess when @lyszflo.bsky.social and @jdridges.bsky.social time travelled to for January's reckoning final prompt 🍂👻? (& with this continued brrr, U.S. Mid to East, there sure is a longing for days steadily above fifty. Radiating extra toastiness to y'all 🫖🧣🍲): www.patreon.com/posts/januar...
Anathema | In Verse's first prompt of the year is up. Prepare for reflecting and imagining here to elsewhere 🛣️🛋️🌌: www.patreon.com/posts/januar...
It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...
POETRY by Jeané D. Ridges Captain’s Lay Back Quote Trouble to be had out in Diuna Quad, but here a beautiful bowl of chicken n dumplings 8 December 2025 Strange Horizons
Captain’s Lay Back
by Jeané D. Ridges @jdridges.bsky.social
"Trouble to be had out in Diuna Quad,
but here a beautiful bowl of chicken n dumplings"
Link ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
#poetry #speculativepoetry #sciencefiction #scifi
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Dec 15, 2025
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[Anathema: Spec from the Margins logo] Dec 15, 2025 Anathema's new poetry coeditors will make an announcement. Subscribe to our Patreon & be among the first to know. [Photos of Jeané D. Ridges and Lysz Flo] QR link: https://patreon.com/AnathemaMagazine
@lyszflo.bsky.social @jdridges.bsky.social
Could have just edited my OG eligibility, but a feast for one felt fitting, so I made chicken n dumpling for the first time while talking with my Grandma Barbara, who typically gifts this particular nourishment and more.
Thank you @strangehorizons.bsky.social 💐
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What Jeané D. Ridges Has Published in 2025: ~ “the south pervades even the pluriverse” (https://stoneofmadnesspress.com/jeane-d-ridges ) ~ SISTORIES Issue V: Fluid By Nature — Contributing Editor as Luminary Editorial Incubator Fellow — Short Story “com·mem·o·ra·tion” & “Telling On Ourselves: Interviews with Black, Gender Unbound, (Dis)abled/Chronically Ill Speculative Storytellers of the South” ( https://www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709b-4706-84f6-6f7dbe8b7af0 ) ~ “Writing the Space Between Here and Elsewhere: Interviews with Jennifer Hudak and Shingai Njeri Kagunda” (https://www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/writing-the-space-between-here-and-elsewhere-interviews-with-jennifer-hudak-and-shingai-njeri-kagunda/ ) ~ “Porch Pull Up Ep. 204” (https://theseventhwave.org/publication/issue-18/jeane-d-ridges/) ~ “Recipes for the Course of Living” (https://www.juliarios.com/the-february-2025-issue-of-worlds-of-possibility/)
Trying an eligibility post for the first time. I'm grateful to myself for showing up this year to tend myself, the work, and community. Thankful for everyone I've met, deepened bonds with, and/or collabed to realize something wondrously meaningful.
With and wishing care always, Jeané 🫂
I've also updated my website if you wish to explore more of my work & who I be: jeanedridges.carrd.co
My shortest pub to date but still with feeling/wonder/breath. Thank you, SoM 💐: stoneofmadnesspress.com/jeane-d-ridges
2025 Luminary Cohort, LEI Program Director & Founder of SISTORIES Literary (from l to r - Dr. Bre Byrd, Jeané D. Ridges, Chinyere Erondu, Nina ‘Alex’ Scott, Priya Dames, Mariah M. & Ashley Danielle Nickens. not pictured Jasmine Butler)
If you didn't get a chance to attend the symposium for SISTORIES's Fluid By Nature, the replay is now live and access can be purchased for $2: www.sistories.org/fluid-by-nat... (vid description has timestamps for happenings and an accompanying resource packet of materials/notes used)
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⌚️Sep 27
Hr 27: Facilitating Spec Poetry Challenge Check-in
📜Sep 28
Hr 46: Facil. BIPOC Storytelling Meetup & Create ✍️🏾
Hr 47: Facil. Poetry Check-in ⏱️
Hr 53: Present/Facil. BIPOC Storytelling Discussion: Pluriverses of Us 🌏🎉🫱🏿🫲🏾🌌
And now, as fall teases an easing, I myself am slowing to reflect and appreciate. It will be resonating in how I show up next week. So where can you find me?
🗣Sep 26
Hr 6 (my 1st panel, & 1st opportunity to discuss gender in this way! 🥳): New Gender Just Dropped
Hr 7: Reading (feelin poetic 🧣)
'25 has been a year of joyous yes to care for '24's heartbreaks. I put down goals from the jump and have passionately pursued every creative rumination of my storytelling that called and possibilities to tend it and share it--and even more beautifully to also get to do so in aligned collaboration.
🐉I'll be not only delightedly attending but on the program for Flights of Foundry Sep 26-28:
flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/ 🪶
Roiling water, burning sky, lush swamp behind a veiled, gowned melanin-rich figure holding a lit candle with SISTORIES Litmag: An Interactive Feminist Literary Magazine and Fluid By Nature: Texture, Memory, & Ecology of The Black South overlaying.
Wooh dat full tired 😌. Yesterday was a dream realized from what happens when you move and claim your work with intention, with whole care.
If ya couldn't tune in, here's Issue V in all its glory--you can read online now and preorder a free-ninety-nine physical:
www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709...
Lineup for LEI Fluid By Nature Symposium: 11:00am | We Begin & Ground w. Ashley Danielle, Harmony Phoenix & Mariah M. 11:20am | Archives and Altars for the Literary Souths Keynote by Dr. Randi Gill-Sadler 11:55am | Marrow as Practice: Building your Library Through the Elements with Chinyere 12:15pm | Jeané Tells on Themself: An interview, Readings, and Questions & Maybe Answers with Jeané D. Ridges) 1:10pm | Midday social hour, sonic curation by holdenxcess 2:00pm | Explorations in Opacity, a blackout poem workshop with Priya Dames 2:25pm | Black Mermaids, Time Traveling Cowries & Southern Portals with Nina Scott 3:20pm | ‘They kept telling me I looked like nina simone’ an interactive fishbowl with Brea Blossoms #5 Presentation 3:45pm | On Black Southern Literary Imaginations with Jasmine Butler (?) 4:35 | Issue V Cover reveal, Convo with Stewards of the luminary Editorial Incubator & Call to Action 5pm | Closing social hour; sonic curation by holdenxcess Link for deats: https://linktr.ee/fluidbynature
(Fun Fact: I pictured posting this but didn't 😬.) Anyhow, SISTORIES is having a closing, celebratory hybrid symposium tomorrow, Aug 8, 11-6 for my LEI cohort and the issue we nurtured into being. Reg here (those who do will be first to receive hard copies of the issue)🤎🏞🧵: linktr.ee/fluidbynature
We're celebrating 5 years of khōréō by sharing essays & interviews!
In "Writing the Space Between Here and Elsewhere: Interviews with Jennifer Hudak and Shingai Njeri Kagunda", @jdridges.bsky.social interviews two authors featured in khōréō's very first issue: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...
Gratitude to Seventh Wave and my fellow contributors. This was such an attentive process to be in with y'all—and is such a wonderful community to be part of—the results show all the care each of us pour into our work 😊*big ole hug*.
Graphic created by Seventh Wave and its Art Director Meg Sykes. Shows screenshot squares of "Porch Pull Up Ep. 204" by Jeané D. Ridges and "Revolution" and Other Poems by Jack Rose above the text "We can't wait for you to get to know these voices." then Issue 18: Radical Futurity and Seventh Wave.
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Grab you a tall glass of water and come rest on the porch awhile: theseventhwave.org/publication/...
(also be sure to explore the neighborhood: theseventhwave.org/publication/..., and get ready for spotlights on contributors June 11-18: www.instagram.com/seventhwavem...)
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Seventh Wave promo graphic Issue 18: Radical Futurity: over a photo of Jeane' D. Ridges--abundant with Southern melanin, scarfed and masked up--a quote reading, "I'm a poetic storyteller who creates in the speculative expanse, which means some things are poetry, some things are prose, some things are a synthesis or conversation. To the substance of it, my work often orbits the question, once we've dismantled all these influences within and without of violence/ation, can we live with ourselves."
www.instagram.com/seventhwavem...
Image of Jeané Ridges, melanin glowing and curls picked and satin-wrapped, beside the text: Fellowship of the Griots Presents Communion - Jeané Ridges Breathing Room Readings & Discussion April 6 2 pm EST, 1 pm CST To join: https://linktr.ee/fellowshipofthegriots
Apr 6 2 pm EST/1 pm CST/11 am PST: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Broadcasting live from Atlantas of the Risen South, "Porch Pull Up | Ep. 204 Transcript — 'Tinkering a Way, Together: An Interview with Plastivap Inventor Mirukosee Balan.'"
I'll post the link when it's available, but if you want to stay on it and/or explore the mag ➡️ theseventhwave.org
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3️⃣ If you're not over me, coming this June (which feels an early birthday present), I'll have a story published in the Seventh Wave's Issue 18 🌊 Radical Futurity:
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2️⃣ I'm "headlining" the April Communion for Fellowship of the Griots. I'll talk about my work, breathe-read, then, hopefully, y'all will talk to me and we'll do some Q&MA (Questions & Maybe Answers).Watch out for a link here round the end of March ➡️ linktr.ee/fellowshipof...
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