I wrote a new entry in my Substack this week! Consider subscribing for a full breakdown of how casting your characters might help you finish that novel!
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I keep forgetting this platform, hoping to be better at sharing on here this new year. Check out my Substack recap/looking ahead mashup.
I wrote an essay on loss that is really a eulogy of a man who impacted me greatly. The essay is about how his loss was my first experience with grief as a child. Where would you submit such a piece?
Sharing my last Substack once more. Subscribe! I'd love to grow a little community of readers and fellow writers/thinkers.
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When you read a book and love it and then take the time to post a review online, it means SO MUCH to the writers. Thank you.
Dancing in the Baron's Shadow
by @fabyjosaphat.bsky.social
Nicolas, a bourgeois socialist is sent to the notorious Fort Dimanche prison by dictator Papa Doc's militia, and his brother Raymond must try to save him. 💙📚
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Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
A man on a horse walks into the sea and disappear. It's a story about erasure and how Haitian art resists it. Read the full story here: fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/a-man-on-a...
Writing ancestors in fiction is not just woo woo stuff. I wrote about that in my new essay: fabiennejosaphat.substack.com/p/is-the-anc...
My week teaching Fiction as Resistance went just as expected: magical. I wrote about here:
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Guitar from Sinners + Jamea Richmond-Edwards dragon rider = art as ancestral tech. I wrote about this in my Substack! Let me know your thoughts.
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Please join us in congratulating @agasendorf.bsky.social ! Florida Humanities has chosen "Dressing The Saints" as its 2025 "Great Reads from Great Places" selection.
"Dressing The Saints" will be featured at the National Book Festival on September 6th in Washington D.C.
Thank you, Fabienne, for addressing an important topic in such a beautiful way. We're so grateful to have given it a home. 💜 blreview.org/fiction/what...
I wrote this short story for my mother, and all the women navigating loneliness. Thanks @blreview.bsky.social for giving it a home ✨️. Read it here in their Body Politic issue ⬇️
Stack of texts for next week's fiction course by a bright and sunny window
It's really the little things, like decluttering my desk in the morning and writing morning pages instead of end of day journaling, that make me feel a bit more motivated. Reading list for the class I teach next week: Fiction as Resistance.
Thank you 🙏🏽
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So Napoleon Bonaparte gets movies made after him but where are the movies about the Black soldier who challenged him and paid the price? I wrote about Alexandre Dumas and his drive to rewrite his father into history.
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I have created every single excuse to avoid work today. I just sat down and then got up to go moisturize my hands.
I had fun writing this for my Substack newsletter, and it comes with a poem in it. Subscribe for more 😊
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Two poems written in three past two days. I like this streak. 🦋
Looking for Japanese cafés in Miami that serve coffee, matcha, pastries etc...
My handsome old man is at the groomer today and I'm having separation anxiety. I miss him. I realize how much I love having him by my side every day 💕
Met up with this book club yesterday to chat about ##kingdomofnotomorrow and we had a blast.
Lovely poetry reading with some incredible poets friends 🧡
Spanish moth baby sighted today 🥰
I actually wrote today. A tiny flash piece. This is a gift.
