Nafissa Thompson-Spires

It can’t be helped. Too far gone.

SAEEDWARD!!!

Megha Majumdar — A Guardian and a Thief - with Nicole Chung — at Conn Ave Welcome to our new website! We're excited to see you. *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

DC! Join me at @politicsprose.bsky.social on Saturday, 10/18 to celebrate 🎉 National Book Award finalist 🎉 @meghamaj.bsky.social and her hauntingly gorgeous new novel A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF

Thanks, David!!

Also new to the Warren Wilson Fiction Faculty this upcoming semester is @nafissa.bsky.social. Nafissa is the author of Heads of the Colored People, which won the PEN Open Book Award, the Hurston/Wright Award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

In this interactive craft intensive, we explore ways to engage timely, socially relevant ideas while avoiding the soapbox or the heavy hand.

Through a variety of modalities, including satire and humor, we will generate practices for creating timeless exigency in our longform and short fiction.

I’m teaching two @tin_house craft intensives this fall 🙌🏾☺️. The first one, October 18th, is called For Art’s Sake. Registration is $75, and there is a scholarship available. Full course description below:

Dare to create boldly and bravely at the 2025 Tin House Autumn Online Workshop – a place where reinvigorated myths, alternate histories, and the deeply uncanny are all welcome! Let you own unique storytelling take flight and apply today!

Apply: tinhouse.com/workshop/aut...

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Great review of Naomi Cohn's THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA in THE RUMPUS (@handle.invalid) today. See also my interview with Naomi Cohn in CRAFT. www.craftliterary.com/2025/03/07/i...

Image: Registration announcement featuring an illustration of girls of color, standing arm in arm, as they look out at an ocean wave. TEXT: REGISTRATION NOW OPEN, 2025 Keveli Color of Children's Literature Conference, Friday, April 4th • Saturday, April 5th • Sunday, April 6th Sponsored by The Racial Literacy Project. kwelijournal.com #Kweli25 Art by Cozbi A. Cabrera from Brown Girl, Brown Girl by Leslé Honoré

Program announcement for keynote presentations at Kweli25 featuring publicity photos of participating authors, Vashti Harrison and Traci N. Todd. Text: Vashti Harrison IN KEYNOTE CONVERSATION WITH Traci N. Todd, Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference, April 4-April 6, 2025 #Kweli25 kwelijournal.org

Program announcement for keynote presentations at Kweli25 featuring publicity photo of participating author, Erin Estrada Kelly. Text: Erin Entrada Kelly, KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference, April 4-April 6, 2025 #Kweli25 |kwelijournal.org

Program announcement for keynote presentations at Kweli25 featuring publicity photo of participating author, Arlene Elizabeth Casimir. Text: Arlène Elizabeth Casimir, KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference, April 4-April 6, 2025, #Kweli25 |kwelijournal.org

ICYMI:

Registration is now OPEN for Kweli’s 2025 Color of Children’s Literature Conference, April 4 – April 6 in NYC. #Kweli25

Join us for three full days of #kidlit master classes, craft talks, readings + MORE!

🎟️ REGISTER at Link in our bio

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Donate to Help Esme Stay Close to Chris in Hospital, organized by Esmé Weijun Wang My name is Esme Weijun Wang and I'm an author, speaker, and teacher. My hus… Esmé Weijun Wang needs your support for Help Esme Stay Close to Chris in Hospital

My husband has been in the hospital for a low white blood cell count, zero neutrophils, and plenty of opportunistic infections with no end in sight. I’m raising money to help pay for my lodging, which I’m doing to be closer to the hospital. NO PRESSURE at all, but if you’d like: gofund.me/23f3543a

I’m stunned. I thought this was AI. Artificial. Irresistibly.

Sending you so much love, and prayers up for C, my friend 💜💜💜

Good morning. Please join me in donating to this Palestinian family. Any amount helps! Thank you for your generosity.

My Two Dads with a young Giovanni Ribisi

Please welcome—and support—the trans poet librarian @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social who is raising funds for his legal fight for accountability with his employer.

Donate to Help Muhannad Secure a Future for his Family in Gaza, organized by Lauren M As the second eldest in the family, Muhannad has been forced to make cho… Lauren M needs your support for Help Muhannad Secure a Future for his Family in Gaza

Sending around Muhanned’s fundraiser again for him and his family: gofund.me/64b19540

A bright spot next week is that I have the honor of doing this with the amazing @rokwon.bsky.social:

March 6th, I am in conversation with Tommy Orange about his new novel Wandering Stars at the Union Square Barnes and Noble! Get your tickets here: stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

75 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2024 - Electric Literature We couldn’t be more excited for these highly anticipated books to hit shelves in the coming year

hello! I've compiled a list of 2024 books I'm anticipating from women of color & here it is, a bonanza of novels, essay collections, memoirs, & more

electricliterature.com/75-books-by-...

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Major congratulations!!!

Need car to go to work and for my girls, organized by Artis Parker Hello my name is Artis I had a car it stop working transmission and Cadillac con… Artis Parker needs your support for Need car to go to work and for my girls

Please consider donating to a close friend of mine in Durham who has had an unimaginably difficult time and needs money to fix or replace her car so that she can support her lovely kids. Even a couple hundred more dollars will make *all* the difference.

perfect sunday to melt into the couch with one of my favorite authors @nafissa.bsky.social