Actually, I do have something of mine that is eligible for awards! That I wrote. With my own words and all.
"A Brief Letter on the Origins of the Harpy Aviary in the Kirani Capital" from WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE AND HOPE!
For Your Consideration This Awards Season ... Best Novella: Automatic Noodle ... Best Anthology: We Will Rise Again, Edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older. The image shows the book covers of both works, and the background is a bunch of rainbow-colored stars, clouds, and planets.
It's awards season! I couldn't be more proud of the two books I published last year. "Automatic Noodle" is my love letter to San Francisco's future. The anthology "We Will Rise Again" is a hopeful collaboration between me, @older.bsky.social, @drkarenlord.bsky.social & many brilliant authors.
This is going to be amazing!
REMINDER that @annaleen.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and yours truly are going to be together doing events for WE WILL RISE AGAIN next month in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Frankfurt. I am so looking forward to it!!!
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buechergilde-frankfurt.buchhandlung.de/shop/magazin...
Delighted to see a mention of THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES here -- the book that completes my THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS trilogy! 😭 And in some very good company!
1/4 Books by fifteen authors with roots in eight territories have been shortlisted for the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in three categories.
Full details at bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/
Sponsored by One Caribbean Media Limited
#bocas2026 .../2
🎉🎉🎉😄
Portada de la antología We Will Rise Again, con el título en letras grandes y blancas ocupando todo el espacio y un degradado de colores de fondo (de arriba abajo, morado, azul oscuro, turquesa, verde y rojo). Editado por Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz y Malka Older: relatos y ensayos especulativos sobre protesta, resistencia y esperanza.
BOENO, happy birthday to me!!! \8D/
and before that, we have an event in Amsterdam at the American Book Center, April 10 at 17:00!
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Reading & Discussion Hope and Fury: We Will Rise Again "I can't imagine surviving, let alone changing the world under those conditions, and yet people have done it again and again. It's a historic certainty, so it is a futuristic certainty that we will make change in the world." (p.12, by Walidah Imarisha) Renown authors and activists Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz and Malka Older present their anthology "We will rise again", a compendium of short stories, essays and interviews about a better world and how it can come to be. The contributors are well-known authors of speculative fiction like NK Jemisin and Nisi Shawl, esteemed organizers and new voices who explore political activism and utopian vision from unique angles. A book that talks about chances and hopes of political movements, imagining a better world and how we could get there. It's the book for our time and we are so happy and honored that all three editors will talk about their book in our bookstore. 5:30 PM / 5:30 a.m. Admission: €10, concessions €7 Learn more about the book Register here / book here
The first event in Frankfurt is the night before, April 11 (Saturday), at the VielSeitig & Büchergilde!
Book Launch & Panel Conversation WE WILL RISE AGAIN Cultivating Just Futures with/through Speculative Imagination with Steven Gonzalez Monserrate Federico Cuatlacuatl Karma Abudagga Annalee Newitz Malka Older Karen Lord SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE WE WILL RISE AGAIN EDITED BY KAREN LORD, ANNALEE NEWITZ, AND MALKA OLDER Sunday 12.04. - 2 pm MGGU - Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität This event is part of the exhibition Multispecies Members Club: New alliances between living and artificial systems at Museum Giersch. www.mggu.de www.fixingfutures.eu FIXING FUTURES Gefördert durch DFG Deutsche KÄTE HAMBURGER CENTRE Forschungsgemeinschaft CAPAS FOR APOCALYP IIC AND POST-APOCALYPTIC STUDIES GOETHE UNIVERSITÄT FRANKFURT AM MAIN MG • Museum Giersch der GU Goethe-Universität
EXCITED to announce a second all-editors We Will Rise Again event in Frankfurt on April 12, at the Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität! This is going to be an amazing conversation, join us!
@drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social
It was amazing having you here! Safe travels!
Please preorder as preorders are love (and I'm currently a very anxious writer hiding under the blankets).
More seriously: this has been a difficult set of years for us (mental health crisis of relative, hospital, etc), and income would be v welcome. I mean it's always welcome but this year esp.
2/2📣Meet the judges of 2026's OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature!📣
⭐Fiction: Kelly Baker Josephs (Chair), Anjula Gogia, & Kevin Jared Hosein
⭐Nonfiction: Alison Donnell (chair), Richard Charan, & Oneka LaBennet
The #OCMBocasPrize is sponsored by #OneCaribbeanMedia #bocas2026
1/2 📣Meet the judges of 2026's OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature!📣
⭐Chief Judge: Margaret Busby
⭐Poetry: Raymond Antrobus (Chair), Lauren K. Alleyne, & Tanya Shirley
The 2026 #OCMBocasPrize is sponsored by One Caribbean Media #OneCaribbeanMedia #bocas2026 .../2
After my wonderful official launch of SHE IS HERE, it seems as though the world woke up and got caught up: after 4 years as hardcover, SPEAR is finally out in paperback, and just 12 years late, HILD is at last reviewed in the NYT...
📣Literature-lovers! Bocas Lit Fest 2026 — T&T's biggest annual festival of books, writers, words, stories, and ideas — takes place 30 April to 03 May, 2026!
🤓Watch this space or sign up for our newsletter to be the first to receive updates: newsletter.bocaslitfest.com
#bocas2026
The Angel at the Gates, my upcoming novella, is available for preorder! www.amazon.com/dp/1636143156
Discover why WE WILL RISE AGAIN edited by Malka Older, Annalee Newitz and Karen Lord made the 2025 Recommended Reading List www.simonandschuster...
Add this to your TBR pile: WE WILL RISE AGAIN edited by Malka Older, Annalee Newitz and Karen Lord, featured on the 2025 Recommended Reading List! www.simonandschuster...
We are prepared in case of any ... delivery problems 😁
Save the date: April 11th 2026:
@drkarenlord.bsky.social , @annaleen.bsky.social , and @older.bsky.social are coming to Frankfurt this spring!!! 🤩🤩🤩
for those further southeast, we'll be doing events on the 11th and probably 12th in Frankfurt as well! buechergilde-frankfurt.buchhandlung.de/shop/magazin...
AMSTERDAM! & the Randstad, & the whole Netherlands, & the entire Benelux area! Join ALL 3 EDITORS of the speculative activism anthology WE WILL RISE AGAIN (@drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & me) at the ABC on April 10 for discussion, Q&A, and signing!
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to be fair, they loved the pumpkin fritters!
😂 yeah, the tree frogs are a thing. Eventually your brain just backgrounds the noise and you won’t notice it anymore.
FRANKFURT!! GUESS WHAT?
@drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & I will be doing an event for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, our anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism, on 11 April at the VielSeitig & Buchergilde! THIS WILL BE AWESOME!
(will also do 1 in AMS, info soon!)
Happy to see my horror short story LANDLINE on the @locusmag.bsky.social Recommended Readling list. It's been scaring the heck out of readers
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Oh neat, Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List has my story in Asimov's recommended "In the Halls of the Makeshift King."
Was not expecting! Honored!
thank you!
😊 thank you!
