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Short Story Saturday: June Edition. 🇬🇭 This Saturday at 6pm WAT, Rigwell Addison Asiedu (@asiedu_rigwell) reads Fugue, published in @UbwaliLitMag Read the story here: 👇🏽 ubwali.com/fugue Then come talk about it with us. 💜 RSVP below: calendar.app.google/31BXjU5EvtKskM…

On January 19, I received a career‑defining email. My novella had been longlisted by Simon & Schuster. And this was an application I submitted on a whim. It was one of those ‘let me just do this; you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take’ moments. 1/4

it’s funny how sometimes you buy a book, then read it in two days, and sometimes you buy a book and it lives on your bookshelf for 12 years.

@jennienkem Congratulations 😂😂😂😂 the life of writers!

I got accepted into a writing residency in France & for the life of me, I cannot even remember what I submitted. 😞

The Case for Adaptation: Why African Filmmakers Should Seek Film Rights to Short Stories Published in Literary Journals @let_alpha_write

My essay ‘If Speaking Against Misogyny Makes Me Less of a Man, Then Picture Me In A Skirt’ is out 📍 wrr.ng/download/con-s…

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