Suyi
@suyidavies.com
Author. He/him. Barely here.
Latest: SEASON OF THE SERPENT (August 2026) & LOST ARK DREAMING (Ignyte & Nommo winner; Nebula finalist).
https://suyidavies.com/links
Latest: SEASON OF THE SERPENT (August 2026) & LOST ARK DREAMING (Ignyte & Nommo winner; Nebula finalist).
https://suyidavies.com/links
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Suyi
@suyidavies.com
· Sep 10
Welcome to the final reckoning.
SEASON OF THE SERPENT 🐍, the final book in The Nameless Republic trilogy, is out from Orbit Books in August 2026. Buckle up.
SEASON OF THE SERPENT 🐍, the final book in The Nameless Republic trilogy, is out from Orbit Books in August 2026. Buckle up.
Completing final edits for SEASON OF THE SERPENT (out in August!)
Drafting Book #9 right now, likely to finish...summer?
Already outlined Book #10. Waiting for the signal.
That's how we do it! No secret sauce, just crossed fingers and nose to the grindstone.
Drafting Book #9 right now, likely to finish...summer?
Already outlined Book #10. Waiting for the signal.
That's how we do it! No secret sauce, just crossed fingers and nose to the grindstone.
The true secret to my long career: As a midlist writer hanging on to my career one book at a time, I can only control the work I do, not outcomes.
So I work: Drafting Novel W while waiting for edit notes on Novel F. When edits & draft are done, I'll return to the half finished & overdue Novel L.
So I work: Drafting Novel W while waiting for edit notes on Novel F. When edits & draft are done, I'll return to the half finished & overdue Novel L.
January 11, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Completing final edits for SEASON OF THE SERPENT (out in August!)
Drafting Book #9 right now, likely to finish...summer?
Already outlined Book #10. Waiting for the signal.
That's how we do it! No secret sauce, just crossed fingers and nose to the grindstone.
Drafting Book #9 right now, likely to finish...summer?
Already outlined Book #10. Waiting for the signal.
That's how we do it! No secret sauce, just crossed fingers and nose to the grindstone.
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We have to practice solidarity. We have to recognize when we're being played and used, and what makes us strong and what makes us weak. Empires are always trying, *inside and outside*, to make the very people they oppress and threaten complicit in their evils and dependent on their structures.
January 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
We have to practice solidarity. We have to recognize when we're being played and used, and what makes us strong and what makes us weak. Empires are always trying, *inside and outside*, to make the very people they oppress and threaten complicit in their evils and dependent on their structures.
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A year ago, I worried about a US invasion. These days, I worry about something that actually scares me more: that our government (and other governments) will decide that we have to do whatever the US regime demands, and what they demand will be ever more fascist alignment.
January 10, 2026 at 5:38 PM
A year ago, I worried about a US invasion. These days, I worry about something that actually scares me more: that our government (and other governments) will decide that we have to do whatever the US regime demands, and what they demand will be ever more fascist alignment.
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Sometimes you need a poem by @nikitagill.bsky.social.
January 8, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Sometimes you need a poem by @nikitagill.bsky.social.
Happy New Year.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
January 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Happy New Year.
Well, that was 2025. Let's see what the next 365 days hold.
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The Suyiverse Report #6 — Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Author Suyi Davies Okungbowa offers a review of the year 2025 and looks forward to the forthcoming year.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Well, that was 2025. Let's see what the next 365 days hold.
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I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
June 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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Please take the time to check out, contribute, and share his @gofundm3.bsky.social. every interaction helps.
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Donate to Support Marshall Carr's Journey Ahead, organized by Wil Ralston
Hello from the crew of JUST KEEP WRITING Podcast. Today we are starting a Go-Fund-Me… Wil Ralston needs your support for Support Marshall Carr's Journey Ahead
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December 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Please take the time to check out, contribute, and share his @gofundm3.bsky.social. every interaction helps.
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It's the Most Listerful Time of the Year, so if you're making reading lists for next year, might I interest you in the fact that SEASON OF THE SERPENT, the final novel in the Nameless Republic trilogy, releases on August 11?
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It's the Most Listerful Time of the Year, so if you're making reading lists for next year, might I interest you in the fact that SEASON OF THE SERPENT, the final novel in the Nameless Republic trilogy, releases on August 11?
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Wrapping my own damn self, in lieu of being wrapped by a machine: suyidavies.com/updates/suyi...
My 2025 Wrapped — Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Author Suyi Davies Okungbowa shares some of the notable things he’s read, watched, listened to and found in the past year.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Wrapping my own damn self, in lieu of being wrapped by a machine: suyidavies.com/updates/suyi...
Today, I went to the library to look for a specific kind of book about a specific topic. On the same shelf, I found a *different* book on a *different* aspect of the same topic---an aspect I didn't even know existed.
I went with the 2nd book.
I went with the 2nd book.
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Today, I went to the library to look for a specific kind of book about a specific topic. On the same shelf, I found a *different* book on a *different* aspect of the same topic---an aspect I didn't even know existed.
I went with the 2nd book.
I went with the 2nd book.
I think of Manusos (in Pluribus) as that one character that supercharges a novel, that makes you sit up when you first encounter them.
The sheer strength of their singular conviction raises twofold intrigue: tension (what will they do NOW?) & suspense (what happened to make them this way?).
The sheer strength of their singular conviction raises twofold intrigue: tension (what will they do NOW?) & suspense (what happened to make them this way?).
December 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I think of Manusos (in Pluribus) as that one character that supercharges a novel, that makes you sit up when you first encounter them.
The sheer strength of their singular conviction raises twofold intrigue: tension (what will they do NOW?) & suspense (what happened to make them this way?).
The sheer strength of their singular conviction raises twofold intrigue: tension (what will they do NOW?) & suspense (what happened to make them this way?).
"From idea to story" is the first lesson in my advanced fiction class because, while idea inertia happens to everyone, emerging writers can often get stuck there, while seasoned authors know the hard work is in distilling said hodgepodge of ideas into a story that has clarity and direction.
Been reading submissions on and off all day which has left me thinking a lot about how an IDEA for a story isn't a STORY.
December 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"From idea to story" is the first lesson in my advanced fiction class because, while idea inertia happens to everyone, emerging writers can often get stuck there, while seasoned authors know the hard work is in distilling said hodgepodge of ideas into a story that has clarity and direction.
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Welcome to THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025: REVIEWER'S CHOICE!! Reactor's book reviewers have come together to recommend their favorite 2025 reads. How many have you picked up?
Reviewers' Choice: The Best Books of 2025 - Reactor
Reactor’s regular book reviewers talk about notable titles they read in 2025
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December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Welcome to THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025: REVIEWER'S CHOICE!! Reactor's book reviewers have come together to recommend their favorite 2025 reads. How many have you picked up?
Wrapping my own damn self, in lieu of being wrapped by a machine: suyidavies.com/updates/suyi...
My 2025 Wrapped — Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Author Suyi Davies Okungbowa shares some of the notable things he’s read, watched, listened to and found in the past year.
suyidavies.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Wrapping my own damn self, in lieu of being wrapped by a machine: suyidavies.com/updates/suyi...
I've known a lot more non-readers than readers. The conditions that spawn lifelong readership need constant nurture & nourishment, & the conditions that disrupt it are ubiquitous, neverending & must be constantly battled, requiring a practice & fortitude many, sadly, cannot afford / will not accord.
It doesn't take a lot for people to start reading. But year after year, what keeps you coming back? In this week's Mark As Read, @mollytempleton.com discusses reading as a lifelong habit:
What Keeps You Reading? - Reactor
Becoming a reader is different than *staying* a reader...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I've known a lot more non-readers than readers. The conditions that spawn lifelong readership need constant nurture & nourishment, & the conditions that disrupt it are ubiquitous, neverending & must be constantly battled, requiring a practice & fortitude many, sadly, cannot afford / will not accord.
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Hey yall! We're looking for ✨youtubers or streamers✨ who'd be interested in playing the cooperative card game Prosper with Dragons on their channel.
Reply or DM if you're interested or know someone who could help this game find its audience! 📣
More info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Reply or DM if you're interested or know someone who could help this game find its audience! 📣
More info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Prosper with Dragons
A cooperative, post-apocalyptic, Afrofutures card game (with dragons!)
www.kickstarter.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hey yall! We're looking for ✨youtubers or streamers✨ who'd be interested in playing the cooperative card game Prosper with Dragons on their channel.
Reply or DM if you're interested or know someone who could help this game find its audience! 📣
More info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Reply or DM if you're interested or know someone who could help this game find its audience! 📣
More info: www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
I'm the kind of practiced hater who will pop out of hiding places and bonk people on the head with an empty water dispenser bottle: <bonk> Stop. <bonk> Using. <bonk> That.
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I'm the kind of practiced hater who will pop out of hiding places and bonk people on the head with an empty water dispenser bottle: <bonk> Stop. <bonk> Using. <bonk> That.
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Started reading Son of the Storm yesterday. Absolutely hooked! So excited to see where the story goes.
December 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Started reading Son of the Storm yesterday. Absolutely hooked! So excited to see where the story goes.
It's the Most Listerful Time of the Year, so if you're making reading lists for next year, might I interest you in the fact that SEASON OF THE SERPENT, the final novel in the Nameless Republic trilogy, releases on August 11?
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It's the Most Listerful Time of the Year, so if you're making reading lists for next year, might I interest you in the fact that SEASON OF THE SERPENT, the final novel in the Nameless Republic trilogy, releases on August 11?
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Honored to be a Special Guest at @laworldcon.bsky.social next year! 🚀💫💜
I hope to use the space to champion the amazing work of speculative poets and Canadian BIPOC SFF writers!
I hope to use the space to champion the amazing work of speculative poets and Canadian BIPOC SFF writers!
LAcon V is pleased to announce @teresempierre.bsky.social as a Special Guest.
She is an award-winning Canadian writer and editor whose work has appeared in Uncanny, Fantasy Magazine, & Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Her work has been shortlisted for the Ignite, the Elgin, & the Aurora.
She is an award-winning Canadian writer and editor whose work has appeared in Uncanny, Fantasy Magazine, & Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Her work has been shortlisted for the Ignite, the Elgin, & the Aurora.
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Honored to be a Special Guest at @laworldcon.bsky.social next year! 🚀💫💜
I hope to use the space to champion the amazing work of speculative poets and Canadian BIPOC SFF writers!
I hope to use the space to champion the amazing work of speculative poets and Canadian BIPOC SFF writers!
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You've still got two weeks to add some HEAT to your holiday game nights! 🔥🔥🔥🐲
Prosper with Dragons Holiday Sale: $25 thru Dec 13th! (Free US Shipping!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
✨ Makes a great stocking stuffer! ✨
Prosper with Dragons Holiday Sale: $25 thru Dec 13th! (Free US Shipping!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
✨ Makes a great stocking stuffer! ✨
Prosper with Dragons
A cooperative, post-apocalyptic, Afrofutures card game (with dragons!)
www.kickstarter.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
You've still got two weeks to add some HEAT to your holiday game nights! 🔥🔥🔥🐲
Prosper with Dragons Holiday Sale: $25 thru Dec 13th! (Free US Shipping!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
✨ Makes a great stocking stuffer! ✨
Prosper with Dragons Holiday Sale: $25 thru Dec 13th! (Free US Shipping!)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
✨ Makes a great stocking stuffer! ✨
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Congratulations to friend of the con @suyidavies.com for his 2025 Nommo Award win!
Suyi's work is amazing and you should read all of it.
Suyi's work is amazing and you should read all of it.
“Lost Ark Dreaming” by @suyidavies.com won the 2025 Nommo Award for Best Novella.
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November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Congratulations to friend of the con @suyidavies.com for his 2025 Nommo Award win!
Suyi's work is amazing and you should read all of it.
Suyi's work is amazing and you should read all of it.
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Spotlight: 2025 Nommo Award winners
The ASFS announced this year’s winners at the Aké Arts & Book Festival in Lagos. The awards celebrate exceptional talent in African speculative fiction across four categories.
#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
The ASFS announced this year’s winners at the Aké Arts & Book Festival in Lagos. The awards celebrate exceptional talent in African speculative fiction across four categories.
#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Spotlight: 2025 Nommo Award winners
The ASFS announced this year’s winners at the Aké Arts & Book Festival in Lagos. The awards celebrate exceptional talent in African speculative fiction across four categories.
#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
The ASFS announced this year’s winners at the Aké Arts & Book Festival in Lagos. The awards celebrate exceptional talent in African speculative fiction across four categories.
#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙