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Iryn Tushabe (she/her)
@wordsweaver.bsky.social
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EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE (House of Anansi, 2025) available now from your favourite indie bookstore.

Native of Uganda transplanted to the Canadian Praries on Treaty 4 (Regina, Saskatchewan)

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nnedi.bsky.social
"Search African Futurism authors" just popped up at the top of my Instagram app.

I took the time to coin and define africanfuturism yet people can't spell it. The spelling of the term is PART of the definition! Now it's been gotten wrong so often that AI have picked that up. Mscheeew, exhausting.
Africanfuturism (being African-based) will tend to naturally have mystical elements (drawn or grown from actual African cultural beliefs/world views, not something merely made up). Lastly, africanfuturism is spelled as one word (not two), no hyphen and the "f" is not capitalized. It is one word so that the concepts of Africa and futurism cannot be separated (or replaced with something else) because they both blend to create something new (just like the word "Naijamerican"). As one word, it is one thing and no one can change the subject without starting a different conversation. Like the terms "science fiction" and "fantasy", africanfuturism is a neutral word, therefore it is not capitalized.
October 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
wordsweaver.bsky.social
Congratulations, trace press, on another beautiful book!
tracepress.bsky.social trace press @tracepress.bsky.social · 21d
🔸🌊 Arrived! The books are beautiful!!!

Will start mailing out to all who have pre-ordered —please be patient with Canada Post delays.
3 boxes of trace press books- TAMIL TERRAINS Opened box of trace press books— TAMIL TERRAINS. (Bw Image on boats with title & Tamil text above)
October 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
wordsweaver.bsky.social
I got both my Covid and flu shots yesterday and am now feverish and achy and moany and groany and very grateful I was able to just walk into my pharmacy and get both shots.
October 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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writersfest.bc.ca
Introducing more guest authors at #VWF2025! We are just ONE WEEK away from the 2025 Festival.

• Iryn Tushabe @wordsweaver.bsky.social
• Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social
• katherena vermette
• Rachel Wada
• Jess Walter @jesswalter.bsky.social
• Jack Wang
October 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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writingafrica.bsky.social
Zukiswa Wanner and Other Global Sumud Flotilla Activists Released
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Zukiswa Wanner and Other Global Sumud Flotilla Activists Released
South African writer, publisher, and activist Zukiswa Wanner and other participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla arrived safely in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, after thei...
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October 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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writersfest.bc.ca
On Oct 23, Ziyad Saadi (Three Parties), Iryn Tushabe (Everything Is Fine Here), and Mike Curato (Gaysians) share stories about queer BIPOC characters discovering their place.
Moderated by Hudson Lin + presented w/ @queerfilmfestival.ca

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October 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
wordsweaver.bsky.social
Honestly also Ugandan dads…
smashingaisling.bsky.social ash 🍉 @smashingaisling.bsky.social · Sep 15
Irish dads when asked to show any form of affection #TraitorsIRL
September 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
wordsweaver.bsky.social
Virtual festival day today! My panel is at 2PM EST which is noon in SK! See you there!
bkbookfest.bsky.social Brooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social · Sep 12
The Brooklyn Book Festival starts THIS SUNDAY with our Virtual Festival Day Programming! Tune in from 1-6pm EST. Don’t forget to register with the following links!
September 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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debutiful.bsky.social
Adam @vitcavage.bsky.social is moderating this FREE virtual Brooklyn Book Festival international debut panel featuring Jinwoo Park, Aurora Stewart de Peña, Iryn Tushabe, and Ella Alexander!

This Sunday! 2 pm EST!

brooklynbookfestival.org/event/who-ne...
September 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
wordsweaver.bsky.social
I’m so pumped to participate on this @bkbookfest.bsky.social panel this Sunday alongside fellow debut novelists @jinwoo-park.com, Aurora Stewart de Peña, and Ella Alexander. Moderated by Adam Vitcavage of @debutiful.bsky.social.
A graphic showing the faces of the panelists with a tagline Who?New! International
September 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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rollwithheather.bsky.social
Tea Gerbeza, Roza Nozari and Ziyad Saadi shortlisted for the Writers' Trust of Canada's $12,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for 2SLGBTQ+ emerging writers #CanLit
www.cbc.ca/books/tea-ge...
Tea Gerbeza, Roza Nozari and Ziyad Saadi shortlisted for $12K 2SLGBTQ+ emerging writers prize | CBC Books
The Canadian writers are honoured for their debut books.
www.cbc.ca
September 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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nalohop.bsky.social
Just spotted this: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for emerging BIPOC writers in Canada: an opportunity to work with Lindsay Wong arsenalpulp.com/News/2025/CA...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for emerging BIPOC writers in Canada: an opportunity to work with Lindsay Wong
Arsenal Pulp Press is a book publisher in Vancouver, Canada with over 300 titles currently in print, which include literary fiction and nonfiction; cultural and gender studies; LGBT and multicultural ...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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tedmccoy.bsky.social
Danielle Smith should try reading a book before she bans one
August 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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ex-puritan.bsky.social
The 2025 Austin Clarke Prize is open for submissions! This year's prize will be judged by Iryn Tushabe (fiction) & Faith Arkorful (poetry). To learn more & submit your work: ex-puritan.ca/news/the-202...
The photo is an announcement for The Ex-Puritan's 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. The submission deadline is October 24, 2025. First prize: $1000, runner-up: $200. On the left is a photo of poetry judge Faith Arkorful against a purple background. On the right is a photo of fiction judge Iryn Tushabe against a blurred background.
August 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Has anyone written about how extraordinary that the leaders of France, the UK, Italy, Germany, Finland, NATO, and the EC had to accompany the leader of Ukraine to the White House because the leader of the US is a giant manbaby?
August 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
wordsweaver.bsky.social
What’s with all the lip balms that make your lips tingle? Who asked for that?
August 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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hararereview.bsky.social
Recently for @thecontinent.org : On @wordsweaver.bsky.social's Everything is Fine Here, a tale of sisterhood, society and self in #Uganda.

Out now from @houseofanansi.bsky.social!
Snippet from the article on a prepared background of an iPad on a bunch of open books. --- The Continent 9 AUGUST 2025 ISSUE 208 REVIEW JACQUELINE NYATHI Society, sisterhood and self Growing up is difficult enough. Protecting family secrets makes it harder. SISTERHOOD is at the heart of Iryn... Aine is as naive about the world as you might expect her to be, and appears to be in the habit of exposing secrets ⁃ either without meaning to, or while hoping for the best. Like the fact that her older sister Mbabazi is bae'd up - with a woman - in Uganda, infamous for its anti-homosexualitylaws. Everything is Fine Here doesn'ttake on so much the macro politics as it does the personal ones: how Aine's indiscretion affects her family and her relationship with Mbabazi. And if that isn't enough for readers, she also goes on a grand adventure one memorable night. The vivid descriptions of the locations in the novel contrast semi-rural small- town living with life in the big city, Kampala. Descriptions of life at Pike Girls' School will be familiar to anyone who went to boarding school. The novel is full ofheartand wonderful characters, and Tushabe accompanies its main themes of sexuality, family (chosen family included) and coming of age with a close and moving study of bereavement. Everything is Fine Here is excellent modern African literature that scores highly in the "not about war, poverty or Aids, please" category, making the point that African lives have complexity...
August 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
wordsweaver.bsky.social
Here’s Everything is Fine Here having a little visit with Kierkegaard. If you know you know…
August 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
wordsweaver.bsky.social
I have two male relatives (and counting) who plan to become novelists after they retire and they will publish blockbusters and get movie deals etc. But they also don’t read books right now because they haven’t got the time.
suyidavies.com Suyi @suyidavies.com · Aug 9
This week, I had a long chat with yet another person who wants to be an author. Has "written a fanfic novel" and now wants to "write my own and sell it to publishers".

OK, name the last 5 novels you've read? Problem.

OK; what's the last non-fanfic thing you've written? Nothing.
August 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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houseofanansi.bsky.social
Congratulations to Su Chang (author of THE IMMORTAL WOMAN), Chyana Marie Sage (author of SOFT AS BONES), and Iryn Tushabe (author of EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE) for being featured on this list!

www.cbc.ca/books/canadi...
CBC Books' writers to watch: 22 Canadian writers making their mark in 2025 | CBC Books
CBC Books has announced this year's writers to watch list! Here are 22 Canadian writers on the rise in 2025.
www.cbc.ca
August 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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quantamagazine.bsky.social
Strong new evidence suggests that liquid metal from the center of the Earth is making its way up to the planet’s surface, potentially ferried through two monster-size blobs sitting at the core-mantle boundary. @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/earths-core-...
Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface | Quanta Magazine
Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved.
www.quantamagazine.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
We’re so proud to see Iryn Tushabe, Chase Joynt, Emma Knight, Liann Zhang, and Phillip Dwight Morgan featured on CBC Books’ list of 22 Canadian Writers Making Their Mark in 2025.

Congratulations to each of you on this well-deserved recognition.
August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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writersfest.bc.ca
• Everything Is Fine Here, fiction by @wordsweaver.bsky.social
• Bluff, poetry by Danez Smith
• Carousel Summer, middle grade graphic novel by @kagcomix.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM