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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · Jun 28

I won the 2025 Isele Poetry Prize yesterday!! 🎉🎉

Thank you greatly for the honour @iselemagazine.bsky.social I feel so overwhelmed 🥹

You can read all 3 poems here: iselemagazine.com/2024/04/30/t...

Pictures of the three winners of the Isele prizes set agains a bue and red background. First is of me, a black woman wearing a hijab and sporting a nose ring. My picture is un black and white.

The other two pictures are portraits of two black men, in colour.

The same picture as the first image, now with accompanying twitter post that says:

Meet the winners of the 2025 lsele
Prizes!
Josiah Ikpe's "Not Like Other Boys"
wins the lsele Short Story Prize.
Tolu Daniel's '"Notes of a Nonresident
Alien" wins the Isele Nonfiction Prize.
Fatima Abdullahi's "Three Poems" wins the lsele Poetry Prize

Fatima Abdullahi Wins the Isele
Poetry Prize for " Three Poems'
Fatima Abdullahi's poems contain profound emotion and lyrical precision, rendering personal grief as a collective experience. Each piece in the trio explores loss from different angles--ageing, the death of a father, and emotional detachment in mourning-with imagery that is tender, raw, and hauntingly memorable. The poems are remarkable not only for their technical control and intertextual references (from Dylan Thomas to Diana Der-Hovanessian), but also for their ability to collapse vast emotional landscapes into intimate, carefully wrought lines. Abdullahi's voice is clear-eyed and compassionate, making space for silences shadows, and the unspoken ways grief reshapes us. The work asks us to sit with our
own losses and reconsider what it means to remember.
Read "Three Poems" by Fatima Abdullahi.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 4d

My mini poem, titled, "Where do you go when the Genocide is too Loud" is out today on @adimagazine.bsky.social 🎉

Incredibly honoured that the editors chose to give this piece a home.

And, as always, #FreePalestine 🇸🇩

In the cracks
between
my teeth, where
my prayers
take shape.
In the hollow
of my palms, where
they are answered.

FATIMA ABDULLAHI
Fatima Abdullahi is a writer across genres
She won the 2025 Isele Poetry Prize, placed
second in the 2023 Dreamfoundry
Emerging Writer's Contest, and was runner
up in the 2023 Valiant Scribe Poetry
Competition. She was also one of the five
winners of the Abebi Afro-nonfiction
Award for her essay "Roots." Her carefully
crafted works have appeared in several
literary spaces, including: Dark Matter
Magazine, Augur Magazine, Midnight &
Indigo, Isele Magazine & Lolwe, among
others. She stands for truth and freedom
from oppression, and is a staunch advocate
of the Palestinian cause.

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 5d

"Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud?" asks Fatima Abdullahi in this new poem, out today from Adi.

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/whe...

Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud?

In the cracksbetweenmy teeth, wheremy prayerstake shape.In the hollowof my palms, wherethey are answered.

adimagazine.com

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · Aug 28

I didn't even get this notification smh

Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ah thank you so much for reading! I'm so glad you liked it! 🥹🤍

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Parlei Rivière @priviere.bsky.social · Aug 14

Just finished Fatima Abdullahi's "Roots that Abide" and it is such a good read. Home-seeking in a world where everyone has a quiet little gift.

Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.1 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social · Nov 18

OR buy a copy today to read the full issue!

7.3 features also include...
✒️ Fatima Abdullahi’s "Roots that Abide"
✒️ David Barrick’s "Goose"
✒️ Erin MacNair's "Moth Lake"

🧵

augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

Read Augur Magazine Issue 7.3.

augursociety.org

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · Jun 6

Eid Mubarak! 🎉

Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

Needs to win everything

Screen Rant @screenrant.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor Season 2 has been submitted for the #Emmys in 23 categories, including:

— Best Drama Series
— Best Lead Actor in a Drama: Diego Luna

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Liam Brazier @liambrazier.com · May 28

Another #StarDraws p-p-p-portrait as we celebrate and mourn the last of #Andor.

#148 B2EMO

#B2 #b2emo #b2emodroid #starwars #starwarsart #droids #droid #davechapman #matthewdenton #joshualee

Portrait illustration of B2EMO from Andor.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor reminded me why I absolutely loathe Krennic

Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor Finale

- What a way to end it. A BABY?? And one he'll never know 😭😭. At least Bee is with Bix 😭

- Cass released Nemik's manifesto 🥹

-Dedra ended up in Narkina 5?!

I now want to immediately rewatch Rogue One but I'm so full of hope rn I don't want to have to relive that ending 😭

Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor s2 ep 11

Seeing Kleya come apart at the seams is heartbreaking. She put her whole life into the Rebellion & she's still trying to give the last of what she has :(

And omds, the TENSION of those last minutes 😮‍💨

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor s2 ep 10

Poor Loni

Poor Luthen & Kleya 😭

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor s2 ep 9

- What an incredibly selfless act from Bix. "I'm choosing the Rebellion".

The way I was on tenterhooks throughout this episode you'd think I didn't already know how the story ends. This is the mark of a thing well made.

- Mon Mothma, I'll always love you. "Welcome to the Rebellion"

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor

- Dedra didn't deserve Syril anyway

- Wilmo refusing to leave his new love behind because he still hurts over leaving his first one. I hope he makes it 🥹

- The Ghormans almost had me in tears. That broadcast at the end begging for them to be heard.

As always, f**k the Empire.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor s2 ep 7 & 8

Two fantastic episodes! 👏🏽👏🏽

‐ Syril spent all these years hating Cassian just to die at the exact moment he realizes Cass doesn't even know who he is. Damn. To Syril, it was hunting Cass down that started him on this path. To Cass, he's just a random guy.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor s2 ep 6

- I knew Cinta's death was coming because I got spoiled beforehand, but I absolutely hated the way she died. Whining simpering child indeed.

- Bix getting her comeuppance & destroying the ISB's plans in one go?

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor s2 ep 5

First, "Not much of a revolutionary are you?" to Cassian, then Saw closes the episode with:

"Revolution is not for the sane. Look at us. Unloved. Hunted. Cannon fodder. We'll all be dead before the Republic is back, & yet...here we are."

Absolutely brilliant! 👏🏽

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor s2 ep 4

- The depiction of the smear campaign against Gorman is brilliant. This is how propaganda works smh

- Bix & Cassian suffering through the cost of the fight :(

When Cassian keeps saying "This is a war" I wonder if he's not also using it as a reminder for himself.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor
And all that complaining about the SA scene, "this isn't Star Wars" blah blah, please.

Andor is showing you the nature of empires. Not just the people who build them, but also those who sustain them. And some are absolutely the kind of people that would commit rape.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor s2 ep 3

- As with s1 the show really opens up with ep 3. I LOVED this episode, so very well done.

- Can't believe I was cheering Dedra putting Syril's mom in her place

- The contrast between the wedding party scene to the Bix/Cassian scenes was so great. Poor Brasso 😭

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

#Andor s2 ep 2

- I know everyone and their mother saw it coming—including me—but I still gasped when I saw Dedra and Syril were now a thing 🤣

- I won't lie, I absolutely adored Perrin's speech 🥹

- Cassian better than me tbh. That entire sequence was a waste of time.

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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · May 31

Posting my #Andor season 2 watch thread here. I truly don't think I'll ever love another show as much I love this one.

Ep1:
"You're coming home to yourself. You've become more than your fear." 😭

The way Cassian always finds himself in these improbable situations 😂

Also, KRENNIC!! 😡
#AndorSpoilers

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · May 30

this is literally fraud. You did not sign authors with the promise to pay their due if you made a profit, you committed to pay them for their work that they delivered and has sold. At the very least this publisher needs to be blacklisted, but hope there are also legal consequences somehow

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · May 30

Authors published by the crowdfunding publisher Unbound will not receive historic royalty payments for sales of their books, unless Boundless, the new publisher founded following Unbound going into administration, "survives and thrives" 👇 #BookSky

Unbound authors will not receive unpaid royalty payments until new publisher Boundless 'is cash stable'

www.thebookseller.com

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · May 25

Sometimes the know-it-all nature of social media just gets on my nerves and I start deleting whole posts, lol.

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