VH Ncube (is querying👆🏾)
@intokazi-v.bsky.social
Speculative/Africanfuturism writer💫 Advocate for a just transition🌍
God's child✝️ Pan-African ✊🏾🇿🇦🍉 she/her
Member of ASFS|Voodoonauts Fellow '24|Stories in Omenana & Map of Lost Places anthology
website: https://vhncube.com/
God's child✝️ Pan-African ✊🏾🇿🇦🍉 she/her
Member of ASFS|Voodoonauts Fellow '24|Stories in Omenana & Map of Lost Places anthology
website: https://vhncube.com/
Pinned
CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x LOST ARK DREAMING
🌇It’s 2074. In a world-class (derogatory) African city
👩🏾An urban planner is recruited by a rebellion
❤️🔥Her career and close relationships are on the line
⚖️How far will she go for justice to be realized?
#A #SFF #BVM #WOC #amquerying
🌇It’s 2074. In a world-class (derogatory) African city
👩🏾An urban planner is recruited by a rebellion
❤️🔥Her career and close relationships are on the line
⚖️How far will she go for justice to be realized?
#A #SFF #BVM #WOC #amquerying
I'll finish drafting my literary novel with a spec. twist: a world where tech enables communication between us & animals.
This could be 🔑 for the 1st case of ecocide being tried at the Int'l Crim. Crt. We follow the Prosecutor and Defense Counsel at the centre of this (who have history💔)
This could be 🔑 for the 1st case of ecocide being tried at the Int'l Crim. Crt. We follow the Prosecutor and Defense Counsel at the centre of this (who have history💔)
Hey Writers!
What project are you finishing in 2026?
I'll start.
I'm good at making grandiose plans that fall apart under the weight of my own disappointment BUT me and @katemaru.bsky.social are working on a book together and we will finish it in 2026!
What project are you finishing in 2026?
I'll start.
I'm good at making grandiose plans that fall apart under the weight of my own disappointment BUT me and @katemaru.bsky.social are working on a book together and we will finish it in 2026!
December 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I'll finish drafting my literary novel with a spec. twist: a world where tech enables communication between us & animals.
This could be 🔑 for the 1st case of ecocide being tried at the Int'l Crim. Crt. We follow the Prosecutor and Defense Counsel at the centre of this (who have history💔)
This could be 🔑 for the 1st case of ecocide being tried at the Int'l Crim. Crt. We follow the Prosecutor and Defense Counsel at the centre of this (who have history💔)
Reposted by VH Ncube (is querying👆🏾)
Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Dear bluskeeters!
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.
Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
🚨🚨FYI: Deadline is the 14th of Jan!🚨🚨
Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...!
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...
Black Horror | Call for Submissions
We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!
blog.flametreepublishing.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
🚨🚨FYI: Deadline is the 14th of Jan!🚨🚨
Standing in line for this🙋🏾♀️
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Standing in line for this🙋🏾♀️
Reposted by VH Ncube (is querying👆🏾)
Unsolicited writing advice: no. 8075: There is no such thing as serious writing. There are only writers who take their work seriously, and those who don’t. Tragedy is no more “serious” than comedy. Children’s writing is no less “serious” than writing for adults. Good writing is wherever you find it.
October 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Unsolicited writing advice: no. 8075: There is no such thing as serious writing. There are only writers who take their work seriously, and those who don’t. Tragedy is no more “serious” than comedy. Children’s writing is no less “serious” than writing for adults. Good writing is wherever you find it.
So grateful to everyone at @reviseresub.bsky.social for the #revpit #10queries event. There were so many useful tips! And a special thank you to @mariatureaud.bsky.social for the feedback on my query and pages🥹 Gonna be ready to send out queries soon!
a young boy in a white tank top and red shorts is standing in a car and pointing at the camera .
Alt: a young boy in a white tank top and red shorts is doing a happy dance.
media.tenor.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
So grateful to everyone at @reviseresub.bsky.social for the #revpit #10queries event. There were so many useful tips! And a special thank you to @mariatureaud.bsky.social for the feedback on my query and pages🥹 Gonna be ready to send out queries soon!
Congratulations @shingai-be-like.bsky.social!❤️🔥
@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE
psychopomp.com/we-who-will-...
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psychopomp.com/we-who-will-...
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October 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Congratulations @shingai-be-like.bsky.social!❤️🔥
Congratulations @suyidavies.com! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Congratulations @suyidavies.com! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages. 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
🎉We're baaacckk!!!🎉
RevPit's #10Queries October event opens for submissions October 10!
#amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky
RevPit's #10Queries October event opens for submissions October 10!
#amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages. 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
Africanfurist SNOWPIERCER
A story about green capitalism’s destructive force and the people who revolt against it when an urban planner is recruited by a rebel leader to siege her corrupt city’s neural network until clean energy, water, and housing are provided for all.
#DVpit #A #SF #BVM #WOC
A story about green capitalism’s destructive force and the people who revolt against it when an urban planner is recruited by a rebel leader to siege her corrupt city’s neural network until clean energy, water, and housing are provided for all.
#DVpit #A #SF #BVM #WOC
October 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Africanfuturist SNOWPIERCER
Kima Taifa (noun): net zero, world-class city.
Greenwashing (noun): deceptive sustainability claims.
Ruva (FMC): Proposes a social housing project.
Rebel (verb): Can she? Now that she’s confronted by a city intent on the unjust status quo.
#DVpit #A #SF #BVM
Kima Taifa (noun): net zero, world-class city.
Greenwashing (noun): deceptive sustainability claims.
Ruva (FMC): Proposes a social housing project.
Rebel (verb): Can she? Now that she’s confronted by a city intent on the unjust status quo.
#DVpit #A #SF #BVM
October 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Africanfuturist SNOWPIERCER
In an elite, net zero city, an urban planner proposes a project that will house thousands. After the govt rejects her plan, rebels extort her to help them take the city hostage using her security clearance until basic needs for all are met.
#DVpit #A #SF #BVM #WOC
In an elite, net zero city, an urban planner proposes a project that will house thousands. After the govt rejects her plan, rebels extort her to help them take the city hostage using her security clearance until basic needs for all are met.
#DVpit #A #SF #BVM #WOC
October 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Me, catching up on Day 1 of #DVparty
a man in a red shirt is eating something with his hand in his mouth .
ALT: a man in a red shirt is eating something with his hand in his mouth .
media.tenor.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Me, catching up on Day 1 of #DVparty
I'm intrigued👀
Moodboard for my adult sci-fi romance 🌿☀️🤖
A PSALM FOR THE WILD-BUILT x AUTONOMOUS
#TheFragileArchive #DVparty #A #SF #R #moodboard
A PSALM FOR THE WILD-BUILT x AUTONOMOUS
#TheFragileArchive #DVparty #A #SF #R #moodboard
October 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'm intrigued👀
This aesthetic captures the "tortured" vibe so well. Excited to learn more about your WIP🥹
October 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This aesthetic captures the "tortured" vibe so well. Excited to learn more about your WIP🥹
Gorgeous😍😍
October 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Gorgeous😍😍
I'm intrigued👀...
October 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I'm intrigued👀...
🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️
Futuristic fantasy vibes, anyone?
(All photos mine, culled from the 248,867 waiting to be sorted on my phone 🙈)
#Moodboard #DVparty #Querying
(All photos mine, culled from the 248,867 waiting to be sorted on my phone 🙈)
#Moodboard #DVparty #Querying
October 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️
I need this on my shelf❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Mood board for the Vietnamese gothic fairy tale retelling I've been practice pitching this week for DVpit!
Think the vibes were worth all the nights of writing until 2am? 👀
#DVparty #storyaesthetic
Think the vibes were worth all the nights of writing until 2am? 👀
#DVparty #storyaesthetic
October 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I need this on my shelf❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
First run of the week💪🏾.
To quote Murakami: “[As a novelist] You have to manage physical strength and spiritual strength so they’re in balance, so they effectively reinforce each other. The more protracted the fight, the more significance this theory takes on.”
To quote Murakami: “[As a novelist] You have to manage physical strength and spiritual strength so they’re in balance, so they effectively reinforce each other. The more protracted the fight, the more significance this theory takes on.”
September 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
First run of the week💪🏾.
To quote Murakami: “[As a novelist] You have to manage physical strength and spiritual strength so they’re in balance, so they effectively reinforce each other. The more protracted the fight, the more significance this theory takes on.”
To quote Murakami: “[As a novelist] You have to manage physical strength and spiritual strength so they’re in balance, so they effectively reinforce each other. The more protracted the fight, the more significance this theory takes on.”
Rest is important. Giving yourself time is important. When I started writing seriously, I would push myself to write 7 days a week (IK🤦🏾♀️) and my body would force me to stop.
August 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Rest is important. Giving yourself time is important. When I started writing seriously, I would push myself to write 7 days a week (IK🤦🏾♀️) and my body would force me to stop.
Reposted by VH Ncube (is querying👆🏾)
READ: "We drink salt and water to stay standing, to keep ourselves from going dizzy and collapsing. This is what we've come to in Gaza, where most people will go without food for three days at a time." mondoweiss.net/2025/08/in-g...
In Gaza, we’ve resorted to drinking salty water just to keep ourselves from fainting
We drink salt and water to stay standing, to keep ourselves from going dizzy and collapsing. This is what we’ve come to in Gaza, where most people will go without food for three days at a time.
mondoweiss.net
August 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
READ: "We drink salt and water to stay standing, to keep ourselves from going dizzy and collapsing. This is what we've come to in Gaza, where most people will go without food for three days at a time." mondoweiss.net/2025/08/in-g...
Reposted by VH Ncube (is querying👆🏾)
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
“She painted a very clear picture about survival.”
www.motherjones.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x LOST ARK DREAMING
🌇It’s 2074. In a world-class (derogatory) African city
👩🏾An urban planner is recruited by a rebellion
❤️🔥Her career and close relationships are on the line
⚖️How far will she go for justice to be realized?
#A #SFF #BVM #WOC #amquerying
🌇It’s 2074. In a world-class (derogatory) African city
👩🏾An urban planner is recruited by a rebellion
❤️🔥Her career and close relationships are on the line
⚖️How far will she go for justice to be realized?
#A #SFF #BVM #WOC #amquerying
August 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS x LOST ARK DREAMING
🌇It’s 2074. In a world-class (derogatory) African city
👩🏾An urban planner is recruited by a rebellion
❤️🔥Her career and close relationships are on the line
⚖️How far will she go for justice to be realized?
#A #SFF #BVM #WOC #amquerying
🌇It’s 2074. In a world-class (derogatory) African city
👩🏾An urban planner is recruited by a rebellion
❤️🔥Her career and close relationships are on the line
⚖️How far will she go for justice to be realized?
#A #SFF #BVM #WOC #amquerying