Thee Afronauts @TheeAfronauts
Ignyte Award-winning podcast. Community. Support. Resources. 🖤: @JTewWrites, @ChelseaGayden, @BeatriceIker Logo: @shewillart linktr.ee/TheeAfronauts Joined December 2020-
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Happy book birthday @themoosef 🎉🤎
Happy book birthday @themoosef 🎉🤎
After a one year hiatus, Voodoonauts is back!!! We are so excited to share our 2024 call for Black speculative writing Fellows! Since 2020 we have offered a space for Black speculative storytellers to connect across the diaspora. Our fellows have been as diverse as our cofounders
🚨This is in less than an hour🚨 If you’re a Black writer, dm us for the link to hear Indie bestselling author Kamilah Cole @wordsiren give a reading of SO LET THEM BURN 🔥
🚨This is in less than an hour🚨 If you’re a Black writer, dm us for the link to hear Indie bestselling author Kamilah Cole @wordsiren give a reading of SO LET THEM BURN 🔥
1 more week!!! We can’t wait for you to join us and special guest @wordsiren at our first Black Writers Social! DM or email for the link to our discord. See you there! #blackwriters #blackwriterssocial #theeafronauts #soletthemburn #kamilahcole #WritingCommunity
Join us on Discord! DM us or email [email protected] for the link! #blackwriters #blackauthors #discord #writingcommunity
Thee Afronauts’ 1st newsletter goes out on Monday! It’s part love letter to our community, things we’re excited about, & more fun updates. Subscribe now: theeafronauts.substack.com Can’t wait for y’all to read it! #newsletter #blackwriters #WritingCommmunity
Today, SO LET THEM BURN, my YA debut fantasy pitched as "Jamaican Joan of Arc with dragons", is officially on sale. Thirty years of dreaming has finally come true. My little book is on shelves with the greats, past and present. I'm speechless. Buy Now: linktr.ee/kamilahcole
This is a fun one! Join us for a chat with four 2024 debut authors: @themoosef, @ashtonlattimore, @AvioneLee, and Rae Giana Rashad. We cover the highs and lows of debut year, marketing plans, and navigating edits. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5MbL4W… #amwriting #blackauthors
Check out our latest episode with best selling author and publisher Kwame Mbalia @KSekouM where we discuss our work as storytellers, making more pies in publishing, and so much more. #writingcommunity #blackauthors #publishing #writing #podcast
Our new episode's featured guest is the eminent Sheree Renée Thomas (@blackpotmojo)!! Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/3VHLF3… #Blackwriters #shortfiction #Hoodoo #JanelleMonae #WritingCommmunity #podcast
Yoooooo!!! I am basking in these flowers @fiyahlitmag and #IgnyteAwards. Thank y'all and thank you to our listeners. @chelseagayden, @jtewwrites, and I will talk more about this on Monday's episode, but we do this for our love of Black art and artists, period 🖤
Yoooooo!!! I am basking in these flowers @fiyahlitmag and #IgnyteAwards. Thank y'all and thank you to our listeners. @chelseagayden, @jtewwrites, and I will talk more about this on Monday's episode, but we do this for our love of Black art and artists, period 🖤
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@TheeAfronauts @themoosef @jtewwrites @chelseagayden I’d like an invite link as well please🙂
@TheeAfronauts @themoosef @jtewwrites @chelseagayden Hi I would love an invite link please💃🏾
@TheeAfronauts @themoosef @jtewwrites @chelseagayden I'm also unable to dm but I'd love an invite link as well!
@TheeAfronauts @themoosef @jtewwrites @chelseagayden Is it too late? I can’t dm
@TheeAfronauts Hi! I’m unable to dm you but I’d love an invite link. Thank you!
as a huge fan of this ignyte award-winning podcast, i was absolutely fangirling to be featured! please check out my episode!
Our guest today is Indie-bestselling author Kamilah Cole @wordsiren Link: open.spotify.com/episode/5aBQMZ… Tune in now for: 🖤secret publishing goals 🖤alarmingly strict writing routines 🖤plantains
SO LET THEM BURN is an Indie Bestseller! If I could send a thank you basket to every indie bookseller in the country, I would, but all I can do is this: you are one of the pillars of the literary community. Thank you for seeing me, and seeing SLTB. I will be forever grateful 💜
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We're back, baby!!!! Season 4 begins Monday, August 28th, with longtime friend of the pod and NYT bestselling @AuthorJElle 🔥❤️🔥
@AfronautsPod @AuthorJElle Ooo I’m so excited for this new season!! 🤩
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We're back, baby!!!! Season 4 begins Monday, August 28th, with longtime friend of the pod and NYT bestselling @AuthorJElle 🔥❤️🔥
Let me get my headphones ready!
We're back, baby!!!! Season 4 begins Monday, August 28th, with longtime friend of the pod and NYT bestselling @AuthorJElle 🔥❤️🔥
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We're back, baby!!!! Season 4 begins Monday, August 28th, with longtime friend of the pod and NYT bestselling @AuthorJElle 🔥❤️🔥
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We're back, baby!!!! Season 4 begins Monday, August 28th, with longtime friend of the pod and NYT bestselling @AuthorJElle 🔥❤️🔥
Had an INCREDIBLE time this weekend chatting with @AuthorEtta, @jtewwrites, and Beatrice Iker about the debut process for the @AfronautsPod. I'm a huge fan of this podcast and its crew, and I can't wait for y'all to hear our conversation! Thank you Afronauts for including me!
GO VOTE FOR @RSAGarcia @AfronautsPod and @fictograph !!!!!!! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/
The fact that I get to do @AfronautsPod with my besties @chelseagayden @jtewwrites means so much to me. Thank you, thank you 🙏🏿
The #IgnyteAwards finalists for the Ember Award: Afronauts Podcast Alex Brown Kate Elliott Maurice Broaddus Ruoxi Chen
Check it out!!! ✨😱✨ So proud of all we do on the @AfronautsPod and so honored to be an #IgnyteAward finalist!!! 🥰🙌🏽 #blackwriter #blackpodcast
The #IgnyteAwards finalists for the Ember Award: Afronauts Podcast Alex Brown Kate Elliott Maurice Broaddus Ruoxi Chen