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Lit & Spec fic writer | 🏆 Winner '25 @iselemagazine.bsky.social Poetry Prize | 2nd place '23 Dreamfoundry Contest | Runner up, '23 Valiant Scribe Poetry competition | Words: Dark Matter Magazine, Augur Magazine, Lolwe | Website: thesolitaryy.wordpress.com
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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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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.
October 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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"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.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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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.
augursociety.bsky.social Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 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"

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Read Augur Magazine Issue 7.3.
Read Augur Magazine Issue 7.3.
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August 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
fatii-tii.bsky.social
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.
June 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
fatii-tii.bsky.social
Eid Mubarak! 🎉
June 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Needs to win everything
screenrant.bsky.social 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
May 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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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.
May 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
fatii-tii.bsky.social
#Andor reminded me why I absolutely loathe Krennic
May 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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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
May 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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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
thebookseller.com 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
May 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Sometimes the know-it-all nature of social media just gets on my nerves and I start deleting whole posts, lol.
May 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Rand? 👀
dhistoryman.bsky.social Dan Mandell @dhistoryman.bsky.social · May 23
Especially at the end of this week y’all probably need a kitten-in-a-box break, and Indy is happy to oblige.
Kitten in a box
May 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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i’m gonna tell the flowers what you did. and then they’ll tell the bees and the bees will tell the birds. good luck next time you come to the meadow bro
May 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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The King of Nafaati washes up in the village of Makeri. There's been a coup. It's not his first time there, though the last time he was much happier. Now he's back to ask them to fight in his war.

Jinns & romance in this fantasy by @fatii-tii.bsky.social

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The Weight of Our Walls - Fatima Abdullahi | Lolwe
A short story by Fatima Abdullahi
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May 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Donate to Rally for Mom's Recovery from Sepsis, organized by Jessica Wooldridge
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April 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Our friends over at the Watermelon Grant announced the 2025 recipients. Congratulations to Ibtisam Barakat ابتسام بركات for poetry and Monir Mtoor (Nissan) for prose 🎉

This Watermelon Grant is for Palestinian speculative arts creators. Learn more at www.ldlewiswrites.co...
Ibtisam Barakat is the 2025 winner for prose Monir Mtoor (Nissan) is the 2025 winner for prose
April 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Yani can hear houses talk. There's snarky ones, old & young ones, jaded ones & kind ones. Like his childhood bungalow, who was soft and gentle. Can he ever find another house like that?

Lovely whimsical story by @fatii-tii.bsky.social in @augursociety.bsky.social

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Roots That Abide by Fatima Abdullahi
Read Roots That Abide by Fatima Abdullahi from Augur Magazine Issue 7.3.
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April 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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For my first eligibility season, I would be grateful if #ASFS members would consider my story, "Roots that Abide", for nomination in the short story category of the 2025 #NommoAwards

It was published in @augursociety.bsky.social

You can read it here: augursociety.org/roots-that-a...

Thank you!
Roots that Abide by Fatima Abdullahi Yani was six years old the first time he heard a house talk. Perhaps it had happened earlier, before he learned to push words out of his mouth, but that was the first he could really remember. He'd climbed out the window to slip his legs through the balcony's rusted railings while his mother aggressively cleaned the apartment when a hoarse voice said wearily, Do you think she could be more careful? My floors aren't what they used to be. He'd stood suddenly, limbs jerking in surprise, & his mother-just days from escaping his father's cruel fists-had jumped a foot in the air, clutching the broom in her hand. He eyed the run-down building. "Mama, the house wants you to be more gentle." "Oh," his mother said, blinking "Alright." And tell her it's alright to hurt, the house said gently, at the disregard of those who should care. She doesn't have to keep the pain in anymore. She's free. Yani relayed the message, & watched his mother shudder & sink to the floor, her face buried in her hands.
April 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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90% of writing happens away from the keyboard. In the shower. On a walk. In the car. Wherever you & your thoughts are alone together, that's when writing happens.

If you find yourself stuck, staring at a blinking cursor, unable to find the words, don't be afraid to step away & find somewhere quiet.
March 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I said the sane on twitter. Both guys were not actually douches this early in the books. Gawyn only became that guy after he heard about Mogase. And Galad... Galad was never arrogant, just extremely self righteous. And yes, there's a difference between the two.
tigraine.bsky.social Shaiel @tigraine.bsky.social · Mar 15
Galad and Gawyn.. not fans. I guess we aren't really supposed to be but ehh.. Nothing about them immediately bedding novices felt in character. They've said over and over they keep to the spirit of the books but I'm not seeing it at all with the royal family. #WoTShowSpoilers
March 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Thank you to everyone that has helped so far, whether it's sharing or donating, every bit helps so much.

27% of the way there!

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March 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Its here! #TheWheelOfTime
March 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Commiserations with the folks having to stay up till midnight/3am for the show's drop, but this is what us GMT folks endured for 2 seasons. It's our time to shine now 😂😅

Slept like a baby, & in 2 hours it'll be 8am for me, & I'm not even fasting today so I'll even get breakfast 🤭

#TheWheelOfTime
March 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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I hate this. Everything in me feels like it's shrinking into tiny bits for having to do this, but I have nothing else at this time. Please share.

[alt text for the link photo: a tan 3 month old pitbull puppy lies on his back with his puppy grin aimed at the camera]

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March 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Sharing again because that like number needs another couple of zeroes. Seriously. Go read this. Is so good.
fatii-tii.bsky.social Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · Mar 6
So pleased to announce my second publication of the year! 🎉🥳

I wrote parts of this essay while at the Abebi Award Residency & I'm so happy M & I saw it's value & gave it a home 🥹

I have another pub with them coming later this year too!

Read here: www.midnightandindigo.com/unclaimed-un...
Art accompanying the essay. It shows a camera with an eye captured in it's lens. Underneath is the title of the essay: Untethered, unclaimed, unbroken, written in bold pink font with a tiny picture of my face next to it. Next to that is a small blurb from the essay itself. An excerpt from the essay. It says: It is a Saturday, and the sweltering Nigerian sun seems to have a point to prove, or a vendetta. I walk toward the cavernous hall, following my mother’s uneven steps. She has had arthritis for several years now, and a host of other problems that have permanently altered the way she walks. Like Chinonso Nzeh lamented so heart wrenchingly in his award winning essay, my mother is “slipping away.”
March 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM