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Shannon Kenny
@shannonkenny031.bsky.social
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Actor, Dreamer, Writer at Rainbow Punch, African Writer Mag, 100 Words of Solitude, The Kalahari Review, Pepper Coast Lit, @MythicPicnic
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Fellow South Africans 🇿🇦This cause is close to my heart - please sign: awethu.amandla.mobi/petitions/st...
#NERSA #peoplebeforeprofits
Stop the electricity price hike now - tell Eskom NO
We are already struggling to put food on the table [2], and now Eskom has asked NERSA for permission to increase electricity prices by 8,83% in 2027 [3]. This is the same Eskom we carried through load...
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October 1, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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Calling all creators! 🎨🎶📖 I’m adding my thread to the first-ever @commonwealthorg Quilt — a digital art project to celebrate creativity across the Commonwealth 🌍. Whether you dance, paint or write, join me in weaving this global tapestry. Sign up for info: actionnetwork.org/forms/expres...
Calling all creators: Be part of the first-ever virtual Commonwealth Quilt
I’ve just signed up to contribute to the first-ever Commonwealth Quilt — a massive digital art project to celebrate creativity across the Commonwealth🌍. They’re looking for dancers, musicians, poets ...
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March 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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I went to the theatre this weekend 😀🎭#TheNutcrackerTheatre #MarkBanks #Comedy
@MacnutFarm

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MARK BANKS AT THE NUTCRACKER THEATRE
(Mark Banks. Pic supplied)   Well done, Mark! Well done, Hannah and Paul! We look forward to the charmingly chandeliered venue with it...
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March 4, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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Houssam Boudaghia | The Other Moroccans - AfricanWriter.com
An old man is sitting quietly next to me. His thin body feels so delicate against the side of my arm. In his eyes, I see a thousand stories, most of them untold. We are both listening to the Taxi driv...
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March 3, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Cecee Holds Back The Sea
A wee story about how encouragement matters — from South African @shannonkenny031.bsky.social
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February 17, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Stardate: 17 February 2026
Lit mag: The Kalahari Review
Fiction: Cecee holds back the sea
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#microfiction #weestory
Thank-you @kalaharireview.bsky.social for holding space for this little tale
Cecee Holds Back The Sea
A wee story about how encouragement matters — from South African Shannon Kenny
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February 17, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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Incoming: micro-fiction
Star date: February 17, 2026
Publication: The Kalahari Review @kalaharireview.bsky.social
Acceptances still thrill 😊 #appreciative #writerslife #stories #fiction 🙏🏾 ☀️ 🖖🏾 🌍 📚
February 12, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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#kidcomedy
L’enfant: What do you call Klingon Hip Hop?
Maman: 🤔
L’enfant: Kling-Rap 🤩🎤🤩🎤

#lovethischild ♥️♥️♥️ #qapla #klingon #klingrap #startrek 🖖🏾
a man in gold armor is saying make your blood scream ..
ALT: a man in gold armor is saying make your blood scream ..
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January 28, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Why do I feel like we’re in an episode of Lower Decks & the Pakleds have been allowed to run amok & Starfleet is just sitting back saying “Pakleds, that’s not a wise choice.” 🤦🏽‍♀️ #LowerDecks
a cartoon character says " oh i don 't have a big enough helmet to do that .. "
ALT: a cartoon character says " oh i don 't have a big enough helmet to do that .. "
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January 6, 2026 at 5:39 AM
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Oh, what a hopeful start to 2026. Just when I thought it might have moved on to another habitat, ‘our’ genet appeared in our garden just after midnight, foraging/hunting amongst the shrubs and flowers
#genet #urbanwildlife #hope #joy #life
January 2, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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A fitting way to say cheers to 2025 #arundhatiRoy #motherMary #weneedbooks
December 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Monologue Showcase: Voices of Transformation
Sunday, December 14, 2025, 4:00-5:15 p.m. EASTERN on Zoom
Free Registration for Zoom Link: www.iwwg.org/event-6304886

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December 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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How is this not everywhere 🎶💜☀️🖖🏾 #Flea #APlea #BuildABridge #ShineYourLight #MakeSomethingBeautiful
#Give
#LiveForLove

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Flea - A Plea (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Flea
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December 3, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Incoming, like I told ya ✍️ I’ve got #Poems in African Writer Magazine 🌍 @afwritermag.bsky.social
#writing #poetry
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Shannon Kenny | For Durban - AfricanWriter.com
Durban Aire – For Durban / eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal You are neither The City of AngelsNor the fruit of Amsterdam and YorkBut the tri-continental offspringOf a land battle-weary and worn Such a motley,...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Proud mama ♥️ surprised and overjoyed progeny: L'enfant submitted work for a #Quantum #Art competition & shared joint first place 🥇 thanks Bob Coecke for the inspiration 🕷 @coecke Kudos to @UKZN Centre for Quantum Computing & Technology 🖖🏾🐈 #Art #Science #Music #Story
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Incoming✍️✍️ 1 December @afwritermag.bsky.social has made a home for 2 of my poems. feeling quite blessed 😊 this team♥️ 🌍 🖖🏾 @nazaokoli.bsky.social @abigailgeorge.bsky.social africanwriter.com
African Writer - AfricanWriter.com
African Writer Magazine is a New Jersey-based monthly publication that celebrates established and emerging African writers, literature and ideas. For two decades and counting, we have showcased the be...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Our kind, smart, empath-philosopher L'enfant has had a challenging year. The joy-bringing surprises - new and rekindled friendships, discovering & honing superpowers + having your left-fieldness celebrated - are savoured. Here's to courage & borderless dreams #bigheart #bigdreams #art #science
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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A tough few weeks. Then 2 (kind and thoughtful) rejections followed by 2 enthusiastic acceptances. Seeing our theatre 🎭 students shine ✨ news of an exciting prospect for someone very special. Tough times, good times,
encouragement from community
#herecomesthesun #thereismusic #writerslife 😊🎭💜🎶☀️🎙🖖🏾✍️
November 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Two poems accepted by one of my favourite publications✍️coming soon. Watch this space #writerslife #poems #happyheart 🫶
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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#Writers This list 🌟 🙌
Thank-you, @brechtdp.bsky.social for doing the heavy lifting
brechtdp.bsky.social Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social · Nov 9
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Where can a bright and funny 12-year-old writer-illustrator submit their original #comic #cartoons #graphicnovel? Are there any #international #competitions, #litmags, #zines with submission calls for young writer-illustrators?
Please and thank-you 🖖

#writers #litcommunity @brechtdp.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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The newsrooms: The conclave's elected it's first American pope
Me and the Brazilian lady interviewed on BBC: Actually, he's the 2nd American pope. He's the 1st North American pope because, you know, Francis was from the Americas, Argentina to be precise
#conclave #pope #LeoXIV #Peru
May 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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*Watching BBC broadcast of papal announcement*
L'enfant: Do you think the commentators are really trying hard to stress how *not* American Pope Leo XIV actually is? He has spent most of his life outside the USA. He speaks Spanish AND Italian. He is a naturalised Peruvian citizen..." 😆
May 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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If there's one story you read today, let it be The Rest is Silence by @brechtdp.bsky.social made all the more resonant for me by the fact some dear ones are survivors of the events during which this riveting story is set #Revocate 😔👏💜
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The Rest Is Silence | The Hudson Review
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May 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The world's wading through the 1st cycle of the Apocalypse & I am blessed with a joke-creating, joke-telling kid 👇
L'enfant: What do you call a murderous lizard?
Maman et Papa: 🤔
L'enfant: A cold-blooded killer 🤣🦎🤣🗡️🤣
#lovethischild #kidcomedy #makethemlaugh
May 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM