Soni Brown

Writer, Editor, Facilitator. The Papine Writing Collective - Helping Caribbean Writers Define Their Voice. Subscribe to my Substack:

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

Umm...Is that my name near the top of this Best American Essay 2023 notable mentions list? Thanks to @sylinchan for posting this image and congrats to her and Sandra Cisneros

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

@Camille_U_Adams Yo! I quote this book all di time. If you is a Caribbean writer you must read/listen to dis book. I mean, di man did ah love and obsession wit' fish chowda, the image of G-d and devil, the man-on-man wrestlin'. Is a passa-passa party in ah book.

[Diana McCaulay @dmccaulay]

Hi everyone - exciting news! Here's the cover from the fabulous US publishers @AlgonquinBooks for my new novel, out February 2025. Isn't it beautiful??

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

@DeeshaPhilyaw @dawniewalton @markarms @rlnave @reckonnews Yaas Queen. The podcast with a plate of oxtail with rice and peas, yum.

[annie paul @anniepaul]

Do come @djmillerJA @EarlMoxam @emilymshields

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

Me to anyone who didn't ask: "I am working on pitching great magazine stories and working on my Great American memoir in snippets of time when my three kids don't need me."

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

@meganstielstra Congratulations. I know you changed my writing process and that was just a talk. On Zoom. In the pandemic. I can only imagine how great your craft talks and workshops are in-person.

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

@Alycia_Calvert Say with your whole chest, Mama.

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

@meganstielstra @look_human Love you say. Put me down to get you the best Shirley Temple this side of the Rockies.

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

@meganstielstra Megan, where can I get one? Please and thank you. When you coming to Colorado?

[annie paul @anniepaul]

This is on later today…

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

NPR/Desert Companion placed my fishing story up for their Mother's Day piece. It's one of my most vulnerable pieces. https://t.co/lJKlJ5XDTJ

[Novel Niche 🫒 @novelniche]

Honoured + elated to be an editor, alongside Funso Aiyejina, for @TheCropperFndn's climate justice anthology, Writing for Our Lives, funded by @OpenSociety. Grateful to @OmarMohammed_tt & the full Cropper team for this vision.

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Deadline: June 7, 2024

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

How y'all have headphones in and not rocking your body or singing along? Y'all listening to podcasts or what? It's a full on dance party when I take the bus.

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

@AmilcarSanatan You do so much for the community; for all West Indian writers.

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

My debut memoir has been written/rewritten several times. Each time a key unlocks a door I never considered - characters, voices, moods. Every thrown out idea finds its way into a short stories that whisper themselves into being during school drop-offs. Life is good.

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

Congrats @christinaberke. Well deserved.

[AWP @awpwriter]

Our next mentor is @writesloud! Hannah is based in Washington, DC, where she edits for Alan Squire Publishing & teaches at American University. Her mentee is @christinaberke, an adjunct professor working on a memoir about body image and more. Congrats to this #AWPW2W pair!

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

The knee-jerk reactions always spell disaster but make a compelling story. Would have been better to ask the police to investigate the sharks; place them in a line-up and the biter identified.

[Kalain Hosein 🇹🇹 @KalainH]

Yesterday, videos and photos (warning: graphic!) emerged from Buccoo, Tobago of a substantial kill of a shiver of sharks.

This kill occurred six days after Tobago��s Chief Secretary issued and recalled a $10,000 bounty for the capture of the shark that attacked a British national.

While the head of the Tobago Fisherfolk Association says this was likely an “isolated incident” and a “mistake,” the THA has now “strongly condemned” the indiscriminate shark kill.

My story, with input from marine biologists and conservationists @DivaAmon and @RyanMannette: https://t.co/M4fPGpumiD

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

@VeronicaKlash @KimintheWest points!

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

I've moved away and back to Vegas then away again. I still visit and write about Las Vegas like I have part ownership of the Aces. What is it about this city that makes it so no one can ever really leave? It can't be the water.

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

Big fan of @novelniche whose poems tell the truth like "white drawers" to quote Roy Wood, Jr. Hoping to sit and lyme win yuh on the Rock.

[Novel Niche 🫒 @novelniche]

Jamaica! Ferocity! PREE!

I'm elated to announce that I'm one of PREE Writing Studio's 2024 tutors for their upcoming workshops, May 27 - 30. I'll be offering the session I've taught the most around the world + love offering the most: Poetry as Ferocity.

https://t.co/TwHvnonRXn

[Soni Brown @NeonScrawl]

Throw back to my MfA writing professor asking me most Thursdays what Black Twitter is talking about. He was so delightful and out of pocket. I miss that vibe and Twitter that once was.