Vajra Chandrasekera
@_vajra
Writer. THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023 Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, Locus) and RAKESFALL (2024 Otherwise award, Le Guin & Nebula finalist) https://vajra.me/books
Absolutely delighted! And in incredible company—highly recommend you snatch up this whole shortlist if you haven't already vajra.me/2025/06/19/rak…
Scabies, chickenpox and rashes are widespread in camps due to the lack of access to clean water and medical care. Children are not sleeping from the itching. No medication has entered Gaza since March 2nd. Donate here: chuffed.org/project/help-u… Our medical days provide relief to…
RAKESFALL by @_vajra has been shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! So now's the perfect time to pick up this hallucinatory, mind-bending epic! "Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell" Buy: geni.us/rakesfall
UPDATE: Mt. Lavinia Magistrate on Tuesday (15) ordered the release of Mohamed Shuhail (21) on bail, who was detained for 9 months without charges after being arrested by police under Sri Lanka's draconian PTA for 'posting an imoji' in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
1. On 23 Oct. 2024, Mohamed Shuhail Mohamed Rifai (21), a resident of Mawanella, who was following an Airline Cabin Crew course in Colombo was arrested by officers attached to Dehiwala police for not having a national ID in his possession, while he's looking for a room to rent.
For readers in South Asia, my novella THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR (1st pub @SubPress), a mythic realist coming of age story set in 90s/00s Calcutta about a family who may be refugees from another reality, is now out in a lovely new paperback ed from @WestlandBooks.
It’s pub day for The Last Dragoners of Bowbazaar! @IndrapramitDas’s award-winning novella is a haunting, moving coming-of-age tale of identity and belonging. Now available at all major bookstores and online.
It's been over a year since I had a new short story published free to read online! Up today at the Sunday Morning Transport is my story “Death and Liquidity Under the New Moon” sundaymorningtransport.com/p/death-and-li…
Ebook sale! For the next ten days, Solaris is selling (giving away, really) an excellent selection of modern SFF titles at 0.99p in the UK, including both of my novels, THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS and RAKESFALL. See geni.us/Solarissale! Some titles also available outside the UK
A curated list of strange, funny, heartbreaking, and thought-provoking books to read while in Sri Lanka- featured in the Lonely Planet Travel Guide Sri Lanka 2024. Read article: 🔗shehanwriter.com/post/island-of…
Rakesfall by @_vajra, Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston, The West Passage by @vandroidhelsing, & The City in Glass by @NghiVoWriting are on the Shortlist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Congratulations to all!🎉
Congrats to Vajra Chandrasekera & Nalo Hopkinson for being finalists for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize! ICYMI, here are the episodes with each @_vajra about Rakesfall: tinhouse.com/podcast/vajra-… Nalo about Blackheart Man: tinhouse.com/podcast/nalo-h… @torbooks @SagaPressBooks
Took advantage of the train today to finish @_vajra’s “The Saint of Bright Doors”. Totally unexpected, and remarkable on a number of levels. English writing coming out of #SriLanka continues to have a great run.
In two weeks, the genocide will enter its 20th month. More than a year and a half of the world watching a live-streamed genocide and no major action has been taken to end it. Support us here: chuffed.org/project/help-u… Children spend their days queuing to get water and food, while…
The ebook of my first novel, last year's Nebula and Ignyte-winning, Le Guin and Hugo-nominated THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, is on sale at $2.99 right now across most ebook retailers! If you were holding out for a really good deal 👉🏾👉🏾 bookshop.org/p/books/the-sa…
#FundraiserPerk : RAKESFALL is a wild ride and now you can have your copy signed by Vajra Chandrasekera. Don't miss out on this opportunity to snatch it up. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio! @_vajra
There are a few signed copies of RAKESFALL up for grabs at the Locus fundraiser!
#FundraiserPerk : RAKESFALL is a wild ride and now you can have your copy signed by Vajra Chandrasekera. Don't miss out on this opportunity to snatch it up. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio! @_vajra
My second novel RAKESFALL is an Otherwise Award winner and a finalist for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction novel! vajra.me/2025/05/11/rak…
#FundraiserPerk : RAKESFALL is a wild ride and now you can have your copy signed by Vajra Chandrasekera. Don't miss out on this opportunity to snatch it up. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio! @_vajra
#FundraiserPerk : RAKESFALL is a wild ride and now you can have your copy signed by Vajra Chandrasekera. Don't miss out on this opportunity to snatch it up. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio! @_vajra