I am so happy to share this bonkers news that I am one of the Observer’s 10 best debut novelists of 2024. Joining illustrious past novelists such as Sally Rooney, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Douglas Stuart.
Cover star 💕⭐️🐦⬛🎉🏳️🌈🏴
@PortyLiterary
@SarabandBooks
I’m so excited for this news to be out there - this collection means the world to me. Having
@404Ink
publish my debut is a dream come true, seriously.
I can’t wait to share these poems with you all. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🎉🎉🇲🇽🇲🇽
Drum roll please... 🥁
Presenting the swoon worthy cover by Beth Steidle for "How We Named The Stars".
Out Feb 6th, 2024 (
@Tin_House
).
My debut novel is now available for US pre-order. Can't wait for you to meet Daniel & Sam! All my love, Andrés 🌠
The news is out. Thank you so much to my agent Caro Clarke of
@PortyLiterary
, Elizabeth and the whole
@Tin_House
team. 😭
I can’t wait to share Daniel and Sam with you all and their journey of love and friendship. A novel about how we honour the dead and nurture our roots. 🇲🇽🏳️🌈
Some news! I am so excited to announce 'How We Named the Stars' is out in the UK July 4th, 2024 with
@SarabandBooks
!
Thank you to Rosie, Sara and my amazing agent Caro Clarke
@PortyLiterary
! IT'S COMING HOME.
Thrilled to announce I've now signed with
@PortyLiterary
to represent my fiction.
Thank you to Caro Clarke for your passionate belief. Can't wait to get my novel out into the world. What a wild, magical few months!
Con amor, Andrés
#AuthorsOfTwitter
I am so honoured and blown away. I went from wanting to cry and thinking I was having a heart attack when the news came in.
Thank you
@EdMorganTrust
and the judges. Congratulations to the other 'Second Life' grant winners.
This is incredible. My heart x
🎉🎉I am thrilled to be helping judge this year's
@ForwardPrizes
- what a dream. Submissions are open until March 5th.
2023 also marks the 1st year of
#ForwardPrizes
new category for Best Single Performed Poem - so poets submit your work now!
More Info:
I'm so honoured to say my novel 'The Places We Will Go' has been shortlisted for the
@MoPrize
.
I cried so much when the email came through. Thank you to the judges and
@THRIVEHachette
.
I can't wait for my whistle-stop journey to London at the month's end. Fingers crossed🤞🏽
.
@HachetteUK
's
@MoPrize
shortlist has been revealed featuring unpublished fiction writers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, in honour of the late Mo Siewcharran. See all six shortlisted titles here:
What an honour to be included in this year’s shortlist for
@Saltire_Society
Poetry Book of The Year. This debut was my love letter to queer immigrants and racialised communities. I am in awe of where it has taken me. Thanks to the judges,
@404Ink
and my writing community. 🧡
Remember today & always: all writing is political, all art forms are political, all creative dreaming is political.
How we witness the world & write towards or against it is political. The characters we magic = political.
A union that supports writers is therefore political.
I'm so thrilled to be launching my debut At Least This I Know (
@404Ink
) with the always generous
@Lighthousebks
on Feb 9th during
#LGBTHistoryMonth
.
Full lineup announced in Jan - you can book tix now. Thank you for your support and love! 👇🏽🏳️🌈
Your boy is tired...
Thank you everyone.
@edbookfest
this was a dream come true.
Thank you Hannah, Courtney, Heather and Janette. Indebted to you four.
Little old Andrésito chaired his first Edinburgh International Book Festival event. 💜💜💜
Sometimes in life you have to turn down things if harmful to a greater cause. In Scotland, there is a national institution that has a history of harm to Trans and Non-binary people. Today it released its poetic accolades for last year. 1/4
That’s me done. Four events. Debut author as well. 2022 was gorgeous and sumptuous.
My heart is full. Thanks for every person and their kindness. It is a joyous thing to have held a dream since youth and see it come to fruition.
Peace out ✌️
@edbookfest
34 today.
Grateful for another spin around the sun. The world can be chaotic and cruel, but this past year has also held lots of joy and afforded me growth. I look forward to my next spin and what it may bring.
🎂♋🦀
Visiting my parents and look what came in the post - making what feels a dream into more of a reality little by little.
“How We Named the Stars” (ARC version) flying out in the world.
Feb 6, 2024 (
@Tin_House
). 🧡
I made it through all my copy edits. The finish line feels so, so close. 🏳️🌈
My debut novel is out in North America on Feb 6th, 2024 via
@Tin_House
. I’ll be sharing more exciting updates next month but riding the wave of love for this story. Here is me at 18 just like my Daniel.
Thank you so much to the judges and
@Saltire_Society
for this recognition. This collection is an ode to all my homelands and a love letter to fellow immigrants across the globe.
"I longed to know a land like that/close enough to feel at home" - Bennachie, At Least This I Know.
Shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book is At Least This I Know by
@AndresNOrdorica
publisher
@404Ink
In experiencing Ordorica’s poetry, personal & intimate, we re-evaluate & re-imagine ourselves; we look outwards a cross frontiers of nationality and culture.
#SNBA22
#Poetry
I'm so excited to say I've been longlisted for the
@MoPrize
. Thank you to
@THRIVEHachette
.
My novel, The Places We Will Go, is a journey of belonging, a fight for acceptance, and at its heart a story of first love and family legacy.
Congrats to all the other writers!!!
🎊Introducing our 2021 longlist 🎊
Congratulations to our 12 longlisted writers who were selected by
@THRIVEHachette
readers! These writers wowed our readers with their unique stories and brilliant writing!👏Shortlist to be announced 27th August 👀
#MoPrize2021
Hours before my flight to Hong Kong I woke up early and sent off my final edits on my debut novel “How We Named The Stars”. This summer will follow with proofreading and copyediting but the big work is done. It’ll then be out in N. America Feb 2024
@Tin_House
. Can’t wait y’all 💖
Holy shit! I am so fucking proud of all the authors, speakers, translators, illustrators, book workers who have been banding together and to
@fossilfreebooks
for showing us what is possible when we come together to organise and take action!
📣
@AndresNOrdorica
proofs have arrived!
At Least This I Know, out Jan 2022:
We're posting these as of next week, so reviewers / authors / journos / etc, if you'd like one, get in touch / DM / and we'll see what we can do. Thanks!
Sometimes I have to pinch myself to realise this is really happening.
2 months and counting until my debut arrives. 🕊🍃🥀🌾🍂
At Least This I Know (
@404Ink
)
Thank you
@NPR
’s Marginalia and Beth Golay for this interview!
It is pub day in the US & Canada
@Tin_House
. If you follow me on Instagram I’ll be sharing my pub day!
Thank you for all your support and kindness on this journey. 🐦⬛🏳️🌈⭐️
35 today. So went on a 5 mile birthday run 🏃🏽♂️
This life is not always easy but what a blessing to have another turn around the sun. Eternal gratitude to Mother Earth.
May we all continue to organise alongside others and never waver in our fight for a better world. 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️✊🏽
Wildly I’m in the
@guardian
this weekend with other literary folk, writing about my views on an Independent Scotland.
Will post a link to the full article. when I can!👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Still buzzing that the news is out about my debut novel finding a N. American publisher.
I can't wait to share "How We Named The Stars" in 2024 (
@Tin_House
). 🌟
It is a novel that explores love and loss set in Ithaca, NY & Chihuahua, MX - two places that have shaped me. 🏳️🌈🇲🇽🌊
What a joy to hear
@JackieKayPoet
read from her forthcoming collection before joining
@ScribePedersen
in a joyous, luminescent and uplifting conversation on friendship, legacy and the power of a poem. 🏴💖🎉
🎉🎉🎉Cover real! Thank you so much to
@hollydrawsinink
and
@404Ink
for guiding me through this process and letting me participate in its design.
I can't believe my first ever cover for my first ever collection is out there in the world now. See you in January 2022.
Happy one year anniversary to my debut, At Least This I Know (
@404Ink
).
A beautiful, wild 12 months that took me from Wigtown to Paisley, Edinburgh to online events near and far. A Saltire Poetry Book of the Year nomination, too. Not shabby! 🧡
National Poetry Day and I could live in this poem by Edwin Morgan for the rest of my life.
The way Morgan wrote of love and loss is breathtaking.
#EM100
#edwinmorgan100
#NationalPoetryDay
💕💕💕
This is crazy to me. I know metrics are so changeable and that on G**dreads you can see your rating drop at a soul crushing rate. But for a novel that centres queer love, a brown Mexican American young man, and told in such an unusual narrative style, the reception is 🤯💕🐦⬛🏳️🌈
The police are not our protectors. They are instigators of state violence. In Scotland, they choose when to escalate and we’ve seen in recent months how quickly they come down on protestors but leave drunken revellers be. That should tell you all you need to know.
Unboxing day. 📦
I have it on good authority that ‘How We Named the Stars’ is making its way across the UK.
Thank you
@SarabandBooks
and
@PortyLiterary
for all the support.
Out July 4th 🐦⬛⭐️💕🏳️🌈
It's my official publication date of
#AtLeastThisIKnow
.
Like my birth, my poetry baby is taking its time to enter the world but some lucky few have already received copies.
Thank you for all your support and amor. I am truly grateful to have my words out there in the world.
What I lack in
@seanehewitt
’s height I make up for in geekish enthusiasm.
Brilliant event at
@edbookfest
with a talented writer and poet - a great honour to have chaired 💖
Happy start of
#PrideMonth
- last night I passed the pub
@kevin_guyan
and I had our first date. 11 years ago this month. Sometimes I wonder what younger me would say if I told him he would get everything he always thought was never meant for him. This month I’m thinking of him 🏳️🌈
@lauraewaddell
@jhalakprize
This is absolutely f*cked and so creepy. CoM was one of my first ever legitimate publishing credits - I know so many brilliant writers who contributed to it and the editors did such an amazing job putting it together.
This is actually sickening.
Signed a big old pile of books
@BlackwellEdin
this afternoon.
Go and get your copy of “How We Named the Stars” and explore their huge selection and chat with the lovely staff. 🐦⬛⭐️💕🏳️🌈
Wow! Just wow. What a Saturday night
@edbookfest
event to bear witness to.
@a_pirmohamed
in conversation with Ocean Vuong. A poetic feast affirming community, memory and personal growth in all its many layered meanings.
35 days more until my debut novel arrives in the UK!
Make
#HowWeNamedTheStars
your next read! Your summer read! Your Pride read! Your 'OMG, if I add another book to my TBR it'll literally topple over & kill me but OK' read.
Every pre-order helps.
@SarabandBooks
@PortyLiterary
Please make noise about this and read up! This Nationality and Borders Bill was passed in the Commons yesterday doing the shit show that was No. 10 X-mas party press conference.
Many of your friends, family, and neighbours will be in jeopardy due to this dangerous new cruel law.
Nationality and Borders Bill: 'two in every five people from non-white ethnic minorities (41%) are likely to be eligible for deprivation of citizenship, compared with just one in 20 people categorised as white (5%)'
@NewStatesman
(Analysis of Office for National Statistics data)
There is power in withdrawing our labour. I have withdrawn and declined three events across two BG sponsored festivals.
These choices are never easy, truly uncomfortable and down right scary. But I dream of something better and will use what little power I have to create it. 💕
🚨We invite book workers everywhere to join 200+ signatories and sign our open letter renewing our call for Baillie Gifford to divest from the fossil fuel industry and from companies that profit from Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide.
While the SoA motion to call for a ceasefire and condemn the genocide in Gaza has not passed I will not lose hope.
Destroying hope is the tool of the oppressor. Instead, I find light in all the organisers around the world who are not backing down and who are using their voices.
"Ordorica captures perfectly the challenges of building a life out of experience, out of allowing ourselves to feel everything. A beautiful tale of friendship and the comfort found in stories of the past and in the arms of elders, living and dead."
@RPMirabella
6 months to go!
This week is my official book launch at the lovely
@PortyBooks
for the UK edition of
#HowWeNamedTheStars
.
You can join in person or online and even order a dedicated copy. It would mean so much to have you present in some way.
With love, Andrés xx
Joyful and grateful.
#HowWeNamedTheStars
is now out both sides of the pond. If you like(d) it then please leave a review as these things help us debut novelists. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Now someone buy the Spanish translation so my abuela will stop bugging me. Por favor güey, ja ja. 🐦⬛⭐️💕🏳️🌈
Incredible afternoon with
@dannyonsocial
working on my new headshots. Great conversations and lots of laughs.
Fiction era unlocked🔓
Here is one of my favourite ones from our session.
Can you believe our backdrop was real - like an actual castle 🏰?
Thank you to
@ninamingya
and
@julian_aguon
for your generous sharing today at
@edbookfest
.
It was an honour to spend time with you both.
Y’all, I’m in the final stretch of wrestling this manuscript into submission (get it!?).
Can’t wait for the world to meet Daniel & Sam in a year that changes their lives forever. 🏳️🌈
#HereThereEverywhere
Acceptance tweet (finally)!
I almost forgot what it felt like after having like a million rejections pass through my email this weekend.
Honestly, I am so chuffed because I REALLY REALLY love this short story.
Next week I’m in conversation w/
@JackieKayPoet
as she launches her exceptional “May Day”. A body of work interrogating activism, family, grief & the archive.
I was at
@Tate
Britain yesterday where I encountered Fanny Eaton whose story Kay unearths. 🎟️
Some say takeover, others say next big double act:
@InkyFingersEdin
and
@ScotBAMEwriters
shaking up the open mic scene in Edinburgh and beyond 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿
Thank you
@Lighthousebks
for continuing to give space and time to diverse voices. And to Ross and Freddie, a huge thank you xx
Happy National
@PoetryDayUK
! Grateful for all the places my debut 'At Least This I Know' (
@404Ink
) has taken me and all the glorious people I've met at readings, festivals, and bookshops.
Poetry will never not hold an important place in my heart.
#NationalPoetryDay
We're delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 Nan Shepherd Prize is
@a_pirmohamed
's A Beautiful and Vital Place!
As winner of the prize, Alycia will receive a £10,000 publishing contract with
@canongatebooks
and an offer of representation with
@PortyLiterary
It’s been a dreamy few days of
@edbookfest
. Still a few more chairing gigs to go. But reflecting on my first author appearance and the nurturing conversations I’ve had with writers at all stages of their career. Life affirming to say the least, my wee heart is full 🧡🧡🧡
well then, we each have a choice of what are legacies will be. I choose to not engage with institutions that refuse to address their harmful histories, and even if that means not being able to benefit from my own country's cultural institutions, so be it. The fight continues 4/4
Unboxing day 📦✨
Sharing the joy here too. Truly a special moment to hold the first copy of my debut novel - grateful to have made some best of and round up lists. It really feels like the little book that could.
I can’t wait for you to meet Daniel & Sam 1/30/24 🐦⬛⭐️💕🏳️🌈