WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Tomorrow is the two year anniversary of Skin Thief: Stories! I'm very proud of this book. I put it together during the darkest period of my adult life. I felt very alone and friendless when I sent it out into the world and it brought me so much love in return. Thank you to everyone who's read it. 🖤

SHAKING EMPIRE OF THE FEAST IN ALL YOUR FACES SO YOU READ IT (yes it made me feral)

Last night I finished North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher and I can’t recommend it enough. Lovely storytelling and some of the best worldbuilding I’ve come across in a while. Also, to sweeten the deal, almost every last character is gay 🌈

and i swear to the fkng heavens if any of you are like "oh but it's just so hard to find sff/h by black writers or for a black audience, spec fic is dominated by white men" im gonna come to your house and physically shake you. neither of those things are true.

*points*

I was lucky enough to read an ARC of this. It is stunning. I said STUNNING. I highly recommend it. I think more people should be shouting about Christopher's work. If you are into collections that smack you with how good they are then hi. Do not miss this one. Sincerely.

Read several of these and they were all incredible, so hum: yes. Absolutely yes.

Neon Hemlock puts out SUCH interesting novellas--unabashedly queer and sexy and magical. Check these out!

On the advent of Black Speculative Fiction Month *and* Black History Month in the UK, I’d like to remind you that my very Bjack, very queer collection of short stories publishes on October 14! You can pre-order here: www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-a...

Come see me at fights of foundry this weekend! I have a reading of my postapocalyptic Hamlet retelling in just a few hours!

having read most of these: if you need to explode your Novella November TBR too, get these on it

Having read almost all of these: YES

🔮 www.neonhemlock.com/books ✨

Here are a bunch to get you started. If you are unfamiliar with @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social it's a digital magazine publishing short stories and poetry by Black SFFH authors for going on *counts on fingers* 10 years? Good lord. Co-founded it. Won a Hugo. Etc. go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

(If we can try to support living authors, that would be especially neat btw)

stopped by @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social to drop off ARCs and sign some Dragonflies!!! living that author dream 🥹🥹

THIS IS TONIGHT Free, virtual, make a cup of tea and put on your jammies! Be there or be a rectangular thing -- and keep an eye out for our SPECIAL GUEST STAR! (Not me, I'm on the poster.)

whoa october is around the corner! reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon. more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

Attempting to catch up on novellas I've had for a while has proved fruitful, The Iron Below Remembers by Sharang Biswas was a great read. Really enjoyable tone of voice, neat use of footnotes and tells a warm, human story amongst the superheroes and alt-history fun.

I really enjoyed The Cosmic Color by T.T. Madden, a mecha story that features a bleak militairy state in the future and the Black recuit that is given the "honor" of serving in it. Harrowing, with a great focus on whose bodies are exploited, with a great ending. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2057...

The winner of the WSFA Small Press Award is “A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts” by Pat Murphy, Lightspeed Magazine (December 2024) ed. John Joseph Adams Congratulations!

Soon we will know the winner of the WSFA Small Press Award, it's so secret even the dodos don't know who won. We will find out soon Here's a list of the shortlist WSFA Small Press Award Nominees Presented September 20, 2025 Capclave, Rockville, MD

Absolute banger

I see people talking about short story collections. There is lots to say on this topic but I will shut my mouth and just say, I have a short story collection! I also love short stories as a art form. bookshop.org/p/books/skin...

Y'all, THE Kai Ashante Wilson (Sorcerer of the Wildeeps) has a new Patreon teasing forthcoming work and would love some more subscribers!

Related to my feelings about blackness and black language in fantasy, one of my favorite small moments is when @ebonidunbar.bsky.social had full on knights dapping folks up in stone and steel www.neonhemlock.com/books/stone-...

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

BABES, I HEARD YOU LIKE QUEER SFF MYSTERY NOVELLAS FROM TINY PRESSES.

I have a new story out in Khoreo Magazine! If you purchase the issue or subscribe, you can read it now, or wait a couple of weeks when it’s up for free!

Lovely time at the SFWA Stage, hosted by Peabody Heights Brewing, at the Baltimore Book Festival on Saturday.

This is a moment not lost on me. @ldlewiswrites.com and myself have been friends for almost (if not over) a decade now. I was a fan first though and getting to be the first blurb for YEAR OF THE MER is something I manifested for us years ago. Pre-order yall! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Year-o...

I was riveted from the very beginning of @domsdickey.bsky.social’s weird time-travel-cloning-murder-sisters novella REDUNDANCIES AND POTENTIALS, just saying.

Today's book review: The Dead Withheld by @ldlewiswrites.com - awesome recent novella, fantasy noir + necromancy! Don't miss this one: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Off-Time Jive by @azlouise.bsky.social (Also from @neonhemlock.bsky.social) 🏫 Magical academy noir 🌃 Alternate Harlem Renaissance ⏱️ Cursed objects and magical research 🚨 Magic cops are also bastards Please, I would read five more books in this series!

⭐ With a wonderfully diverse cadre of authors both established and early-career, Embodied Exegesis is a marvelous statement of purpose for a transfeminine science fiction genre in its prime. Thank you once again to @neonhemlock.bsky.social for the review copy!

this is how i found out an anthology i had a story in won an award! that's so cool :D @robotleblanc.bsky.social did SUCH an incredible job putting it together, the results speak for themselves.

Today's read is a book I'm incredibly excited for - last year's award-winning cyberpunk anthology from @neonhemlock.bsky.social and @robotleblanc.bsky.social! Huge shoutout to the team at NH for the review copy, let's give it a whirl ✨

hit me with the 2025 SFF short stories you have been vibing with! especially interested right now in petty queers and sad boys and big diaspora feelings

SFWA is flipping the script with @neonhemlock.bsky.social at Baltimore Book Festival on Sept 13! At 4pm, the SFWA Stage features @domsdickey.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social, @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, Joan Tierney, & M’Shai Dash for RE-WRITING HISTORY: VAMPIRES, SUPERHEROES & TIME TRAVEL.

If there's any book I've read so far this year that I hope I can convince more people to read, it's The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc. 💙📚 🌈📚

I also heard about The Dragonfly Gambit by A.D. Sui here on bluesky and was intrigued, though I'm more of a fantasy reader than a sci fi reader. I picked it up anyway and loved it. I'm here for revenge and mess. (4/?)

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 In North Continent Ribbon, Ursula Whitcher weaves a complex picture of the planet Nakharat, showing how the politics of power plays out through the lives of individuals, & how collective resistance evolves within intimate relationships.

More chatter about another shortlistee for this year's Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction from @billlegend.bsky.social. On North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher. Pub by @neonhemlock.bsky.social theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/n...

Sale ends today!

It's my birthday. The best birthday present you can give a writer is buying/borrowing/reading their books. This one's a mythic realist tale of a fading extradimensional diaspora set in 90s/00s Calcutta. It won a British Fantasy & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award:

i was away for a ~week and only one of my various vacation notifications seems to have worked correctly. i'm digging through my inbox, but now is a good time to ping if you're waiting on something from me.

I think about this Alexander Chee essay often. Especially when examining the ways in which awful people can become peripheral to our lives.

298 sign-ups, me hearties! Let's smash 300! Join Goatskin, San, Varika, and Orhan Timur as they wave their swords or plunge their fists and lead the charge into Sword & Sorcery novellas!

Anyway at least the City of Edmonton Shelterbuddy links are validated and live now! edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima... edmontonacccpets.shelterbuddy.com/animal/anima...