Just a heads up! @khoreo.bsky.social is 5 days from the end of their kickstarter and the mag hasn't funded. L pointed out last month that if we want nice things, we have to communicate that via dollars. Let's retain this important magazine! khōréō Year 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Not to be all "it's my birthday, buy my books" but it is and you should. THE DEAD WITHHELD: tiny, quick read, queer, paranormal neo-noir, grumpy protag with questionable decision-making YEAR OF THE MER: big, special editions, fantasy, slow burn sapphic tragedy, grumpy protag, worse decisions

#Booksky #PrideMonth Pride StoryBundle Title of the Day: WE’RE HERE: BEST QUEER SPECULATIVE FICTION 2024 edited by Ryka Aoki and Charles Payseur from @neonhemlock.bsky.social! Get this and 15 other great queer reads and support Rainbow Railroad’s work with LGBTQ refugees! storybundle.com/pride

New from T. K. Rex! (me) (hi) (it's my newsletter) shoutouts: @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv...

"Muñeca is a short, sapphic, delightfully-paced dance between a cleaning lady’s witchy daughter and a gothic sleeping beauty — except the sleeping beauty isn’t as asleep as everybody thinks she is, and she is very out for revenge about it." Yeeeeee. Also, T.K.'s blade book is a delight.

Spend four Mondays with me getting deep into Octavia Butler's last novel Fledgling. I'm teaching a class online all about its puzzles and rewards: literary-arts.org/event/octavi...

So many wonderful reads, orgs, & ppl on the Ignytes list! I'm EXTREMELY happy to see Ichthyosis by ML Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social included! @shingai-be-like.bsky.social & I are proud of everything we did with @fantasymagazine.bsky.social and it's SO COOL to see this story be celebrated!!!

incredible, yes i often think of a convo between @older.bsky.social & @mexicanity.bsky.social about chisme that i once got to be a fly on the wall for & also @shingai-be-like.bsky.social talking about gossip and oral storytelling traditions gossip divorced from its negative connotations, right?

Big news 🎊 My chapbook BLACK BOX FLIGHT RECORDER is now available for pre-order after winning the 2025 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest out of 1,000+ submissions. 🏆 Interested in experimental poetry, Afrofuturism? Pre-order here and share the link with your network: buttonpoetry.com/product/blac...

Gearing up to start promo for our next novella series! This will be another set of novellas alongside a short story collection, with an especial interest in queer speculative fiction. You can sign up here to get notified when we go live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

My second book is coming out with my favorite press!!! 🥰😍 I might be the star that is about to explode lol

If you were programmed to be respectable, what would you do to break your code? In "Mycelium Memory Makes A Monster," Imani is imprisoned by a cop and finds an unlikely ally in the Once Girl Made of Mycelium, a vast, interconnected network of fungi. Read the full story out now on Tractor Beam! 🍄📖✨

This is your sign to ask your local bookstore to carry @tkrex.bsky.social's debut book, The Wildcraft Drones!! Pre-order link below 💙 #clifi #soilpunk #sciencefiction

One of the things I frequently have to tell editors is how a particular construction is a Nigerian use of English. It probably feels/reads wrong to British or American ears. It's not wrong. It's how we remixed it.

“What do we owe our ancestors, what do we owe our history, and what do we owe ourselves?” today on the blog!! River of Bones by @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social, reviewed by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social 🖤 psychopomp.com/river-of-bon...

Good morning YEAR OF THE MER is not romantasy. This has been a PSA. Enjoy your bookconning.

I loooovvvee @tkrex.bsky.social and their collection and you should order it and read it if you can!

My book is at the printers and also @shingai-be-like.bsky.social wrote me the most beautiful blurb gonna turn off the phone now and pretend like this is the only thing happening for the rest of the day 💖

we are so excited to see One Message Remains by @premeemohamed.com on the 2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists list!!! congrats to all the finalists!! and get your own copy of One Message Remains here: psychopomp.com/one-message-...

New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

#FundraiserPerk We say Locus is like a potato chip—you can never have just one. Receive all of the 2025 electronic issues of Locus magazine, plus digital cover art by designer Francesca Myman. Donate at locusmag.com/igg26/#FundraiserPerklink in bio

Happy Friday! What is everyone reading this weekend? I'm starting out with the latest from the brilliant @shingai-be-like.bsky.social We all need some ACAB energy and collective care right now 🔥 tractorbeamearth.substack.com/p/mycelium-m...

AH it's dream come true day!! My story, "Five Medicines You Found in the Garden of Unfinished Poems" is out today in @strangehorizons.bsky.social!! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Everybody go read this new story by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social

I have a new story out! 🌱🔆 I gave a lot of what I'm feeling about this moment in time over to the story, and I'm excited for folks to check it out! If you're into Black queer baddies collaborating with the earth to destroy systems of power then you may like this one.

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - February 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over a dozen stories by @nassos.bsky.social @jordankurella.com @jlgeorge.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @ewenmaer.bsky.social @rfdwrites.bsky.social @sarahpauling.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/posts/154416...

Rn my favorite TV love story

extremely psyched to share a ToC with @shingai-be-like.bsky.social theirs drops 4/1, mine drops 4/5

COVER REVEAL IS HERE!! 👀‼️🤍 🌊🪷🎭An Empire in the Clouds🎭🪷🌊 forthcoming in September!

Hey! I had a queer cyberpunk story out in Clarkesworld in February. clarkesworldmagazine.com/pauling_02_26/

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?" arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...

Emmanuel Damas, another individual killed in ICE custody. He had a toothache. They ignored it. He died of spesis. Read that again. Why do we need to fund this murderous agency? www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...

Being in conversation with @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social felt like a gift for me as a writer and reader in this moment of rumours of war and unceasing terrible political news. There may be some words in this conversation that offer your heart & imagination something more to hold onto too.

This interview is one of my most honest and upfront. I also wax poetic a few times bc I’m old. Anyway, thank you Shingai Njeri Kagunda. Great questions!

I’m always thrilled whenever stories from Issue V get love! Congratulations to @shingai-be-like.bsky.social & @formerlykevin.bsky.social! Read their stories & the rest of this stellar anthology for free on willthisbeaproblem.co.ke #AfricanSFF #KenyaMentioned

Once again if you are not currently following @shingai-be-like.bsky.social , do so now

Here’s what you need to know about @shingai-be-like.bsky.social's short fiction published in 2025. The Kenyan writer would appreciate your consideration in the relevant categories this award season. Link below. #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙

A shoutout to my co-edioter & profoundly talented contributors: @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app @ephraimorji.bsky.social, Rutendo Chidzodzo, @gabbyharry.bsky.social, Andrew Dakalira, @yvettel.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @formerlykevin.bsky.social, @vf12.bsky.social, @nkereuwxm.bsky.social

Continuing @crsutton.bsky.social's Blurb Week with praise from @shingai-be-like.bsky.social for KRACKLE'S LAST MOVIE!

hey Fantasy lovers did you know that both @arleysorg.bsky.social and @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are eligible for this year's Hugo award, Best Editor Short Form? THEY ARE and Best Editor Locus Awards, and the Special Award for World Fantasy just saying for REASONS 💖💜🦄 (get those noms in!)

Deeply biased here because @prioryruins.bsky.social is one of my favorite writers and favorite humans. I read one of their @clarionucsd.bsky.social app stories in 2020 and it took me years to recover. Check out SONGBOOK but their bib fucks hard. Read it all!

Every author dreams of readers waiting for their work to come out! Here are some! Includes @sunyidean.com , @isabel.kim , @johnchu.bsky.social , @acwise.bsky.social , @annleckie.com Might have to put a few of these on the tbr list. theportalist.com/most-anticip...

I didn't publish a lot in 2025 but grateful to have what I did published received with such generosity 💕

The review features the following stories: “The Language We Have Learned to Carry in Our Skin” by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social “If Memory Serves” by @formerlykevin.bsky.social

Baby's first trilogy finally together. 😊

Eligibility Post! #writingcommunity

psychopomp.com/next/ Some news: Issue 99 of Fantasy will be the last issue... (For now) Read our publisher, Sean's statement for more. As heartbreaking as this news is, I'm incredibly proud of the work we've put out this year & I'm grateful for our team, esp. my co-editor @arleysorg.bsky.social!