I’m reading with Charlotte Tierney, author of The Cat Bride, July 22nd at 7 pm edt West Coast and 10 pm edt East Coast.

Where did half the month go already?? Subs remain open for this issue! Check those guidelines and don't self reject!

The #SmallPitch pitch submission window is now OPEN for 48 hours! Key reminders: - Unagented writers only - Finished manuscripts only - One pitch per manuscript - Up to 3 manuscripts per writer - No hashtags in your pitch - Comps & emojis are okay

Oh, those who said Liz Phair or Garbage are the winners. Thank you. :)

#Giveaway Time to prepare for #DVpit! Enter from July 13-18, 2026 to win query and/or first pages critiques from agents! TO ENTER: • repost this post • AND reply with your category & genre! (e.g. YA Fantasy) • Entries must be for completed, unpublished work. Full rules: dvpit.carrd.co#giveaway

Kleaver Cruz, nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Debut Author, is the writer of The Black Joy Project: A Literary and Visual Love Letter to How We Thrive.

Last day of Pride, last dance! 🌈 🪩 ✨✨✨✨✨✨ 💃💃🕺🕺💃🕺

BIPOC authors get less spotlight than others, and if you're looking to expand your TBR, @nailahkingwrites.bsky.social begins her monthly column at #NightTideMag to help you out! nighttidemag.com/2026/06/29/s... 👻📚

This is devastating, not only in the majority's analysis that contorts the principles of constitutional interpretation beyond all recognition, but also for the way it strips one of the most vulnerable populations in America of the right to live a full and happy life.

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:

Me anytime a final girl’s boyfriend also survives the killings

QSFer Melissa Marr has a new FF historical fantasy book out: A Treason of Magic. In a world where magic, desire, and duty collide, it is beauty who is fated to kill the beast in a lush historical fantasy ... www.queerscifi.com/new-release-... fantasy, Historical @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social

Review of Pandemonium Waltz by Sam Reader at Ancillary Review of Books ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/06/25/a...

So, The Vampire Lestat music…I’m obsessed. #tvl #iwtv

This is SO COOL.

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Valery Slauk.

From Reckoning X, our special issue on communication in environmental justice, "Chickasaw Bluff Blues", a poem in which @shereereneethomas.bsky.social does amazing things evoking music with rhythm and repetition: reckoning.press/chickasaw-bl...

I don't think I ever posted one of my most viral Sailor Moon comics here

As a writer, the house is what you build. You build your house with reading, writing, sentences, practice, again and again. Inside that house, you'll soon accumulate work you've actually completed, poetry and stories and books. Continued...

THE VOW (HBO) x THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART x BUNNY 🕯️Cult indoctrination 🧠Psychological control 🍔Cannibalism What if you could change your life? Eliminate negativity, self-doubt, and pain from your life experience? With Synergetics, you can do all of that and more! Join today! #questpit #Q #A #H

The United States has only been genuinely a democracy since 1965. Today the Supreme Court gutted the legislation that made it possible.

THE VOW (HBO) x NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD 🕯️Cult indoctrination 🧠Psychological control 🍔Cannibalism Eliminate negativity, self-doubt, and pain. Change your life. Join Synergetics! #questpit #Q #A #H

This gutting of the Voting Rights Act allows racist legislators to eliminate majority Black districts and carve out many more majority White districts, which these same judges won’t rule against as a “racial gerrymander.” This is all to limit Black representation in Congress.

Looking for recs for books in the sci-fi horror set on a hostile alien planet variety. MUST have a BIPOC author. For example, This World Is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa. Trad pub preferred, but can be self-pub. I've been searching all morning can't find much of anything.

The Banff Centre's Futurisms Residency is now open for applications, with faculty @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, @nalohop.bsky.social, and Joshua Whitehead. www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

And on to the next thing! #WIP #Witches #Witchcraft #Horror

Soooo . . . I wrote a thing: www.them.us/story/bridge...

Together again.

‘Sinners’ gives the Mississippi Delta’s hoodoo culture the reverence it deserves - Sheree Renée Thomas "There is a persistent, hollow noise in our cultural discourse that dismisses Black American culture as a happy accident rather than what it is...." www.ms.now/opinion/ryan...

THRILLED to share this wonderful review of THE MAP OF LOST PLACES from Locus Magazine! Congratulations to all our incredible authors!

I think the painted version of this drawing turned out okay. 👉👈This was done in watercolors, with graphite, gouache and chalk pastel finishing touches.

Happy Halloween

This beauty can be yours, come find out how! psychopomp.com/afterlives-2...

An alternative version of my crow piece

Here's some good news - you don't have to choose! Pick up one or both of @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social's terrifying tales: out today. #bookrelease #horrorbooks

New Reading Rainbow theme song.

I wanted to share this amazing new cover for my upcoming fantasy novel. Think Buffy meets Bridgerton but with faeries instead of vampires. Out in June 2026. www.amazon.com/Treason-Magi... The cover for A Treason of Magic was designed by the incredibly talented Edward Bettison. edwardbettison.com

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

"The 6-3 decision of the conservative-majority court allows agents to stops suspects based solely on their race, language or job, while a legal challenge to the recent immigration sweeps in LA works its way through the courts." *based solely on their race, language or job*

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Casey Weldon.

It is genuinely fucking bonkers.

Shadow puppet👁️‍🗨️ #art #artsky #artist #digitalart

For the first time in 111 years, a President is planning to fire a sitting Fed governor—and of course, it’s the first Black woman, Lisa Cook. Trump’s message is clear: when Black women rise, he’ll do anything to push us down. Newsflash: we’re not going anywhere.

We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to [email protected] by Tuesday, September 2nd!