NYC creative babes, peep this:

3/ In the meantime, please give what you can. bsky.app/profile/anis...

Welcome to Premee Mohamed's Wickhills. If you were a secret agent, how do you think you'd compromise the mission? - I'd panic under pressure - I'd tell "just one person" - Enemy's hot? I'm spilling. - You'd never catch me hehe

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

Got one of the AI emails selling book services today -- "I, definitely a real person, have definitely really read your writing and if you reach out to me I'm going to make you famous!" -- except it was meant for the much more famous Catherine George who writes Harlequin Romances

We are about halfway towards our goal of picking up enough new subscriptions to give our staff, authors, translators, and artists a raise when we publish our 20th anniversary issue in October. Thanks to all who have signed up and/or boosted the signal. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

For 20 I am only certain of Georgette Heyer, Ellis Peters, and @kjcharleswriter.com; I *might* be there for Diana Wynne Jones and Mercedes Lackey but am having trouble remembering whether I've read certain books, because it was years ago, plus I'm two away from 20 for @catswrites.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - MAY 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 20 works by @rkduncan.bsky.social @jennahanchey.bsky.social @straith.ca @eliaseells.bsky.social @rfdwrites.bsky.social @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social @effies.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social & many more!!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

I had to stop and take a few minutes to doodle out a little dreamt visual of Mr Darcy.

Only a few hours left to bid!

@clarkesworldmagazine.com is 20 years old this year! To help them stick around another 20, they're doing a subscription drive. July's issue has new stories from @thomasha.bsky.social @carloshem.bsky.social & me (mine was inspired by BTS-more on that later). clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/

I read a whole lot of short SFF, and khōréō is easily one of my favorite magazines; they publish incredible + important work. The field needs them. Please consider joining me in backing their Kickstarter + sharing the word! They still need $13,215 to meet their goal and the campaign ends July 15th.

Hey, Canadian Kobo readers: Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & SF Vol. 3 is on super sale for $2.99 until July 2 for Canada Day—featuring Kelly Robson, Tanya Huff, Cory Doctorow & more. Fantasy. Science fiction. Horror. Strange futures. Impossible places. Canadian voices. 🇨🇦 www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

I could not be prouder to be nominated for the Le Guin. To be acknowledged as part of her tradition is an honor.

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Ngl, I love that this is working Queer word nerds, please let me promote your books! Other weird gay people listen to me for some reason!

The Holds refused to pay a kill fee unless she produced the monsters’ tails. According to Shai, the tails were unavailable because she had killed the nekomata by luring them into a fight w/a bear. from "Hazard Pay; Competence; Wyrms" by Catherine George www.lunastationquart...

the best chance the Prairieland anti-ICE protesters have is that we keep their names and their case on our lips as we eventually move to a post-Trump era, that we fight for their pardon as an essential part of departing from fascism.

Instead of launching, Emma’s debut book got buried alive. I can’t imagine how awful that feels. Actually. Strike that. I can because Emma wrote beautifully about how brutal this has been. Let’s unbury it - share the link, buy a copy, send one to a friend? emmaburnett.carrd.co

I've just signed this; if you're a UK citizen or resident, I really hope you'll sign it, too, to stand against transphobic bigotry and harassment:

And here we are at the end of the exercise. The Queersar Not An Award for excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers 2024! It's been fun, & I hope you find something new that's slipped between the cracks. The book I spotlight in this list is the most shamefully under-read of the whole exercise.

Please call your reps, this thing is so evil

Ehh fuck it

We're here to reclaim the name and the fame of the Center It's not a game To remove the shame We've got blame to shoulder but we're bolder And the night grows older As beauty is in our eye as beholder It'll be gone by dawn Say goodbye to Don!

"She would make sure that all 535 packets of letters and drawings were delivered to every member of Congress. She would keep telling the stories of the children she’d met." Keep going, Ms. Rachel. (gift link) wapo.st/4ecHKP2

You can tell Mamdani what you think about this here: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

y'all heard of this book THE WEST PASSAGE all the cool kids are reading THE WEST PASSAGE

Oh hey HOW TO FAKE IT IN SOCIETY is an Amazon Best Romance of the Year So Far! Which okay it's only June, still nice. It's also still on at 99p in e everywhere (I think) so snap yourself up a bargain!

If the NHS won’t protect trans children, we will 🩵 🩶 🩷 We are dedicating funds to support at least 10 trans kids’ gender affirming care after the NHS suddenly dropped their treatment If you'd like to help us support more trans children's access to healthcare click here👇 https://goodlaw.social/nl30

A long time ago, when I finally admitted that I was really an SF writer, not a litfic writer, Clarkesworld and Shimmer were the two magazines I started reading, and then where I started submitted. Shimmer is gone, but we still have Clarkesworld. We should do what we can to keep it.

I need to stretch my recommending muscles, so let's do this: one like, one queer adult SFF book recommendation. Bonus: If you comment with your fave book, trope, color, etc, I'll pair a rec to it. :) 🌈📚

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

BIG NEWS! Lately, we've been hinting at a secret project. And... today, we are thrilled to officially announce Portals: a line of themed, guest-edited mini-anthologies coming soon from Hybris Press. More details (including the theme for Portals #1 and a call for submissions) in the 🧵 (1/8)

My story about monster hunters unionizing and how the employers react, told through the format of legal case briefs, is in this issue!

On this, the 6th day of our Queer Holy Month of Pride, I'd like to share some queer book resources! 🌈📚 First off, I've been creating/curating queer adult SFF lists since 2019. The latest has links back to all of the previous lists:

I have heard from writer friends that editors have directly told they don't want queer books right now, or have asked them to alter/remove queer characters, etc—a state of affairs which is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. Queer audiences exist and need to see themselves reflected in literature!

Really pleased with this one … I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Jun 4th 2026 (Tricky), in 04:59 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Hi we're not nervous, we hate it and would like it to fall into an open manhole, hope that helps

Issue 066 has officially docked! 🚀 We’ve got a monster hunter’s union, enemies-to-lovers at magic school, and a witch who is 100% done with everyone’s nonsense. Psychedelic moth venom included at no extra charge. Come hang out on The Station this summer!
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My story about monster hunters unionizing and how the employers react, told through the format of legal case briefs, is in this issue!

the account-level filter is absurd. I have adult content set to warn, because I'm fine with it generally but don't want it showing up on my phone while I'm in public – now if I see the warning I can't tell whether it's something actually NSFW or just an artist posting their dog

Sneaking this announcement out before the weekend: We are pleased to announce the ToC and share the cover for We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025! www.neonhemlock.com/news/cover-r...

This is a crisis. If you have a buck to spare, there is a list of orgs attached who could use your help.

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

With FIYAH going on indefinite hiatus it's really fucking important we support the mags publishing POC. If you have the means, support the things you love or they will disappear. Everyone's probs sick as fuck of hearing it but a magazine for Black voices stopped publishing today, it isn't abstract.