Small business Saturday, you say? Consider supporting FIYAH as we approach year ten of publishing Black SFF stories and poetry! Back issues, art, gift subscriptions, merch, and more! Tell a friend, you never know who is missing out 🔥🔥🔥 fiyahlitmag.com/shop/

Time Travel Is Easy is officially out in the world! Dinosaurs and Deep Time are thematic links to queer embodiment, childhood trauma, and life in the late Anthropocene. Cover art by the amazing Helen Whistberry. (Non-Amazon options coming very soon!) www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7

Hugely useful www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yesterday in Connecticut.

Subscribe now magazine.trollbreath.com to get the full issue on Dec. 1st! @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social @kkoopman.bsky.social @prioryruins.bsky.social @jonathanhelland.bsky.social @brandoncase101.bsky.social @kergankergan.bsky.social @wallet55.bsky.social Alex Atkins Matthew Sanborn Smith Phil Emery

“If you were that sick you would be dead.” “If it were that bad you would get help.” “If you can post on social media you’re fine”. Disabled people are constantly subjected to “if” statements from people who have no concept how bad it can get & how little help is available

MIDLVLMAG presents issue no. 7 RETAIL HELL 2: Retail Never Sleeps Available now at midlvlmag.com. Link in our bio.

🌵 🤠 Saddle up! Issue 10.2 is on its way! Check out for our first round of poetry sneak peeks! 💝Special thanks to our amazing poetry editors for bringing these gems to Issue 10.2: Summer Farah (Guest Editor), Rob Macaisa Colgate, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Gabrielle Grace Hogan, and Charlie Neer.

the new version of THE RUNNING MAN at first appears to be an awkward, ham-fisted action B-movie remake, but is in fact timely, ornate, and strangely subversive, a kindred spirit to some of the most interesting social-critique SF films of earlier eras: STARSHIP TROOPERS, ROBOCOP, and THEY LIVE.

i’m in this one! with a story about: 🧡 immortals coming to terms with death 🧡 the smell of loam and moss 🧡 friendships that transcend life 🧡 how much i loved my cat

This is a scheduled post for anyone awake at midnight ET (very likely not our co-founders) to check our submissions guidelines. Perhaps a certain Moksha link at the bottom is now active, and perhaps certain Moksha forms are now open to submissions 👀 othersidespec.com/guidelines/

i’m in this one! with a story about: 🧡 immortals coming to terms with death 🧡 the smell of loam and moss 🧡 friendships that transcend life 🧡 how much i loved my cat

We are really excited for this issue! Subscribe now to get all the goodness on December 1st! Magazine.Trollbreath.com

The wait is over. Welcome to the 2026 Virtual Writers Retreat Faculty! 🥳 Check the 🔗 in our bio to read more about our faculty and the bright future of the Writers Retreat! Applications will open November 21, 2025-January 8, 2026. Don't miss this one. Things may never be the same. 👀

New issue of Fantasy has arrived from @psychopomp.com! weightlessbooks.com/fantasy-maga...

Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

watching my roommate play ff16 after bullying him into doing it for months <3

Did you miss "Lexicographer of Quiet Corners of the Mind", one of Bogi Takács's "Jobs for Magical People (That Do Not Involve the Military)" series of poems? If so, you're in for a treat.

"Sympathy for Wolves," by John Gregory Betancourt, asks you to consider werewolves in a different light, specifically the warm light of a cabin in winter.

A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥

Reading for awards? I'd be honored if you considered my SFF poetry and short fiction! www.nicomartineznocito.com/eligibility-...

Loved this conversation around art and war and the role of the speculative. issues.org/not-now-but-...

European green crab

so this was neat @kqedforum.bsky.social

you can always flip off a waymo. it’s always morally correct

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

Just for funnsies, here's an interview with one of the co-editors of Trollbreath Magazine, posted by @duotrope.com today. Said editor being me (Jennifer helped me write the answers once she got up) duotrope.com/interview/ed...

Winter Cover Reveal!!!! Issue 6 drops on December 1st, 2025 Subscribe now at magazine.trollbreath.com

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

looool @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social confirming for everyone that he was in fact, going to be petty boots at the primary debates:

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Now is the perfect time to join this movement for economic justice, human rights, and a better world.

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

i heart writing unpublishable stories

there’s nothing scarier than just staying alive despite it all. but there is also? maybe nothing more rewarding

It's Charli's Body, You're Just Living In It by @prioryruins.bsky.social from Issue 8 Resurrection; portals; the obligation of living www.heartlines-spec.com/its-charlis-...

Hey kids, you know what’s really scary? 👀 Loving something with your whole heart 🖤 Yeah that’s right, Heartlines has scares too! Cosy up and let’s get spooky:

Richard Siken, speaking on poetry better than I ever could. His collection, Crush, was life-changing. (Read the whole interview on @adroitjournal.bsky.social: theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-...)

If magazine teams were paid fairly and writer rates increased, mag budgets would be $200k+. Minimum. If you can, subscribe. That’s regular, renewable revenue mags can use to plan for the future. This industry is sustained on free labour and free content. Passion is high, but so is burnout.

Complete 2024 Hugo Voting

I truly can’t imagine the person I would be, the art I would’ve made, the choices I might’ve made, the wide-open vistas that might exist in my brain if the constant anxious horror of the last 10 years in America wasn’t just 24/7 squatting its horrible carcass on every cell of it.

ICYMI: I brought back a classic Catapult essay on why I love reading about grief...but how reading grief stories will never replace community.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

Congratulations also to the other finalists: Andrea Hairston, Nola Hopkinson, Margaret Killjoy, Jared Pechaček, Eden Robins, Nghi Vo, and Ursula Whitcher. It was an extraordinary short list, and I highly recommend reading all of these books. More info on all of them below!

On her birthday, a poem by #UrsulaKLeGuin "let’s hurry, yes, to offer everything and count on nothing, make and break no promises ... Outside trust, what air is there to breathe?" lithub.com/a-poem-by-ur...

Doing a LitCrawl! Months ago I was given a prompt and asked to curate a lineup. @prioryruins.bsky.social @chloehsmith.bsky.social @nmamatas.bsky.social & Giovanna Lomanto said yes! We were granted the power to change one literary event from history. What did we change? How is the world different?!

Overworked and underpaid agents are the bottleneck protecting overworked and underpaid editors and the quest for writing that adheres to a recognizable formula clouds people's ability to register novelty, let alone genius.

i think a lot of people don't understand what translating a text _is_. languages are not just word-for-word ciphers for each other. translation involves making a lot of complex creative choices, and the longer the text the more complex. it is, ultimately, an act of rewriting from scratch.