I've updated my blog with a post covering many writing and publishing updates from the past several months, including my recent appearance at #MileHiCon where I won the "Flash Fiction Chopped" competition. michael-haynes.blogspot.com/2025/11/rece...

This week, two elusive favorites return to Story Hour! Natasha Calder reads her uncomfortably-near-future SF "hotBooley," and Michael Haynes reads the gentler, guitar-fueled hopefulness of "Carolina." You can still watch! @michaelhaynes.bsky.social youtu.be/dq0aWfJbbv0

Only thirty minutes until StoryHour starts. I hope to see you there!

One magical spring evening in 2023, Natasha Calder and @michaelhaynes.bsky.social read for Story Hour. That video is now lost, but now Natasha and Michael return! They won’t weave the exact same spell, but rather will enchant us anew. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com

If you’re at #MileHiCon, I’m signing both my collections right now (1-2 PM Saturday outside Aurora III). I’ll also be on two programs Sunday and doing a reading Sunday at 2:30 PM on the second floor. Hope to see you there!

The way the last several minutes of this game have gone I was sure the Avs were going to fumble the puck into their own net on the delayed penalty. #GoAvsGo

Hey, it’s a new podcast with a story of mine! This is a story where I’d written the first draft and then sat on it for close to a decade before revising it and getting it sent out. The original printing was in an anthology so glad to have this one freely available now!

want to keep motivated writing in *waves hands*?! reminder that i'll be speaking with @stephengrahamking.com and @magicariot.com NEXT SUNDAY about how to do this exactly!!!! info in QP!!!

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 4 days. For the love of speculative fiction, horror stories, weird fiction, dark fantasy, magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, science fiction, alltopias, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

The launch party for my new collection THREE THINGS CAMERON COULDN’T TELL YOU is still going! We are in 2502 of the Sheraton here at Worldcon. Stop by and have some cake and say hi! #worldcon

Check out this amazing cake that we will have in Sheraton 2502 at the Worldcon launch party starting at 4:30 PM. The party celebrates new books by myself, @randeedawn.com, and @richardsparks.bsky.social! I hope to see you there! #worldcon

Come join us starting at 4:30 PM in Sheraton Room 2502 for a joint book launch party for myself, @randeedawn.com, and @richardsparks.bsky.social who each have new books being launched this weekend at Worldcon! Cake and ice cream will be served starting at 5:30 PM. #worldcon

I can second this recommendation though I was too busy enjoying my pappardelle to photograph it!

I only just now realized that my reading today (9 AM in Room 428 of the Convention Center) will be my FIRST solo Worldcon reading. When I read at Chicon it was part of a group reading. Hoping to see friendly faces there! #worldcon

Saturday morning at Worldcon (9 AM in Room 428) I’ll be reading stories from my new short fiction collection Three Things Cameron Couldn’t Tell You. It’d be great to see you there! #worldcon

PARTY TOMORROW: 8/16 at @seattlein2025.org! Ice cream? Cake? Snacks? Books? YES! Join me and my fellow authors @richardsparks.bsky.social & @michaelhaynes.bsky.social starting at 4:30 (QR code in flyer will have room no. on Sat.) -- we'll even scan you upstairs! Let's get our sweet on! 🍰📚🍨

I absolutely love the cover for my new short story collection! Thanks to @ailustrar.bsky.social for doing such an amazing job on it! Book launch coming next month at Worldcon!

@joeposnanski.com @kentremendous.bsky.social So did you all know that in addition to Scoragami there’s Weathergami?

Coming later this year…

movie you've watched more than six times. use gifs. ("hard mode:" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

oh my next book is up for preorder us.macmillan.com/books/978125... ✨ "this book destroyed me" - Yoon Ha Lee ✨ "I felt shattered" - Sue Burke ✨ "truly ambitious science fiction" - Marie Brennan ✨ "beautiful, brilliant, heartbreaking" - Yume Kitasei ✨ "I inhaled it all in one sitting" - Wole Talabi

Our friends over at the Watermelon Grant announced the 2025 recipients. Congratulations to Ibtisam Barakat ابتسام بركات for poetry and Monir Mtoor (Nissan) for prose 🎉 This Watermelon Grant is for Palestinian speculative arts creators. Learn more at www.ldlewiswrites.co...

I know it's a horrible time right now and virtually everybody is struggling, but I will not make it to Kansas City without help, so I have no choice but to ask. tl;dr: My debut novel is a finalist for the Norton Award (Yay!) but I can't afford travel (Boo!) Can you help? ko-fi.com/labyrinthrat

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive

@joeposnanski.bsky.social I haven’t fact-checked myself but might Denver be the city with the most Big 4-sports years with no teams moving away?

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Watermelon Grant winners announcing tomorrow if you're ready for some good news for once

Baseball media: if you do not loudly report on this I do not want to hear a goddamn thing from you about Jackie Robinson on April 15. bsky.app/profile/fbih...

THIS IS OUR ROMAN EMPIRE! The scintillating debut novel, SARGASSA, by Sophie Burnham is on shelves now. A world where Rome never fell teeters on the brink of transformation in this alt-history blend of political intrigue, queer romance, and revolution. astrapublishinghouse.com/product/sarg...

Strange Horizons will have 3 FICTION SUBMISSION WINDOWS in 2025. General April 16th with a 1,000 story cap Novelette (10k to 18k words) June 4th with a 300 story cap Indigenous Authors November 3rd with a 500 story cap Submission windows will begin at 9am UTC and end when we reach the cap.

For all those people who think “the left got more radical,” this is what the evolution of the GOP has looked like over the past few years.

It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill. People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games. They know exactly what is going on. Defend Medicaid. Vote NO on Cloture. NO on bill.

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford Also probably the first draft of a new story which I wrote this morning so I can consider what to do in the second draft.

Surfacing this from the comments: Jack Daniels was taught to distill by Nearest Green, a Black man, and Uncle Nearest whiskey is still available for sale if you want to give less money to boot lockers and bigots.

Several times a year reminding myself of @scalzi.com‘s “failure mode of clever” leads me to either rephrase a comment I’d make or even forego a comment altogether. (This is a good thing, to be clear.) whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/t...

New stories by @samtasticbooks.com are always exciting. This one is awesome and cathartic!

this is a perfect descriptor of how Republican politicians shit on cities 24/7 and nobody cares but if a democratic politician makes a single dismissive comment about rural areas it’s a massive scandal

Don't buy anything tomorrow if you can possibly help it

Nothing definite yet but I’ve made some progress in recent days toward being able to release a second short story collection later this year. Tentatively targeting releasing it in time for Seattle #worldcon.

Story time! Disappointed to find out that Lemonade apparently isn’t on Bluesky so I could tag them. But ecstatic to have FINALLY gotten a picture of this! That’s right. The ad on that bus says “Sign up at lemomade.com”. 😮 Folks, I saw this for the first time like… months ago.

It's Denali.

Abandoning trans rights means abandoning ALL rights. They are inseperable. Abandoning trans people is to abandon all people, and indeed our very humanity. Think about what the fascist asks for, and then think of the totality of its cost. And then say no. To all of it.

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

If your timeline needs a Dalmatian romping in the snow, here you go!

Good morning and happy (or whatever) first day back at work for a bunch of you! 2025 Lammys submissions are now open and considering LGBTQ+ books and plays published in 2024! View our submission guidelines to learn more: lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammy...

Apply to @banffcentre.bsky.social's SCIENCE FICTION residency w/ mentorship from @aijiang.bsky.social , @premeemohamed.com , & @amalelmohtar.com: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit... (att'n @locusmag.bsky.social @theignyteawards.bsky.social @thehugoawards.bsky.social @worldfantasy2024.bsky.social)

This is spot on