📢Webcomickers! 📢 Did your webcomic finish this year? Do you know of webcomics that did finish in 2025? Let me know! I am compiling a list for our just wrapped collection over at the webcomic travelogue!

Go beyond castles and spaceships to the broader lands, seas and skies of speculative fiction in our upcoming webinar! On Nov. 25, Tanya Gold and Genevieve Clovis will offer an introduction to #editing in this fascinating niche. Sign up now: webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...

For querying writers: I did a critiques today for an SCBWI conf & got questions about what kind of books you can cite as comps, & I think it’s worth distinguishing between *pitching* comps and *selling* comps. A brief 🧵:

Help finish Alice Wong’s work by donating to her GoFundMe (read last update): www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong... @sfdirewolf.bsky.social

Just over 36 hours until #WriteHive #HiveMentor submissions open. 🚨 Got a finished manuscript but need some help? Whether you're self-publishing or searching for an agent - you might be ready for a 1 year mentorship. All you need is: ✨Finished MS ✨Query ✨Synopsis writehive.org/writehive-me...

Join us today for a talk on editing fiction with nonbinary characters! We'll cover the complexities of nonbinary genders, and how to help authors achieve inclusive representation at all levels of editing. 🏳️‍⚧️ #AmEditing 🌈📚 @editorscanada.bsky.social #Editors

🏳️‍⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026. Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️ 🧵 Details 👇

Wholehearted Writers Week applications close 1 week from today (11/12)! Write in good company Jan 12–16, supported by 4 kind, skillful editors/writing coaches + 8 writers across genres offering hour-long sessions on the process from idea through publication. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html

#Questpit is off and running and we are already seeing so many amazing stories! Good luck everyone!

🚨 WNDB is committed to providing emergency grants to diverse authors & illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators experiencing dire financial need due to loss of SNAP benefits. We are now open for a new round of emergency grants, between $250 and $1,000 each. 💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency

Editors, join us for an informative chat on a very cool topic! We're excited to share context, strategies, and tips big & small for folks working at all levels of edit.

Want to learn more about editing fiction with nonbinary characters? Join me and @eliotedits.bsky.social for our @editorscanada.bsky.social webinar on November 12! webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web... #AmEditing #QueerEditors #Editors 🌈📚

Hey, #Editors & #WritingCommunity! 👋🏻 I've topped up the scholarships for all my self-paced courses again! There's a limited number of scholarship spots for editors and writers from marginalized groups. They're first-come, first-serve, no questions asked. TanyaGold.com #AmEditing #WriterSky 💙📚

U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein concluded that ChatGPT’s summaries of books ”can possibly be found [by a jury] to infringe upon the books they’re trained on.” #GenAI #AI #OpenAI

I feel seen 😆

Editors, check this out!

I'm just starting a new sci-fi cyberpunk TTRPG. As is my wont, instead of diving in and making a bunch of edits, I plan to spend some time doing what I call axe sharpening. 1/3

I'm raising money for our local Fishline org to feed, clothe, house, and support our neighbors, especially those impacted by the removal of SNAP benefits. My employer will match up to $1,500 of funds raised. Please consider contributing or sharing! Donate here: www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

While I haven't taken these classes, I have had Tanya coach me and they are amazing awesome. Not to mention, very generous to offer scholarships for their self-paced courses.

Conscious Style Guide is on Bluesky! What to expect: posts that help you think critically about language and design as tools for equity and self-expression. Check out the whole family of resources: Book | Website | Community | Newsletter By @karenyin.bsky.social 🌷

Hey, #Editors & #WritingCommunity! 👋🏻 I've topped up the scholarships for all my self-paced courses again! There's a limited number of scholarship spots for editors and writers from marginalized groups. They're first-come, first-serve, no questions asked. TanyaGold.com #AmEditing #WriterSky 💙📚

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC! The window will close after 500 submissions are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.

📢ANNOUNCING the Mentors for the upcoming #HiveMentor program! We have 20 talented mentors from Traditional Publishing, Small/Independent Press, Self-publishing, Cooperative Publishing, Multi-Author Series, Serials & Web Novels and Kickstarter! Take a look 🐝 writehive.org/writehive-me...

I can't get enough of this season 😍

Our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium is this week! Don't forget to register for this free, virtual event open to anyone interested in learning more about book publishing. Register here: bit.ly/2025PublishingSymposium

Happy #OAWeek! From initiatives like Direct to Open (D2O) and the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS), the MIT Press is committed to building a more open & accessible future for academic publishing. New on our blog, a selection of award-winning books that are accessible to all:

This single letter on my new driver's license is giving me such gender euphoria 🥰

I just learned that scallops have hundreds of eyes and are THE MOST ADORABLE THINGS EVER! www.reddit.com/r/TheDepthsB...

I hear there are a lot of new people on Bluesky again, so it's a good time to mention that people have created starter packs to make it easier to find people to follow. Here's one for editors.

Three graphic novels = translated Additional knowledge acquired in loads of Victorian stuff, including: electric health fads mourning practices changes in corsetry medical research advances telecommunications tech Deadline = hit. I'm taking the rest of the day off! #Translation #xl8 #Comics

I expected a stress dream last night because of today's translation deadline, but I guess I'm feeling okay about it all because instead I dreamed about checking two squirmy little puppies out of the library.

Saturday!

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners. The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre. Please spread the word! 🍗 ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

That feeling when you run @perfectit.bsky.social on 25,000 words you've written and it only finds one single stylistic inconsistency 😎

Nerve to Write is a new online magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!

Really informative and depressing read.

Me: I'll just throw together some really quick notes to give the publisher the historical context for my translation and to share all my references. That shouldn't take very long. Me, two days and one ridiculously detailed report later: 🫠🫠🫠 #Translation #xl8 #Comics

Since it's #PortfolioDay, it's an excellent time to repost the Sensitivity Consultant starter pack! go.bsky.app/92T7cw1

Yes. Yes, translation *is* a gentle, rigorous art to unsettle and remake. #AmReading

Want a fast and easy way to make your Indigenous Peoples Day impactful for years to come? I made this list of 100+ Indigenous Voices who post daily about our lives, our truths, and our fight. Easily auto-follow all 🪶 Come honor these beautiful Native voices!

Having the best time catching up on these! Also need to say a huge thank you to @spacemagiccon.bsky.social and @tanyagold.bsky.social for my Opening Pages Consult - Tanya engaged with my writing with such generosity and I am so excited to dive into the rewrite process with their valuable feedback!!

Ahhhh, loving today so much. I missed yesterday due to Pride and looking forward to watching it on YouTube. Today has been so good!

Wanna connect with all the awesome Rainbow Space Magic people over here? There's a starter pack just for that! go.bsky.app/UobYdhe #RSM2025 🌈📚🪐 #QueerSFF #RainbowSpaceMagic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social

Doing a reading in a few minutes! Come join us! #BookSky

Did you think I was kidding when I said this book is amazing and you should preorder it now? Kudos to coeditors @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social, and our incredible roster of writers and activists, for creating such a marvellous work!

Who wants to cozy up this winter to spicy, spooky, or fantastic winter tales with #trans and #nonbinary characters? Well, me for one. Calling trans and nonbinary #writers. Submit now to join my Itchio bundle of Trans Holiday Magic! Existing or new stories welcome. forms.gle/svdATkyeWqQ1...

Join us this weekend for 2 days about queer speculative fiction! (And my panel 👇 in particular :-) )

Today is DAY 1 of #DVparty, a community event to talk up projects that Diverse Creators plan to pitch during #DVpit! Since it's our inaugural year on Bluesky, we'd like to invite any diverse creator to participate! Share about your beautiful work & let's build a #writercommunity here! #writersky

Wanna connect with all the awesome Rainbow Space Magic people over here? There's a starter pack just for that! go.bsky.app/UobYdhe #RSM2025 🌈📚🪐 #QueerSFF #RainbowSpaceMagic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social

This is just one of the many panels that's happening Oct 4 & 5 at the 6th annual Rainbow Space Magic. This free virtual con is for writers & readers of queer speculative fiction. Full schedule at www.rainbowspacemagi...