How to get love less wrong – George Saunders on breaking the patterns that break our hearts www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/14/l...

Freelance, from home, creative work and indie projects are often the only profession disabled people can pull off and I've seen everyone's work dry up because of AI. This tech is about as anti-disabled people as you can get and I'm tired of the proponents using as an excuse for its existence.

What’s a woman? We asked The Odyssey and you’ll never believe the answer…s! 1. Bird with a lady head 2. Shapeshifting witch 3. Baddie who came out of a bird egg 4. A whirlpool maybe 5. Tentacle monster who barks like a dog 6. More different shapeshifting witch 7. Weird horny island hermit

This is the highlight of my summer every year. Fancy chocolate and good stories. Very hammock coded.

In the boxes of books in the attic, she finds a monograph on lost languages.

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

Almost every classicist I know thinks O Brother is the best film adaptation of Homer, despite its one glaring inaccuracy of the costuming being wildly anachronistic for the Bronze Age

We’re close to the end of our fundraiser and still haven’t met our goal — we need ~$4k in four days. Frankly: I’ve used… a lot of personal funds to keep us afloat over the years between Kickstarters. I now have a child who’ll need daycare. I won’t have enough left over to bridge khōréō’s gaps.

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

I've never even looked into using AI to write because the act of writing is joyful and nourishing for me (yes, even when I hate it and want to tear my hair out). But... I feel like AI would make writing harder, not easier, because a bland, uninspired first draft is a nightmare to revise.

If, for whatever reason, you abhor getting cool things in the mail, you can now find my story, "Bone Harp Hair," in the digital version of LCRW 52, here:

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

And this is the best place to get LCRW/Small Beer ebooks as they are *DRM-free.* Run by my friend, Michael, who also put together the collective that publishes Reckoning: creative writing on environmental justice

Khoreo's Kickstarter is almost 7k away from funding with only nine days to go!!! Let's do this for a magazine that has always been promoting marginalised authors and brings a fresh perspective to the sff community ❤️

I'm moments away from opening my new issue of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, from @gavingrant.bsky.social and @kellylink.bsky.social, and already I spy Bluesky friends @guilhernunes.bsky.social & @billhookunion.beanyear.com!

"..brain-damaging," not hyperbole. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Strange Horizons is currently at $20,700 out of their $22,000 base goal! Share it! Donate! Share some more! We want Strange Horizons to keep doing their good works www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Testing a little website thing. #news

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

I just backed khōréō: Year 6 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

2 weeks left and a little over halfway to khōréō’s fundraising goal! Please support these folks! They published TWO of my unconventional Indigenous Futurisms stories, and encouraged me to make them even more weird and structurally strange www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

I went to buy this and saw that it was part of a whole bundle of midwest narrative games??? So obviously I bought the bundle 😎 I’m so excited!

::taps mic:: this on?? Hey friends! I'm so pleased/astonished to tell you that my short story, "Bone Harp Hair," will be published as part of Issue #52 of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet! smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2026/06...

If you're able, consider supporting the @khoreo.bsky.social Kickstarter! They're a truly fantastic publication regularly putting out gorgeous work!

I was a guest on @jamesg.blog's Wonders of Web Weaving and it was such a lovely conversation 🥰 We talked about the IndieWeb, why now is the best time to be your full weird self online, and more. Also my first podcast ever 🥹 web-weaving.jamesg.blog/7

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

A #birddivination for those unafraid to face the difficult truths in order to get unstuck. As always, find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofbirds.org

who in Toronto wants 8000 pounds of free Star Trek rocks because TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY readysetrecycle.net/advert/free-...

DID YOU SEE THIS??? The most beautiful cover by Misha Chernov www.mcversipellis.com for my new novella They Call the Place Wild. I can promise you it’ll be another strange one. Breadcrumbs leading you deep into the dark forest, bare feet black in the rich rotting soil. Let’s get lost!

Jane Yolen’s books meant a lot to me. The world is richer because she lived, and poorer now that she’s gone.

If you're comfortable belching your awful takes out onto the internet and promoting them via social media, you should be willing to have them preserved for all time.

“Welcome to Haven, child. The folk’s final refuge in this part of the world.” 🌲🪶 Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen Books are thrilled to reveal the cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social, with spectacular cover art and design by Misha Chernov 🦋👁️🐦‍⬛ Coming February 2027!

You never know what you'll discover in the forest...or what will discover you 🦋👁️🐦‍⬛ Experience a surreal new fairytale brimming with strange sisters, trickster spirits, and a primeval forest that never lets you go 🌀🌲 the full cover of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social drops tomorrow!

Saw this sign about tear gas aftermath as it affects food gardening at Open Streets Lyndale yesterday. It is by no means the greatest crime committed against the people of Minnesota this winter, but add it to the ledger anyway.

I can’t tell you how much comfort I get knowing Ted Chiang is still out here patiently explaining the reality of AI “technology”—scare quotes because I use the definition “applied knowledge and tools to solve problems and improve human life” and what they’re peddling as AI does none of these things

Don't be an object of pity and scorn. Read some of these gorgeous books by Pacific Islander authors recommended by @buzzfeed.com Weird Fishes made the list as the lone sci-fi title 🐙🦭❤️🌊🪼 www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1...

Times are difficult but I feel we should take inspiration from this plucky spud

ICYMI FYI something for your TBR for this AAPI Heritage Month (yes, I’m always this obnoxious)

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

This is glorious and bizarre.

Even if you don't attend Worldcon, a supporting membership gets you voting rights this year, nominating rights next year, and... er... supports Worldcons on an ongoing basis. Also access to the Hugo Voters' Packet, which is a whole LOT of free books and other media.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Was reminded Kelly’s first collection Stranger Things Happen turns 25 this year. Surreal. Setting up summer street parties (masquerading as World Cup games) for it across nation. Download it — and a few other good collections — here smallbeerpress.com/creative-com...

Independent Bookstore Day is April 25! It’s also my birthday! Oh, how the stars have aligned for you to celebrate both events at once by buying or sharing my books through bookshop.org

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

In a burst of enthusiasm we'll have exclusives & — wear a Book Moon shirt (inc. Read Books Punch Nazis) & get 10% off — a Libro.fm Golden Ticket — 33% off Small Beer books (not limiteds) — Spend $50: free BKMN card with Kevin Huizenga’s illo of the store — Spend $100: free BKMN Blackwing pencil

Today is Sextidi the 6th of Floréal in the year 234. Floréal is the month of flowers. Today we celebrate common columbine.#JacobinDay More information on common columbine