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We’re revisiting 3 of our favorite stories from meetings past! These are worth a reread! Glass Bottle Dancer by Celeste Rita Baker 💜 The Time Traveler’s Cookbook by @angelaliu.bsky.social Open House on Haunted Hill by @wiswell.bsky.social Links follow - read along with us!

SFPA members, there’s still time to nominate your favorite poems of 2025 for the Rhysling Awards! Nominations close February 15, so get yours in today!

It’s been a rough day for me but I see I have a bunch of new followers. Welcome! You can see my bio for info on me and my Linktree. Other than that I have a new book just out. Find out more here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...

Our readers' poll finalists were announced in the February issue. clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_02_26/ Check out some great stories and art and vote for your favorite by February 15th! (Directions and links to all the works are in that editorial.)

This is a great idea - and anyone can do it! We've been meeting to discuss short spec fiction for 5 years. Grab a couple of friends and start your own groups!

I remember now I read this story before! It's great, @mariahaskins.com ! So glad it got an @escapepod.org reading ^_^

Check out our winter/spring guest lineup! Maria Haskins Spencer Nitkey Joel Hans David Quantick Holly Lyn Walrath Jendia Gammon Isabel J. Kim Plus a deep dive into khōréō magazine!

It was such a treat to be invited to @electricsheepsf.bsky.social again! What a great morning with a great group of people. 💗

Huge thanks to Maria for spending time with us today! Great discussion of craft, from story structure to language. We loved digging into these stories! Thank you @mariahaskins.com!!

Well now I am deeply invested in Tony and Hortense.

To read! I love Maria Haskins’s stuff and I like what Diabolical Plots publishes, so my expectations are high!

"After two years of working undercover as a vacuum cleaner bot on this boondock planet, he is finally heading home to the Gamma Sector, but his final day is full of challenges." Such a cool story - give it a read! @mariahaskins.com in @diabolicalplots.com

"She’s already seen the deep paw prints in the flowerbeds outside, the muddy tracks leading across the nursing home’s parking lot towards the greenbelt by the creek." An @electricsheepsf.bsky.social favorite! @mariahaskins.com @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

"After two years of working undercover as a vacuum cleaner bot on this boondock planet, he is finally heading home to the Gamma Sector, but his final day is full of challenges." Such a cool story - give it a read! @mariahaskins.com in @diabolicalplots.com

"Most mornings, when Torsten isn’t called out to search for traffic-wounded game, he thinks about walking away from the house, the town, everything, and never coming back." Read "The Darkness Carried by the Beasts" by @mariahaskins.com in @pseudopod.org!

"Erik is leaning in through the backdoor, trying to crawl in between me and Lisa and Jorge and we’re all bare legs and short skirts, muscles and sweat..." Another great story by @mariahaskins.com ! @castofwonders.org

"She should dissipate. She should waver and dissolve. She should ascend and alight. Instead, she starts gathering her bones." Maria's writing is always so lush and full of emotion. Gorgeous work! @mariahaskins.com in @psychopomp.com

"It’s the first weekend of summer holidays and we’re piling into the backseat of Annette’s dinky old Honda headed to some house party at the far edge of town..." Check out "In a town like this" in @castofwonders.org! @mariahaskins.com

And our first story this week is "Highway 1, Past Hope" in @psychopomp.com! "Layla rises like a breath in winter from the hollow beneath the black cottonwoods beside the river, shrugging off the blanket of dirt and leaves and centipedes she slept beneath." @mariahaskins.com

We're beginning our 6th year at Electric Sheep! To kick off our birthday celebration, we're thrilled to welcome back our very first brave guest -- Maria Haskins! Three cheers for Maria joining us back when we didn't know what the heck we were doing! Welcome back, @mariahaskins.com!!

That is sooooooo perfect! 💚 Congrats, @thesuiway.bsky.social!

It's release day for my book! Thank you so much to @jacklegpress.bsky.social and @fulmerford.com

I loved this interview I did with Myna. She asks such great questions. I hope you’ll give it a read. Thank you Myna for the lovely review as well.

This week on Planetside… Our Speculative Poetics series continues with “STEM and Leaf: Writing Math and Science Poetry” by @yarntheory.bsky.social : www.sfwa.org/2026/01/13/s...

It's officially poetry award nomination season. Things move fast and the biggest award in SpecPo, the Rhysling Award, is now accepting nominations from Science Fiction Poetry Association members. Radon is immensely proud of our poets and we want to help you find our poems that are eligible.

In the first 24 hours, we've received nearly 1,000 requests. NOW HIRING: full-time NetGalley approver/decliner. 😅

Our in-depth look into @marisca.bsky.social 's "fritillary frigate" is up on Substack! What is a foxfire? What is fritillary? Pichette presents a version of spacefaring that's not separate from nature or community. radonjournal.substack.com/p/marisca-pi...

This story by @slashnburnett.bsky.social is really great! Thanks for joining us today!!

If you've enjoyed this week's stories by @slashnburnett.bsky.social, be on the lookout for emma's upcoming novella, EX PARTUM! @atthisarts.com

From the author's note: "We can’t look away from one evil act when confronted with another. We need to tackle them head-on, in the hopes that we don’t reenact them." I hope you can take a few moments to read this story. @slashnburnett.bsky.social in @mythaxis.bsky.social 💔

"Sell you a card? someone calls out from an alleyway. Change your life." Love the transformation! @slashnburnett.bsky.social in Northern Gravy!

"Miriam was fourteen when the food in her mouth turned to ash." Utterly heartbreaking, beautifully written. @slashnburnett.bsky.social in @mythaxis.bsky.social

Another beautifully realized story from emma burnett - looking forward to talking with emma this week at E Sheep! @slashnburnett.bsky.social

"Sell you a card? someone calls out from an alleyway. Change your life." Love the transformation! @slashnburnett.bsky.social in Northern Gravy!

Two of these books are mine, and I also have a horror story in Of Dread, Decay, and Doom, so lots coming from me this year through Stars and Sabers. Currently, you can pre-order Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...

Great story, and I love the way it's presented.

This was great, and a fantastic excuse to make up screen names - Doratheexspora :)

"... to reflect the current shitstorm now that plastic everywhere is basically disappearing? -Kinoko" Smart use of form and humor in this searing flash! @slashnburnett.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

"There’s stuff online every day, calling me an angel, a saviour. That’s the stuff I believe." Love this approach to climate fiction - big attitude, lots of satisfaction. @slashnburnett.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

Suuuuper excited to have been invited to an @electricsheepsf.bsky.social discussion. See yous all at the weekend!

This week's featured author is emma burnett! @slashnburnett.bsky.social First up is "Bone-Eater Earth" in @unchartedmag.bsky.social! "Clearly it takes a techbro to fix the important problems." Ha!

There really are too many to name them all, but the one I’ve been thinking about recently is Rabbit Test by Samantha Mills.

Happy Science Fiction Day from Locus!

All right poetry pals, it's January 1, which means that Rhysling Award Nominations are now open! Check your SFPA Missive for details and nominations links. And in the meantime, get to re-reading your fav 2025 poems 💖

I don’t remember who recommended this book—maybe someone in @electricsheepsf.bsky.social ?—but thank you, it’s excellent. The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher.

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

Are you a writer resolving to build craft and community in 2026? Applications to the Viable Paradise workshop are now open! We’re looking for 24 writers to join us in October. Learn more and apply: viableparadise.com