Read the fifth story from our Spring Issue, "Those of Desecrated Places" by @mimimondal.bsky.social, out now! #climatefiction #underground #tractorbeam #scifi #soilpunk

A new type of hominid has been living beneath Kolkata's landfills, surviving, like the people above, on what the city throws away. When Lava is chosen to make first contact, what she finds underground is closer to kin than an alien species...

@air-france.bsky.social Hi :) I'm scheduled for a flight from MEX to CDG leaving tomorrow 7:55 pm local time, and the Air France app and website suddenly aren't letting me log in. Haven't got through the phone helpline in 30 mins now. Can you please help me check in and get my boarding pass? 🙏🏽

...and here's the link to @mimimondal.bsky.social 's fund to help her get to Under the Volcano: gofund.me/c2282614f #WritingCommunity #MutualAid @bsfwriters.bsky.social

Two of my awesome writer friends @zinrock.bsky.social and @mimimondal.bsky.social got into Under the Volcano writers workshop! Yeah! I just offered aid that they each need via their GoFundMe's. Zin/Teri: gofund.me/a39acbd5b #WritingCommunity @bsfwriters.bsky.social #writing #MutualAid 1/2

It has been a rough holiday season and this GFM still hasn't filled up enough for making this trip possible! There are only 6 days left before I leave. Even if you can't contribute, a share to your networks will really really help. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

I haven't been diligent about publicizing this but I'm still a few hundred dollars short of being able to travel to Mexico for the Under the Volcano writing workshop. New visa laws (there's more...) continue to jeopardize my life and finances. Pls share this post if you can 🙏🏽💙🙏🏽 gofund.me/3c835f814

technicolor cat enjoys the best afternoon ever (aka basically every afternoon) 🌈

BBB's Aug. reading was a blast! Thnx to authors @aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social @mimimondal.bsky.social & @svpthinks.bsky.social! 📚🎙️🧉 Next: 9/17 (Weds.!) w/authors @davidmack.bsky.social #LizGotauco @kaileepedersen.bsky.social & @randeedawn.com! More pics: shorturl.at/eiz9p

BBB @ Barrows in #IndustryCity blasts August into tiny pieces on 8/19 @ 7pm w/ a stellar lineup of reading authors: @aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social @svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee @randeedawn.com! 📚🎙️🧉 Join us! More: brooklynbooksbooze.com

Please let your homies in NYC & Chicago know — tickets for THE INVISIBLE PARADE Tour are dwindling fast. 👀 All other dates = *sold out*. Hate it when people say, “Ahhhhhh! Why didn’t you tell me?!?” after tickets are gone. I’m trying, people. I’m trying. :) Get tickets: linktr.ee/theInvisible...

The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee. This is the first time in the 30 year history of the award that they've made an open call for awards judges. I want to see an awards panel that represents the field. forms.gle/WWsFSAZLPvqb... 1/

BBB @ Barrows in #IndustryCity blasts August into tiny pieces on 8/19 @ 7pm w/ another stellar lineup of reading authors: @aahabershaw.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social @svpthinks.bsky.social & @mimimondal.bsky.social + emcee @randeedawn.com! 📚🎙️🧉 Join us! More: brooklynbooksbooze.com

My first in-person reading in NYC since the pandemic (aka in more than half a decade 😱) is NEXT MONTH!!! Come over if you're in town! Bring friends, lovers, dance partners. Let's make this a beautiful, fun midsummer evening by the East River💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

Bookmarking @mimimondal.bsky.social's page at the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine, to read all their work there thus far: a series of 6 short stories, with a 7th on the way! rubinmuseum.org/people/mimi-... While I'm at it, I encourage you to follow Mimi's Patreon! www.patreon.com/c/mimimondal...

SFF writers take note! SFWA's Board of Directors has updates on the Must Read Publishing situation: what Must Read has now promised to change, and what steps SFWA is taking next, to ensure future contracts require less negotiation from writers in genre. READ MORE BELOW ⬇️ www.sfwa.org/2025/07/14/p...

not getting any younger but with ice cream cake 🎂 (and all these blessings, which are good stuff 🥹)

Every day of the year is Pride 🏳️‍🌈 but I've never been so excited to close out the month with a fresh new story! Paco, the sixth and final story for my "Blood Ties" series from the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine is out now for you to read. (CW: fangs.🧛🏼‍♂️) rubinmuseum.org/paco/

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Calling poets, prose writers, & essayists to submit to the AfroSurrealist Special Issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Eds. @yvettel.bsky.social & Shingai Njeri Kagunda are seeking worlds that slip b/t mundane, uncanny, ghostly, & futuristic. Submissions window is April 15 to April 30.

From 2013 (long before the hardcover edition was released, when India's first graphic novel was still circulating as a grainy pdf): @mimimondal.bsky.social on RIVER OF STORIES mimimondal.com/2013/11/06/o... Get your copy here: www.blaft.com/products/riv...

recommend to me some short stories based in florida? doesn't have to be only from famous authors. if you have a florida-based short story, i'd love to read it as well!

One more translation to celebrate! As a sweet beginning to 2025 my two-part essay "A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction" was published in Chinese (Mandarin) by the Hugo Award-winning writer and editor @riverflowsf.bsky.social in Zero Gravity Science Fiction.

currently in training to be a dog person 😎 #chihuahua #ChihuahuasOnBluesky #DogsOnBluesky

Drumroll, please! Our 2025 IndieGoGo fundraiser is now live!! You can check out the bounty of donation perks available at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 (link in bio) We have so much to offer you guys for supporting us, with new rewards in rotation all month so keep an eye out!

Horizons 3 is NOW AVAILABLE, featuring these amazing articles! 💬 Villains, Accomplices, & Bystanders: an interview w/ Brennan Lee Mulligan 🪭 Deals & Appeals: The Crowd Patron | Leon Barillaro 🎰 The Gilded Quill | Sam Mannell ⚔️ The Avenging Heart | Brandes Stoddard 🏝️💀 Deathmatch Atlantis | Tim Denee

NEW YORK (AP) - ProPublica wins 2025 Pulitzer for Public Service for reports on deaths of pregnant women in abortion-restricted states.

every afternoon is a good afternoon 🏳️‍🌈 #ragdollcat

i've been counting my age in selfies with autumn leaves and spring flowers, routinely every year 🌸

Instead of buying our books on Amazon India (where they're often marked up over MRP, because it's impossible to communicate with anyone at Amazon and their logistics are a mess), try buying from our website! Or from your local indie bookstore! No shipping w/in India! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Wish I could be present for this myself but if you're in Kolkata next weekend, go attend the launch of this beautiful and beloved book that contains my story "So It Was Foretold". 💙 #DalitHistoryMonth

Featuring science fiction, horror, and supernatural short stories by Bama, Gogu Shyamala, @mimimondal.bsky.social, @architamittra.bsky.social, and 30+ other writers! There's a Kolkata launch planned for April 19 at Storyteller bookstore. Save the date! More deets soon www.blaft.com/collections/...

Over this weekend in NYC I had the opportunity to meet and experience the works, ideas, and visions of TWO of the most exciting Dalit visual artists of my generation (Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar and Siddhesh Gautam, who's @bakeryprasad.bsky.social) so that's how my #DalitHistoryMonth is going ✊🏽

Didn't get around to posting this earlier but the Polish 🇵🇱 translation of "Malotibala Printing Press" was published in the Nowa Fantastyka magazine from Warsaw in June 2024! Translated by Kamila Regel. I didn't receive a print copy this time, which made me a little sad because look at that cover! 🤩

NYC(-area) friends with tattoos, give me all your recs please 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

this was the first time anything i wrote was made into a figurine! unforgettable feeling 🥹

New year, new event from @bsfwriters.bsky.social 🎉👾 "We Demand Stories About Human-Centered AI" with panelists @hmason.bsky.social @matthewkressel.net Holden Lee, moderated by @brklyndragon.bsky.social

Today has been a day of good news and bad news. Sharing the good news first: The fourth story from *Blood Ties*, titled "Sugarbean" (remember her? 🐩), was published today on the website of the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art! Accompanied by another wonderful illustration from Sargam Gupta. Link below.

Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid 😭

last night i watched anora. i hadn't heard of it before the oscars but that means nothing because i'm not v. updated on contemporary cinema + this isn't a genre/story type that i watch a lot. i'd like to hear your thoughts on the movie, esp. if you loved it. what should i have appreciated more?

Ooo there is new work (3 new works!) from @mimimondal.bsky.social, with a dazzling Osheen Siva illustration, breakfast sorted rubinmuseum.org/spiral/issue...

I always forget how long I haven't published stories, because I'm always writing them. But the *Blood Ties* set of 3 flash stories is now out on Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine... with 3 more upcoming! Are vampires hiding in the university town of Briarwood? These characters are trying to find out.

I always forget how long I haven't published stories, because I'm always writing them. But the *Blood Ties* set of 3 flash stories is now out on Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine... with 3 more upcoming! Are vampires hiding in the university town of Briarwood? These characters are trying to find out.

Vote with your heart on your favorite reads from last year, in the Locus Awards! 🌙 Locus Magazine is a nonprofit promoting both big names & small press & indie authors. Voting ends April 15. ✨ Cast your vote: poll.voting.locusmag... #LocusAwards #SFF #books #booksky

i will never understand this app. every day a few people follow you but your posts get zero interaction.

If you're in Philly today, join me and Dr Arjun Shankar at @makingworlds.bsky.social to celebrate this deeply insightful and reflective book. Come if you want to talk about brownness, about the NGO Industrial Complex, about caste, about India and its diaspora(s). Look forward to meeting you there! 💙

Speculative Poets: sound off! If you published any poetry in 2024 that's eligible for the Best Poem Hugo, link your stuff here! Feel free to share the speculative poems you've read last year that are worthy of a nom, too--lift each other up here so people can read and nominate your amazing work!

🚀 Nominations for the 2025 Hugo Awards are now open! 🚀 Members of the 2025 Seattle Worldcon & the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon can nominate for the 2025 Hugo Awards, the Lodestar Award & the Astounding Awards Deadline: March 14, 2025, 11:59 p.m. PDT Learn more: https://buff.ly/3QcUTw6 #HugoAwards

the internet is full of despair but also the internet is full of delights 😈

growing up as an introverted neurodivergent kid i built p much all my friendships online, even the ones with people i met in person first. every time a platform dissolves i lose a whole cluster of friends. blogger. lj. orkut. twitter. not all move to the same new platform(s). so what's up, bluesky?