Friends, I'll be doing a smol reading at FoF on hour 14, which is Saturday 6:00 AM UTC so if anyone can make it I will be happy to see you there! ❤️

My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/138349...

Publishing since "Song of Achilles": [absolutely milking Greek culture without including actual Greeks or GS Cypriots] Lone voice: "But what's the Greek perspective on this?" Publishing:

I am reminded how I desperately need to re-read *this* trilogy more than the others and how Robin Hobb managed to produce the best love story ever written, conveniently wrapped in 16 massive tomes of epic fantasy.

And now for our Issue 98 COVER 🎉 🎉 🎉 Wound, by Zi Xu

I have a new story coming up! 😍

Palestinian families like Nehad's are being starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you've anything to spare:

Friends, I'm hosting another fundraiser for Palestine on Saturday. This time I've linked to a campaign by @workshops4gaza.bsky.social in aid of the Sameer Project and the wonderful @refaatlibrary.bsky.social is matching the next $11,000 in donations If you're able to donate or attend, please do! 🍉

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

on a summer break, so I'm late to see this but SO excited to be part of this ToC with my @clarkesworldmagazine.com story "The Lark Ascending" 🤩🤩🥰🥰

PRESS RELEASE Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!! curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social "This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next." thread/ psychopomp.com/announcing-t...

I had a dream in which I saw myself in the mirror but it was actually a zoom call for work and instead of a powerful transformative experience I was panicking because I forgot I was wearing pink pajamas with kittens is this life in your late 30s/after 2020

For People Magazine, I wrote about creativity in Greek Myth retellings, including stories by many actual great Greek authors of today. Behold novels and short stories by @ioannapauthor.bsky.social, @mayadeane.bsky.social, @ecastroianni.bsky.social, @nassos.bsky.social & @thisisguan.bsky.social!

We are now mid-way! Help us hit all the goals and the stretch goals. :D www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

My new "What to Read" column also features fiction by @ecastroianni.bsky.social @avgreenewrites.bsky.social @ravenjake.bsky.social @derrickboden.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social @translunarytree.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social & more.

From the Archives w BCS #429: "Their Eyes the Shape of Orchids" @ecastroianni.bsky.social BCS #362 "I’ve seen those eyes on the faces of Surna girls who come to me to do the dampening and I know they’re carrying unwanted Innachor children inside them." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/thei...

Oooo midwife story in BCS with my own midwife story from the archives! 👀

AAAhHH my story "Zarghána" is shortlisted! And I have so many weird stories to read now, YAY!!

Happy book birthday to my dear friend's bautiful & haunting novel Sour Cherry!!!! 🍒😱 So excited it's finally out in the world 🥰

My No 1 writing craft advice, took me YEARS to figure out, 100% will serve you forever and ever no matter the length, the genre, the level of your experience: Say the same in fewer words. If you think every word is exactly as it should be, it probably isn't.

Just donated--please donate if you're able, or spread the word! @rsagarcia.bsky.social is cool and deserves our support! gofund.me/b99aae3f

Look what came in the mail today 👀👀👀👀💕💕💕💕 *screms into eternity*

Me, reading Post Captain Others: must be very intelletchual, reads serious historical fiction in which ppl talk difficult Me: I'm reading this for the fart jokes & the Monty-Python-level-of-absurdism bear cosplay

Big Echo Interview Pop-Up! Get your red-hot spec fic noodlings here! @vajra.me @nassos.bsky.social @clubded.bsky.social Sofia Samatar! Brendan Byrne! So many words! So many thoughts! www.bigecho.org

The Immigrants - Remedios Varo

This week's guest is Lyndsie Manusos! First up is "She Builds Quick Machines." You can read it in Apex's ROBOTIC AMBITIONS anthology or you can listen at LeVar Burton Reads! @lmanusos.bsky.social

ICYMI! Reading for the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll? Try the short story "Zarghána" by Eleanna Castroianni! (@ecastroianni.bsky.social) You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/zarghana/

I will SQUEAK retroactively about this one, one of the stories I'm proud of because it came together exactly the way I wanted it 😍 Read for some post-environmental collapse Greek folk x cosmic horror. With FISH🧜‍♀️💀

Last time I used CD/DVD: 2020, when I bought a laptop that had no disc drive. Had stopped buying them since 2015. I got a discman in 2004 &it was my TREASURE. Last time I bought a print map: 2011, when I moved to London to flat hunt with a spiral-bound book of detailed maps of every neighbourhood.

One of the best things about having friends who write/make things is that I have a shelf with stuff they've published and it's GROWING and I'M SO PROUD ✨❤️

Today is a good day to work on your art. It is a good day to work on your art even if stuff is happening. Art gets us through stuff happening. It is always a good day to work on your art.

Today I made a spreadsheet with all the different kinds of curses and profanity in my secondary world WIP & had the time of my life

100% did not sleep last night to finish this, now heading to school & then work with 3 gallons of coffee in my veins, I'm a physical and emotional wreck pondering the futility of all existence and it was 100% worth it READ THIS BOOK 👇👇👇👇

I might be on the verge of rewatching Brooklyn 99 for the third time in a 12 month period... ...or I might not be, who knows 🙃

Just realized that my dear @foxesandroses.bsky.social &my dear @nassos.bsky.social and myself, we all had stories in Uncanny in 2024 😭 Hi, hello, reminding you to vote for the stories you liked most! 😄

Saying that AI can "help you come up with ideas" is such a tell. I've literally never known a single creative person who has said "Wow, I wish I had more ideas". Ideas are everywhere. There is not an ideas shortage and never will be. Claiming that's the bottleneck tells me you have zero imagination.

Your reminder that you are not your results; you have the right to be here exactly as you are.

Reading for the Hugo and Nebula Awards? Try the short story "Zarghána" by Eleanna Castroianni! (@ecastroianni.bsky.social) You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/zarghana/

Secret Panel HERE 🐻 tapas.io/episode/2960406

Wait, what, soda cans don't have pull rings anymore? 😱

In light of new anti-trans policies from Meta, divesting trans publishing from centralized Big Tech platforms is more pressing than ever. 💻🏳️‍⚧️ In this article, I’ve laid out what a post-social media trans lit landscape might look like. Trans authors, link your newsletters so peeps can find them! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I've made another round of updates to my eligibility and recommendations link round up. I aim to keep the post updated through the Nebula and Hugo nomination periods, so please do continue to send your links my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

regarding Meta’s stance towards content moderation we should probably start thinking of Meta as essentially a gun manufacturer; they will continue to make and sell weapons of war to bad actors and deny all liability to the results

I don't think I've read another short story to give me goosebumps, not before this one! Thank you @chubertwrites.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

I just read "This Wooden Heart," and I thought it was incredible. I loved how the story depicts the choices that people make to survive during war and genocide, and the way that those choices reverberate through history.

Kids these days do these roundups with fancy canva graphics - here's my roundup, instagrammified! As I try to catch up with my 2024 reading, I'm looking forward to another year of great stories by all of you. Keep it up folks. Don't give up on the important work of telling stories that matter.

Wow, what a superlative. Thank you, Matt. After seeing this roundup, I'm going to check out "Ecdysis," because Morató's other piece in @innerworlds.bsky.social was so good, and also @ecastroianni.bsky.social's "This Wooden Heart." Thank you for hosting these stories and sharing them with the world!