Been sick for 4 days so fantasizing about this beautiful espresso tonic from last week

January 6 marks Nollaig na mBan - traditionally a moment of pause at the end of the Christmas season. As we usher in another period of creativity and publication in 2026, we would like to take a moment to acknowledge the often unseen work that sustains the industry: care, attention, and patience.

He’s not called Well-Behaved Bunny for a reason ?!? Also, that stuff has been looted! See @morganvl.bsky.social recent “Looting Made Legal” in Current #Anthropology! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #BadBunny 🐰

DREAM LITMAG REALIZED! This is the VERY exciting acceptance I got in November, I've been sending my work in to @fracturedlit.bsky.social for FIVE YEARS! This piece starts, "You are a billionaire’s new, about-to-turn-19 wife..." fracturedlit.com/the-billiona... #FlashFiction #FlashLit

Kick off your writing year by checking out the competitions, residencies & more now live on our Opportunities page! ✨ irishwriterscentre.ie/opportunities/

#Caturday 🐈‍⬛ An expensive alpaca blanket suits us just fine. 😸 We are Siamese, if you please. @dmcwriter.bsky.social @trishcwilson.bsky.social @morganvl.bsky.social @tatiana1979.bsky.social @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social @tomr-bsky.bsky.social

Metropolis (1927) is set in 2026.

“To be free, after all, is not to be undisciplined.” —“Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?” This edition of The Language of the Night was published in 2024 by Scribner.

My book comes out in two weeks 🥺

Happy New Year to my Bluesky friends! A couple mornings ago I was fortunate enough to find myself atop of Smith Rock State Park near Bend, Oregon. I arrived to a dense fog inversion and climbed above the fog just in time for sunrise!

I realise that this is, undoubtedly, the worst time of the year to hold a launch. Everybody I know is away on holidays, for example. Hoping to hold an in person launch when @poetryireland.bsky.social reopens its doors later in the year.

OTHERSIDE has been open for 20 minutes and we’re already reading submissions! Thank you to everyone who decided to ring in the new year by sending us your work—we can’t wait to read it all! othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Officially book publication day so am back, however briefly - a family member is very unwell at the moment and I am naturally very distraught, it feels wrong to celebrate anything. but just wanted to thank all the people who have supported me since I started, who have bought the book etc…

I’m a little late on this one, but wow was @kcmeadbrewer.com’s My Pretties, over in @barrelhouse.bsky.social a wild ride! If Wizard of Oz was a heartbreaking ghost story… …that cake server scene. …the seance. Don’t miss this one :) www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/m...

Today I had the pleasure of visiting the workshop of my friend, Andreas Méndez, a Zapotec artist from Mitla, Oaxaca. His art combines pop culture aesthetics with Zapotec gods & ancestors to comment on themes of colonialism, trauma, life, & passage. If you’re ever in Oaxaca, do please visit him!

We are absolutely delighted to share that the SFPA's Lifetime Service Award goes to David C. Kopaska-Merkel, which SFPA president @bugthewriter.bsky.social announced today. We will host an online ceremony for the 2026 poetry award winners and David's Lifetime Service Award. Stay tuned for details!

I said that archaeologists don’t study dinosaur fossils, which angered a British man who proceeded to question my PhD but, most importantly, called me a popular Tesco dessert: a Kipling Cake

Today we highlight single mom Mai & three kids, including a newborn. You've helped them with shelter, surgery, and more. But now they're getting thrown out of their rented place, so we need to help with new rent + winter supplies! Give/find her link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

What’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?

Gary Lightbody (of Snow Patrol) ran into me and knocked me over at Crawfordsburn Beach

What @therisingtithes.bsky.social says here is so true. For 2026, I want to try to share more joy. Here’s a poem by Abdellatif Laâbi I read this week that I love. If anyone wants to share favourite poems or stories they’ve read with me, please please do!!

I really appreciate @therisingtithes.bsky.social's post because what he's suggesting is important now more than ever; also thinking of all the evidence in documentaries etc. of these networks designed to foment rage, to keep sowing fear & division. I want to share more joy in the new year!

A reminder for 2026: in a time where internet algorithms are being trained on anger, & politicians & media outlets are learning how to capitalise on fear & hatred, the most radical thing you can do in public is SHARE MOMENTS OF JOY. Share what you love as much as possible. Let gratitude be fire.

Chiquita Orcita is my FAVOURITE chihuahua in the whole world. She has a beautiful underbite & guards the passage between Oaxaca’s urban heart and the more serene streets.

Chiquita Orcita is my FAVOURITE chihuahua in the whole world. She has a beautiful underbite & guards the passage between Oaxaca’s urban heart and the more serene streets.

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

After winning the @ursulakleguin.com Prize for Fiction 2025, @vajra.me talked to @cxorlando.bsky.social @reactorsff.bsky.social to discuss RAKESFALL, a sprawling narrative about reincarnation, revolution, and recollection, as well as his approach to writing the fantastic!

My 2026 writing goal is to finally finish this novel in the first half and then write weird shit for the second half. What's your writing goal?

I have a job, but we're still in a pretty deep hole looking at 2026 and it's really stressing me out. This is a terrible time of year but if you've got a spare few bucks could you help us keep our house please? #UglyDogs #MutualAid gofund.me/918ca5805 paypal.me/writerbecc

When Jami gave me a heads-up on Christmas Eve I thought this was a scam. Super thankful for this first review (and for this not being a scam)!

The last review of 2025 at @strangehorizons.bsky.social is a little treat: both a call-back to our week's worth of reviews earlier in the year on small presses affected by NEA defunding *and* a rare piece on non-speculative work which should still interest our readers. On Ada Limón. Happy holidays.

Spent my evening on a terrace in Oaxaca with old friends talking about consulting los hongos, magic, duendes, & being named after a Welsh sorceress. The conclusion: I’m charged with visiting Wales, but that’s ok - it can be a 2026 goal.

Wonder what Archaeologists and Antiquity Scholars did (or not) about Palestine in 2025? Here's a 80-item timeline! everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a...

Art lives in the process, in the struggle to grow and figure out the specific needs of the work, and in the arrival at a better understanding of the artist’s limitations. The product is just the end result of the art.

Merry holidays from my other child, Mew Reed

Merry holidays from my other child, Mew Reed

my pagan ass celebrating Christmas anyway

Anyway, really embracing middle-ish age / my destiny this holiday season with a T-shirt featuring a photo of my son, Meowzilla (gift from my mother who now calls him her only grandchild)

Traditional, awkward Christmas conversation: my grandmother declaring that she “didn’t recognize your [my] brother because he’s grown his hair long and looks like a hippie.”

Enjoyed my second Noche de Los Rábanos in Oaxaca (every 23rd Dec radishes are carved into whimsical scenes from Mexican history and folklore). Was gifted this gran rábano 🫜 by one of the carvers last year (& she remembered me!)

Enjoyed my second Noche de Los Rábanos in Oaxaca (every 23rd Dec radishes are carved into whimsical scenes from Mexican history and folklore). Was gifted this gran rábano 🫜 by one of the carvers last year (& she remembered me!)

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

This! Kerry put this so well & I’m grateful I saw it now (especially when I’m in a difficult place w my own work rn)

Just a reminder for Xmas Eve eve, it’s a great time find your closest immigrant-owned business and support them. Get a meal tonight from a restaurant if you can. Commit to buying grocery staples at an immigrant-owned market once a week. Do what you can to help people keep their heads above water.

How my mother describes my father via text

🎅 🗽 Santaland Is Still Enchanting Believers Since 1862 at R.H. Macy & Co. 🎁 But Saint Nick Never Delivered the Gift I Wanted Most. @swsworlds.bsky.social @sfpoetry.bsky.social @ceciliacopeland.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @morganvl.bsky.social @alpbeck.com substack.com/@greenwichvi...

I wrote about toxic fandoms, parasocial relationships, and how the corners of the internet who are putting undue pressure on "Heated Rivalry" show's two leads re: their personal lives need to STOP, and to consider the harm this does to those targeted: roslineva.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/h...

One of the things that gets me about this whole "replace people in publishing with AI" thing is that people in publishing (translators / editors / copy editors / authors / etc) are among the worst fucking paid people out there.