The point is to evacuate language totally of its ability to hold meaning & thus to eviscerate our ability to make meaning together. It's not supposed to convince you but to silence us AND stop us listening to each other. In BAD LANGUAGE I call this anti-semism, an enmity to meaning-making.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

I just did this. You can too.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bookstore... It is! Because sharks rarely hurt humans and are unfairly treated like monsters rather than the beautiful animals they are! Plus most sharks do not go in bookstores. Also Blahaj here has incredible taste in literature.

The murderous plot stage of life does usually come after marriage

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#Egypt: We condemn the arrest and brief detention of poet and activist Ahmed Douma for his online expression. The Egyptian authorities must stop using the justice system to silence critics and end their assault on freedom of expression. Read our full statement and calls ⬇️

Exciting, satisfying book haul: Mexican SFF writer, Gabriela Damián Miravete’s latest novel + Elisa Díaz Castelo’s poetry collection, “Planetas habitables” 💙 💜

Reading Awards Longlists to Gratifyingly Find 'Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism' in an Age of Fascism (Heartfelt thanks to anyone nominating and/or voting and/or just reading the essay. The fascists will lose.)

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

Brilliant news!😊 apple.news/AMt_g7dMuTde...

Chip is the best

"Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll die soon."--Samuel Delany, Gentleman and Polymath

Congratulations to our authors and artists on their @bsfa.bsky.social longlist 2026! @jennicoutts.bsky.social @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @madeehahwrites.bsky.social @deborahldavitt.com Ivano Sassanelli, Jay Johnstone, Payton McCarty-Simas! @publishingscotland.bsky.social 🤩 And to all the nominees!

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family. gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

For CBC Arts, I wrote about why I think Canada needs to revel in the beauty of its weirdest impulses www.cbc.ca/arts/canadia...

Big five publishers, I’d be happy to be the EiC of a weird fiction imprint for you. I can even write a press release about it that people will understand! The works themselves, though, no one will understand. We’ll lose so much money putting so many cult classics out into the world. Think about it!

Exciting, satisfying book haul: Mexican SFF writer, Gabriela Damián Miravete’s latest novel + Elisa Díaz Castelo’s poetry collection, “Planetas habitables” 💙 💜

Now that I have an Itch shop, I decided to make a little downloadable edition of my Weird Western novelette, “Her Wine Red Star.” It was published in Prismatica back in 2020, but has been out of print for a while. dinoholler.itch.io/her-wine-red...

"Cholera could stop spreading if people stop drinking from this dirty river," warns man who shat in the river

Velociraptors with day jobs. High school field trips to the Jurassic. Becoming a fossil in a far future museum. My debut poetry collection Time Travel Is Easy is available pay-what-you-want on Itch! dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...

Join SmokeLong for a reading and interview with Patricia Q. Bidar to celebrate the publication of Pardon Me for Moonwalking. January 31, 9pm NYC. DM us for an invitation!

Olde North, a breakfast place in an unassuming farm house on the side of a highway connecting northern Illinois & Wisconsin. They served the best blueberry pancakes, biscuits & gravy, & country fried steak. Chickens roamed behind the restaurant & there was a windmill. Midwest gothic perfection!

Forgive me if it seems too harsh to say but Canada isn’t just “backup plan USA”, it’s also a complex society with a multitude of problems and injustices. Two Mi’kmaq men were killed by the RCMP in the past week in two different incidents because it’s ALSO a violent colonial society.

Olde North, a breakfast place in an unassuming farm house on the side of a highway connecting northern Illinois & Wisconsin. They served the best blueberry pancakes, biscuits & gravy, & country fried steak. Chickens roamed behind the restaurant & there was a windmill. Midwest gothic perfection!

This is the second (of two!) issue of the Deadlands for which I was guest editor for fiction! Stories by Alan Fisher, Marischa Pichette, Dmitri Akers, Jeremy Morris, Joe Koch, Aliya Whiteley, and Sadoeuphemist, and with another lovely, stark cover from @carlydraws.bsky.social

It’s me, it’s all of us

My third collection, Landscape with Question, will be published in June 2026 with @carcanet.bsky.social. It started out as a biography in verse of Nano Reid, then became something else entirely. 🌔🌊🏙️🌱 www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...

It’s me, it’s all of us

Are there any lovely indie presses (preferably Canadian!) that might be interested in a collection of weird, magic realist poems? Feat. ruins, ghosts, gods, & critiques of Western science Any recommendations?

Rewatched Zorro to discover that some things never change

I've been threatening for a while to start a column on collections of weird fiction, and so: Profane Illuminations, a quarterly series where I'll look at a few in tandem and see what threads I can draw out about their stories and the genre at large. Quick intro here, first full entry next week.

Looking forward to getting started! ❤️🤍

Honored that my piece “Ghost in the Shell” about my teenage queer ghost self was selected for this anthology ❤️ it’s for all the ghost girls.

Date butter on fried potatoes + sumac chicken & salad = perfection

Date butter on fried potatoes + sumac chicken & salad = perfection

Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.

Rewatched Zorro to discover that some things never change

We've got a new issue coming out very soon and you can get a sneak peak at the sick cover art by Ana Luna.

5 years ago now, one of my favourite vistas

I will be one of the speakers/mentors at the Indian Ocean Writers’ Residency in Bentota, Sri Lanka from July 9‒15 2026. Applications close at the end of January—please do apply if you're interested, and share with anyone else who might be! vajra.me/2026/01/16/i...

Otobong Nkanga’s first retrospective in Paris finds her making connections between humans and the material world in unsettling and inventive ways, writes Yosola Olorunshola

A very short awards eligibility post: This year, I edited an anthology of Black Canadian SFF, "As The Earth Dreams." I'm honored to champion these writers! Also, all of the stories in the collection are so amazing and diverse! Please consider them for awards, too! houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

The creator of Derry Girls doing a comedy series about a bunch of middle aged Irish women trying to solve their childhood friend's murder??? IN ALL IN youtu.be/6flC0y-2iFw?...

Inspired to now open a West coast vegan butcher called “Meatless in Seattle”

5 years ago now, one of my favourite vistas

the novella is out of the bag!!! super excited to continue working with @augursociety.bsky.social, but now in ✨longform✨! check out the novella that nearly broke my brain. yes, you heard it here first— it's in second person! it's about hiking! and yes, it will make you cry!

Happy pub day Chloe!! @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social book can’t be missed!

Inspired to now open a West coast vegan butcher called “Meatless in Seattle”