I understand the desire to run solicitation-based magazines. Submissions are exhausting, a core burnout driver. But without subs-based mags, there’d be no one new to solicit 👀✨ The work doesn’t go away—it is redirected to other editors in the ecosystem, who are critical to finding new writers.

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed! "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

This should not be limited to English. We've reached out to people who can help with lists of Palestinian lit in Turkish, Indonesian, Malayalam, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German. If you can help with these or other languages, please message. arablit.org/2025/09/08/l...

If you needed some beauty today

A Rush to Save Ancient Artifacts in Gaza Highlights All That Has Been Lost A bombing delay enabled rescue of some objects, but archaeologists fear the wider loss of antiquities from the many cultures living there over thousands of years. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...

Delighted to see my Aurora-finalist trans Bildungsroman fairytale, “And When She Shatters” included in this years Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, edited by @ourmankoto.bsky.social 🚀🧝 ✨ & this little @heartlines-spec.com tale gets to appear alongside many friends & Augur creators !!

It's here. BAD LANGUAGE 13/11/25 "made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social "Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social "incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

Very grateful I could make this happen! I’m looking forward to our future collaborations @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social Jan’s such an example of incredible intelligence, talent, compassion, and generosity

It's A BONE-Y ANNIVERSARY for @lmanusos.bsky.social and From These Dark Abodes! we've got some FREE activity and COLORING PAGES 🎨 we've got an ebook SALE 📚 and we've got a reason to frolick! 💃 💀 check out all the fun here: psychopomp.com/a-bone-y-ann...

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

The Fitzcarraldo Editions Spring catalogue just dropped 👀💙🤍🌿 UK edition of ‘plastic’ due January 29, 2026 🫶

EVERYONE STOP cheese wheel of cheeses

Pretty apt

If you needed some beauty today

Can anyone tell me what this Age Assurance thing is? I can’t read my DMs without it apparently

🏺📜 Being an archaeologist with access to a 3D printer means being able to create replicas of some of your favourite artefacts thanks to museums providing 3D models online - this one is a statue of the Sumerian ruler Gudea, which I would often visit at the Met in NYC.

British Science Festival talk went well. Clearly people like archaeology. Not an empty seat in the house!

Pretty apt

I've noticed Graham Hancock upping the "archaeologists are mean to me and are censoring anything that challenges their orthodoxy" / "here are my supporters disparaging archaeologists for me" talk, so I wouldn't be surprised if an announcement for season 3 of ancient apocalypse is coming 🤔

Just checking my itinerary for tomorrow.

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

So delighted to have made it on to the long list The Four Faced Liar is a fabulous journal, & I feel so honoured to have made it to this stage

🏺 For #EAA members (past and present!) still looking to sign the call for an emergency meeting following the events of #EAA2025 - here’s the new link. ⬇️

📣 EAA Members 📣 If you haven't signed yet or have been trying to sign today, the original Google form was removed (all data saved, thankfully!) 🍉✊🏼🍉 Here is the NEW LINK: saco.csic.es/apps/forms/s...

📣 Calling all archaeologists! 📣 ***This call requires 10% of EAA members to sign*** 🍉🍉🍉 EAA members: sign and share widely (you'll need your membership number) ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 Not an EAA member? Please share widely around your networks! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My friend & co-curator of our digital repatriation just sent me this lovely photo from last year of us laying out the photos from the Musée du Quai Branly & American Philosophical Society in prep for our exhibition. Such joy!

My friend & co-curator of our digital repatriation just sent me this lovely photo from last year of us laying out the photos from the Musée du Quai Branly & American Philosophical Society in prep for our exhibition. Such joy!

Below the red-figure decoration on the neck of the drinking cup, the main body of the vessel is in the shape of an owl! 🦉 Museum record: collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

New friend

ICYMI, I have a new story out in Lightspeed Magazine about lovers aboard a doomed science vessel!! It's short but loaded with joy and grief and lavish descriptions of alien and not-so-alien food. Check it out: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last...

Going out on a limb - does anyone here have the contacts of an editor at The Guardian? (And is happy to share?) Archaeology & ethics related! Thank you 🙏

Golden hour

Lough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date. While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens. My story in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Me, writing my book proposal today: WOW such drama! And much weird. But most importantly, HOW is Erich Von Däniken still alive?

You can sign this if you have an #EAA ID, whether you are a currently active member or not.

Well said @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social! 'When I left India, Ireland welcomed me in. I won’t let bigotry destroy the country we love.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Love the doors of Oaxaca

Love the doors of Oaxaca

writer's residency but it is just in your own house and someone can watch the kids for a bit

Going out on a limb - does anyone here have the contacts of an editor at The Guardian? (And is happy to share?) Archaeology & ethics related! Thank you 🙏

Thousands of people came out in Dublin yesterday for our demonstration to show the government we have not gone away and we demand an end to Ireland’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and immediate sanctions on the apartheid state. #SanctionsNow #FreePalestine Video RTÉ News

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