The Eaton Symposium returns! Join us on 01/08/26 for this free online event on speculative fiction and scholarship, feat. a keynote from author Ken Liu, and panels with incredible editors such as Sheree Renée Thomas, John Joseph Adams, and many others! Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

Oh hi. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Story sale! I’m delighted that my interdimensional romance, ‘Love Story in Colored Glass,’ will be published in @unchartedmag.bsky.social!!

oh look the best graduate conference is back 👀

CYPRIOT QUEER YA?! Agents, get on this!!

Finally got my website in order! Links to my work, bios, photos, and other good stuff can be found at www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com 🤓

Story acceptance! I’m delighted to say that my short story, ‘Dispersal,’ will appear in @hexliterary.bsky.social next year! It’s about the end of a relationship… and the start of something stranger.

Attention, sophonts! We've finished changing the locks and Escape Pod is now OPEN to all your amazing, amazing submissions! Consult our submissions page if you want to refresh your minds on what we're looking for - ignore that "CLOSED" bit at the top - and we hope to see rad work from you all!

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

What's this? A wild @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social program has appeared! Lots of things still in flux, a few things still in need of panelists or moderators. But it's shaping up to be a fabulous three day weekend! flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/

hello!!!! would you love to come to this all-virtual convention that runs all timezones?! i know i'm going!! i'll be doing a Chit-and-Chat for anyone who's ever had a burning question like: "Jordan why?"

I’ll end this with something I’ve said before. Art has value. It’s an essential service. What we do, is one of the most important jobs on this fucking planet. Do not undervalue it or yourself. Ever. Fight for it. Trust me, you will never regret that. 5/5

Question for the writing community: is #ownvoices still a thing? Does it hold any weight with agents and editors?

P.A. Cornell did a service to our whole community in going public with her experience with the MRM contract. I love these magazines & their editorial teams & I hope that the new publishers get their act together before the damage is permanent. Contracts should protect the interests of both parties.

Apparently I missed the Discourse r.e. sci fi being a dead genre, so posting this for all my fellow aspiring sf authors 🥲

Would you care for a queer cyberpunk short story in these trying times? Because hi yes "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" is out for free now at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨ This story means a lot to me and I'm glad it found such an amazing home 😭💜 🌆 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a... 🌆

Here’s the thing. I’m not pointing fingers at individuals. All I ask for is consistency. If one Masthead is being carefully listed for the category of Best Semiprozine, then read them all. If there is a word or a time limit, let us know! We will happily adhere to the rules you’ve set!

There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.

Join me over at Reactor where I talk about misgendering, masking, and freedom through the lens of Murderbot. reactormag.com/the-martha-w...

Announcements on announcements this week! Calling all ARTISTS: We're searching for next year's cover art contributors! Check out the sub page for details and how to submit your portfolio: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/ Share with a Black creator who the world needs to know about 🔥🔥🔥

See you this afternoon, Seattle! I’ll be at World Con with my curator hat on for the next few days, and will be very happy to chat with writers and artists about preserving and finding a home for their papers (whether at the Eaton Collection or another repository!) Also: barcon with pals!!

Assigned Media tracked down every single queer author who withdrew from the Polari Prize after they longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF, and linked to all their books. These authors showed solidarity and our story is blowing up with traffic from people who want to support them in return.

if you wanted a baseline against which to recalibrate just how niche your sense of the genre might be: this is a pretty good example of currently popular, mainstream fantasy. NYT bestseller, Goodreads Choice award nominee, 30k+ Amazon reviews at a rating of 4.4, touring to packed rooms of fans &c.

First ever Comic Con: check! I had a blast on this panel with @noethematt.bsky.social, Daryl Maxwell, Lauren Salerno, Misty Jones, and our wonderful moderator Eric Guignard, sharing what libraries can do for creators and their materials #sdcc

if you read books about writing, you owe it to yourself to read this book about writing

*orders for the Eaton Collection*

📣 Submissions are OPEN July 1 - 31 📣 We invite immigrant and diaspora authors to submit their stories & share their unique perspective through speculative fiction✨ www.khoreomag.com/submissions-... #SubmissionCall #SFF #writing #ScienceFiction

Our ✨July 2025 issue✨ is ready at last! Subscribers will get it first thing tomorrow morning, and everyone else can read it next Wednesday! Why not subscribe and be the first to take a gander at all these great stories and poems? Subscribe through Patreon: www.patreon.com/HavenSpecMag...

Here is your SUDDEN REMINDER that if your library allows you a certain amount of purchase requests each month, you need to use them now before they go away forever!! Other people will be delighted too! Truly! I speak from experience here. Threading some lists for ideas -

Join us as we announce the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award 🚀 Public tickets to the award presentation now available 👇

Oh my God!? We've been added to the Library of Congress. A literary magazine that I make for fun in my basement as my midlife crisis has been added to the historical record, called the uh, ahem, Taco Bell Quarterly. We are the most prestigious literary magazine of all time.

For all those waiting for a reply from AFTERLIVES 2024: The Year's Best Death Fiction, @shereereneethomas.bsky.social has her final TOC, and emails will be going OUT this week, so please stay tuned! 💖💀💖 @psychopomp.com

Really glad to see ‘Malo Malo Malo Malo’ get some love in Paula Guran’s column in @locusmag.bsky.social! It’s an extraordinary story. locusmag.com/2025/06/the-...

"Wildfire destroyed a historically Black town. These artists won’t let its legacy disappear As Altadena prepares to rebuild after the devastation of the LA fires, an exhibition centers its creative history" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

*blows dust off account* ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/

Ahem I have returned. And with news, no less.

The contract is signed, so I can finally share that I sold a story to @khoreo.bsky.social!! ‘Letters from Light’s End’ follows a gay astronaut trying to escape the accretion disk of a black hole to return to his husband and children. Coming March 2026!!

ACK! Vaguepost, vaguepost! *delighted shrieking*

Really happy that ‘Slickerthin,’ published last year in F&SF, gets a mention in the ‘Notable Stories’ section of Best American SFF 2025! Thanks so much to the editors @johnjosephadams.com and @nnedi.bsky.social, and congrats to the all the other authors here! 🥳

ICYMI here's the video of Flash Science Fiction Night with featured readers @jennahanchey.bsky.social @thesuiway.bsky.social and @dracopoullos.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=pqxh...

Exciting announcement! Judith Clute's iconic artwork for The Female Man by Joanna Russ, will be on the cover of Farah Mendlesohn's forthcoming Considering The Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the Bear Swore. Out in 2026, but you can pre-order it already in our store. @effjayem.bsky.social

My novel, The Subtle Art of Folding Space, has a cover! Read about repairing physics, unreasonable parental expectations, and great Taiwanese food! Out on April 7, 2026. Pre-order now: t.co/0nz8JuNhwf Art credits: Jacket art by Weston Wei, Jacket Design by Katie Klimowicz.

2025 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Announced Congratulations to all these wonderful creators! locusmag.com/2025/05...

THIS IS TONIGHT!!! come hang out with @dracopoullos.bsky.social, @jennahanchey.bsky.social, and i for some flash readings!! 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/flash-scie...

Tomorrow!!

Flash Science Fiction Nights are back for season 5! Coming up on 4/29 with featured readers @jennahanchey.bsky.social @thesuiway.bsky.social @dracopoullos.bsky.social Register for free at www.eventbrite.com/e/flash-scie...

I miss the days when there were topics other than politics on Bluesky. And I mean, I get it; this is a shitshow that overshadows literally everything, especially in my areas of interest. But also I'm tired.