🚨🚨🚨 Attention science communicators! 🚨🚨🚨 The 2026 Science IRL mini-grant application is NOW OPEN! Submit your creative ideas for connecting people with actionable science information *offline*. The deadline for this round of grants is March 23, 2026. Apply here! forms.gle/4emvpRPddmEt...

Miss Business wants to know which button fast-forwards her to dinnertime thank you

Nebula Award Winner @awprihandita.bsky.social on her Your Personal Odyssey experience! Applications are open for YPO 2026, the one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs! Scholarships available!! www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

@rfkuang.bsky.social on her Odyssey experience! Applications are open for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop 2026, the one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs! Scholarships available!! odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-workshop/

The next ZNB #Kickstarter for an #urbanfantasy anth called WERE-2 is edging closer! Focused on were-creatures OTHER than #werewolves, the #Kickstarter will go live on February 27th at Noon Eastern. Click the link below and hit that "Notify me on launch" button! www.kickstarter.com/projects/znb...

@jtewwrites.bsky.social on her YPO experience! Applications are now open for this one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs! Scholarships available! Apply today!! www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

Your Personal Odyssey 2026 Guest Lecturers include @rfkuang.bsky.social , @pdjeliclark.bsky.social , @brandonsanderson.com rson.com, @fondalee.bsky.social ee.bsky.social, @shereereneethomas.bsky.social , @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social & more! Apply today!! www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

@rfkuang.bsky.social on her Odyssey experience! Applications are open for Your Personal Odyssey 2026, the one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs! Choose your pace: 6wks, 12 wks, 18 wks! www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

Nebula & Ignyte Award winner @aijiang.bsky.social on her Your Personal Odyssey experience. The one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs is waiting for you. Apply today!! www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

It's that time! Vote in the annual Locus Awards Poll & Survey to determine the winners of the 2026 awards (tickets available now)! You can vote at poll.voting.locusmag... or via the link in our bio!

Jeanne Cavelos will be at @boskone.bsky.social this Saturday, doing panels, a presentation on Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop, and a kaffeeklatsch, if anyone has questions or wants to talk. Come on up and say hi!

Nebula Award Winner @awprihandita.bsky.social on her YPO experience! Applications are open for this one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs is waiting for you. Early Action Deadline: Feb. 20! www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

Apply today to Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop 2026! Choose your pace: 6wks, 12wks, or 18 wks! The one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs is waiting for you! Scholarships available!! www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

Nebula & Ignyte Award winner @aijiang.bsky.social l on her YPO experience. Applications are now open for Your Personal Odyssey, the one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that's helped writers make major breakthroughs! App deadline Apr 10th! www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

New on the @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social blog: excerpts from a Q&A with author & Your Personal Odyssey guest lecturer @henrylienauthor.bsky.social, who talks about nonlinear storytelling & the relationship between unreliable narrators and linearity odysseyworkshop.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/q...

Applications are now open for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop 2026! Choose your pace: 6wk, 12wk, or 18 wk! The one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs is waiting for you! App deadline Apr 10 www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

I wanna be one of those bushes for Halloween.

All of these ai commercials are so desperate. It’ll be like your digital servant wife! If someone doesn’t like ai, they’re paranoid! Please use ai for everything because no one likes it and the money’s running out.

Day 38! I read Remember, You Are Expendable by @akatherineblack.bsky.social published in @chmmagazine.bsky.social. There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns and I don't know which are scarier. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/s...

13 MUST-READ INDIGENOUS HORROR BOOKS THAT WILL HAUNT YOU LONG AFTER THE LAST PAGE redpopnews.com/13-must-read...

Applications are now open for YPO 2026! Choose your pace:, 6 wks, 12wks, or 18wks! Guest lecturers include @rfkuang.bsky.social, @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, @brandonsanderson.com, @fondalee.bsky.social, @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social & more! Early Action deadline Feb 20!

Award-winning author @jtewwrites.bsky.social on her YPO experience! Applications are now open for the one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs! App deadline Apr. 10, Early Action deadline Feb. 20! www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

The workshop that changed my life. Huge recommendation if you can afford it!

In a time of book bannings, AI, and decreased library funding, the best thing you can do to support books is be very, very loud about them. @mollytempleton.com on how we can help the authors we love:

Me: Sometimes you just have to doomscroll, ya know? My cat:

Nebula Award Winner @awprihandita.bsky.social on her Your Personal Odyssey experience! The one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs is waiting for you! Early Action Deadline: Feb. 20! www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

Applications are open for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop 2026! The one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs is waiting for you! Choose your pace: 6wk, 12wk, or 18 wk App deadline Apr. 10 www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

Nebula & Ignyte Award winner @aijiang.bsky.social on her YPO experience! Applications are now open, Early Action Deadline Feb 20! The one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs is waiting for you! www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

I've said this before but I'll say it again, I suggest not submitting to publications that state "By submitting you agree to grant us publication rights". Probably not legally binding but best not to submit anyway. Biggest reason is they could just not even reply and claim to have pub rights

Applications are now open for Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop 2026! The one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs is waiting for you! Choose your pace: 6wk, 12wk, or 18 wk App deadline Apr. 10 www.odysseyworkshop.org/about-the-wo...

If you're reading over coffee this Saturday, this novelette is temporarily available online again for the next month or so. Thanks if you check it out. undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - DECEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @rj-sterling.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @jamesbennett.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/149417...

2025 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot locusmag.com/2026/01...

BCS #450 ebook--double-issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 8!--out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers; stories @nassos.bsky.social @rhiannonheld.bsky.social @ewenmaer.bsky.social @eskaftun.bsky.social weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJN1JQWD

Greg Ketter of DreamHaven and Victoria Ford of Comma received an outpouring of support on social media for their responses to ICE’s occupation, with both their bookstores seeing large increases in online orders from all over the U.S. buff.ly/3APkwGe

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Bookshop.org is SIX today. 🥳 In these six years, we’ve raised over $44 MILLION for local bookstores—and we have all of YOU to thank for that. Thank you for loving and supporting indie bookstores as much as we do.

hi friends, i've put together a short collection of SFF stories and set it free—i hope it can give you some encouragement, a smile, or even just a pause in the doomscrolling. art is resistance. <3 🐺 📚 ko-fi.com/s/f0da603a0d <— support/PWYW (free!) tiny.cc/2q7y001 <— direct download

Pre-ordering a book is like giving a lil present to your future self. And this one's a real treat, I promise. 🫖🍪😽

Mood in minneapolis right now

For me, I've found donating to organizations and mutual aid groups or to people who just need some extra money to get by is a real sanity-saver in these times of feeling helpless but full of rage.

Thread: John has been having a bunch of health issues and now has rib fractures that will require time and rest Please consider chipping in Also buying all his books because they're fabulous and he's such a kind and amazing person

"Odyssey Online gave me what I needed in spades..." There's still time to apply for an Odyssey Online Class! Highly praised author/instructors will provide invaluable feedback on your work and techniques that will take your writing to the next level! App deadline 11:59pm EST tonight!

Applications close at 11:59pm EST tonight! We have 3 classes to choose from, including All the World's a Page: Adapting Acting Techniques to Strengthen Your Fiction. Build new skills and bring your stories closer to what you want them to be! Apply now!! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli...

App deadline is tomorrow, 1/18! Apply today!!!

Please boost! Application deadline is tomorrow, 1/18! Build new skills and make your writing more memorable in 2026 with an Odyssey Online Class! Apply today!! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli...

3 days to apply for an Odyssey Online Winter Class! Make your writing stronger and more memorable in 2026! App deadline 1/18/26. Apply today!! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli...

4 days to apply for an Odyssey Online Winter Class! We have three classes to choose from, including All the World's a Page: Adapting Acting Techniques to Strengthen Your Fiction! Build new skills and bring your stories closer to what you want them to be! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli...

Blue buttons jellies float at the oceans surface, like little animal flowers, living between sea and sky. There are millions of them out there right now, and most will live their whole lives without even being seen by a human. Despite the hard things, the world is still wondrous.