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#Booksky Insider tip: I just happen to know that @willalex.bsky.social, author of many great words, including 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize finalist, SUNWARD, will be reading and signing his books at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis on 7/15 at 7PM. 🎉🎉🎉

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The shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction has been announced! Congratulations to everyone!!!

Claire North, author of SLOW GODS, is not on this app and her publisher barely is, so here’s a separate post for her—congratulations, Claire!

Beside myself to see my book in this company. Thank you so much to everyone who nominated it. Thank you @coffeehousepress.bsky.social

I’m really honored and humbled to see Call and Response in such august company. My little book means so much to me, and I’ve felt so gratified to find it resonated with others. I am so very grateful to be nominated.

Honored to say The Works of Vermin is a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Congrats to everyone on the list!

I could not be prouder to be nominated for the Le Guin. To be acknowledged as part of her tradition is an honor.

MAD SISTERS OF ESI has been shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize!! I adore this prize; their nominations have been incredible year on year. It’s so cool to be on one of these lists.* Congratulations to all the nominees! (LOOK AT THAT LIST)

NOTES! FROM! A REGICIDE! Also other books

It’s been almost ten years since I first met Bora Chung, and each of the books I’ve translated for her has been nominated for a prize! I am so grateful to Bora for entrusting me with her work all these years and also to the judges of the Ursula K Le Guin Prize for letting us go out on a high 💜✨

Holy shit the @ursulakleguin.com prize shortlist is WONDERFUL, so delighted to see @willalex.bsky.social & @seraph76.bsky.social & @premeemohamed.com & @isaac-fellman.bsky.social in each other’s fine company! Short story collections! A novel in translation! What a wonderful mix!

What a list--including personal fave @willalex.bsky.social! Congrats, all.

But I mean yeah in all seriousness, a second shortlist spot (!!!!) in this incredible company for what I consider to be my PERSONAL most meaningful award in SFF is... is very something! Thank you so so much to @psychopomp.com @ecatherine.com @mkcurry.bsky.social @seanmarkey.bsky.social !

2026 Le Guin Prize for Fiction Shortlist locusmag.com/2026/06...

Thrilled to see @willalex.bsky.social's Sunward, one of my favourite books of last year, on the shortlist for the Ursula Le Guin Prize www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26 along with some other great books!

Congratulations to everyone and especially to @willalex.bsky.social !!

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

This is one of my favorites. It was also fun to learn that @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social read her first Ursula story at the age of eleven. Ditto. Ursula called it a "hinge-age," a transformative threshold. It's also a prime number, which is neat.

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Congratulations finalists! Public voting is now open thru August 16: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/ We encourage you to read or otherwise engage with the nominated works/folks between now and then. Thanks for tuning in!

A prideful father’s day to every dad of a trans kid who didn’t react by becoming a mass murderer.

Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool

“As a writer…you are the freest person that ever was.” Don’t let genAI ever take away this freedom.

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THE WIZARD, THE WITCH & THE WILD ONE Kickstarter is now live! Me, @sarahwebb.bsky.social & @sara.pizza made a wonderful graphic novel out of @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social, @aabria.bsky.social, @erikaishii.bsky.social & @louwilson.bsky.social's delightful podcast! Go get it! tinyurl.com/3uuw7a5s

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Jane Yolen was a dear friend and mentor. We geeked out about folklore and masks on lapels. We shared play readings of Twelfth Night and Arcadia. Here she is grinning while holding my kid.

As part of the fight against the national book bans, we've made candidate scorecards for the original sponsors of HR 7661. If any of these Representatives are running in a race in your district/state, you can use these cards to help inform your community. This is gonna be a big old thread...

I am just unspeakably sad that we have lost Jane Yolen. She was a great writer. And she was a great person too.

Truly devastated to learn of Jane Yolen's passing. Her work with folk & fairy tales was so formative to me as a kid & so important to me as an adult. She was so vividly generous & extraordinarily kind.

"I believe in story. It helps us make sense of the world in all its messiness, glories, mismatches, and marvels." - Jane Yolen, 1939-2026

Incredibly, three weeks today EVERYBODY'S PERFECT (my first new novel since 2020) will be released! Gorgeous cover by Caroline Jamhour

Hello hello and welcome to the shortlist announcement thread for the #2026IgnyteAwards, recognizing outstanding contributions to SFFH and its community in 2025! We are grateful to be supported this year by sponsors @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, & @laworldcon.bsky.social

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Starting the day with a speech from @nkjemisin.bsky.social is even better than coffee.

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

“Died of sadness,” according to family. An immeasurable loss.

Genuinely one of the most influential graphic novelists of all time and her passing is so heartbreaking. Please read Persepolis if you haven’t, it’s a poignant story of resistance that deserves all the love

Heyyyy @willalex.bsky.social! Twins!!

Some great bargains in Kobo's deals today, including: Shen Tao's The Poet Empress, William Alexander's Sunward, @clclark.bsky.social's Fate's Bane; @aliettedebodard.com's Fireheart Tiger; @sierrabranham.bsky.social's Love Galaxy, and @msagara.bsky.social's The Broken Crown.

Ted Chiang's pieces on "A.I." are great: "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" ('23): archive.ph/0AOJg "Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?" ('23): archive.ph/TAb8u "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art" ('24): archive.ph/nJAiR "No, Artificial Intelligence is Not Conscious" ('26): archive.ph/bcpZl

I am listening to this right now and you are very jealous of me.

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