Calling your reps is a great starting step to fight for something you care about. It's fast. It's easy. If you follow me, then you care about literature. Bc it matters. It saves lives. It's time to fight for it. Literature is the house we built, & I'll be damned if I let these weenies burn it down

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

TONIGHT

Almost out of time! Vote by April 1 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!

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Some YA fantasy authors who to my knowledge have never funded an attempted trans genocide: Terry Pratchett Diana Wynne-Jones Garth Nix Suzanne Collins Susan Cooper Phillip Pullman Rick Riordan Pierce Brown Sheri S. Tepper V. E. Schwab Rachel Hartman Alex Pheby Alan Garner Ursula Le Guin And more!

And formally, according to our law, Depose him

Don't sleep on the alt text

sorry I'm like this y'all but you have FIVE MORE DAYS, is all, and because I have totally forgotten to mention it, let me just add that one lucky nominator will win a whole pile of books, which is to say the entire 2025 shortlist! could be yours! go forth and nominate!

⏳ Time is running out. ⏳ Nominations close on March 28. www.lacon.org/hugos

One week from today! Join us, fans of poignant, smart, & funny sf! Get Will's book & check out the rest of the well-curated stock at Parallel Worlds Bookshop!

One week from tonight!

ok here are more magical kid lit books off the top of my head that you can share w/ the kids in your lives instead of the one that supports a human trashbag who uses that support as proof her hatred is valid (again, a push for the ENTIRE Rick Riordan Presents line: books.disney.com/character-se...)

Divest from Hogwarts, mi gente.

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The suggestions list for this year’s British Fantasy Awards is now open! Anyone can add their favourite SFF titles first published in 2025! forms.gle/YcGUjcbU99R5...

If you are a Hugo-nominating sort of person and enjoyed Sunward then I would be tremendously honored if you nominated Sunward for the Hugo, ok thank you bye. www.willalex.net/sunward

Attention all #kidlit authors, editors, and librarians!

Attention all #kidlit authors, editors, and librarians!

I don't have connections in MG/YA anymore, but my very first jobs in publishing were in children's books, and I believe strongly that a lot of beautiful, strange, powerful writing is done for younger readers. so please. don't count yourself or the books you love out.

HI did you know!!!!!

it is absolutely thrilling to watch nominations come in for the Le Guin Prize but there's one thing I want to say one more time: middle grade and YA novels are eligible for this prize! I would really love to see more nominations come from those categories

Hard to overstate how bad this is. This would be *national legislation to aid book banning*. The time to call your reps and say you are against HR 7661 is NOW.

You have my sword cane, @adapalmer.bsky.social.

This brilliant and moving essay on disability by @adapalmer.bsky.social is one of the essays in our collection Trace Elements, out next Tuesday strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Folks, we are live! Thank you for your patience this year. The team has been working so hard to get this going despite major roadblocks. To see all of the amazing things our community has produced, visit the link in our bio or go to locusmag.com/igg26 youtu.be/ODl5yiDlA_0

massive CONGRATULATIONS!!! to the Nebula Awards Finalists!! locusmag.com/2026/03/2025... Hugo Nominations close March 28, 2026 at noon Pacific Time! www.lacon.org/hugos/ Deadline for Locus voting is April 1! Anyone can vote, and you can write in any eligible title! locusmag.com (click VOTE NOW)

HR 7661 is viciously discriminatory and cartoonishly unconstitutional. Call your reps and make some noise. @authorsabb.bsky.social

The nationwide book ban bill is now entering the House of Representatives for consideration. Here's everything you need to know about HR 7661, including next steps to take in helping defeat this anti-LGBTQ, anti-intellectual, pro-voucher bill before it goes any farther: bookriot.com/hr7661-advan...

A complete list of this year’s Nebula finalists with links for the ones that are free-to-read (including mine). Check it out! www.andrewliptak.com/2026-nebula-...

Time to call your reps! No matter where you are, no matter who your rep is they need to hear from you. Script is available at @5calls.org.

It is the yearly Locus fundraiser! Locus is the trade magazine for science fiction & fantasy literature, and it is an absolute treasure and a fundamental backbone of the genre. You should donate to it! amongst the perks you could receive: copies of the Subterranean Press edition of ROSE/HOUSE. 😁

Big big CONGRATULATIONS!!! To the Nebula Awards Finalists!

So thrilled to see Sour Cherry up for a Nebula Award!! Congratulations to all the incredible finalists 👏👏👏

Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novel! #SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards

Super looking forward to this conversation!

The great @ryansara.bsky.social and myself will be talking to each other at Parallel Worlds in Portland on April 1st, and it will be splendid.

Your Hugo Nominating ballot can make a difference. There are a total of 7718 people with the right to cast a nominating ballot in the 2026 Hugo Awards. As of this morning, 1293 of those people have cast a nominating ballot in at least one category. www.lacon.org/hugos/

The great @ryansara.bsky.social and myself will be talking to each other at Parallel Worlds in Portland on April 1st, and it will be splendid.

"The City mind thinks that sense has been made if a writing is read, if a message is transmitted, but we don’t think that way. In any case, to learn a great deal about those people would be to cry in the ocean; whereas using their bricks in one of our buildings is satisfying to the mind." [1/2]

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This quote has been with me every day since I first heard it and I love her so much for saying it.

Again, the RULES for Hugo Editor: Long Form have changed, and the indie editors who have been out *doing it* are now eligible. Please consider Bill Campbell (Rosarium Publishing) Catherine Lundoff (Queen of Swords Press) They have both confirmed eligibility. Do it! And tell people!

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Nominations are open for the Le Guin prize! #Kidlit of a science fictional and/or fantastical nature should absolutely stand up and be counted. www.ursulakleguin.com/prize26

Voting for the 2026 Locus Awards is open to everyone! Choose your champions and give a voice to your favorite works and authors of the year. Vote online at poll.voting.locusmag... or via the link in our bio!

Same.

a lil prize thread, now with nomination form link!!!!

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social