It's almost REPRINT TIME! That is, time to send your flash fiction reprints to us - get those stories ready because we will be opening this week! (We open for reprints on June 10th, if things go according to plan. If something nefarious happens, we'll let you know)

Happy Pride to the bisexual final boss.

Love this news but hate the "surprise comeback" framing. Teams around the globe worked incredibly hard to protect & expand mangrove forests & it worked! Please just say, "We tried and we succeeded! Go team Earth!" We must admit our victories to give people the heart to keep trying! #ShareGoodNewsToo

📢 Hey friends and fiends! 📢 I'm (finally) working on the 2026 Queer SFF Book list and I want to make sure I don't miss YOUR book! So if you have a adult SFF book coming out this year (2026) that has a queer MC, please take this opportunity to SHOUT IT OUT in the comments or QTs!! 📚❤️🧡💛💚💙💜📚

They're calling the Hungry Little Caterpillar degenerate art.

What are some small press SFFH publishers you like, and what are some books they published that you'd recommend?

I've been obsessed with Hadestown since the 2010 concept album & long entertained the thought experiment of "what if one show Orpheus didn't turn around" & only today learned that there WAS IN FACT ONE SUCH PERFORMANCE??? HOW DID I NOT KNOW BEFORE NOW www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/c...

Holy fuck, they not only cut the whistleblower's break line, they disabled his airbag and other safety features.

Terror and retribution are a core part of how the Trump administration has governed. DOGE whistleblower had threatening note taped to his door and his brakes cut after Elon Musk accused him of lying. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

Happy Pride Month 🌈

I also heard from my chosen family in north Minneapolis that their next door neighbors were taken: an entire household of people snatched and now the house is vacant. Eyes and whistles up.

Have you submitted your application to our Graphic Designer position? 👀 The deadline is just a few days away! Apply NOW 👉 augursociety.org/join-augur-m...

Ok, so, these contests are awesome, and I'm not just saying that because I know the folks who make them go. This is a real opportunity, and the opportunity cost is very low. No fees. You retain all rights to your work - written or visual. Get your entries in!

The thing is, no one knows what is going to work, and book publishing is on such an elongated schedule, so might as well make your weirdest art anyway. Readers know the difference.

Ted Chiang: "Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone uses a chatbot."

Here's another version with the alt text so yeah, beware Ko-fi folks !!

HERE WE GOOOOOOO! The donation form is open for 2026! Give us your arts & crafts, your signed books & special editions. We want your consultations and your expertise. Help us raise money for Vote Riders & The Southern Coalition for Social Justice! Submit by June 28th! form.romancingthevote.com

I DIDN’T WRITE A BOOK ABOUT IT YOU CAN’T BLAME ME

Complete text of Scott Pelley statement. A snippet: “For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified.” www.mediaite.com/media/tv/sco...

This thread explains something I had been seeing but hadn’t understood.

Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors. This is amazing.

Are you making candidate scorecards to help educate the voters in your district? If so, AWESOME! Here are the Representatives in the House who voted in favor of the deeply transphobic HR2616. Make sure everyone in your community knows how your Rep voted.

happy pride ~ ig reminder that i wrote a book variously described as "a carnage of gender" (shelley parker-chan) and "bisexual catastrophe" (mia tsai) (also the ebook is $4.99 and has been for a While 😆) bookshop.org/p/books/thes...

Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.

Happy Pride! Folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum are queer too. The A in LGBTQIA+ belongs to us, not allies. Being queer isn't only about who you fuck.

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

More info & talking points on HR 8705, which has passed out of committee & is waiting to be introduced to the House. (As if Sunday evening)

Graduating Gemini Harvard to unveil this secret (and many others 👀) in 2027!

I appreciated that the moment I clicked on this a giant pop up offered to give me an AI summary of the article

I’m only about 10k in, but… The Encyclical for Best Related Work next year?

24 HOURS LEFT TO BACK US!! 🗣️✨ Being a part of Anathema’s relaunch has been one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done—and we’ve still got such a long future ahead of us!! 🥹💜

my panel is up now! if you want to check out some awesome conversations about disability in writing, this whole event has been great and there are a few more panels after mine too, if you want to stick around and hear some good discussion✨ links for the panels: weeknightwriters.com/2026/04/18/s...

Write something that sets you free.

Take a class with me! Think academically about romance in novels! Enjoy the most garish slide deck this side of the Mississippi! metrowestwriters.myshopify.com/products/how...

I didn’t know there were FIVE ICE detention hunger strikes going on all over the country.

Pride month is coming up and I cannot tell you enough, cis people, that the best thing you can do right now is stand up for trans people financially, publicly, and in any way you can think of so this witch hunt ends, once again, with bigots on the wrong side of history.

This means we are also now open for submissions for We're Here 2026, which will be edited by Shingai Njeri Kagunda! Those guidelines are here: www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

Cetacea

hi yes I'm going to be on a panel about accurately depicting chronic pain TOMORROW, May 30 @ 12:30pm Eastern! this is such a personal subject so I'm nervous but also excited for awesome conversation about chronic pain (and, let's be honest, chronic fatigue because the two often go hand-in-hand) 💜

"Viewpoint diversity" is Mad Men-level rebranding of "platform people who are wrong."

"Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" is in this roundup of awesome queer short stories that came out in April, and I'm always so thrilled to be in such amazing company 🌈 ✨read my tragic sapphic space knights here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sain...

🗣️The value of persons,🗣️however, does not depend on🗣️what they achieve or produce🗣️

It's built on stolen work, it ruins your water and jacks up your energy bill, and it's wrong more often than a D-student. But also? It's designed to take your job. This is right. AI slop doesn't have an image problem. It has an intention problem.

Hey new writers! Eventually somebody is going to decide your story is about something that it isn't. They'll be wrong. They'll be mad you didn't focus on the thing they wanted. My advice? Ignore them. You can't control them. Focus on your actual intent, not other people's mirages.

it's the third thing but also the second thing because to assuage their conscience the bullshitter must assume everyone else is also either a bullshitter or a loser

hi yes I'm trying to improve at shyly pushing my recent short story publications forward!! if you like tragic sapphic knights in space, jousting to the death, and a neat mechanical pegasus, consider "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" ✨ 🪐 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sain... 🪐

1. Not true, and especially not true for me, and Rosenbaum sounds like an AI addict 2. People do fact-check during editing. The issue here is publishing refuses to pay for fact-checking because they'd rather lose $ from a scandal than hire, pay, *and support* staff, especially editors.

Good work, lawmakers and constituents who made sure no one looked away.

Yes, this can be filibustered BUT 1. A bill isn't dead until it's dead Making assumptions was a big part of the rise of book bans in the 1st place. 2. Fighting the bills also fights the politicians that support them & the ideas they're based on. 3. Every fight is an opportunity to organize. Take it!