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Poetry.
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One was a hive of bees, one was an enchanted cutlass, and one was a digital screen prototype made by the Waterbury Clock Company.
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Phil Lewis
1 day ago
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
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For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S.
The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.
https://www.whatimreading.net/p/black-owned-bookstore-directory-report
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Mary Robinette Kowal
1 day ago
My short story, "With Her Serpent Locks," receives the deep dive treatment on a recent episode of
@writingexcuses.bsky.social
. Listen here:
writingexcuses.com/21-07-deep-d...
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The Minstrel of Horror
1 day ago
Ghosts don't sleep & therefore find it very interesting when human go to bed. This is fine and it is good for them to be curious about the living. Unfortunately, if they let themselves be seen, humans find them incredibly intrusive & creepy, which ruins their attempts at sleep, & angers the ghosts!
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Lauren Groff
1 day ago
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
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De La Soul
2 days ago
Happy
#DeLaSoulDay
! 3/3 🌼🌼🌼 Celebrate with us at the
@npr.org
Tiny Desk ☁️🏠⛅️
youtu.be/5AVYDHTOixU?...
#TinyDesk
#NPRTinyDeskConcert
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Samantha (Sam) Mills
2 days ago
I wrote a personal essay about my love for bittersweet endings and LOTR, via the awfulness of the year 2001. And uh I wasn't expecting history to be rhyming quite so hard this week but here we are 😓
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/bitt...
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Bittersweet Endings (for All Who Live to See Such Times) - Uncanny Magazine
This is a story about the theatrical release of The Fellowship of the Ring, about finding hope in your despair and despair in your hope, and about the year 2001. I first read The Lord of the Rings at ...
https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/bittersweet-endings-for-all-who-live-to-see-such-times/
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Clarkesworld
2 days ago
We're heading to AWP in Baltimore this week. If you'll be there, drop by booth #442 and say hi.
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Word I had to add to my word processor's spellcheck dictionary because of
@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social
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Deborah L. Davitt, Author
2 days ago
So, I was on Speculative Sundays this past weekend, and it's now on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8t0...
Akua, the host, asked me where my dragon love comes from. . . . Anne McCaffrey's Pern. I was ALL about unicorns till I read the Harper trilogy at 11 or 12. It's been dragons ever since.
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STARBURST! Speculative Poetry Reading for Women's History Month presents Deborah L. Davitt
YouTube video by Speculative Poetry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8t0YysENxc
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Music for the day:
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Chopin - Nocturnes
YouTube video by Sir Ernest Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOUcRt4NqXE
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️
2 days ago
Lol I'm in danger
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈
2 days ago
My baby is back in print today 🥰 A woman trying to save her city has to slit a few throats to do it in this noir-inspired dark fantasy world, a story I wanted to tell that was the reason I became a writer. NO GODS FOR DROWNING, out now from Bad Hand Books 🔪🌊
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-gods-fo...
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Sam Caster 🍓
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Pretty sure this is gonna be the companion image to
@ayidashonibar.bsky.social
's story in Issue 2.
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie)
3 days ago
If you're a Woman in Horror, be it artist, illustrator, author, writer, reviewer, director, WHATEVER- Say hi and link to your work here! Let's make a thread of Horror from Women that people can peruse & discover some cool, new stuff I'll start, in the comments/replies :) ♀️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 📚🎨 ✍️ 📽️🩸
#wihm
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Well if it ain't the vibes
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Poetry.
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her)
3 days ago
My book’s in excellent company here. Get yours:
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
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This is an invaluable resource. If you have some extra duckets/Martian Credits/GlyphTokens, consider sending some to help
@dreamfoundry.bsky.social
givebutter.com/FoFnewplatform
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Flights of Foundry Wants a New Platform!
Help Flights of Foundry move from Webex to a platform designed for virtual events
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Antique and Vintage Book Art
3 days ago
Illustration by Ernest H. Shepard from Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, Toronto, 1926.
#booksky
#artsky
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!!!! Deeply honored to be 😍
@locusmag.bsky.social
Official 🤩
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Jay
4 days ago
I don't have my usual favorites thread with my February 2026 round-up, but I still have quite a few stories to talk about, and I'd like to link a couple past threads (does that make this a thread? Okay maybe)
www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/01/f...
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February 2026 Round-up and Short Fiction Miscellany
A recap of sci-fi and fantasy novels and short fiction I read or reviewed in February 2026.
https://www.tarvolon.com/2026/03/01/february-2026-round-up-and-short-fiction-miscellany/
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Thomas Ha
4 days ago
Hey there. Latest story, now out, "Scion." Strangeness. Estrangement. And the history that gets lost in between. A son and father in a moving house. Deranged relatives at cross-purposes. A community fleeing a murderous intruder. A crumbling lunar colony in revolt. Hope folks enjoy. Twisty one.
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Scion by Thomas Ha
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_03_26/
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More poetry.
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Poetry.
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Air and Nothingness Press
4 days ago
The "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" submission period is now open (3/1 - 3/31). All stories will be randomized and anonymized beofre reading. Authors will receive receipt of their submission within 24hrs. If you do not hear from us, drop us a line. Info -
aanpress.com/submissions....
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Charles (Cy) Payseur
6 days ago
🏳️🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JANUARY 2026🏳️🌈 I round up over 40 stories by
@mruthrobinson.bsky.social
@coreyjwhite.com
@thedescenters.bsky.social
@sylvie-althoff.bsky.social
@marisca.bsky.social
@victormanibo.com
@seraph76.bsky.social
@remedy.bsky.social
& MANY MORE!!!
www.patreon.com/posts/151830...
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Some Queer Short SFF - January 2026 | Charles Payseur
Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/151830290
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Poetry.
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her)
6 days ago
This is so fun! Take the quiz.
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❄️ Abigail Kemske ❄️
5 days ago
Yes, grab the tissues for this one. This story is so sweet and tender and has excellent taste in music. I really loved this
@cornellwriter.bsky.social
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Poetry.
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Catherine Tavares
6 days ago
This is amazing!! Everyone go take the quiz right now. So much fun!
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Faith Allington
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@cornellwriter.bsky.social
you literally made me cry ❤️🩹 I enjoyed the humor, too. "I can’t tell you if I believed in Heaven or Hell before I died, but if there is a Hell, I’m pretty sure they’d play disco there, and Shirley would be at the mic with the amps turned up to max."
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For the evening crowd, you can now take a sciencefictionally-backed quiz to determine which Issue One story is right for you.
www.adventitious.net/issue-one-pe...
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Which Adventitious Story Is Your Soul Mate? (Issue One Quiz)
What's your fate? Get your story match + a bonus recommendation, then read Issue One. No email required.
https://www.adventitious.net/issue-one-personality-quiz/
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Chris Scott
6 days ago
Thrilled to be back in the pages of
@havehashad.com
today with a short one, about two brothers who find one of the Voyager probe golden records in their grandfather's field. Hope you like it.
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Hello From the Children of Planet Earth by Chris Scott
My brother and I found a golden record in our grandpa’s field. One of the golden records, the ones that had been sent into deep space on the Voyager probes half a century ago. It was just resting ther...
https://www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hello-from-the-children-of-planet-earth
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Locus Magazine
6 days ago
Get your tickets to the Locus Awards in May! Guests of Honor are Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due, and we are so excited to be partnering with the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley! Buy your tickets at
locusmag.com/2026-lo...
or via the link in our bio!! See you there.
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Jason Sanford
11 days ago
Don't forget the
#kickstarter
for the MISSEd-FiTS anthology from
@calendaroffools.bsky.social
is currently running. Includes stories from many authors including myself,
@rrvirdi.bsky.social
@retreasure.bsky.social
@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
@nameshiv.bsky.social
@nirele.bsky.social
and more!
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Missed-Fits: A Calendar of Fools Anthology
An anthology featuring stories of awkward lengths about things that are missing or out of place.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/calendaroffools/missed-fits-a-calendar-of-fools-anthology
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Woozle & Taffy
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David Lynch's Worlds
7 days ago
#TwinPeaks
#Vertigo
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Scott Beggs
6 days ago
I got: 👻 You Are The Containment Breacher — Which Adventitious story is your destiny?
www.adventitious.net/issue-one-pe...
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Which Adventitious Story Is Your Soul Mate? (Issue One Quiz)
What's your fate? Get your story match + a bonus recommendation, then read Issue One. No email required.
https://www.adventitious.net/issue-one-personality-quiz/
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Laurie
6 days ago
Really excited to have a story in Adventitious Issue 2 alongside all these incredible authors!!
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Gailey 🍉
7 days ago
Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them. Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.
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Time to Fight: H.R. 7661
Call To Action
https://stone-soup.ghost.io/time-to-fight-h-r-7661/
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My bid for Warner Bros. didn't win. 😢
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Authors Against Book Bans
6 days ago
We've had a day to pull a few things together, so here's a thread some more targeted info opposing the potential national book ban just proposed in the House of Representatives.
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Ada Palmer
7 days ago
My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title! WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS Yes, *all* And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think... I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!
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Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians
SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …
https://buff.ly/mu9Ba2O
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Gautam Bhatia
7 days ago
🚨🚨Submissions call. 🚨🚨 Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.” Please send in your mycelial pitches to
[email protected]
. For word-count, formats, and remuneration:
strangehorizons.com/submit/non-f...
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Non-Fiction Submission Guidelines
How to submit or query about essays, round-tables, interviews, and columns.
https://strangehorizons.com/submit/non-fiction-submission-guidelines/
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Diane Duane
6 days ago
This is so fabulous. Thanks,
@eoinglackin.bsky.social
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