New #podcast alert! Natalia Theodoridou (@nassos.bsky.social) discusses his fever dream of a Bluebeard retelling - about the choice and non-choice of those stuck in cycles of abuse, the power of fairytales, and the toxicity of the patriarchy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share. - Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #WriteSky #BookSky

BREAKING 🚨 The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared. It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating. But politicians still have time to stop this.

OK, more praise for @nassos.bsky.social's debut novel--I tried re-reading my library copy & quickly realized no, I want my own, to underline & scribble margin notes to my past & present & future selves as I read it forward & back and back forward again. 📚 #BookSky

FoF Update: Everyone registered will be emailed a link to request lottery sessions starting today. The lottery is open until Sept 15. Results will be emailed Sept 17, even if you didn’t win any seats. After the lottery closes, everyone can directly sign up for remaining seats.

Just read this to kick off #RIPXX! Ghosts are everywhere? Everyone? Everything?

Could not put down Theororidou's debut novel Sour Cherry. A liminal, haunting, magnetic re-visioning of the tale of Bluebeard; I'm going to catch my breath and then start it over again to seek & savor the nuances and echoes. 📚 #BookSky

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

I always rejoice when there is a new Emma Törzs story out www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-... @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

This one bsky.app/profile/nass...

A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photographed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription.

This is a subtly devastating story about ghosts, love, the search for meaning in this life or the next, and being haunted by your own self. by @nassos.bsky.social on @reactorsff.bsky.social

It's a lazy afternoon, and I'm procrastinating on something else, so let's do some microfiction! Send me a prompt and I'll write you a tiny story. Prompt can be anything you want, but if it's an image, please include a description. Optional theme: uncommon words

Ufff, that story

"Every Ghost Story" is out in @reactorsff.bsky.social today! Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social, with art by @babswebbart.bsky.social. Incredibly excited to share this one (what do you mean I may be slightly obsessed with ghosts?) reactormag.com/every-ghost-...

Following a mysterious worldwide event that makes ghosts visible, a young woman is invited to attend Ghost Camp. "Every Ghost Story" by @nassos.bsky.social is now out at Reactor! Art by @babswebbart.bsky.social Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social reactormag.com/every-ghost-...

From the Archives: "What the River Brings, and What It Takes Away" @nassos.bsky.social BCS #281. "And yet Sapo kept at it, kept eating the mountain, stone by stone by stone, because she feared that if she didn't, it would come, and she didn't want it." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/what...

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

Excited that my story MEDIAN is included in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, vol. 1 from @undertow.bsky.social, with @domsdickey.bsky.social @nassos.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @rachaelkjones.bsky.social +++ Order here: undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

Don't miss this beautiful novella 👇🏼🫂🖤

So happy that my @therumpus.net story "Nocturnal" will be in this! In some weird, amazing company 👇🏼

Jonathan reviews Natalia Theodoridou's debut horror novel SOUR CHERRY: "Like Angela Carter or Tanith Lee, Theodoridou has written a fairy tale that cuts right to the heart of why we tell fairy tales" Read more: tinyurl.com/3csfc66r @nassos.bsky.social @jonathanthornton.bsky.social

For People Magazine, I wrote about creativity in Greek Myth retellings, including stories by many actual great Greek authors of today. Behold novels and short stories by @ioannapauthor.bsky.social, @mayadeane.bsky.social, @ecastroianni.bsky.social, @nassos.bsky.social & @thisisguan.bsky.social!

i interviewed @nassos.bsky.social for @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/sour-cherry-...

speaking of buying trans fiction: go read this brilliant interview with @nassos.bsky.social about his new novel Sour Cherry & then buy the book, which is equally brilliant! electricliterature.com/sour-cherry-...

Today I'm doing an AMA on Reddit to celebrate the release of Wearing The Lion! Come ask me about books, stories, queerness, disability, monsters--or anything! old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

It's not easy, but if you have emotions to spare, go read Sour Cherry by @nassos.bsky.social Do make sure you're feeling emotionally ok before starting it. It does not shy away from human inhumanity. #booksky 💙📚 📚🪐📚

love seeing familiar faces at the bookstore! 🦇⚡️ @nassos.bsky.social @wiswell.bsky.social @silviapark.bsky.social

NEW today, beloveds! Five Deathly Reads for Summer by @mariahaskins.com featuring M.R. Carey, @daviddemchuk.com, @corinneleighclark.bsky.social, @sgj.bsky.social, @edenrobins.bsky.social, @nassos.bsky.social, and BONUS @cheriepriest.com, @rfkuang.bsky.social psychopomp.com/five-deathly...

if you are protesting now or in the future be safe and remember: • do not announce you're attending online • do not sign any online RSVP • wear a mask • wear clothes that don't draw attention • leave your phone at home • bring bottled water • do not speak to cops • do not post photos after

New Review - a dark fantasy tale within a tale that we are made to bear witness to awaits in the excellent Sour Cherry by @nassos.bsky.social out now and very strongly recommended www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/6/...

.... we won a Nebula??

— @smessenger.bsky.social, Jingjing Xiao, @nassos.bsky.social, @darusha.ca, and @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social! Our Best Game Writing winners for #Nebulas2025!!! 🥳🥳🥳 2/2

Whooo! The 2025 Pride Bundle is live at @storybundle.bsky.social ! :D Includes SO many incredible books— including my collection, @bogiperson.bsky.social 's collection, We're Here (2023) ed by @cypayseur.bsky.social & @littlebadger.bsky.social and many more!!! storybundle.com/pride

Joanne has a great thread about books for Pride, and included my gay old ladies in The Necessity of Stars ✨👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩✨

4/7: and The Oblivion Bride by @caitlinstarling.com (@neonhemlock.bsky.social, lots of Neon Hemlock in this thread!) www.neonhemlock.com/books/oblivi... & Sour Cherry by @nassos.bsky.social ‬(@tinhouse.bsky.social) tinhouse.com/book/sour-ch... #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

1/7 daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: The Crawling Moon edited by @davering.bsky.social (@neonhemlock.bsky.social) #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚

Bluesky's new and improved 'we're listening' policy is, of course, nothing at all. Liberals can rest easy, Palestinians are being deleted as fast as ever. Please share & give to help Omar's family survive & escape Israel's genocide in Gaza, they're being starved, bombed, & displaced:

Today's new word, courtesy of @nassos.bsky.social's wonderful Sour Cherry: Cerements How have I never come across this word before?

Favorite books in May! Aka trying to get my outside/inside reading ratio right. 🏜️ Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey 🦎 Sundown in San Ojuela by M. M. Olivas ☀️ A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez 🎨 The Last Soviet Artist by Victoria Lomasko 🍒 Sour Cherry by @nassos.bsky.social

Trans people could be forced to present passports to access toilets, under proposed EHRC guidance

Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou is a fascinating retelling of the Bluebeard folktale, using intimate perspectives around him to understand him and ultimately shrink him down to be smaller than his victims. Gorgeous prose. One of my favorite books of the year so far. @nassos.bsky.social

Last day of this sale!

EHRC faces judicial review, which could overturn its instruction to segregate trans people 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-faces-judicial-review-which-could-overturn-its-instruction-to-segregate-trans-people/

"She won’t get me to slough off my skin this easily." - joyfully screamed at the end of this sexy brilliant @ewenmaer.bsky.social story in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social this week. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/pale...

How the UK anti-trans machine turned the UK from a place of hope for the Trans+ community, to hate 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/how-did-this-supreme-court-ruling-happen-a-brief-history-of-how-great-britain-became-terf-island/

Story day! For Failed Architecture, “All the World’s a Prison” is science fiction about the horrors of Lagos housing, but worse. What makes you eligible to possess a space? What if it’s taken from you? Read here: failedarchitecture.com/all-the-worl...