The event is free to all but space is limited!

Go to the poetry reading! You know you want to!

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

Excited about this reading! Hope you can join us!

New editor interview with @marissavu.bsky.social about Violet Lichen Books and the upcoming anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION!

I have a little ghost story in SFPJ today - "Jimmy. Fucking. Bang." Thanks to Francine!

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Ostentiferous [os-ten-TIF-er-us] (adj.) - That which brings omens, monsters, or strange manifestations. Used in a sentence: “The book’s ostentiferous properties had rendered it too perilous for scholarship and too sacred for destruction.”

My short story “The Last and First Loves of Hayrum Bellmaker” is now up at Crow & Cross Keys! 🖤

This is going to be a great meeting! @clclark.bsky.social @electricsheepsf.bsky.social

This story is so well done. A master class in character development. So much is accomplished through the body & movement. 💔❤️ @clclark.bsky.social @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

Love The Oatmeal's take on AI art: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Looking forward to @electricsheepsf.bsky.social with @joshrountree.bsky.social this weekend so I'm reposting this interview in MicroVerse!

My husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and… I was purged from the voting roll. PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

Looking for: 1. Fantasy novels featuring Black protagonists. 2. Contemporary fantasy novels by Black authors Any suggestions?

Looking for: 1. Fantasy novels featuring Black protagonists. 2. Contemporary fantasy novels by Black authors Any suggestions?

Excited to find that someone wrote a craft essay on my use of dialogue in a recent story. ICYMI: flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2025/08...

Interview with @vanessafogg.bsky.social about her upcoming collection, THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS! @interstellarflight.bsky.social

HANNA X SPIDERHEAD Locked away in a clandestine lab, a daring hacker twin, a clone anomaly carrying secrets, and a desperate robotics expert must face malicious oppressors, their origins, their own inner demons & maybe even each other in an explosive bid for truth and freedom. #DVPit #Dis #A #H #SF

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Jane Barton Griffith was codirector of an AFSC humanitarian project during the Vietnam War. Nguyen thi Mai was a double amputee who came to the center for medical assistance and was later offered a job and invited to live in the AFSC house. Two Women, One War is Jane's account of their friendship.

"A plague of gods have given us a bad name us half-betweeners, shadowfill and moonlighters..."

If you're a BIPOC writer trying to find the time to finish your book or want personalised advice for tackling your writing projects, be sure to join us for the How To Finish Your Novel workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Nov 29 & 30 or get the video after! events.humanitix.com/how-to-finis...

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Went to see Trae Crowder perform last night. I haven't laughed so hard in ages. We need comedians and satirists soooo much right now.

New interview with Marie Brennan today - hear about her Hugo-winning poem, novels, short stories, and some gorgeous art! @swantower.bsky.social

Yes! #amwriting #amediting

My short fiction recs for July and Aug. Featuring work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @catvalente.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social Daniel Oluremi and-- itsajumble.blogspot.com/2025/09/shor...

ALERT! THOSE! DEMONS!

Went to brunch with friends at Busboys and Poets yesterday. Browsed the bookshop and discussed the merits of "trashy" books, TV, and movies. Was a good day.

Spear Maidens* Unite! Have just over a month to bring in $3575. Want to see this go fast? - Rally, Visibility - Big $ donations - Art Shop micro-donations from bigger name creators We can! @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @jolantru.bsky.social @christianek.bsky.social @vriccithode.bsky.social

September MicroVerse roundup is out!

Great new issue of Writers Resist up today. Read, be inspired, resist. ✊

My dystopian flash appears in Writers Resist today. It was written after the election around the question plaguing me: What will it mean to be Black in Tr*ump's America? I hope you'll check it out. www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...

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Do you know a high school writer? Have them submit to this wonderful literary journal! Www.theweightjournal.com

"I made mistakes once, too, when I was the first historian, nobody else to teach me what to look out for, how to be gentle with the world so it would be gentle with me in turn." @avramargariti.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social 💜

BTW, editors: I've got several more Cherryh essays cooking up that are even more ambitious than this one, so hmu if you're interested.

Please consider supporting this incredibly worthy literary project. They are raising money to translate books from non-colonial African languages into English.

Myna Chang's "Let us Dream" is a scifi horror poem that will take your breath away. Read it here in our third issue:

Today's tea: Tea Runners English Breakfast. Today's mug: The one that makes me feel like royalty 👑

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

Europe is warming faster than any continent. That's speeding up glacial melt, which is already threatening Europe's largest rivers.

Had a wonderful time at the @wwph.bsky.social 50th celebration/book launch for "America's Future"! Met contributor Congressman Jamie Raskin, too. Grab a copy. My solarpunk, "Fireflies and Dandelion Wine," appears in the anthology. A huge Thank You to prose editor @cabockwrites.bsky.social!

You know those emergency phone chargers? I wish they made those for your social battery.

Had a wonderful time at the @wwph.bsky.social 50th celebration/book launch for "America's Future"! Met contributor Congressman Jamie Raskin, too. Grab a copy. My solarpunk, "Fireflies and Dandelion Wine," appears in the anthology. A huge Thank You to prose editor @cabockwrites.bsky.social!

"The civilians were dancing on the train again, stomping their feet to the heartbeat of the engine." Eager to talk about "A Smokeless and Scorching Fire" by @erincairns.bsky.social - originally pub in Writers of the Future: Volume 34 & republished at @inkfoundry.bsky.social !

This week's guest is Erin Cairns! We'll read several of Erin's stories and geek out about InkFoundry! InkFoundry is a phenomenal spec fic aggregator with a robust tagging system. It's easy to find whatever you want to read! @erincairns.bsky.social

It me! I'm really excited to visit Electric Sheep and talk writing, reading, and all things stories!!!