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Want to help fundraise for the National Oz Horror Con? Want to party and dress up? events.humanitix.com/the-death-of...

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalists in Outstanding Novella are: Audition for the Fox – @mcflycahill90.bsky.social Descent – @wtalabi.com Psychopomp & Circumstance – @edenroyce.bsky.social The Iron Below Remembers – @sharangbiswas.bsky.social The River Has Roots – @amalelmohtar.com

Just gonna drop this here: www.gofundme.com/f/xcdkp-help...

Site Selection for the 2028 Worldcon is now open! Only members of LAconV can vote. The $50 USD voting fee gets you a WSFS membership to the 2028 Worldcon with access to Hugo Nominating and Voting and the Hugo Voter's Packet. And the winning bid gets that money up front to help finance the Worldcon.

Historian of something cool and niche? i've got some episode slots available on the Untitled History Podcast in the coming weeks. so if you're up for coming on and talking about your area, DM me! Think In Our Time but more casual. ESPECIALLY if its non-mil stuff. (spread the word, peeps)

We’d like to thank Nuremberg in 2028 for running alongside us in the race to win the 2028 Worldcon. And while they’ve now stepped away from the race, we’re a better bid for having had the competition.

FINALLY I can announce the author line-up for the FIRST EVER We Write at Dawn Anthology!! 🥳 We have a truly incredible group of writers who contributed to the anthology, and I can't wait for you all to read it!! P.S. When you see the cover made by @augustsstudio.bsky.social you are going to DIE.

Today GRIEF EATER is out!! It has been an incredible journey to get to this point. Thank you everyone who has been involved in its making, and thank you reviewers for supporting it! Big love!! @interstellarflight.bsky.social (Cover by Dante Luiz!)

au.news.yahoo.com/170-year-old...? I have been told I can’t have more projects. But has anyone said that to you lately?

A Masquerade? A fundraiser? Aug 1st? www.facebook.com/events/17009...

While I'm sad I'm missing #Swancon some of our @brisbanein28.bsky.social team are there (lucky things) Go say Hi if you're on site.

After a short delay, hot of the press we have the Queersar Not An Award for Excellent In Queer SFF & SFF with Queers 2023! This list might, more than any other so far, reflects the key kaupapa I've been trying to capture: Quality commercial midlist SFF with real artistic merit & a bunch of queers.

For those of you already missing Stephen Colbert, he's resurfaced on community public access in Monroe, Michigan, and no, I am not joking: youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4

Phone ate a Bluesky thread I was working on and it was incredibly demoralizing and then I got an email from my agent that THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is entering a second printing!!! Y'all are so wonderful, go little book go us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The warmest Labrador

TOOT TOOT IT’S THE TOBLERTRAM

Over on inst@ the Locked Library are giving away two signed copies of their edition!

Introducing Trent Jamieson… ( @trentonomicon.bsky.social) I live in Brisbane (Meanjin as it is called much more beautifully by the Turrbal and Yuggera people). I tend toward darkish fantasy with a taste and flavour of the places I grew up in rural New South Wales, and urban Queensland.

I shouldn’t feel too proud of being in bed by my bedtime. It’s 2am. (And yettt)

📬 It’s taken me a while to haul but I finally have two books discussed on the #StarshipAlexandria podcast with @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social - Holdstock’s “Mythago Wood” and Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future” 🤗 📚⚔️ #FantasyBooks 🚀 #SciFiBooks 🪐📚💙 #BookSky 🦋 #MayBookHaul 📦

Kell Woods' ( @kellinthewoods.bsky.social) two publised novels take fairytales you might think you know and makes them something new and often darker. Upon A Starlit Tide won the 2025 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. www.kellwoods.com.au #AustralasianSFF #Meanjinin2028 #BrisbaneIn2028

Introducing Grace Chan! I’m based in Melbourne; find me at www.gracechanwrites.com and gracechanwrites.substack.com My brain is hardwired for sci-fi. I write everything from literary SF about the intimate impacts of technology to space operas with bounty hunters and sentient ships.

Lee Murray ONZM - @leemurraywriter.bsky.social - writes horror and poetry and essays, is an editor, and generally advocates for NZ creatives. She has a long list of distinctions, and a longer bibliography - check it out: www.leemurray.info/books.

Along with the Champaca Bookshop, I am curating a science fiction book box + book club. Six months, six books, over three themes: climate fiction, space opera, and classics revisited. For the book box: champaca.in/products/sci...

I wish state labor would take a leaf out of mamdani’s book and set up some govt run supermarkets. I don’t need money off my rego, I need there not to be a shareholder driven hegemony on food prices.

Today’s interview: Eugen Bacon! Where are you based? Melbourne Describe your work: Dark literary cross-genre Afro-surreal speculative fiction: Muntu, Sauúti Terrors, The Nga’phandileh Whisperer and Crimson in Quietus. Where we can find you: eugenbacon.com @EugenBacon, @genni.bsky.social

The #DitmarAwards nominations were released this month. The #DitmarAward was first awarded in 1969 at the Australian National Convention, named for meteorologist and artists Martin James Ditmar "Dick" Jenssen). #AustralasianSFF #MeanjinIn2028 #BrisbaneIn2028 locusmag.com/2024/03/dick... Thread....

Submissions are open for teeth! orpimentpress.ink

This year Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social won the @bsfa.bsky.social award for Short Non-Fiction: "Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other" which you can find here: #AustralasianSFF #MeanjinIn2028 #BrisbaneIn2028

The campaign to bring #WorldCon to #BrisbaneIn2028 needs your support! #AustralasianSFF#MeanjinIn2028 Follow us! Share our bluesky posts!

David Malouf died, which is sad because he was great, but also because it’s taken me 19 years to check a line he wrote actually existed. He’d not remembered it when I asked him to write it out and sign it. So I just pulled the book off the shelf and there it is. Bookmarked and underlined.

Oh shit supernova :(

Psst. You wanna sell some smut? We're buying! orpimentpress.ink

I have mutated the recipe For overnight oats That you posted Online And which You were probably Hoping Would not be misused Forgive me, It was so delicious So caffeinated So cold.

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

Site Selection for the 2028 World Science Fiction Convention will open soon. To vote in Site Selection, you must be a WSFS member (supporting, virtual, or attending) of @laworldcon.bsky.social, the current year’s Worldcon. Join LAcon V soon and vote to bring Worldcon Down Under! #Worldcon

If you're at Eastercon in Birmingham this weekend, drop by at the Brisbane in 2028 table and say hello. You can also pick up some swag and candy. #Eastercon #Brisbane2028 #Birmingham

If you're at Norwescon or Minicon this weekend, keep a sharp eye out for our Brisbane in 28 swag including bookmarks, postcards, and badge ribbons! #Brisbanein28 #Worldcon @norwescon.org @minicon-mnstf.bsky.social Thanks to @bondkat42.bsky.social and @callys.bsky.social for their courier services!

If we’re that concerned about fuel, public transport should be free, yeah?

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

LACon V is happy to announce that the following bids have completed the required filing to qualify to appear on the Worldcon Site Selection Ballot for 2028: Brisbane in 2028 Nuremberg 2028 www.lacon.org/siteselection

The Brisbane in 28 Worldcon Bid is now Officially on the LAcon V Site Selection Ballot! www.brisbane28.org/the-brisbane...

Quinn, stop lending hellebuyck your ghosts.

If you're in a position to vote on this, do the South Pacific a solid and vote for Brisbane. The last time Worldcon was scheduled down here it was 2020 in Wellington and it didn't happen in person. Will have been 18 years by 2028 since we got an accessible in-person con. Put the World in Worldcon.

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards! Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.

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