If you'll be at @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social next weekend, be sure to say hello to @sentencebender.bsky.social and me. Our panel is on Sunday, March 8. We're talking about plot twists, then signing books. www.emeraldcitycomiccon.com/en-us.html

keep seeing people talking about Hugo and Nebula nominations which means it is my professional duty to remind you that nominations for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize open on SUNDAY

Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations. We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community. Read our full statement: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

When the snow is piled up so thick and delicious on your fire escape you can't resist the urge to plant your full face in it

FUCK THIS IS SO FUCKING GOOD

Great news for UK readers! Waterstones has selected THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS for their 25% off pre-order sale! Just use the code FEB26 at check-out to get the best price of the year on my dragon. All three of Garrodigh's heads can't wait to meet you.

I’m absolutely buzzing today to get to announce the sale of my new novelette “I Want You With Me at the End of the World” to @reactorsff.bsky.social! This story is about fractured hearts, rifts in reality, and trying to heal enough to survive a world crumbling around us.

This “queer tales” series has been a labor of love since we founded Neon Hemlock in 2019. GLITTER + ASHES: QUEER TALES OF A WORLD THAT WOULDN’T DIE was sorta the first, but it stole the series title from…

Happy belated Valentine's Day, I suppose! This is the story that made me want to write short fiction again. I love it dearly. If you read this and like it (or if you hate it, I’m not picky!), consider dropping lgbtbookstoprisoners.org five bucks.

I’m so happy to share my SF horror flash, ‘The Worldbuilder,’ published today in @lightspeedmagazine.com! The story is an homage to Joanna Russ’ ‘We Who are About To…’, enfolding the morbid xenophilic curiosity of ‘Alien’ (hi, welcome to my work 😈) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

It's never a mistake to listen to Sam...

Another last-year faves was Molly Tanzer's "City of Tears," which is on the Locus Awards preliminary ballot - side note, ANYONE CAN VOTE IN THE LOCUS AWARDS! @mollytanzer.bsky.social @bcsmagazine.bsky.social www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... poll.voting.locusmag.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Among literally hundreds of other good things in this, you can get my little one-shot generator where drunk girls* in the tavern bathroom get together to help someone *"girls" here used for trope recognition, characters of any gender can play here! sarahloch.itch.io/solidarity-d...

Not enough of you have read Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy by @sentencebender.bsky.social Gay Jewish love story, tattoo magic, (historical!) Jewish lesbian mobster, 1920s New York City, boxing…and really one of the best examples of novella writing I can think of (suiting story to word count). GO READ!

The best birthday present I can imagine would be for you to check out these amazing stories I discovered in 2025, including lots that are from authors completely new to me, and to consider them for any awards ballots you might be working on!!

As you're nominating your favorite works of 2025, @sentencebender.bsky.social and I would like to note that Red Star Hustle is a NOVEL, and Apprehension is a NOVELLA, so you can nominate both on award ballots.

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to @sentencebender.bsky.social! Celebrate his latest spin around the sun by joining us for lunch on an episode of Eating the Fantastic, where you'll discover the superpower he developed via decades of obscurity — plus much more. www.scottedelman.com/2022/08/05/s...

I need every gay man/queer person to PLEASE read Boys, Beasts and Men by @sentencebender.bsky.social. the stories in that book will haunt me in the warmest way for the rest of my life.

Seattle: Will @sentencebender.bsky.social and I see you at @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social March 5-8? Please say hello! www.emeraldcitycomiccon.com/en-us.html

So, yes, Small Wonders has just published a brand new poem by me, "Straw Gold." Free to read here: smallwondersmag.com/piece/straw-...

Hooray! This month's Dragons' Book Club is up now. Subscribe to my Patreon at any level from $1.99/month to read my recs for the month and share your own with fellow club members. (And scoop up a free ebook on joining, too!) patreon.com/stephanieburgis #romancelandia

New essay from me up at Interstellar Flight Press, about dragons and structured poetry and CT machines: magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/the-dragon-c...

Hell yes, my debut novella GRIEF EATER is now live on Barnes and Noble for pre-orders! I would greatly appreciate any help in spreading the word. Thank you! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/grief-eate... @interstellarflight.bsky.social

hello! new story day!! this one is a weird western murder mystery set on the back of a jackalope. did i say weird western? i meant WEIRD western. it's hell living on the back of prey

We're all stuck in science fiction now. This week: terrifying shape-shifting aliens have swallowed up and replaced millions of us, and they're still spreading. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/they-spread-...

I keep recommending @sentencebender.bsky.social’s Boys, Beasts & Men so now I need to read it again myself. You should check it out, too.

Hey booksky folks! Don't miss this one! 💙📚👀 #BlackBookSky

“The cyberpunk, anti-AI, anti-tech-fascism medical thriller you need in your life right now.” —Paul Tremblay “Smart and brims with imagination… Key is a rising star in Afrofuturism, artfully tending the path laid by Octavia E. Butler.” ⎯ Tananarive Due, award-winning author of The Reformatory

Happy happy book birthday to THE HOSPITAL AT THE END OF THE WORLD, by the magnificent @justinkey.bsky.social !!! Here's my blurb for it: "A stunning, pulse-pounding, heart-hurting journey through an all-too-plausible nightmare future." www.justinckey.com/the-hospital...

congrats @sentencebender.bsky.social! I love Courtney.

So proud of my angry drag queen and addict rent boy!! "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead" and RED STAR HUSTLE made it onto the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Doing my calls genuinely does make me feel less helpless — it's low-key for sure, but it's a good not-nothing "I have ten minutes, let me do this" action!

This week, I've been reminding myself that art matters. Stories matter. Books matter. They give people hope. They help people survive. And sometimes, they're the only things *to* survive.

I've been reminding myself that resistance is collective. Whatever thing you need to do, feel pulled to do, know you need to do: do that thing. That thing matters, not because it'll save everyone or fix everything, but as a part of the larger organizing collective that transforms things *together*

Making trans stories, which matters, but also offering up my art in service (illustrating a zine cover put out by a local organizing group, etc) and also I've been working lots with local organizing groups to feed my neighbors. It's tough to always feel like we're helping but we are!

And the zines I think I'm going to use are in this drive:

Writing letters to senators + representatives and sending friends templates to do the same. Participating in local protests. You could host a poster-making session at your house for friends the night before Friday actions - provide creative poster ideas, glitter, colorful sharpies, etc.

Making protest posters and giving away the files for anyone who wants to use them. S/M/L sizes drive.google.com/drive/folder...

In case this is helpful for more folks -- learning from resistance in African SFF has been really helpful for me. Here's a presentation I did on learning liquid forms of resistance from Sofia Samatar and @suyidavies.com (with @mdbell79.bsky.social and Tanvir Ahmed) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaXy...

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How cool is this??!? The National Building Museum is hosting "In Pursuit of Healthy & Equitable Cities" 2/12 - using my novel BLACKFISH CITY as a springboard! Come through, DC! It's free, and there are free copies of the book for all attendees (while supplies last)

Writers & artists who are also activists, what actions are you taking to help / fight back / feel less helpless? I need guidance / inspiration / motivation

🚨NEW STORY 🚨 Last month, over 400 activists were imprisoned by Israel for trying to bring aid into Gaza. 1 of them was Zue, an army vet. Here, me and Zue discuss her voyage to Gaza, imprisonment, NOLA's role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, & more. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/zue-...

One of the worst things about living under fascism. I remember watching the 2020 Delhi pogrom unfold live on social media. We all saw how it happened, how Muslims were attacked, by cops and civilians, & then we saw those same Muslims blamed, & activists & students arrested for the 'riot'.

Anyone know any good histories of liberation theology in Latin America? Not so much the original texts or contemporary theological analyses as actual histories of the movement, its rise, spread, evolution, impact.... decline?

Bay Area, this is tonight!!! 1246 Folsom, 6pm - would love to see you if you can make it! www.instagram.com/p/DT1B1dOkpJ...

TODAY! Join @sentencebender.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @jasonbayani.bsky.social for this fantastic event #sanfrancisco

But it is such a great film! Have you read Things With Beards by @sentencebender.bsky.social ? It imagines Macready as The Thing inhabiting a queer man arriving back to a NYC that is beginning to deal with the AIDS Crisis. One of my favourite short stories clarkesworldmagazine.com/miller_06_16/

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLES was much better than the last one, AND it has the distinction of being the 1st horror movie in years to make me so nauseous I had to leave the theater because I thought I might throw up. (I didn't. & it was admittedly a very personal non universal gross out)