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)

PM Press is having an awesome 40% off sale for their incredible, invaluable Indigenous Resistance catalog, with coupon code RESIST!! You need these books, now and always. pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

Loved this episode. It makes me want a show where writers just talk and try to make each other feel better. Love the point about celebrating wherever you are in the process. And for the record, @claymcleod.bsky.social is an astonishing performer and an astonishing writer (Read KILL YOUR DARLINGS!)

Thursday in San Francisco! Coffee hour, readings & discussion with: 📖 Mukethe Kawinzi 📕 @jasonbayani.bsky.social 🦖 @sentencebender.bsky.social 📚 @annaleen.bsky.social 1246 Folsom near Civic Center ☕️ Coffee hour 5-6 🎤 Readings start at 6 Hosted by me & @fabulistmag.bsky.social

Today I get to unveil the UK cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! The art is by the legendary Stephen Player, who has done art for Barker and Pratchett. I adore how he shows off the different personalities of Garrodigh's heads! It comes out in the UK from @arcadiabooks.bsky.social this July!

Hooray! Wooing the Witch Queen's UK paperback edition is out today, and it's beautiful. I'm so happy! (And there are now a kajillion signed copies at my wonderful local Waterstones, which has been SO supportive.) Grab your copy now: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen #romancelandia

Happy Tuesday here’s Jack O’Connell in Armani

So so good

How to get into nature.

Today's Poem of the Day is the fantastic "Occasional Poem" by Jacqueline Woodson read it, YOU'RE WELCOME www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58428/...

Lucky for you, there will be copies of @sentencebender.bsky.social ‘s novella Red Star Hustle at Stir on Thursday!

NYC Book Folks! Join us 2/7 for the first @bklynbooksbooze.bsky.social Book Fair! Check out the amazing lineup! I'll be there with my award-winning fiction AND critically acclaimed non-fiction! Psyched to sign copies of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC & tell you a ghost story! 🖤👻 More info below:

I don't want MY posts to go viral, I want some dude named Bigolas Dickolas talking about how great my books are to go viral and sell a bajillion copies for me so I can take a sabbatical from my day job

the deadlands ISSUE 41 with fiction guest edited (again!!) by @vajra.me, and the same amazing amazing amazing amazing poetry and non fiction you have always loved IT IS RELEASED UPON THE WORLD check the ToC + the link to grab your own by supporting us as a Patron is here:

This sounds so so so good

And by the time Malcolm was in the ground, King became much sharper in his critiques of American imperialism. As James Baldwin said, "by the time each met his death, there was practically no difference between them." wapo.st/4sODOdS

I’m not going to say anything I don’t say at least once a week. Read the man’s actual books. You can save some coin and get them all in this one volume. Especially, white folks. bookshop.org/p/books/a-te...

This sounds so amazing - just bought my copy!!

Reckoning X is here! It's our collectively-edited 10th anniversary issue, themed on communication in environmental justice. See @monarobot.bsky.social's cover art and read editorials from @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social, @cgaubrey.bsky.social, and an exquisite corpse (!): reckoning.press/reckoning-x/