Announcing: my next book! THE LAST INFINITY is a time travel novel full of queer characters, wonky timelines, and cute robots. Check it out here! alexisamesbooks.com/2026/05/18/a.... #WritingCommunity #indieauthor #SFF

OMG I cannot wait for this one...

Congratulations to Deadlands 2025 poets continued!! Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi, Belle Biscotti, @shanaross.bsky.social, and last but not even a little be least: Ellen Romano. These writers are astounding, powerhouse craftspeople. I'm so thankful to be entrusted with bringing their work to the world.

"War in the dust, in the glass pitcher / of water with the sun flooding through. / Today my people are grieving / and I am in a city far away" From "Poem in the City with Maryam, ya Maryam," one of two new poems by Philipe AbiYouness for National Poetry Month. ➡️ buff.ly/29LV40o

Hoooooo-wheeeee this is a dense and toothsome story

Putting this bug in your ear, @nicoledubuc.bsky.social (will vouch for it being a hell of a novella)

poets.ca/incomplete-r... Thanks to the LCP for showcasing this one - it's particularly tender for me, still.

It's that time of the year: time to nominate your favourite Canadian spec fic! Nominations close on April 4, 2026.

friends, please share ❤️👹: everyone who follows my bsky account between now (1:08PM EST) and when i’ve crashed into bed with my yasso bar (8PM EST) will be entered into a raffle for a free full edit of 3k words or less i’m tired of being unpopular lfg

You’ll find lots of fantastic work here, including “Flighty” by @ianli.bsky.social (Spring ‘25) and “I have been to the market” by @shanaross.bsky.social (Autumn ‘25), both in the Best Poem/Song category!

Many years ago I wrote a recipe fairytale :) silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/j...

Oh, this is a fun challenge: Sarah Pinsker Lydia Davis Ted Chiang Emma Burnett Yiyun Li Etgar Keret (although I feel most of my experience with him is dancing at the 10 year cutoff)

In case you are nominating/voting on things...

@mynachang.bsky.social says I’m harrowing, and I couldn’t be more flattered 😍

Peine forte et dure - the news feels like stone after stone being added, and I'm still trying to stand.

And all backers now get a copy of my gingerbread recipe, which...is actually that good. You'll never bother with another.

Hey folks! Come out to support this fantastic anthology - edited by a Canadian, and published by a Canadian small press with a global group of authors. Next up for stretch goals: interior art www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...

There's nothing like getting sick (cough, headache, general bleh) to make me realize how much work it takes to stay open to people, always find a generous interpretation, stop myself from fiery rants about complicity and malignant capitalism, etc. Am tired. Please send soup.

My friend referred to two of her colleagues as "the minor gods of meh" and yeah, now I'm obsessed with the pantheon of mediocrity.

I'm incredibly finicky about taking classes. I'll be kind about it, but I'm not spending time or money with people who aren't good teachers. I keep coming back for these workshops.

He flew away before I could get a picture, but I have met the fattest of fat magpies. Anyone know what that portends? (I believe he flipped me off as he flew away, but, like, that's all magpies all the time, right?)

This one still makes me feel all the feels. So grateful to @thebraag.bsky.social for giving this poem a platform.

SIGH.

But I do have hope for humanity. (Cheers to another semester coaching amazing young humans in a course on Interpersonal Dynamics.)

This is a truth I am willing to work with. If I start now, I think I can have something coming out of the oven when the kid gets home from school.

The best part of coaching is when you tell someone what you, yourself, need to hear. (In this case, that stability and resilience are absolutely not the same thing.)

And what am I doing? I'm reading poems with an open heart, I'm trying to find the clarity to write, I'm sending stupid little gifs to my friends so they know I love them.

oooooh....this one's gonna be good....

In this quiet little moment, as I am drinking a second cup of coffee and trying to muster willpower to do my job and mundane things today, I am suddenly fixated on how often my kid has seen me cry in the past year, the last two days especially.

It took an extra coffee and a mid-afternoon ice cream sandwich, but I think I'm going to make it through today.

"In my village, they bathe a blue, / red-crested rooster with a garden hose. / He struts and spreads his wings / and has no patience for little things like me." From "The Vegetarian," a new poem by @shettyvu.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/56WEUXx

OK. This is cool. I'm so excited for a chance to celebrate some of the poems I read and loved this past year.

I have just set the alarm for the first time in weeks and I think it would be a) unseemly and b) freak out the cats if I threw an temper tantrum with actual kicking and wailing on the floor...but it might still happen.

I'm both happy to see a new year and wildly unready to come out of my cocoon of liminal time.

Starting the year with a complicated one - featured today on Poetry Pause @canadianpoets.bsky.social : poets.ca/a-bell-is-a-...

For romance and sci-fi fans, you can now request SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL by @cornellwriter.bsky.social on @netgalley.bsky.social. Details here: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... #books #scifi #sff #romance #scifiromance

Taking a moment to treasure our Best Microfiction nominees! Congratulations to: Devan Murphy @shanaross.bsky.social Carter Lappin Veronica Tucker @susanllin.bsky.social

I would deeply love to need less time staring into space. I carve out time to write, but the time it takes to re-establish connection with my heart and all the words in my brain...it's increasing. I can hear the digital handshake screaming and failing like it's 1990 and I'm trying to get online.

So close to entering the liminal time between years...

ooooh...👀

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Happy Hannukkah. (Oh, how very much is packed into that small statement, how uneasily the layers mingle. Let's stop killing each other and make more light in the darkness.)

So cool.

Say what you will about the complicated social dynamics that produced Cole Porter...but close to 100 years later, damned if those tunes are not still catchy and infectious.

My poor kid is in the middle of his high school production...and losing his voice after a week with the flu. On the one hand, there's only one way to really learn resilience. At the same time UGH, my poor baby.

Not to toot my own horn, but...also, why not? I have finished my prep (after six weeks of planning) for a retreat I'm running tomorrow, and it's gonna be GREAT.

Ooooh, I love a good insight survey...

It's Used Book Sale Day at my library, and I do not care if I have not finished my pile from last quarter, the only restrictions I will place on myself are that I must be able to carry my own purchases back to the car unassisted.

I spent three days last week putting together an eligibility MEGA POST for @strangehorizons.bsky.social, with all the people and work within it that's eligible for awards in 2026. I hope you'll check it out, click on some things, and consider putting your faves forward 🥹 Thank you, and here's to 26!

I'm so giddy - still - to be in this kind of company. The whole issue is lush and complicated. Find some time to sit with all these works, as a curated experience. You'll be glad you opened yourself that way.