This is obscene, ghastly, unacceptable.

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2026! 🎉 This is our second ever #MSWL Day on Bluesky. We’re happy you’re here! You can, as of TODAY, search Bluesky and ManuscriptWishList.com posts at once: manuscriptwishlist.com/smart-search. All posts are verified by a human who works in publishing. ☕

What does it mean to imagine a different world? "Imagination is a vital tool of resistance... you have to imagine yourself to be free," @chineloonwualu.bsky.social tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social. At 8pm with @teresempierre.bsky.social, editor of "As the Earth Dreams" | Producer: Constantina Varlokostas

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

My friend @lisacai.bsky.social’s “Blood and Tea Leaves” is out in the February issue of @penumbricmag.bsky.social!! Lisa brings evocative imagery to this fantastical re-telling of the life of Afong Moy. In conclusion PT Barnum was awful, 10/10 for Lisa’s vision www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

My short story "Blood and Tea Leaves" is in here! www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

BREAKING: @OntarioPCParty convention today @fordnation was asked: “Grassy Narrows is still being poisoned. Will you compensate Grassy Narrows for the ongoing mercury crisis?” Ford said thanks to "my OPP" for clearing protesters. #FreeGrassy #OnPoli #GrassyNarrows #OPC2026

We are elated to announce the BRAVE NEW WEIRD Award Winners, Class of 2025! This year's Table of Contents truly has something for everyone...as long as you like it Weird. BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol. Four is out in July. Congratulations, Weirdos🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/47f6tt48

Hey friends, can I ask you all to give our @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Crowdfundr a look? Any amount helps us with our workspace renovation plans, if you're not able (which I understand!), if you could share the link that would be amazing. Love you all! 🤗🧡 👻📚 crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...

I have now created a template letter you can send to your MPP if you're in Ontario or to your MP anywhere in Canada; while this is primarily a provincial issue, it could also have major repercussions nationally & that must be considered Template below:

I was trying to give them a chance to respond, but it's been 15 hrs and nothing so: LA WorldCon is using genAI "art" on their website and promo materials. Given everything that went down last year (and with SWFA recently), it's pretty disheartening to see this.

"Margery Lung is Unstoppable" is in here! Thanks for the shoutout :)

Making art gives you power. Writing gives you power. Literacy gives you power. Fascists HATE when you have power because you can fight them with it. They also hate when an avenue of power is out of reach to them, re: art (of all mediums). They can't make art bc it takes vulnerability to make it--

Shove this down the throat of everyone who signed that Hollywood creative AI open letter

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

We need to be really aware of the danger of this. GenAI is a tool of oppression & conformity. When all art looks & sounds the same, it has no impact to change the world.

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics. And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF. adamant.moksha.io/publication/...

www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong... here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Here is the beautiful front cover for SUFFERING THE OTHER, art and design by RewX. See the loaded TOC here: bit.ly/4i03e3h (TOC is also in the alt-text here). Coming February 2026, pre-order open in December. Reminder, this is a benefit for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center!

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Well, glad to share good news! Vol3 is trending at #17 in its category -- that is AWESOME news. #IReadCanadian kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/year-s-best-canadian-fantasy-and-science-fiction-volume-three

Come one, come all! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 this Saturday, Nov 8 at Bakka-Phoenix @ 3pm. Ten contributors will be doing brief readings from their work and the fine folks at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have copies for sale. See you there and pls share WIDELY.

🎃 Horror writers! Our FREE panel is TOMORROW (Oct 28, 2pm ET) ✨ 3 top agents share horror #MSWL 📚 Mini classes on character/fear + tension/dread 🔍 Live query critique Featuring Literary Agents Linda Camacho, Erica Bauman & Tamara Kawer Get your free ticket: manuscriptacademy.com/mswl-live-ag...

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military. If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

For anyone who wants to know. (This is for Pinterest.)

Submit your claim here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

...and the rest! Ebook pre-orders are live now, with trade paperback to follow shortly! www.amazon.ca/Years-Canadi... 2/2

Please sign: A House of Commons petition to hold MPs accountable for misinformation they circulate. *It's a two step signature, you'll need to check your email to confirm you are who you say you are. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

The assertion of technology “rights” and the systematic removal of human rights are part of the same fascist project.

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works. tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

PSA: If you're at FanExpo Canada this weekend, take a moment to stop by the Bell Canada A I Photo Booth to tell them how upsetting it is that they're undercutting the artists of Artist Alley by offering free A I photos (that's trained on the stolen art of creators) to attendees.

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

I am very pleased to announce the table of contents for SUFFERING THE OTHER, a benefit anthology for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center. For plain text version see the ALT text. Coming late 2025 or early 2026.

Think about how fucked up you'd need to be to starve a baby, or support someone who's doing so. Think how many millennia of evolutionary conditioning you have to override as a human, as a primate, as a mammal, to stifle the screaming you feel inside when you see a skeletal baby.

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

A reminder to sign petitions www.change.org/p/tell-maste...

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀

I recount my #dashcon2 experience in my blog lisacchen.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/d...

I’m not attending Worldcon this year & everything seems to be a mess but this is so mind-bendingly bad on so many levels that I think it’s worth unpacking while I’m in the no-space of airports

Did you miss #DashCon2 's duel between the Muppet Joker and Strange Aeons? I got footage: youtu.be/PV33GdCYouQ