Excited for my short story "A Cup of Forgetting" to appear very soon in Issue 99 of Fantasy Magazine! 🌲🌿🍵

and the issue 99 COVER ✨ Asterisa, Weaver of Constellations, by Babs Webb

are you ready for our issue 99 Table of Contents? here it is!!!! (thread) ✨✨💖 POETRY More Than A Blank Parenthesis Equals God’s Forgetfulness, by @nwuguruchidiebere.bsky.social Grove of Jealous Lovers, by @alexjennings.bsky.social /

all this omg if you use these words ppl will think you use chatgpt! Omg stop using emdashes. Excuse, I will use whatever the hell I want. Writers wrote whatever they wanted and this machine gobbled it all up and now we can't use words and punctuation because the machine spits it out? Absurd.

We’re delighted to be joined by @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social, author of “Limue’s Alphabet” in The Future Fire #74, for a quick chat about alphabets and languages, in this week’s installment of our #microinterview series press.futurefire.net/2025/10/micr...

Oh, look, a cover! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ann-l...

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN AUGUST 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's July's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

This story is narrated by a chorus of "Jewish reds" who've built a utopian housing collective in 20th c. NYC. When a not-much-beloved member of the co-op dies, the inexplicable haunting begins. This is a richly textured, often funny story--I quite enjoyed it.

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed! "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

Strange Horizons is IMO the grandparent of indie online SFF zines. Started IIRC by young writers w no pro publishing experience, online, free to read, paying good rates. Later a 501c3 nonprofit. I would not have known I could start BCS w/o their example. And still fresh & current. Happy Birthday SH!

A super-smart novelette about poetry and divinity and language in the face of cultural contact: “Limue’s Alphabet” by Eleanor Glewwe (@eleanorglewwe.bsky.social) with art by the fabulous Barbara Candiotti. futurefire.net/2025.74/fict...

My fantasy novelette “Limue’s Alphabet” is out now in @thefuturefire.bsky.social, with artwork by Barbara Candiotti! This is a story about language, writing, colonialism, and divinity, and it’s one of my favorite things I’ve written.

New issue: 2025.74 Fiction and art by Barbara Candiotti, Carmen Moran, Eleanor Glewwe, Justin Taroli, Leuren Ferebee, Nancy S. Koven, Naomi Simone Borwein, Rowley Amato, Toeken & V. Zixin. press.futurefire.net/2025/09/new-...

Look what's on display at the public library in Grinnell, Iowa! (Featuring @ekjohnston.bsky.social and @rachelhartmanbooks.com, among others.)

"It’s a particular feeling when a book sinks straight into your bones, and in order to write about it, you have to pull it back out again." @mollytempleton.com reviews Rachel Hartman's Among Ghosts, the newest YA novel from the author of Seraphina and Tess of the Road reactormag.com/book-review-...

This was so good!

10 writers by whom I've read more than 5 books: 1. Megan Whalen Turner 2. Martha Wells 3. E. K. Johnston 4. Orhan Pamuk 5. José Saramago 6. Chaim Potok 7. Ann Leckie 8. Kristin Cashore 9. Malinda Lo 10. Elizabeth Wein

Happy book birthday, Sabrena. 🩵 Releasing from Greenwillow Books today on hardcover or audio, this middle grade fantasy is perfect for readers who enjoyed The Last Mapmaker, Mañanaland, and Graciela in the Abyss.

Augur Press submissions for novellas & novelettes open tomorrow. 🫡 Stay tuned !!!

Putting on my Publisher hat, I have an announcement: Augur Press will be open to submissions of Novellas & Novelettes from both agented and unagented writers starting THIS WEEK! It’s not open yet. But while we wait… AMA about publishing with this fledgling small press.

Willow greets Among Ghosts!

Finally got around to reading this excellent conversation over at @amandasbrews.bsky.social! I definitely relate to the struggle of fitting an ace romantic storyline into the pacing expectations of YA fantasy.

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

I finished @littlebadger.bsky.social's Sheiné Łénde yesterday and loved it. I only wish I could've read it in fewer sittings. I still think Little Badger has such a fresh voice, and this novel has so much heart and a really satisfying resolution. I know it'll be among my favorite books this year.

Among Ghosts by @rachelhartmanbooks.com!

There's very little any authority can do to control a story. Learn other people's stories. Discuss them. Share them. Say, "I just read this amazing book...." ...and take the fear, the shame the other side wants people to feel, right out of the equation. You have this power. Use it.

This is a delightful story! And a bit of mystery still lingers at the end, at least for me... Early on, it made me think of Sarah Pinsker's "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather," so I had to smile when the author cited that story as inspiration in her interview!

Your friendly reminder I am available to copyedit your novel or academic writing! Pass this along if you know any indie authors or academics who’d like me to sweat the small stuff so they don’t have to. 😊

You know I'm a sucker for otters and the north, but even aside from that this story by @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social in @castofwonders.org is so, so, so good: www.castofwonders.org/2025/02/cast...

This was absolutely delightful!

Finally picked up my pre-ordered copy of The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com! Cat not included ^_^ Might be doing a buddy read of this with my best friend across the Atlantic.

My newest short story, "The Otter Woman's Daughter," is out in @castofwonders.org! It's my first story to be podcasted--thanks to @divadiane.bsky.social for narrating! This is a classical music-inflected selkie story set in Minnesota 🎵 🎻 🦦 🌲

Wind composer: "The horns provide a nice roundness to this, when you add them, as opposed to the spikiness of the reed quintet." My notes: Horns provide bouba to reed kiki.

Ahhh, stumbled upon such a cool loanword adaptation! Too bad it wasn't in time to share with my Loanword Adaptation students last semester. So my friend gave me her childhood copy of Natsarkékia et autres contes géorgiens by Kéthévane Davrichewy.

Today it dawned on me that "painstaking" comes from "taking pains." I'd always kind of parsed it as "pain staking." I mean, that's how I pronounce it. This is almost as good as the Great Beribboned Realization of 2024.

Wow, I can't believe Volapük (ვოლაპუკი) has an entry in the Explanatory Dictionary of the Georgian Language.

GigaNotoSaurus will be reopening to submissions from January 1st - January 15th, 2025, so if you have SFF from 5,000-25,000 words, please send them our way! For more information on how to submit to GNS and what we’re looking for, please visit our website: giganotosaurus.org/submission-g...

Dec. 1st was the 1st Sunday of Advent and a communion Sunday at my parents' church. My mother volunteered for communion setup and discovered the usual stock of communion bread was distressingly depleted. So she ended up cutting up...frozen hot dog buns from the church kitchen.

Today on a Wisconsin farm near Lake Pepin: some chickens, a 16-year-old rescue Icelandic sheep, a donkey, and a cow

My upcoming book, out next June, now has a pre-order link and a transcendently beautiful cover (by Eliot Baum)! Go check it out at my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/among-...

My most recent (not that recent) short story is "Maghda's Song," in @anathemamagazine.bsky.social. You might like it if you're looking for: 🎵Music (with a whiff of ethnomusicology) 🌏Mixed diaspora feels ✨No romance 🐈A sweet cat (yes, another one)

Guess I'm here now too.