This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

We bombed Iran?! | I need to pay that bill | Kansas antitrans ID law!! | Don’t forget Hugo noms | do we still have Venezuela’s president? | *an email re: book promotion* | I can’t pay this bill | cutting funds to MN?? | I need to check on my friends | timeline fights about doomerism | taxes | REPEAT

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

And now that my last story of the year is out, I can post my first ever awards eligibility post! Story links are on my blog: eleanorglewwe.com/2025/12/19/2...

The title of this new article by >30 deaf and hearing authors says it all "Avoiding unintended consequences: Science of reading policies have potential to harm deaf children" doi.org/10.1093/jdsa...

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Lake Phalen last night. East Side Pride!!! Including a Hmong heart. 💛

Minnesotans on Lake Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Calhoun) in Minneapolis. Jan. 30, 2026. 📷: WCCO-TV

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

This is Minneapolis. Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.

🧵ICE has been in my state for over a month. Yesterday, my family and folks from all over the Twin Cities gathered by the thousands in sub-zero conditions to march and to say in no uncertain terms that we don't want ICE here, that we want ICE to leave. 1/5

Wow. He really spoke in front of the *old* Minnesota flag.

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

I just read about this in Le Monde, complete with video, and then I come over to Bluesky and it's like the second thing I see 😂

Oh, wow, this sounds *amazing*!

Things are to the point where my favorite Chinese-English online dictionary is appealing directly to American users on its homepage to speak up against threats to Greenland and NATO.

Best semester ever, thanks to going fully analog katemanne.substack.com/p/i-prevente...

REMINDER to send your 2025 original publications of queer speculative short stories (science fiction, fantasy, horror, anything odd and unusual) to We're Here 2025 for consideration - I am the guest editor this year, with the always awesome @cypayseur.bsky.social!! www.neonhemlock.com/were-here

Okay, that's enough of that. A.I. sucks. Think for yourself. Create for yourself. Struggle. Take your time. Do not cede your humanity to an algorithm because it's hard. Make something yourself. It won't be perfect. But it'll be yours. And call your mom.

So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up. Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.

And now that my last story of the year is out, I can post my first ever awards eligibility post! Story links are on my blog: eleanorglewwe.com/2025/12/19/2...

My newest short story, "A Cup of Forgetting," is out in @fantasymagazine.bsky.social! A forest witch, mothers and daughters, and momentous choices... Content warning in next skeet for those who want it.

and it's FANTASY FRIDAY!! and we have two fantastic pieces to share first up: "The day Rosemary couldn’t remember her daughter’s name, she knew it was time." A Cup of Forgetting by @eleanorglewwe.bsky.social psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

In "The North" by Subodhana Wijeyeratne, a young scribe joins a voyage to hunt sea creatures in waters that once belonged to the feared Northerners, but the truth behind the Northern myths is more complex than they first believed.

Issue 5.4 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A wintry, gothic issue underpinned by disasters and dark transformations. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com This incredible cover is by Mary Ainza 🧡

Issue 99! Poetry by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan & Alex Jennings Flash by Malena Salazar Maciá & Corey Farrenkopf Short fic by Eleanor Glewwe & M.L. Krishnan PLUS interviews with: Kemi Ashing-Giwa; Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older; Moniquill Blackgoose psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...

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 /

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.