Still looking for pitches! You do not have to be a SFWA member to submit!

Most semiprozine work is volunteer or a low honorarium. And invisible. One of the only ways these teams access recognition is through awards. I understand limiting trophies—I would stand behind a limit of primary recipients to protect budget. But listing a name? Costs nothing. Means everything.

Find "A Science Center Education" in the latest issue of Haven Spec! Science Centers are really magical y'all. This poem is about an experience I had at when when I was child, like 8-12ish. Compassion comes from storytelling, but also from truths we learn about the world.

Poetry by @aijiang.bsky.social, Marvellous Mmesomachi Igwe, @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social, @lynnesargent.bsky.social, Oladosu Michael Emerald, and @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social!

Our ✨June 2026 Issue✨ is now free to read online! Find it here: havenspec.com/issues/issue... Or get the EPUB and PDF: ko-fi.com/s/90e1d65c0d Please read it and please spread the word!

I keep saying that speculative fiction is related to politics more than most other genres of fiction. When thinking about these kinds of questions, we're thinking about what type of future we want. When we're thinking about science fiction, we're thinking about the impact of policy and technology.

I kinda hate this 8 person limit. Limiting for the actual physical trophy, sure. Sending out 20 trophies is probably financially prohibative. But for announcing finalists and winners? Read and post everyone's name. There is no cost or strain to adding all the names to the ballot or website.

I will categorically say that the answer to the question of "does X country have a right to commit genocide" is always no. That's not a thing you get to do, and if you're claiming that your right to exist is incompatible with not getting to commit genocide, you should try harder.

👀June 2026 Poetry👀 "A Science Center Education" is a poem by @lynnesargent.bsky.social about life and chance and how lucky we are that we exist and can build all our hopeful fragile lives together. Find it in our June 2026 Issue! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

True love is having a partner who always points out when the moon is being *especially* gorgeous

By this schedule it looks like the vote for a Speculative Poetry Hugo will be held at the meeting on July 26, 2026 which begins at 9am PDT

The WSFS Virtual Business Meeting agenda is now live on our site! You can both read and download it at this link: www.lacon.org/businessmeet...

Our latest issue, Planetary Possibilities 🌎, is out now! 🔋 Decarbonization | @brusselermel.bsky.social 🌐 Global Justice Report | @benlockwood.bsky.social 📖 Ecofiction Review | Adam Garnet Jones 🍂 The Rotting Leaf | @lynnesargent.bsky.social www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

Free will: does refusing to believe in it make you a ‘bad’ person? Research is challenging this old idea theconversation.com/free-will-do...

the lie: "Nobody wants to work anymore." the truth: "Employers don't want to pay anyone anymore."

I have a smol poem in the new issue of @havenspec.bsky.social 👀✨‼️

Our ✨June 2026 issue✨ is ready! Subscribers will get it tomorrow, and everyone else can read it July 2nd! In this issue, you'll find five new stories and six new poems, many of which are vaguely environmental and all of which are amazing!

Packing a whole lot into an itty bitty space is the name of the game for flash fiction. Our stories and poems still pack a big emotional punch, though! Subscribing means you get these delightful snack-size stories and poems right in your inbox. Let's go! store.smallwondersma...

Behind a paywall but this is also the reason why we can't get more car-free days on Ottawa St in #Hamilton

It is at one of these meetings that there will be a vote to confirm a permanent Poetry category in the Hugo awards. If you're attending WorldCon, please attend and support if you're able! Find out more at: www.poetryhugo.com/home

Ontario is overrun with ads literally stating "We are building more jails to keep you safe" so I really don't feel like my fiction is "overdoing" it

These vehicles should be illegal. Our politicians need to stop being such fucking cowards. The car may be essential to NA but the mega truck/SUV are not.

Dead Boys in Space by Sara Youngblood Gregory  reviewed by William Shaw @williamshaw.bsky.social Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

The path diverges, and you must choose-- but the choice feels like a wild thing, impossible to pin down, and yet, you must, find the swiftness and the courage, and decide your own fate, darling-- or so the opportunity lost. #TinyPoem

Mr. @mark-carney.bsky.social, the people of Canada yearn for closer regulatory integration with the EU so we are not forced into American trucks with American values

If you want to, you can vote for me for fan writer. But either way, please vote!

I've just published a summer round-up with all my latest-writing related news: scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/s...

I've just published a summer round-up with all my latest-writing related news: scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/s...

Sometimes I read a poem and it alters my understanding of my own soul in perpetuity such is the magic of poetry

My newsletter got a bit spicy this week buttondown.com/charliejane/...

If you're voting for the Aurora Awards, don't sleep on J. Y. Zhang's amazing poem from our issue 30: "From Dust". Read it here:

I am 50% of the way through CABARET IN FLAMES after *loving* BUT NOT TOO BOLD. At this point anything by @hachepueyo.bsky.social is an auto-read for me. Her writing is so rich, so imaginative. I can't wait for this!

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you: Gotta be a two way tie between "Strange Days at Blake Holesey High" which was kind of like X Files set at a high school and was apparently (I just learned!) filmed in Hamilton And Popular Mechanics for Kids which was a kids science show

The *actual* dead economy risk is that our institutions and markets will continue to move capital from productive activity into memestocks, vibes, and bubbles. 19/

TORONTO: tomorrow at 7 PM! I'll be in conversation with Dr. M. Murphy and discussing The AI Con at the Jackman Humanities Institute. RSVP at aiconto.eventbrite.ca.

I have a huge problem with the "uwu smol bean" framing that some business owners/publishers/etc. take You are an adult!! You are in charge!!! I'm not a publisher, but I am a business owner. I have clients and I have contractors, now. And while yes sometimes there is a sense of -

Brandon Crilly has some games writing! brandoncrilly.com/bestiarium-v... And also Drive Thru RPG www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/4...

This is too fun & lovely 🥰

Review: Higher Magic by @courtney-floyd.com This is a fresh take on the dark academia genera focusing on a more realistic story of graduate studies (but still with magic obviously). It's quite a good read! I especially enjoyed the little world-building details included throughout. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

As a compliment to my story, "The Once Green Forest of My Lungs," Rotting Leaf invited me to write a little mini-essay on Eco-Fiction. I hope you enjoy it!

"Eco-fiction for me is the deepest expression of this moral imperative–to present the natural world, this thing that has been cast as something so alien to us, as something worthy of empathy." - @lynnesargent.bsky.social on Ecofiction www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

It's new story day! Find "The Once Green Forest of My Lungs," out now with @rottingleafmag.bsky.social. www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

Last week Reactor announced their "Hidden Gems Book Club" in which folks read from Reactor's "Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century" list. Pretty cool! Check it out if you missed it when it was posted. Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell is on the list! reactormag.com/the-m...

It's new story day! Find "The Once Green Forest of My Lungs," out now with @rottingleafmag.bsky.social. www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-...

"I have a waterskin at hand, and strip down naked, feeling the uncomfortable pulse of my bladder. I bear my skin to the moonlight, hoping it will be tempting enough, dreading it will be too tempting." - @lynnesargent.bsky.social in "The Once Green Forest of My Lungs"

For my TO peeps, The Tiger's Bride at Soulpepper is AMAZING. Yes, it's Angela Carter inspired and whoa is the whole thing INSPIRED. If you love fairytales, if you love weird spiky theatre stuff, please go see it before it closes! nowtoronto.com/culture/thea...

"Benjamin fires 99...workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000 % productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage...in excess of $50 million [and] $5 million [in productivity loss] from his one remaining employee, who... [now] spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit."

Over on Whatever, I talk about the legit business email I got that was written with "AI," why I thought it meant the sender's domain was hacked by scammers, and why using "AI" in business emails automatically lumps you in with scammers and frauds. Don't do it! whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/11/p...

even if libraries caused readers to buy fewer books* it would be worth it, in order to live in the kind of society that produces readers and books. *they don't, and this survey doesn't successfully demonstrate that they do

It's the final “regular” edition of GET LIT! Featuring GG award-winner and lovely human Anuja Varghese discussing A Kiss of Crimson Ash. 1230pm on 93.3 / cfmu.ca or pods or: tinyurl.com/mv9xb886 Next week is E500! @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @anuja-v.bsky.social