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Baby Cerberus was one of my favourite reads of 2024!! Please let it break your heart.

Speaking of @canconsffh.bsky.social , last year's starter pack for panelists, vendors and volunteeers was popular, so I made a new one for this year. Please tell me if you're on programming or helping out with Can*Con this year and would like to be added, or if you'd like to be removed.

Have you been looking for a round-up of what I'm doing writing-wise lately and where you might be able to find me in the coming months? Here's my update including my schedule for Can*Con and Rainbow Space Magic coming up in October! scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/f...

Have you been looking for a round-up of what I'm doing writing-wise lately and where you might be able to find me in the coming months? Here's my update including my schedule for Can*Con and Rainbow Space Magic coming up in October! scribbledshadows.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/f...

I think if you signed the @translatedhugo.bsky.social petition, you might be interested in this ko-fi that's crowdfunding the African Translation Project!

In love with this line from @alixeharrow.bsky.social 's latest newsletter. "i want immoderate, slatternly sentences, which flaunt themselves, rather than striving at all times toward modest invisibility." YES PLEASE. ALL THE SLUTTY SENTENCES. 😍😍😍

Congrats on your poem! 🌌✨ "The universe is made of stories, not atoms." - Muriel Rukeyser. Can't wait to read your intergalactic tales! What inspired your poem? 🪐📚 #Scifi

"Song for Intergalactic Seas" was largely inspired by my love of Stan Rogers, as well as Analee Newitz's excellent use of "The Last Pirate of Saskatchewan" in their book Autonomous. I wanted to explore what the shanty tropes would look like in space!

Wonderful!!

So proud that my poem from @trollbreathmag.bsky.social "Songs for Intergalactic Seas will be featured in Vol. 3 of Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction!!

We've had loads of beautiful submissions lately but on thing we're always on the look out for is great non-fiction. If you have a unique take on something in the world of SF, Fantasy, technology, or the environment, we'd love to hear from you! #sciencefiction

I was today years old when I realized that Barney was a t-rex.

And here's a new rant-- I mean Moral Guillotines, in which I am tired and frustrated that cheaper, structural solutions to issues like homelessness & poverty) are still not the default, and argue this is an especially egregious moral failing. moralguillotines.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/m...

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Remember: as your employer erodes the resources and support you receive to do your job, it is important to do your job proportionally more shittily

She is done. No more last looks. No more polish. No more what if I added this or that. She is proofread, revised, edited and all shined up. I am euphoric. This is a high I have not experienced before. I wrote a fucking Trinidadian lesbian gothic banger. Dear publishers come get her. 😃 💥💥💥💥

Samjoko magazine invited me to do an interview on poetry highlighting some of the work they published last year. It's short & sweet & on Youtube and also features a reading of my poem, "Cultured Varieties" youtu.be/y2J7voqQhrU?...

Under this contract, if a published story is sold as a movie, or a videogame, or an American Girl doll, the publisher gets 50 per cent without doing any work.

I’ve made an update to this situation. open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

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

Thinking about this extra with steam & alberta censorship nonsense. The reason this quote is hilarious because there are in fact actually MANY EDGE CASES where you cannot simply know if something is a heap, and pornography is even worse for that. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Early favourite quote from Katabasis. "Come on. You know very well what a heap is. You know it when you see it. It is like porn." 🤣🤣🤣

Just got laid off after 5 years at my company. lmk if you know any openings for editors/medical editors/copyeditors/copywriters/content developers in Boston or remote, I guess.

If your response to someone's curiosity is "That question is silly," consider shutting up instead. Silly curiosity is the backbone of learning.

Congratulations to our Best of the Net nominees!

Baubles From Bones Issue 6 is now out!! Scapegoats, old age, and alien gossip – through sharp-toothed friendships and blighted colonization, contemplate which common threads tie our societies together, leave us bound, and knot us into something new in this issue of Baubles From Bones. 📚🪐💀

New poem day! Find "The Point of Measurement," in the newest @bfbzine.bsky.social. It's short & sweet. 👼➕❤️ www.baublesfrombones.com/point-of-mea...

Tfw a professor of yours beta reads your manuscript and says she wants to quote it and teach it 😭😭😭

New poem day! Find "The Point of Measurement," in the newest @bfbzine.bsky.social. It's short & sweet. 👼➕❤️ www.baublesfrombones.com/point-of-mea...

A horrifying and preventable death. It's Ontario in 2025. Nobody should be dying from an abortion.

The fact is that it can be hard to talk to family, friends, and/or professionals. It’s easy to open your phone and type messages to an AI. That casual ease of use is incredibly dangerous. To combat it, there needs to be an active, intentional, and systemic rejection of AI in mental health.

So I (Jacob) volunteer for a crisis line and I’ve already had conversations with people who were trying to work through their issues by talking to an AI. Many people don’t know these crisis lines exist. This is only going to get worse if AI sucks up all the oxygen around mental health and tech.

@thecosmicbgr.bsky.social is fundraising for their Year 3! They publish awesome, weird shit. Please consider supporting them! gofund.me/a242648f

So happy that the folks in Seattle got to see this excellent poem! Read The New Knights here or in our inaugural issue 🗡️🗡️🗡️

Got a fancy new tattoo today!! Now I get to have storms with me wherever I go. ⛈️

Canada petition of the day: I like to call this the "stop fuckin' lyin'" petition. basically a stand against mis/disinformation by holding Members of Parliament to a standard of not fuckin' lyin'. I'll sign that! Pass it on, Canada! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

And btw, the Speculative Poetry Initiative is working to make this a permanent Hugo category! Specpo has been around in the field for ages, with its own awards, but is only recently getting broader recognition, e.g. the new Nebula category. www.poetryhugo.com

Unionize everything

so excited to announce that my debut poetry collection 🌬️WE IN/EXHALE ODYSSEYS 🌬️will be forthcoming in 2027 with @badhandbooks.bsky.social 👀‼️✨

So happy to have a poem included in this issue! Check out my tribute to saguaro cactus skeletons in the link 🌵🏜️💖

My (apparently, I have just learned this is) controversial opinion of the day is that Mario Party is superior to Mario Kart.

Our latest issue features some of our finest poetry yet, including two poems from veterans of the genre: "Of Dawns and New Poems" by @epapasoulioti.bsky.social and "Hanging Gardens of the Moon" by @marysoonlee.bsky.social. #poetry #sciencefiction www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page...

Remember, kids! Hating on workers who want better working conditions is boot licking 101. Flight attendants are literally not paid until the doors close on the plane. If you showed up to work at 9am but didn't start getting paid until 11am, you'd feel some kinda way, too.

Did you miss my Opening Ceremonies or Best Poem Hugo presentation poems at @seattlein2025.org? Fret not! You can still watch the recordings here: www.youtube.com/live/G0GGYLV... | www.youtube.com/live/py7MeV3... And you can read the text here: seattlein2025.org/program-and-...

please spread the news far and wide!! librarians and booksellers, THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now on Netgalley!

Time for my first ever giveaway! ✨ I’m SO excited to share that @FierceReads is giving away FIFTY galleys of THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY, my debut young adult novel in which a transfem Dorian Gray goes down a shame spiral of catastrophic proportions Entries are open until September 15th! bit.ly/4fkOb2J

The #HugoAward for Best Poem goes to “A War of Words”, Marie Brennan (Strange Horizons 9/16/24).

If you’re in Toronto, get out to Pearson to support the Air Canada wildcat strike. This is the most important labour action in years. The government’s use of Section 107 is an act of war on labour, and CUPE is refusing to lay down their arms. If you want a future for labour in Canada, get out there.