I'm delighted to be attending my first @wiscon.bsky.social this year, and the tentative panel schedule is up! Find me on: Androids and Cyborgs and Robots, Oh My! Crossdressing Sword Girls &&& Anarchist Tech all on Friday! program.wiscon.net/PublicSchedu...

Canadians, please sign this petition calling on the govt to protect telework/hybrid work for federal employees. It's a crucial accessibility measure for a lot of people, reduces commuting impact on the environment, leads to better QOL, you don't need me to tell you: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Congrats, Google. We now have unreliable AI narrators of impoverished information sources, representing their hallucinations as truth. I'm glad I learned to use a card catalog when I was a kid, because fuck this. I'm going to the library. (3/3)

The libby app is truly one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I implore EVERY one to get a library card and get the app! So many books at your fingertips!!

The fact that we still don't have *this* is why I am 100% uninterested in Nolan's Odyssey.

Without stating your age, post your favorite film released the year you turned 18. I'm 100% dating myself here (in the inverse way)... but this is a very easy Cabin in the Woods

Congrats to all the nominees, and especially to @lynnesargent.bsky.social whose Solarpunk Magazine poem, "Swamp Witch Season" is a finalist for this year's Rhysling Award!! #solarpunk #poetry

It's official: "Beyond the Standard Model" is a Rhysling finalist.

So pleased to be able to announce that BOTH of my nominated poems have become Rhysling Award finalists this year! Swamp Witch Season from @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social && The Lowest Kind of Fable from @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social

Hamilton, ON pals! Spring is in the air and that means it is Books and Brews season again! We’ll be at Collective Arts Brewery with our friends @stelliform.press @bookhugpress.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social & more for a local book fair for adults. Grab some bevvies and browse the stacks 📚🖤🍻

I really hope that one day we get chosen for the long-form census. I'll never be chosen for jury duty, and I love this kind of civic duty goddamnit.

New poem! "A Mermaid Looks at 40" by Fran Wilde! buff.ly/OYy2XLS

We have friends everywhere.

In today's installment of being the human embodiement of a puddle, I'm crying at my laptop finishing up an essay about how absolutely wonderful *redacted* friend and fellow writer is.

My car's manual was looking rough, so I ordered a new one through Perfect Books. Proving that if I can get a 1974 Super Beetle manual from an indie bookstore in Ottawa, there really is no need to give your money to the Indigo, Amazon, etc. of the world.

DAY TWO of our Kickstarter, and we are closing in on $3,000!! 🎉 Can we make it to 50 backers today? 👀 Like and share! Back us below! Help us keep our quiet, slice of life magazine running. 💚

Signed two contracts today for some forthcoming writing pieces! (1 Essay, 1 poem). It's always so exciting to get to share my work!

AUGURIANS !! Kickstarter support MAKES or BREAKS a pro mag ✨💪 Our cozy fantasy sibling has 3 GOALS—& only your backs, shares, and IMMACULATE vibes can get us there. 🔥🐉☕️ We need: $6.5k CA / $4.8k US for YEAR 5! $13k CA / $9.6k US for YEAR 6! $15.5k CA / $11.4k for PRINT! Share, share, share !!

do you like sad academics on Earth? i also got you.

O heck you guys, the Aurora awards list (including me!) made ye olde CBC! :D Tis THE BIG TIME

Your voice really matters right now. If you would like show your support, join us in requesting that Wizards and Hasbro voluntarily recognize our union by signing our petition at cwa.org/uwotcletter

Continuing #ALUPoetsResist, we speak with @mahailasmith.ca about their poetry collection, SEED BEETLE (@stelliform.press), which follows a community fighting to reclaim its agency & unlearn harmful colonial practices. Learn more and listen to a reading of a poem at alllitup.ca/poets-resist...

Poetry acceptances yesterday and today! "My Bot Boyfriend Has Read Wuthering Heights Too Many Times" will be in @sfpoetry.bsky.social's Eye to the Telescope: Paying Tribute next month. "My[celial] Eulogy" will be in @utopiascifi.bsky.social's Cozy issue in June! Huzzah!

three years since this novel came out thanks to all the readers who decided they would journey into the damp underworld of Toronto with me thanks to everybody who embraced a polyphonic, oozy book about what a building actually costs and thanks to everyone who got mad at me too embrace the Wet.

"Taken together we believe it is NOT in patients’ best interest to consent when asked this question. And so long as we are at least being asked for consent, this is a refusal with potentially meaningful systemic effects..."

Please help get the word out that I am open for submissions. Thyme Travellers is an award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror. My publisher and I are making it a series. Submissions are open for short stories, pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

AAHH it's official! I am a Hugo Award Finalist for Best Poem, for "The World To Come"! I can't believe my name is there with so many writers I admire 🥹😭 Thank you so much to everyone who nominated, and to everyone who reads spec poetry! 💙

Not a new release, but definitely a book worth catching whileyou can. Lynne's poetry is gorgeous and packed with feels!

Small update: I learned a couple of weeks ago that my book will be out in paperback instead of hardcover, which hopefully makes it a bit more accessible for folks who are interested but daunted by the high prices of hardcovers (I get it). Preorder links below!

The publisher of my poetry collection, A REFUGE OF TALES, will unfortunately be closing at the end of this year. So, they're clearing out stock. Get 20% off with code RENPRESS20. If you haven't gotten a copy yet, this will be your last chance for a while! alllitup.ca/books/a-refu...

ICYMI: Whitney French was recently interviewed by Shawn Conner in The Vancouver Sun about her phenomenal novel-in-verse, Syncopation (Wolsak & Wynn, 2026). 💜 Read the full article: vancouversun.com/entertainmen... @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @vancouversun.bsky.social #books

It’s poetry month! And I have a poetry book! TIME TRAVEL IS EASY examines Deep Time, queerness, childhood traumas, dinosaurs, and the dread of the late Anthropocene. It includes my Rhysling-nominated poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings.” Available here: mimulus.weebly.com/books.html

I built another small game! This is a remake of a puzzle game I have enjoyed playing in the past. I also included an algorithm for finding the optimal number of moves. Trying to find the optimal sequence as a human is an additional challenge to the game. birchmd.github.io/water-sort/

If you just heard about The Dare and want to read its short story, you can! It's up for free on @uncannymagazine.bsky.social's site.

Our submissions for Issue 2 close in a week! Poets, here is a wishlist of poetry vibes from our poetry editors Jess Cho and Angel Leal 👀 Read our full guidelines here, then send us your poems and make all their dreams come true: othersidespec.com/guidelines?u...

We are bejoyed to see our friends @amalelmohtar.com, @sarahgailey.bsky.social, @ourmankoto.bsky.social, @teresempierre.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, @kellyrobson.com, and @acwise.bsky.social among the top ten Locus Award finalists! Celebrate with your most arcane artifacts!!

The Season 2 Frieren opener is the bangeriest of all anime bangers (imagine the heart eyes emoji here, except for instead of heart eyes, its hear ears)

In case you didn't know, one of my favourite myths is Blodeuwedd! I went on a whole Welsh road trip about it and we found a fancy rock in a field. This is not my first Blodeuwedd poem and it won't be my last but it is particularly rage-filled! Find "Unabashed Appetite" in this issue of Penumbric!

Thank you to all the contributors in April's #Penumbric! Laura DeHaan, Jacqueline West, Charlie Winter, Donald Patten, Sage Early, @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social, Barbara Candiotti, Dana Beehr ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

We actually do need YA books that don't have (or have less) sex, romance and violence. We also need books that have those topics. We need YA to be varied - teens are diverse! - but we also must refrain from moralizing those themes. Abstinence isn't "clean", and sex isn't "dirty."

Artemis II obviously yet another covert project financed by Big Poetry

My newest poem, "The Vampire Contemplates Skincare," is out now @smallwondersmag.com! Do beauty concerns ever really die? && where is that line between undead and eternal? smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-va...

Today's poem by Lynne Sargent looks unflinchingly at being a vampire. Read "The Vampire Contemplates Skin Care" and then put some lotion on, for goodness sake.

This was a really wonderful little retro-hopepunk fable. A truly enjoyable way to spend an hour or two.

I made an incremental/idle game! It's in the style of classics like Kittens Game and Universal Paperclips. The central element is a plot that visualizes how quantities in the game are changing (with respect to time and each other). You can check it out here: birchmd.github.io/de-idle/

My brilliant partner made an adorable little math game! Go try it out!!

The #kickstarter for Thyme Travellers 2 An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction is now live! #projectwelove @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

how does anyone look at this and go "hell ya, let's burn more fossil fuel?"

It's the last day to nominate for the Auroras! For any of those waiting until the last minute, here's my rundown.