Talking about queer art yesterday with @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @granades.com and @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social was incredible

Incredibly excited for this session!

In 20 minutes I'll be chatting about didactic writing with Vajra Chandrasekera, Gregory A. Wilson, Rukman Ragas and Rachel A. Rosen! flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/

(Please pretend this is a graphic) I'm at Flights of Foundry this weekend. Come say hi

First panel down! Big thanks to @mruthrobinson.bsky.social for excellent moderating and @rukman.bsky.social and @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social for great insights.

Flights of Foundry starts today! Come to Writing Queer Stories Now to hear incredible panelists @granades.com @rukman.bsky.social @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social talk about queer art, community, censorship, joy, and more!

deepest of deep breaths feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

🥁 Our #BestOfTheNet nominations this year go to... 🥁 @rukman.bsky.social for 'Planting Trees as Graves' inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds... @mererain.bsky.social for 'Concealment Failures' inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds...

Incredibly honored to be nominated for the Best of The Net with this story!!!

The @awwlitmag.bsky.social Into the Dark anthology Kickstarter is live! Tons of goodies up for grabs: ebook/hardcover editions, bookmarks, stickers, pins, & more! So excited to have my wuxia fem rage story in this anthology 🥹 and to be in such excellent company ❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

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Hey! It’s a full moon. It’s a lunar eclipse. It’s a giveaway! Win an annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC and some moon-themed stickers! 🌚 Details in thread.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took a 5th century Tamil epic poem, gutted it for pieces, and used it to build a sapphic retelling? Never? Read A Song To Rival Gods today to find out

SO incredibly gorgeous and vividly haunting, and such a Vee story too.

My fave short fiction read this week was from @kaunvijaya.bsky.social in BCS about how war is a complex hell for the heart. Loads more story depth, setting detail and emotion than I thought possible at this length and with inexorable pacing. www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/post...

ICYMI I have a weirdo Malaysian folk horror meets cyberpunk mashup with characters in a Sherlock-Moriarty kind of toxic dynamic in a Dangerous Liaisons kind of setup but with body horror. My idea of fun, clearly!

One of things I'm most interested right now is cruelty, especially children's cruelty.

“I’ll give up all my knitting days then—if I can have just one with you.” Rukman’s work has such lyrical prose and always leaves you with such vivid and powerful emotions to ponder. Go read “Wolfmothers” and have feelings about knitting, duty, and sense of self! bsky.app/profile/rukm...

I spy a @rukman.bsky.social story being discussed here!

I LOVED writing this story because I got to write about two of the most brushed aside characters in Norse mythology!

Wolfmothers by Rukman Ragas a story of Angrboða, mother of the monster-brood, and seeking companionship after the downfall of Loki translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...

I don't think I shared it here yet but I will have a story about an aroace archivist fighting book banning by turning books into dragons in Being Ace y'all!!

There’s nothing like attending Worldcon in-person as team @khoreo.bsky.social's representative, as one of the actual Finalists for Best Semiprozine, only for our masthead to be entirely skipped over, while everyone else’s names and mastheads were read in full, exactly as it was on the program sheet.

Out now at @translunartl.bsky.social , "Vengeance As Sweet As My Love", my weirdo tale with the premise of: "What if two figures from Malaysian folk horror were thrust into a cyberpunk Sherlock-Moriarty situation"? translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/v... (you know I'm a Sherlock Holmes nerd)

Such a great TOC to share!!

riptide by @rukman.bsky.social is now free-to-read!! Let's stand at the ocean together and y e a r n www.heartlines-spec.com/riptide-by-r...

i just read this beautiful poem by @rukman.bsky.social and you should too.

Knitting, poison, tired and grieving goddesses, and so many more awesome things in this story!

Two nordic goddesses plan an apocalypse knitting party! Grief, goddesses, and the warmth of the summer wind.

BIG DAY FOR APOCALYPSE KNITTING PARTY GIRLIES New story out today with Translunar Travelers Lounge translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/w...

If you miss the sea, then I have a new poem out today with Heartlines Spec! www.heartlines-spec.com/riptide-by-r...

1 like = 1 book i treasure in the haunted halls of my black heart

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

Palestinian children like Ahmed's are being starved to death with their families in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can:

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This is a PSA for anyone who follows artists: Your comments are NOT annoying! I think I speak for many of us we are starved for praise on our work so please if you have something to say lay it on thick WE LIKE IT. I promise you it is not seen as cringe or a bother, we love the interaction!

@plangdineple.bsky.social is absolutely brilliant! Pls help him attend Tin House!

Weird for articles like these not to show any stats whatsoever 😆 "As of 2021, 50.45% of US authors are women and 49.55% of US authors are men." This is hardly an extinction event. It's what parity feels like when you've been on the receiving end of privilege (Sources in thread)

ICYMI; THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAAR, my British Fantasy & Subjective Chaos Kind of Award-winning novella about a 'boy from nowhere' coming of age in 90s/00s Calcutta, in a family that may be refugees from another reality, in a house that may be a dragons' nest, is now available in S. Asia.

“During the uprising, the women of Bangladesh stood at the forefront of the revolution. ... It is deeply shameful to witness how their presence and voices have been gradually pushed back into the shadows.”

Many thanks to @acwise.bsky.social for the kind review of "In My Country." Much appreciated. If you enjoy this and other stories, today's always a great day to subscribe to Clarkesworld. *tips hat, spins cane, dances off stage* clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/ clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Did you know that you can get a hardback edition of the anthology? And it's only available in the kickstarter! Secure your copy today and join in the adventure! www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

Strange Horizons has my favorite magazine for years now! The work they do and the stories they champion are essential to genre fiction.

Last 40 hours now! $300 away from the Fungi special issue, and the working class special issue: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

For every soul who learns to miss the sea, and those of us who learn to let them go

In the Speculative Fiction genre in particular, short stories often speak entire volumes of new ideas and powerful visions to both readers and fellow writers alike. Join writer @kwonley.bsky.social for this 4-session ONLINE class beginning August 4. buff.ly/39pRkbU #writingcommunity

We guarantee you'll be pulled into riptide by @rukman.bsky.social to survive a riptide, you must/ give into it. submit to the writhing waves./ the harsh wind, whipping water into peaks, This poem will comfort you back on dry land 🌊 Coming to subscribers July 31st!