The municipality is inviting residents to participate in Recreation Day programming on Saturday, June 6. Free activities will take place at recreation centres across the municipality. Residents can visit halifax.ca/recday for a full schedule. Details: www.halifax.ca/home/news/re...

Remember not to neglect the other sins this Pride

Happy Pride! Buy trans books!

Happy Pride Month ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

"Would you rather: e. [ ] eat a fly's leg, or [X] write a 150-word summary of a 100k novel" 📝💬🪰 @elianeboey.bsky.social's finally asks CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social the real questions 🤔🌌💜 Check out the full interview on Eliane's "Thoughthing" blog below! ⬇️

May standout #1: Welcome to Heroism by @wiswell.bsky.social

UK readers, I've got a surprise for you! For Pride Month, Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just 99p on Kindle! Do you need a lovable flesh-eating monster in your life?

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Moon as Salted Lemon by @clayrebenz.bsky.social, @driftwoodpress.bsky.social & Non-Prophet by @quratdar.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social/icehouse poetry. See alt-text. #DSPBposts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #booktok #booksta #bookstagram #booklovers

This Must-Have Monday I have NINETEEN new books for you! Incl 🧟‍♀️ a queer zombie crossing Australia by @redscribe.bsky.social! ⚔️ butch Arthuriana with @riengray.bsky.social! 🥀 sapphic Hispanic witches reinventing magic from @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social!

Happy #PrideMonth! 💙📚🌈 June is my birthday month! It is Triscuit and Crouton's gotcha month! And my found media anthology #RECORDED crowdfunding campaign is officially live!!! Come help make this an unforgettable (& super queer) anthology—you know you want it! 🎥👀 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

For Pride, you can preorder my & @cypayseur.bsky.social's favorite queer speculative stories of 2025! There have been many discussions lately about how queer publishing in the US is being squeezed from all directions. Pls support this ONGOING series & make sure it *remains* ongoing 💕 It matters!

From launch month to Mer-May and now Pride, it's Month 3 of the Yemi and Nova Show! Get your grizzled tragic chaos lesbians and YEAR OF THE MER on bookshop.org and get 15% off with code PRIDE26. bookshop.org/p/books/year...

The Strange Horizons Kickstarter to fund 2027 will begin on Sunday, 7 June, 2026! This is a critical time for SFF publications when the existence of venues publishing short speculative fiction, poetry and non-fiction is sometimes uncertain. We hope that you will keep us publishing for another year!

Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card

Join CCPA-NS, Equity Watch & King’s Bookstore on June 23rd to hear Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks speak on their book, “Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us" Tues, June 23, 6:30-8PM Halifax, Atrium AT101, Saint Mary’s University, or livestreamed at www.youtube.com/@ccpanovasco... #nspoli

(Pre-Order) ZamaShort #14 ‘Descendants of Balance’ by Rafeeat Aliyu! This is the wonderful origin story to larger fantasy works and world rooted in Yoruba myth, legend, and wider Nigerian history, that Rafeeat has published and is working on further. #fantasy #AfricanSFF #BookSky 💙📚

To celebrate Pride Month, Edmonton Public Library is proud to present Olympic gold medalist Mark Tewksbury, Canada’s first openly gay Olympian, for an evening of conversation. prideedmonton.ca/event/sport-...

Happy Pride everyone! Edmonton is working hard on being a truly safe and inclusive place for 2SLGBTQ+ people year round, but we put it on display every June for Pride Month.

📸 HRM Scan-a-thon takes place at Keshen Goodman Library on June 6, inviting residents to help digitize and preserve historical photos for the Municipal Archives. More: www.halifax.ca/home/news/re... #HRM #Halifax #Archives

#HeadsUp: Space Opera by @catvalente.bsky.social is on US Kindle sale this month for $2. Snake-Eater by @tkingfisher.com is on US Kindle sale this month for $2.50 I got copies of both for random giveaway.

Imagine packing up a 226-foot wooden warship, removing its guns, and replacing them with microscopes, chemistry tables, and photography rooms. That is exactly what happened to the HMS Challenger before it set sail in 1872. museum.novascotia.ca/stories/chal... #NovaScotia #OceansWeek

This is a really great list of resources for teaching and learning Medieval Latin compiled by Brigid Ehrmantraut #medievalsky www.medievalists.net/2026/06/lear...

omg ok the preview is MUCH cuter now that I've added a background. check out my longform post over on Leaflet.pub !! straith.leaflet.pub/3mn6rcajmfk2e

Hellooo it is the first of June, and the Pride Bundles are live!!! My m/m knight4knight novella The White Ribband is in this bundle! I will link the other three in the chain below! itch.io/b/3676/pride...

New Review - I return to Earthsea for a book that keeps you thinking about the times we are in - The Farthest Shore by Ursula K Le Guin www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/6/...

Cynthia Gómez's novel Muñeca is a surreal queer Gothic about a working-class witch infiltrating a wealthy Oakland family in 1968. She talked to us about building spells from scratch, subverting the heroine, and why revenge isn't liberation @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social

Hello #Booksky, happy June, and happy Pride Month! Let's hear your favourite LGBTQIA+ scifi, fantasy, horror, folklore and spec reads. (Bonus points if they're new enough that we might have them in the bookshop so I can add them to our Pride display over the course of the month! 😁) 💙📚🪐 #Pride

Happy Pride month you buncha queers

GOOD NEWS! Amivantamab has demonstrated unprecedented results in an international trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.

I was interviewed about Sanctuary Moon and other fake TV shows on TubeTalk: www.tubetalk.media/p/murderbot-...

So, hey, I'm trying out a new thing I'm really excited about. It's a list of aspec releases! The first post covers pretty much half of 2026 (and includes what I could find, obvs), so... Check it out if you want a list of recent aspec releases! www.patreon.com/posts/159580...

#booksky 💙📚 Release Day! @interstellarflight.bsky.social @redscribe.bsky.social Review: 5⭐️ Full review in alt text on image.

Good morning Bluesky! It's June 1st, the sun is out (here if not where you are), and it's going to be a beautiful day. Make some time, find a comfortable spot, and read our latest issue! 10 great stories, 4 fabulous poems and some excellent non-fiction. Happy summer! magazine.trollbreath.com

the everlasting won a locus award last night?? by, i assume, a series of lucky coin-flips to break the ten-way tie. what a shortlist, and what an honor 🥹 locusmag.com/2026/05/2026...

In exciting news not only with this issue be available at Atlantic news and @kingsbookstore.bsky.social AND also available to read for free with your coffee when you visit @tridenthalifax.bsky.social.

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

Y'all ebook heads know about standardebooks.org right

Small/Indie Press horror recommendations for libraries - @badhandbooks.bsky.social gets a very complimentary mention! So happy to be working with such a wonderful publisher!

12/13 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @catapultbooks.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social @eileenflanagan.bsky.social @sevenstories.bsky.social @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish #booksta #booklovers

Look what just arrived in the mail!! Congrats and thank you to @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social and #HorrorWritersChat for putting this together in honor and memory of Matt Mason. It looks wonderful and I’m excited to come by the fire (candles lit at home) to read everyone.

As always, thanks for hosting #LateNightWrite @blackbirb.bsky.social. Today I'm shouting about my latest release THE COLOR OF TIME, a sci-fi retelling of "Donkeyskin" in space. Think DUNE meets a fairytale with a sapphic and hopepunk twist. Now available everywhere books are sold (or borrowed!) ⬇️

Game of Thrones meets World War Z meets The Dark Crystal in @mmdaviesostrom.bsky.social's RISE FROM THESE DARK WATERS, coming this October. First in an epic series. “The most original novel I’ve read in a very long time." -- @cgolden.bsky.social Pre-order now: badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...

Submissions deadline is June 2 at midnight! That's about 57 hours left.

We're counting down folksies - tomorrow at 9am (BST) we open for summer subs. Flash 100-750, Shorts up to 2000 GREEN theme - landscape, ecology, plantlife etc. 🌳 trashcatlit.com/summer-mood/ Guidelines and sub form available here: trashcatlit.com/general-subm...

ICYMI - Matt Kendrick reviews Lita Kurth's craft book Memoir in Flashes: Creative Ways to Tell Your True Stories, One Memory at a Time at SmokeLong www.smokelong.com/review-of-li...

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

Today GRIEF EATER is out!! It has been an incredible journey to get to this point. Thank you everyone who has been involved in its making, and thank you reviewers for supporting it! Big love!! @interstellarflight.bsky.social (Cover by Dante Luiz!)

AHHH SO close!!! Just over 2 hours left to reach $13k and we only need $560 CAD to go! You could grab one of our short story edits with a late pledge and help us cross that finish line with a FULLY FUNDED year 6! 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/aug...

Here are some literary journals opening or closing for submissions sometime in June—some are open now or will close soon. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary & dates are tentative. I think these are all no-fee. There are more resources out there, including on this platform. Wish y’all well.

Our free-submissions window is wide open!