The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

My San Francisco launch event for Make Me Better starts in just a few hours! See you there!!

I'll be giving a reading in NYC this Wednesday at 7pm & reading in part from a new story set in the world of "For He Can Creep." Come and join me and Micaiah Johnson at the famous KGB Bar!

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

@sarahgailey.bsky.social (brilliantly) on “you must write XX words a day” advice: “You know what you should do every day? Look at a living thing other than yourself, in real life. Do something to care for your body. Seek art. Find an axis by which you can exercise your free will and disobedience.”

GUYS go get @fondalee.bsky.social’s Last Contract of Isako! Especially if you’re starving for a badass older female protagonist. It has all the fun action of SAMURAI IN SPACE but also tells a layered story about those who are both the tools of corporate empire AND its victims! Yes complex morality!!

Yes. Call your reps, friends. Children deserve crowded libraries, rich imaginations and open minds. An assault on children's books is an assault on the Life of the Mind. Everyone should oppose HR 7661. Make sure your reps know where you stand.

Join us next Wednesday for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series with guests Siobhan Carroll & Micaiah Johnson, Wednesday, May 13th, 7pm EDT at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all! @siobhancarroll.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social

Call your reps and let them know how awful HR 7661 is. No national book banning bill!

Unions aren’t just good morally, but artistically! Most*** of my complaints about publishing are driven by labor issues: profit-driven companies running skeleton crews of overworked/underpaid employees producing high turnover and purging institutional knowledge and processes.

"I dislike encountering [thing I don't like] when browsing [genre I like] so I will now make content calling it a matter of quality, and possibly a moral failure, rather than just my taste not being met" is such trash book discourse. Some of you never learned to pick off your tomatoes and it shows.

He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.

Deadline May 31: Uncharted Magazine Novel Excerpt Prize Submit up to 5,000 words from your novel in progress to win $1,000 and online publication (3 awards). Fee: $20. https://www.unchartedmag.com/2026-uncharted-magazine-novel-excerpt-prize-judged-by-micaiah-johnson-3000-awarded/

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

(Reposting with correct link 😬) I love this story I wrote for @technologyreview.com’s Crime issue and COMPLETELY MISSED that it came out (I write words for a living but can still read “February” and see “June”). Shout out to @rachelcourtland.com for being a DREAM! Read here: ter.li/blhlz9

hello.....do any london-based artists know a good place to get some posters printed locally!! thank you~

The @nytimes.com latest roundup of the "Best SF Books to Read Right Now! Includes works by @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

Can’t WAIT for @sirensconference.org this week! Getting to talk about mechanical beings and race AND GETTING TO HAVE A CONVO ABOUT JUSTICE IN PUBLISHING?? IS IT MY BIRTHDAY??

SO WELL DESERVED @nassos.bsky.social! Sour Cherry is a GEM! I began listening via audiobook, then soon thought “No, slower. This one I need to savor” and switched to text.

Very excited about this interview. I love when the questions are complex/layered enough that I can really go off. bookstr.com/article/skyr...

FYI friends: I will be haunting Awesome Con like a ghost so if you are around and see me please say hi! Otherwise I will be too productive and if I am actually productive at a con the world might end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Tell Christina about books!! Though I've heard they will also accept pastries and Bad Bunny fancams

because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!

This kind of thing has been standard policing since Marsha P Johnson's dead body was found in the Hudson River following an argument with some transphobes and was immediately ruled a suicide and left uninvestigated by police

@ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app talking about the smile she fought for is a great reminder that you can help give her a reason to use it. Pre-Order her re-examination (it is so incisive “retelling” doesn’t capture it) of the myths surrounding The Little Mermaid here: bookshop.org/p/books/year...

We bombed Iran?! | I need to pay that bill | Kansas antitrans ID law!! | Don’t forget Hugo noms | do we still have Venezuela’s president? | *an email re: book promotion* | I can’t pay this bill | cutting funds to MN?? | I need to check on my friends | timeline fights about doomerism | taxes | REPEAT

As the elected government officials pop on here to rationalize their enthusiastic complicity in the bombing of children, a reminder that this fun labeler identifying who is funding them exists. bsky.app/profile/us-g...

Welp. I made it a few solid “positive book posts” before my inner monologue reverted back to “fuck everything but especially us.”

Reposting for the afternoon crowd because I must. Remember: Pre-orders are a writer’s lifeblood!!

Less than one week left to back THE COOKOUT anthology of speculative fiction from the African Diaspora. Only 250 to go until we open public submissions (paying at least 10 cents per word), and just over 1k to go until we're funded. You can push us over the top! #authors #readers #speculativefiction

Eek! Huge thanks to @reactorsff.bsky.social revealing the new cover today! Can’t wait for you all to see what terrible things I have in store for you in October! 💜💜💜💜💜

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

Cis liberals: when you go along with the hemming and hawing about "it's just sports" and "well it's just waiting a little longer" this is what you're enabling. "It's just a couple more steps down the road, what's the harm?" is how you get to the end of the road!

So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...

There is no writer or thinker I wanted to be more than Toni Morrison. In honor of her special day, I’d like to share the dedication for my upcoming novel, The Unhaunting, which resides heavily and happily in the shadow of her Beloved:

if not choo choo why choo choo shaped bsky.app/profile/cost...

The #Sirens26 faculty are a-maaaaaa-zing! You won't want to miss their keynotes! @kellybarnhill.bsky.social @notquitehydepark.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social Jewelle Gomez @laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social @lilliamr.bsky.social

EVERYBODY NOMINATE ALEX, NOMINATE THEM SO HARD IT'S VISIBLE FROM SPACE I can't say enough about Alex's presence in the SFF community, their generous and thoughtful reviewing, and the work they do to uplift marginalized creators.

If you're still thinking about applying for the 2026 Six-Week Workshop, applications close on Friday, February 13 at 12:00 PM PT (Noon!). The 2026 workshop is virtual with instructors @taracampbell.bsky.social, @indrapramitdas.bsky.social, David Thomas Moore, and @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social!

Reminder that I will be at #Sirens26 talking about everything from black robots to unchecked capitalism and racism in the publishing landscape. IT WILL BE MORE FUN THAN I AM MAKING IT SOUND. @sirensconference.org

very excited to have my response included in the latest Boston Review forum against Democratic moderation! here it is, my best argument for why Dems shouldn't "moderate" on transgender rights & LGBTQ issues more generally (as they are inextricably linked): www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

I will add that we’ve also lost the art of nonconforming features, imperfect teeth, and forfeiting hairlines. Hollywood has always had the hot/polished Sidney Poitier, Lauren Bacall, Jolie/Pitt, etc types, but - as someone raised on TCM - the ratio of gloss to grit among the under 45s feels off.

So many leaks of cabal of "legacy" media editors, their billionaires, men angry about sex and Me Too, mediocre "meritocracy" tech bros, "intellectual" racists, far-right "senior staff writer at Vice’s women’s vertical sent Yiannopoulos an article by Lindy West asking “please mock this fat feminist”

OK folks, let's get this started. Think back to pandemic year 2020. Think of SFF books from that year which "include positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, themes, or issues." A broad citation! Here's my initial longlist from racking my brain. What've I missed?

Hey folks! Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

Y’all want division to be THE problem because you don’t want to deal with the racists. Specifically the ones you know, love, and admire. Especially the one in your own heart. Unfortunately, that commitment to an only sometimes soothing delusion is powerful enough to break a nation.