Thank you so much to everyone who's shared & donated for your generosity. The fundraiser's at 82% to Archita's goal and support has slowed a lot. She'd be most grateful if people keep sharing & giving so she can reach her goal & get some security in this terrible time.

We can't review what we don't receive! Check out our submission guidelines to consider sending us your work! We love small press authors and are always on the lookout for New & Notable work. locusmag.com/aboutlo...

LP is working hard to complete their BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago, but financial hurdles are making it tough. Every donation helps cover tuition. Please consider contributing or sharing this campaign to support their journey. Every bit counts! www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...

i used to have posting brain and to make beautiful spirited little shitposts on twitter. but then several big spaces in SFF made it clear they're anti-Palestinian and cut my will to be publicly present. been renavigating... maybe I'll bring back the shitposts one day hmm

Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

@indrapramitdas.bsky.social do dm me!! i sent you something via your author website form but not sure if it went thru : )

If you want to start a newsletter and don't want to use Substack because they currently platform/sponsor Nazis: consider using the free and open-sourced alternative that has been around for over a decade. I'll personally walk you through it.

Acceptance announcement! My first cowritten short story, with @srinivassimo.bsky.social You are sweet damp roadkill. You are also a mountain lion. You are also the ravenous car.

After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live! No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.

SHIVERS - I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

🥩🚗⛰️🐈 Wooooo go team!

Acceptance announcement! My first cowritten short story, with @srinivassimo.bsky.social You are sweet damp roadkill. You are also a mountain lion. You are also the ravenous car.

July 2025 acceptances (cont'd): "We Burst Across the Theoretical Gore" by Sara S. Messenger and Simo Srinivas @smessenger.bsky.social @srinivassimo.bsky.social "The Peace Found in the Balloon Hole" by Lyra Meurer "The Time Keeper" by Ali Faye Miller "The Monster's Wife" by Stewart Moore

SFF folks: Archita Mittra is one of ours—you know her Ignyte Award-nominated critical writing in @locusmag.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social, and @reactorsff.bsky.social, and her short fiction, most recently in @lightspeedmagazine.com. She needs our help. gofund.me/cd9b937c2

This masochistic clown story by Sara S. Messenger is a cracking read. I always pop when unions and strikes are part of a story, especially when it's not overly-didactic. Also Sara is a real one for using her bio to encourage support for Palestinian liberation.

Okay, friends, after toiling in the code mines, I've decided to save up for a proper tool to help me with dialogue in Unity! This is the tool that was used to make games such as Disco Elysium. If you want to help me in my game dev journey, here is my tip jar: ko-fi.com/soniasulaima...

Palestinian children like 8 yo Islam, injured by shrapnel, have been forced to endure hell for 2 yrs of Israel's genocide. Islam's family's lost contact with his father, & Islam & his mother take care of his little siblings. Please help by sharing & donating ($50 raised, no donations for 5 days):

Palestinian children like Lubna's son Nasser, who has chronic health problems, have been starved & sickened for 2 yrs of Israel's genocidal famine & destruction. Please help by sharing & donating Lubna afford food & medicine for Nasser, whose condition is deteriorating & donations have slowed:

Please help the Nashwan family survive the aftermath of 2 years of Israel's genocidal famine & invasion by sharing & donating to cover the costs of food, healthcare, shelter, they're starving & exhausted:

Oh wow Fargo Tbakhi!!! SFF people also take notice that an author who writes SFF (published in places like @apexmag.bsky.social @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social) is on the longlist for the National Book Award for Poetry, this is not very common!

Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

A bit I missed in the Authors Guild explainer earlier is that they say the settlement goes to both beneficial and legal copyright owners, so the publishers may get some of the money. So publishers who neglected to register (ie did not staff properly to make that happen) screwed themselves, too.

Many authors have searched The Atlantic's LibGen database of pirated titles to see if they are listed there. However, I've uncovered that authors of short fiction aren't always discoverable there. Here's how I discovered more of my short fiction in the list. 1/ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

It a night of hell in Gaza, just one night but it dragged us through ages of terror, with strikes every five minutes as if time itself had turned into an enemy, as if the ticking clock carried rockets in its tail, an endless death sweeping through everything. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3sem5b4p

The single biggest money earner in my entire career is a 5,000 word short story published in Asimov's in 2011 that was never nominated for any award except the Amazon Readers' Poll It's literally made me more money than any of my novels have. Protect your rights.

If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.

THERE IT IS

So MRM wasted months of authors' time lying that they wanted to create fair contracts, then bailed on the authors? What a mess. Deeply disappointing to see historic magazines under the control of such people.

for those who haven’t been following: the people who bought Asimov’s, F&SF, et al. have a new contract that’s basically a rights grab and have treated authors who pushed back on it like shit, stringing them along, gaslighting them, etc. I don’t recommend submitting to any of their mags at this time

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

The Goldman Fund window opens next week, September 1 through October 16. If you're a member of the Palestinian diaspora attending Metropol Con in Berlin, apply through Con or Bust program dreamfoundry.org/con...

Palestinian families like Jihad's are being bombed, displaced & starved to death in Israel's genocidal famine & siege. Please help by sharing & donating if you've anything to spare:

Adham saw his friend Ramadan shot to death in the US-Israeli operated killing fields where aid traps have been set up for Palestinians being starved to death by Israel. He lost his phone as well. Please read, share, donate if you can. He's among the people this platform silences daily.

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

Stay tuned for news about this upcoming digital quarterly magazine of fantasy fiction! ✨🌱

it is always a good moment to share fargo nissim tbakhi's incredible piece, but it is especially important now after the proscription of Palestine Action in the UK at the very least please read the section of the piece about 'terrorism' proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...

Please welcome Tasavvur Magazine to Bsky; they're one of South Asia's few dedicated sff magazines, and they do great work. There are barely any eyes on them here at the moment, so if you're interested in global sff (or a desi reader looking for more desi sff), please do read/follow them:

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

New updates! Some important ones regarding con safety inside and out. Specifically, we'll have a quiet space for folks to unwind during or between panels. Also, ConCurrent is a private event. We and the ACT can and will deny access to people at our discretion. concurrentseattle.weebly.com/updates

Will be at ReaderCon, with flyers for ConCurrent in tow. See folks there : )

re: Worldcon I'd like to remind people of the 2024 issue of Hugo Finalist Journey Planet I edited called "Be The Change" where we discuss problems with the Hugos and Worldcons www.journeyplanet.org/journey-plan... Pieces by @sillysarasue.bsky.social @margueritekenner.bsky.social and more

DID YOU KNOW: ConCurrent is hosting the ONLY panel on Sinners during WorldCon? 2:30, Aug 14, the ACT Theatre. Register to see @ldlewiswrites.com @lpkindred.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social @nicole-glover.com @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social talk Sinners! concurrentseattle.weebly.com/register.html

I am volunteering (virtually) for this! Lots of registration slots still open!

We're all up to date on registration confirmation emails. If you registered but haven't received an email, please check your spam folder! If you've been wondering about whether there's space, I assure you there's lots. The Bullitt Cabaret holds 150, and we're capping registration at 120 per panel.

@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social and @podcastle.org are currently accepting submissions. As a first reader for both, here's what I'd like authors to know. Opinions are my own. emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrite...

Hi. If you know me, you know I don't often wade into industry discussion. But this response from MRM is fucked. Not only doubling down on a rights grab but lecturing writers about what scraps they should accept. The arrogance is off the charts. Talk about slamming your dick in a car door.