Now more than ever, check out a physical novel from your public library and read it in long, big gulps. It's like meditating. It's like putting your bare feet on the grass. It will help heal you.

I wrote this essay last fall for print only & I'm republishing it with their permission bc we're talking about didactism in kidlit right now and I have HAD thoughts about the connection between instructive lit and book banning. I'd be honored if you read it. www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2026/5/...

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

my apocalyptic love story “road trip” will appear in issue 44 of @zoeticpress.bsky.social‘s NonBinary Review!! i’m very excited to publish more speculative fiction :)

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

next time you’re looking for new books, please consider getting them from firestorm!! they’re a pillar of the wnc literary community & a wonderful community space.

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

i’ll be going to the AWP conference in Baltimore this week, on behalf of the UNC Wilmington creative writing program—i’m very excited to meet writers, attend panels, & explore the bookfair!

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them. Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive. Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list. Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

tell me it's not true

Trans people deserve better.

Not just a novelist, @ursulakleguin.com was also a cartographer. Her fictional geographies were on display this fall at London’s Architectural Association Gallery, and a companion book on Silver Press sheds new light on her peerless world-building. Read our interview with editor/curator Sarah Shin.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Sharing the Sameer Project/Translating Falasteen's holiday campaign (text and slides from their x page) "The holiday season is filled with family, warmth, comfort, and memories to last a lifetime. You might get together with loved ones for a meal, you might exchange gifts…please keep Gaza in mind:

i’m so happy with how this turned out!! the best book cover illustration i could have imagined :)

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

a short story of mine was recently nominated for the AWP intro journals project!! i received this news as i was feeling disheartened about this particular story’s chances of publication, given that it’s fairly niche + weird, but not strictly speculative either. now i’m feeling much more hopeful :)

BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3

What if buying a book was like a magic spell, and every time you did it an awesome social movement space got its wings, or could pay its water bill or something 💫 That would be pretty incredible, right?

Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action. Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions. You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice. The working class has much more power than they think.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association has announced @nkjemisin.bsky.social as the 42nd recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. Congratulations!!

yallfest 2025 was very fun! met some lovely authors & collected some exciting arcs. i haven’t been since i was a teenager myself, so i enjoyed participating in the event with a deeper understanding of the book publishing industry :) & i got to accompany my partner to her first book festival!!

Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me)'s Rakesfall recently received the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor @cxorlando.bsky.social asks him the author about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing:

i’m reading the 2019 anthology right now, the one guest-edited by carmen maria machado—it’s making me want to collect the rest of the series! exciting that submissions are open for this year :D

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.

i got to meet carmen maria machado today!! :)

I know a lot of people are already spreading this info, but hoping to spread it a little further: donating to a food bank, food pantry, or food distribution mutual aid group is really important right now, as TFG and the fucking GOP are shutting down snap benefits on November 1. I'll link to a few

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

since august i’ve been working in a publishing lab & i’m gaining SO much respect for designers; there are so many aspects to book creation that most writers don’t think about—not just cover art, but also like. paper thickness, text formatting, the evil beast that is indesign. designers do so much :)

REMINDER: Today is the last day to submit for our HAUNT and YARD SALE themes! 100footcrow.com/submission-g... Speak your 100 words now or forever hold your peace.

i’m very pleased to share that my short story “The Hollow Sea” was selected by judge Erica Simone Turnipseed for an honorable mention in The Vincent Brothers Review’s “Waves” contest last week! kaws4tvbr.substack.com/p/congratula...

The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.

some poems about gender + love that came out a few weeks ago in lambda magazine :)

i’m officially going to grad school next year for an mfa in fiction & publishing!! :D

Come get your 100-word dose of fantasy with "The Rapture" by @creaturewriting.bsky.social. 100footcrow.com/the-rapture/

Today states evidently began receiving letters cutting off IMLS grants to states. A reminder that these grants help fund or organize things like Libby ebooks, student databases, recording for the blind, broadband to rural communities and more. Call your Congress. Use the 5Calls app script.

one of my favorite musical artists is publishing a folk horror novel this year,,, this is going to fix me (& Maybe make up for them not releasing an album in the last four years)

i have to write ~2k more words of a weird little swords & sorcery story by tomorrow in order to submit it to a magazine before the window closes. this is a completely advisable deadline that i will surely not regret

If you want to fight fascism? Wear a mask. If you want to show solidarity with disabled people? Wear a mask. If you want to protect your own health? Wear a mask. If you recognize that no one is coming to save us? Wear a mask. My ultimate guide to respirators:

To engage in resistance, you need to engage in acts of resistance. 🧪 You DO NOT NEED TO: 1. Sign up to attend a protest 2. Use your real name if you must sign up for something (any list you sign is insecure) 3. Use your work email address (don't) Don't trust anyone telling you that you have to

If you use AI to create your writing, I can’t guarantee you’ll never be caught. You may even cobble together something an editor won’t distinguish from writing a human produced. But what I can guarantee you is this: that will the hollowest of victories for the smallest and most fleeting of gains.

i’ve been sent my first contract to sign as a writer—it’s just for a small story sale, less than $10, but i’m still so excited 💚 even though the current climate is dire in many ways, the future feels very tangible right now

we keep selling out of copies now >:)

I strongly advise you to get this into your mind and then to try and drill it into the minds of everyone you know. Do not comply in advance. These hateful authoritarian lunatics are incompetent and stupid. They are relying on you treating them with respect and compliance to achieve anything

i still can’t believe i’m taking Monsters & Monstrosity, Writing YA Fiction, Conlangs, & Musicals this semester,,, unprecedently attuned class lineup. i love being a college student <3

every trans author I know is currently unclear on whether their books will be banned in the next four years or not, buy trans books NOW, in paper

It’s critical for library supporters to move from awareness to action! These 56 tasks can make a difference on the intellectual freedom frontlines if everyone participates | Thank you @heykellyjensen.bsky.social for sharing #UniteAgainstBookBans #FReadom