The Queer Liberation Network fundraising auction is live! Books, query critiques, and more are up for grabs, including a signed copy of The King Must Die and getting a character named after you in my next project. I'll probably throw in some zines as well... www.32auctions.com/organization...

Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

Coven of the East is a Foreword Indies Finalist! This genre-bending anthology features 22 writers from the Asian Diaspora, reimagining Asian Women's magical histories! www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books...

“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”

Fifteen African Authors Make the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List – They Need Your Votes! brittlepaper.com/2026/02/fift... via @brittlepaper.bsky.social

ICYMI! Feat. strange & wonderful queer stories and poems (incl. @ayidashonibar.bsky.social's dark delight "The Homeowner's Bride" & my Indian vampire reprint "The Vetala of Crystal Vellam Inlet") + an essay by @jackiehedeman.bsky.social ("He Is Survived By His Wife") that brought tears to my eyes!

Some very fabulous writers in this issue, just sayin 👀 @ayidashonibar.bsky.social @srinivassimo.bsky.social

Pretty sure this is gonna be the companion image to @ayidashonibar.bsky.social's story in Issue 2.

My state. I don't even know what to do while it's business as usual for almost everyone else here. But yes, if anyone knows of a creative writing/SFF or disability studies academic jobs in CA or elsewhere where we will have rights, this is a good time to DM me. Thanks.

IT’S HERE ‼️ And yes I cried when I hit send on the issue for subscribers. I hope you love this issue as much as we do.

5 Days Left to fund an amazing new Project: The Cookout: Spec Fic from the African Diaspora. And we have a question: What sort of stories do you like to read to lift your spirits?

Call it the Stoker Ballot Bump? We just had an order for 1,000 copies of Silk & Sinew come through the distributor yesterday. Congrats to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of the authors on the continued success of this title. bookshop.org/p/books/silk...

Feeling quite star-struck to be sharing the next issue's ToC with so many awesome writers...! This will be my longest published story yet—a science fantasy cli-fi novelette! More details soon. 🌱

Deadline approaching! We are accepting entires for the second volume of Between Worlds, the IF anthology of new Indian SFF, edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social. A detailed note and guidelines here: sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Several writers from Kristy Park Kulski's Bram Stoker Award-nominated antho SILK & SINEW have read on Story Hour. Congratulations to @geneveflynn.bsky.social, @ayidashonibar.bsky.social, @robertarjoyan.bsky.social, @jawmccarthy.bsky.social, @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, & @aijiang.bsky.social! (3/3)

To my dear terrifyingly talented contributors--look what glorious things we have wrought together. Thank you Bad Hand for always being 1000% percent behind this project and to the HWA for this honor. Congratulations to all the fabulous nominees. And to everyone who dares to write stories.

TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS is a Bram Stoker Award Finalist! 🤩😈 I'm ECSTATIC to see my demons nominated and overjoyed to be on the ballot with the wondrous Sara Tantlinger, John Langan, Gemma Files, & Clay McLeod Chapman 🎉 congrats to the Fiction Collection finalists & everyone on the final ballot!

I am honored and honestly a bit stunned that CYANIDE CONSTELLATIONS is officially a Bram Stoker Award finalist! What do you mean my little book is nominated alongside the powerhouses of Hailey Piper, Gemma Files, John Langan, and Clay McLeod Chapman?? Wild. Huge congrats to all of the nominees!

🌊 COVER REVEAL 🌊 We’re thrilled to share a first look at the cover for SALT WATER BLOOD by 2021 WNDB Mentee Manuia Heinrich, coming out on November 17th from Simon & Schuster (Simon Teen)! 🎨 illustration by Isip Xin 🖼️ cover design by Sarah Creech

Our free Patreon newsletter got the first peek, but now it's your turn! HERE IT IS: OUR ISSUE 1 COVER!!! Art by the incredible @hvmator.bsky.social. We cannot WAIT for everyone to read these amazing pieces soon 🪐🗡️ We know you're going to love this issue just as much as we do.

Today, @seraph76.bsky.social and I are threading some thoughts, feels, and vibes about Black fashions in space (particularly with the Black dandy as an iconic inspiration), in preparation for the "What Elegant Stars" anthology! 😍 www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

From groundbreaking science fiction to spine-chilling horror, animated adventures, and Afrofuturist visions, Black creators have been crafting worlds that inspire, challenge, and entertain.

ayida coded characters

I TOLD YOU I LOVE THE LIBRARY! Surprise! I'm the 2026 Brampton Writer in Residence. Reception on Tuesday, March 3, 2026 TIME: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM I'll be running workshops and reading partial MSs during the residency. ALL FREE. BRAMPTON PPL TELL YOUR FRIENDS. www.bramptonlibrary.ca/programs-and...

✨ UK COVER REVEAL ✨ If you're interested in a story about a Palestinian haunted house, the three generations of women who are ancestrally tied to it, and discovering the price of the past, this comes out September 22, 2026! Preorder here: linktr.ee/deenahelm

This issue of Apex Magazine includes my weird little piece about the stories we tell that make us who we are—literally, figuratively, physiologically. "Heritage, or This Body of Folklore" will be free to read next month!

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

I can't believe I can finally share this story! 🥹🖤 In "The Homeowner's Bride," the protagonist is a haunted house that's DTF. Both horror and a love story, it's one of the strangest, riskiest, most heartfelt things I've ever written, and I'm so thankful that Otherside took a chance on this piece.

I'm deeply honoured and blown away to have been selected as an Otherwise Fellow! This organisation does such amazing work to support the speculative arts, and I couldn't be more grateful to be part of the community.

I'm deeply honoured and blown away to have been selected as an Otherwise Fellow! This organisation does such amazing work to support the speculative arts, and I couldn't be more grateful to be part of the community.

The report was restricted by the US Ambassador to Israel because the photos "lacked balance" - they "lack balance" because this is genocide and one-sided destruction on a massive scale. There is no "balance" to be had.

Me. In Absentia TW for death of a parent. This is a story ripped from my experiences.... I'd say enjoy, but it's me so um thanks if you get the chance to read! Also thanks to The Dark Magazine for publishing it. They've been a supporter of my work for years.🖤 www.thedarkmagazine.com/in-absentia/

notable that actual Jewish seniors get this in a way that the ersatz holocaust museum does not

So psyched to see my collection TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS and its new novelette "The Many Sins of Clara Greenstone" from @titanbooks.bsky.social both on the Locus Recommended Reading list 😈 they join stellar work by Dominique Dicky, Eden Royce, Marika Bailey, & more! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Magical Girl Antifa War Machine is on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list!! You can vote for it for the Locus Award locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

hey, my story standardized test is on here!! also wire mother by isabel. kim which i loved, and magical girl antifa war machine by esther alter, which is on the short story club list tomorrow!! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below. Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

Alt text for an important OP: blackpressusa: Don Lemon, Trahem Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy were arrested by Federal agents in connection to covering the protest that took place in a church in Minneapolis. They are having their rights violated. (Instagram post with headshots.)

Weaponizing civil rights law against the very groups it was written to protect is a hallmark of neofascism. It’s meant to punish. And also declare loudly that they are above the law and will interpret it to mean whatever they want. This, in a nutshell, is why policy won’t stop fascism.

“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...

Congratulations to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of her authors! SILK & SINEW appears on the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot.