🚀 BSFA reps reporting for duty - @emilyinkpen.bsky.social , @stewarthotston.com and @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social - on our way to the Clarke Awards! Stay tuned for the results! The shortlist is 👇

We have a new Chair! After 6 amazing years, Allen Stroud has passed the torch 🚀 Congratulations Stewart!

🚀 Monday caption competition! (art by grandfailure - you can follow them on insta so go do that!)

🚀 hey people! Don’t forget great BSFA AGM events today! These include panels and interviews to entertain and inspire. Some of these are free to members and non-members. See the links below. 👇 AGM Day Activities The provisional schedule for the day will be 👇

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Think I can announce that my story "It's Always Your Choice" is in the @bsfa.bsky.social magazine Fission. It's about a world where there's a quick easy way to go when it's your time, relevant with Assisted Dying Bill and my mum passing last week. #sf #writing and surprised me by what it said.

There’s a lot of trash in space and someone has to take care of it. Read my latest story, “A Feast for the Moon Junker’s Spouse” in @bsfa.bsky.social’s Fission #5. us.amazon.com/Fission-Anth...

🚀 Hey members! Just a reminder that Bona Books are running a Writing Queer People, Editing Queer People workshop lonline tomorrow - 7-8:30pm - as part of Pride Month. The event was over subscribed at Eastercon! Details of how to sign-up are in the newsletter!

🚀 members! Don’t forget to complete the events survey in your latest newsletter!

✨Are you a @bsfa.bsky.social member and thinking about @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social? The BSFA is sponsoring two in person memberships for persons of colour, persons with disabilities and those with financial difficulties for any reason. Details on how to apply are in the latest newsletter.✨

🚀 Tuesday caption competition! Art by paul on Adobe

🚀 May the 4th be with you on this very special day…

I've finally got to hold my my @bsfa.bsky.social award! It now finally feels real and I'm very thankful for it. Although the dog has already tried to eat it twice. So it's going on a high shelf where he (hopefully) can't get to it.

Congrats @bsfa.bsky.social Fission #5 authors! Cover by Elena Betti.

My sci-fi story "Mantaro" will be published in Fission #5 by @bsfa.bsky.social. It's a story about coca, corruption and a particularly lethal autonomous quadruped robot roaming the VRAEM in Peru -- the world's densest area of cocaine production. Cover art by Elena Berri. www.bsfa.co.uk/fission

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🚀 tune in to the BSFA Awards live from 18:30 GMT! www.facebook.com/share/p/1MA4...

Hey @bsfa.bsky.social people! If you haven’t voted yet, please consider this tiny but poignant episode of Dex Legacy, about the long-term psychological strain that comes from being a teenage super soldier 👇 Charlie Richard’s performance is amazing.

🚀 hey members! If you’re coming to tonight’s event (specific details in newsletter) we’ll be in the lower cafe area of Waterstones 🙂

🚀 Members! Don’t forget this Thursday’s meet up in London! Refer to your newsletters for details💥

Huge congrats to Norah Nagi & @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social whose story & translation 'Unicorn 2512' from Egypt + 100 (Ed. @ahmednaji.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the @bsfa.bsky.social awards for best translated short fiction! 📙Order Egypt + 100 here commapress.co.uk/books/egypt-...

Shout for my fabulous colleague Grace, who's organising a Waterstones Piccadilly meet-up for @bsfa.bsky.social and @britfantasysoc.bsky.social members. Tickets free, grab them on EventBrite! www.eventbrite.com/e/bfsbsfa-so...

🚀 Members! We have a social coming up on Thursday 10th of April in London! Check your latest newsletter for details 💥

Congrats to @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social & @goldsmithspress.bsky.social for making the @bsfa.bsky.social shortlist with "Schrödinger’s Wife (And Other Possibilities)"! (file770.com/bsfa-awards-...) Here's a wonderful story from the book about when Pippa met Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova:

Paul Kincaid's latest blog includes the full table of contents for Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, as well as news of his @bsfa.bsky.social award nomination for his book on Pavane by Keith Roberts wp.me/p1LlAH-Th

Happy to share that my chapter, 'An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal' in the anthology Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction by @bloomsburylit.bsky.social is shortlisted in the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards. Big thanks to members, and congrats to all finalists! 💞

Three of my clients have been shortlisted in four different categories for the @bsfa.bsky.social Award! Utterly delighted for @unamccormack.bsky.social @manuscriptgal.bsky.social and Aliya Whiteley - here’s to a clean sweep in Belfast… file770.com/bsfa-awards-...

Fight Like a Girl 2 had made the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards shortlist for best collection! I have a story in it called Lady Cona which was an absolute blast to write.

I am completely thrilled that Calypso has been shortlisted for a @bsfa.bsky.social award! If you were kind enough to vote for it - thank you very much indeed. I'm honoured. And to be in such company, too! Wow! The full lists are here: www.starburstmagazine.com/bsfa-awards-...

Delighted to have made the @bsfa.bsky.social BSFA awards shortlist for my artwork for Nova Scotia 2, edited by @neilwilliamson.bsky.social and Andrew J Wilson for @lunapress.bsky.social! To be on the same list as Kelly Chong and Fangorn is an absolute honour. Good luck to all the finalists!

Para las nominaciones de los @bsfa.bsky.social veo muchos nombres conocidos, pero no sabía que había una categoría de obra corta traducida (con @cristinajurado.bsky.social en el jurado) y que sale nuestra @celiacorrv.bsky.social con ‘The Coffee Machine’. ¡Enhorabuena! file770.com/bsfa-awards-...

Cheeky #newsletter about the #FightLikeAGirl anthology, published by @wtpress.bsky.social, and shortlisted for a @bsfa.bsky.social Award! So chuffed about this :) tinyurl.com/sfj86y38

Delighted to see "Bone by Bone"/ "Csontról csontra" by Mónika Rusvai, translated by Vivien Urban, on the BSFA Awards shortlist for best translated fiction! @bsfa.bsky.social, @strangehorizons.bsky.social You can read the story here! samovar.strangehorizons.com/2024/07/22/b...

🚀 Monday Caption Competition!

The 2024 Nebula Awards ballot has been announced by SFWA. Congratulations to the finalists! locusmag.com/2025/03...

🚀 Monday Morning Caption Competition! (Art by grandfailure on Adobe)

Ever fancied having a go at writing Audio Drama? @bsfa.bsky.social award-winner, @emilyinkpen.bsky.social , shares practical tips in a fab how-to-guide.Get your piece honed in time for Pen to Print’s audio drama competition! pentoprint.org/write-on-fea... #writingcommunity @storiesalt.bsky.social

🚀 just a reminder to members that the EGM will be taking place tomorrow at 2pm via zoom - link available in the Feb newsletter 💥 Followed by Interviews with Aliya Whiteley and Tade Thompson! Can’t wait to see you there!

🚀 SUBMISSIONS FOR FISSION #5 CLOSE 26th FEB! 👇 Original sci-fi -- genre-bending welcome -- up to 5k words. No reprints. Follow the link to learn more about submission process! Members and non-members welcome to submit. bsfa.co.uk/fission

🚀 TOMORROW Fission #5 OPENS FOR SUBMISSIONS! 👇 window closes 26th Feb. Original sci-fi -- genre-bending welcome -- up to 5k words. No reprints. Follow the link to learn more. Members and non-members welcome to submit. www.bsfa.co.uk/fission

Congratulations to all those who made the longlist for the BBSFA Awards -- especially our fabby GSFWC folks! Moreover, our anthology Gallus is up for Best Collection, a fantoosh outcome! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-... Here's what's we've got in the next round of voting: @bsfa.bsky.social (1/10)

Thought I posted this already but I forgot (a lot happening haha). Thank you to every @bsfa.bsky.social member that nominated my work to the longlist (5 times!) and here's hoping some of them make it to the shortlist. Especially my collection CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS which is dear to my heart.

Ahhh I’m so excited and honoured to be a part of this year’s longlist 🙈❤️ A big thank you to @shoreinf.bsky.social @bsfa.bsky.social So surreal 🤯

Huge THANK YOU to @emilyinkpen.bsky.social for putting together this graphic for my smol collection! It’s such an honour to be longlisted for a BSFA award. And a gigantic thank you to everyone who votes 💛 I still can’t believe it got this far! ☺️

🚀 Tuesday caption competition! (art by grandfailure on Adobe)

The BSFA awards are voted on by the membership of the @bsfa.bsky.social. Voting for the shortlists is now open and will continue until February 28th. The Locus RRL is the foundation for the Locus poll (poll.voting.locusmag.com) , which will remain open until April 15th.

Congrats to @lyuguangzhao.bsky.social for his nomination for the @bsfa.bsky.social longlist, for 'The Boom and The Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction' (Peter Lang). Amongst amazing company on that list! www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Wonderful #GoldSF news! 3x GoldSF titles on the @bsfa.bsky.social #Longlist #BSFAAwards2024 Please vote for us! @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social @abicurtiswriter.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @vondanmcintyre.bsky.social www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...