we're so close to unlocking @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social's poem!

thank you to everyone who has donated so far 💜 my poetry workshop is sold out, but there a still many cool rewards left and a bunch of new ones coming soon!

I sincerely hope I'm misinterpreting "dilutes the significance of finalist recognition"

very happy about the noticeable increase of science fiction poems I received during my last submission period 🪐

Less than 8 hours to go!!! 😱👀 Can we make it????

guys i just found out about this thing called "journaling." it's like posting except only for you.

Strange Horizons is excellent, and the poems there rock! Consider supporting this speculative fiction magazine! #booksky

me every time I watch a show/movie: I wonder how they wrote this in the book

At the Nebulas, @maryannemohanraj.bsky.social, the founder of Strange Horizons, spoke about the origins of the magazine and how it started at a time where there were few opportunities for short story writers, particularly new writers, to have their work published. (1/3)

nooo The Boroughs was so much fun

We have more signed books available now! From @charliejane.bsky.social and @maryrobinettekowal.com www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Violet Lichen is NOW OPEN to novella queries until June 30th! 🌱🍄 We're seeking speculative and literary ecofiction and sci-fi between 30-45k words. We look forward to reading your work! Read Full Submission Guidelines: violetlichen.com/submissions/ Query Portal: querytracker.net/query/Violet...

Fantastic news for the thousands of poetry lovers reading this: 1) There's still 63 poems left to be sponsored 2) There's 5 spots left in my poetry workshop www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

48-hour-update: thanks to you, we have crossed 50% of our base goal. Help us reach it, and then to our stretch goals - more writers' pay: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... On a selfish note, at $12.5K we release a banger of an essay on world building, that I can't wait to share with you all!

Strange Horizons is doing their annual fundraiser!! they are at $10, 415 out of their initial goal of $22,000! they've been around since 2000 and I've been sending them stories since like 2003, let's keep this going 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Strange Horizons was the first magazine I ever submitted to as a teenager (and received a kind rejection). It was one of the first sff magazines to feel like a platform that welcomed international writers. I've read them, been published by them, written criticism for them. Help keep the lights on:

24-hour-update: Thanks to your generosity, we've raised $9635 already: some way to our base goal of $22K, and to our overall goal of $30K in order to keep our writers' pay at 10c/word. Our next milestone is $10K, to unlock a new poem. Get us there: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Fantastic news for the thousands of poetry lovers reading this: 1) There's still 63 poems left to be sponsored 2) There's 5 spots left in my poetry workshop www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

IT IS TIME 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 GO THROW MONEY AT STRANGE HORIZONS 💵💵💵💵💵 SPREAD THE WORD 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

OMG STRANGE HORIZONS JUST PUBLISHED A CONCRETE POEM BY MARIE BRENNAN I REPEAT STRANGE HORIZONS JUST PUBLISHED A CONCRETE POEM BY MARIE BRENNAN THIS IS NOT A DRILL GO LOOK AND READ: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵

Shoutout to the person who immediately snatched themselves a spot in my poetry workshop 💜 9 more spots waiting for their donor! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Let's gooooo 🔥

Only $19k left to unveil Nico's amazing poem 👀

Our Strange Horizons fundraiser is kicking off in a few hours!! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

my writing/editing/reading motto for this year: deeper & weirder

stop excluding poetry from anthologies 👺

Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡 With your help, we can keep funding our work, expand to regular author interviews, raise our artist pay, & more! Support us at: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

this is for my fellow eyeballs enthusiasts

I LOVE seeing more enthusiasm for found media stories!! if you too love these, make sure you follow and back my upcoming anthology [RECORDED] because I want to give you SO MANY AWESOME STORIES!! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

Strange Horizons is moving off kickstarter and onto BackerKit. This has delayed our fundraiser launch by about a week. Won't you join us? Here's our prelaunch page: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

The Strange Horizons Annual Fund Drive is moving to BackerKit! Same great rewards to fund the same great content! Sign up to show your interest in the launch at the link ⬇️

The #2026IgnyteAwards finalist in Speculative Poetry are: After the Storm – Ishita Basu Mallik In an attempt to seduce Death my sister starts calling him Love – Karan Kapoor Set It Off (1996) – Fans’ Cut – Nova Cypress Black (1/2)

Incredibly honored that @strangehorizons.bsky.social is nominated not only for an Ignyte Award but specifically for the community award ❤️‍🔥 truly means the world

Thyme Travellers 2 has been funded. Thank you all so much for showing your support for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

not to brag but I bookmarked an instagram recipe last night and immediately cooked it for lunch today

The Strange Horizons Kickstarter to fund 2027 will begin on Sunday, 7 June, 2026! This is a critical time for SFF publications when the existence of venues publishing short speculative fiction, poetry and non-fiction is sometimes uncertain. We hope that you will keep us publishing for another year!

Difficult post, but past time to rip the band aid off. FIYAH is going on hiatus indefinitely, with issue #40 currently set to be our last for the time being. The mag cannot continue running at a loss, and needs time to reassess operations from top to bottom if a viable path forward is to be created.

This Bluesky post is eligible for Best Related Work.

We’re hiring a fiction editor to join our team! In this role, you’ll be: 👉 Reading fiction submissions during reading periods 👉 Editing selected submissions to a high standard & supporting authors throughout the publication process And more! Read on & apply www.khoreomag.com/join-our-team/

Day 2 of #WisCon and I woke up bright and early to learn about dystopias! @ajvanbelle.bsky.social did a fantastic job moderating panelists @premeemohamed.com, @vanessajae.bsky.social, Valentin D. Ivanov, and J.A. Bowler. I was left writing in the margins of my notebook, I took so many notes!

catch me on a panel this weekend!

It's official! My poem "To Be the Change", published by @strangehorizons.bsky.social and edited by @vanessajae.bsky.social, is a finalist for the Rhysling Award!

The horrors persist whilst I try to find a good time for book promo of a 📵cautionary📵 story🙅‍♀️ I wrote on betting on human futures, that grew into a ✨self-affirming✨ novel about a loser who bet against **herself** but finds self-love, community, and union power 💪⚒️ And dumplings and all that jazz 🥟

"We want no plot, just vibes." Might I suggest a book of poetry?

Okay. Let's take a moment to talk about How To Be A Hugo Nominee And Come Out Of It Happy About the Honor. I realize this is relevant to like, twelve people. I don't care, those twelve people deserve my time. (You may have seen a version of this thread before. I do it every year.)

hello everyone who came from this list, I hope you're ready for some poetry 😈

*chants* visceral verse!