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...

I’m saying this right now: if I ever become the kind of person who a) has pirateable content and b) starts talking OUT OF MY ASS about piracy, you’re allowed to smack me.

Can I interest you in a tarot-based lyric game where time and space have collapsed into each other? 👁️ Check out The Home We Remember! The ashcan is included in this amazing bundle to support Palestinians 🇵🇸 #TTRPG // #IndieTTRPG

the piracy debate always reminds me of how many people out there think the entire world is exactly like their world. just as writing is not accessible for everyone, reading isn't accessible for everyone either.

i'm supposed to be doing so many things right now but at the moment, i'm watching a snake climb into the neighbour's bathroom window and i should probably say something so i am thinking about that also

More work by friends! Sable’s such an incredibly talented writer and artist—go check out their work!!

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

2025 roundup! I published three new stories this year. Whether or not you’re nominating for awards, it would make my day if you gave them a read 🥹💛 Thread below: ⬇️ 🧵

New Creative Kris is amplifying community voices over here 📣

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump. It’s oligarchs all the way down. My first for @zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

JFA Presents Yemoja’s Tears: An Anthology of Water, Bodies and Bodies of Water

“She’d love you if you were a thirty-five-year-old IT professional named Rajiv.” Cackled and then cried but then again I’ve been doing a lot of both these days 🤠

"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend" Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...

'To crip something is to bend, compress, twist, subvert, and imbue disabled wisdom into systems, institutions, and cultures. As I’ve done before as a physically disabled person, I will now crip the world ... It takes a tremendous amount of emotional and physical labor to crip the world.'

'Like an orchard in full bloom, nurturing stories requires care and connection, too. The people we love who are no longer alive—Stacey, Janna, Jonathan, Shizuko—are still with us, and our stories about them are seeds planted with gentleness and hope for the future.'

'I’m no expert but I know what it means to be dehumanized, rendered disposable, and oppressed,' Alice wrote of the imperative to be in solidarity with Palestine. 'I know that all people deserve freedom. I know that genocide is a mass disabling event and a form of eugenics.'

🌏🔸 TAMIL TERRAINS. Today!

Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

All I want is to be a child again looking for Rs. 200 books in Words&Worth with my sister and begging my mom for a frankie when we left

Join us! SUNDAY Nov 16 9.30 am PST / 12.30 pm EST (#Vancouver-online) Upstart & Crow #TamilTerrains upstartandcrow.com/event/tamil-...

“In my head, there’s a certain type of writer who gets to go into their study with at least a blank page (if not a solid, ready-for-workshop draft), and then there are the writers who have to spend their time erasing from their page what someone else had already written, like me.” #blackwriters #MFA

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Did you miss "Lexicographer of Quiet Corners of the Mind", one of Bogi Takács's "Jobs for Magical People (That Do Not Involve the Military)" series of poems? If so, you're in for a treat.

i don’t want to see the aurora nope i just want to see more building lights yep yep yep beam me up bitch :-|

A Fistful of Loud: Seattle Neighbors Build Whistle Kits to Protect Immigrants From ICE

Starting Nov 8! That's this coming Saturday! Promptember is free. Yep. A huge number of write-in and open mic events Nov 8-Dec 14, and this one is on us. Come write with us. Events are planned for various timezones. Do one a week, three, or all if you never sleep. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Barrack Obama has not congratulated Zohran Mamdani on his Facebook Page but he has offered his condolences to Dick Cheney’s family, that oughta tell you everything you need to know about what this overseer values in his twilight years

Our portal is still open to submissions by Indigenous Authors! Here is more information about our submission process including the link to our amoksha submission portal: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

"People on food stamps are lazy!” A phrase I and many others have heard too often. New op-ed from Emily Pinckney just dropped! #evergreenecho #echothearts #theecho #arts #pnw

I really hope Americans understand that the forced famine in Gaza and this are intrinsically connected

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub book coming out in 2026 that is science fiction, fantasy, or horror and either adult or young adult? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

in case you missed it 🖤 some NEW FICTION

yakno... once all this "starve the poor" shit reaches its zenith and folks are deciding between food & rent or upgrading a goddamn iphone THEN the capitalists will begin realigning themselves with society - a temporary strategy, but capitalist greed might be more addictive than political greed.

Are you doing Nonfiction November? Here are some recs! #booksky 1. You don’t have to be rich to be cozy this upcoming holiday 2. Feminism isn’t Julia Fox in a blood spattered pink dress. Sometimes it’s SNAP benefits 3. Respectability costs and costs dearly 4. There are seasons for reaping AND rest

wrote a poem called “burr holes” now have several people telling me they thought i wrote a poem called “butt holes”

Happy #PublicRadioDay! In solidarity with public media, tune your dials, stream, or otherwise please support your local public radio station. Here in #Seattle, @kexp-feed.nvm2u.com @c895radio.bsky.social and @npr.org are the biggies. What are the beloved stations in your area?

Some horror in translation recommendations for Halloween, from @maudmarianw.bsky.social and @reactorsff.bsky.social!

Amendment needed: watch us. Watch. Us. Half the strength I have is completely owed to the badass community I’m a part of: local writers, ex-MFAs, my mentor, the people down at the cafe who feed me when I’m dead broke. These are the people who I love and who love me in turn so fiercely

Let's help those hurt by the halting of SNAP food aid benefits. We'll be collecting non-perishable food and encouraging folks to donate to the Rainier Valley Bank on Saturday, Nov 1 noon - 3 pm at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle. DM me if you'd like to volunteer. cascadiademocratic.org/event/snap-t...

Listen listen listen death positivity inherently involves open conversations that art has been used to translate for centuries. Ergo supporting spaces that elevate these artists and their art is instrumental always

Literally the covers always slap

😲 SEATTLE: Shackled at his wrists and ankles, an elderly man struggles in the cold rain to mount the slippery stairs to this Avelo jet, which will fly him to another detention facility in Texas 👀

It has been a hell of a fortnight so here are 6 chapters from my Atlanta based sci-fi post apocalyptic Cinderella on Mars novel. open.substack.com/pub/shannami...

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

The closest thing my autistic ass has to dissolving into the universe is my bones being blasted by bass at a concert or a fiddle riff zipping straight through me

Thanks for the reception! We’re blown away to the point that we’re overstimulated and digging holes in the backyard. Either way, got some more fiction headed your way. This story is a fun one? A choose-your-own-adventure? Hell yeah.

A gorgeous anthology of Canadian works from last year, and I'm very lucky to have my bittersweet prose poem "Light of My Life" (originally published by @astrolabe.ooo) included alongside this incredible lineup of Canadian writers