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From a flash out on sub (that I'll be reading for my class 😁) #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

For us queer/aligning in another (un)naming, it's Pride whether celebrating solo in our hearts or shared with beloveds of all connections, but may this month be full up with the good stuff, the showing up stuff, the boogiein all by your bad self stuff, the joying in spaces made for communion stuff.

Why don't we fall in love? (Did you hear 🎶? If not, we're still friends.) Anyhow, today me Jeané brings you our first Spec Colorways In Love post, where I muse on how duplex has become a beloved muse: www.patreon.com/posts/spec-c... 💜🏘️💜 What beloveds have you been returning to?

Update. Please keep the incredible submissions coming 😀💐.

I'll be on the panels: ⌨️🌈📰What's New in Queer Speculative Fiction (Fri 7:00 PM–8:15 PM, Online Zoom Room 3) 🐞🐛🕸Bug/Insect Tropes in Speculative Fiction (Sat 10:30 AM–11:45 AM, Online Zoom Room 3) 🐕💜🌬Multicultural Magic in the Works of Darcie Little Badger (Sun 1:00 PM–2:15 PM, Online Zoom Room 1)

And if you missed us, or wondering who we be, you can rewatch or listen on whatever podcast platform of your preference: www.patreon.com/posts/record... In 🫶🏾 & verse

We're open to subs till the end of the month or reach 100 cap📥🏯🌈✒️🤖🎊🧙🏿✏️🚀📥: speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#guidelines

This workshop is a gathering from years of pouring love and care and breath into my work/characters/worlds which helped me nourish how I did in this here beyond self. Immeasurable gratitude and I can't wait to hold this space with folks to language and dream conjure tapping into that energy.

🎊Know it's been said before, but here with our first-gathering official announcement (📅May 16 7 pm EST), including community agreements for your perusal. Come chat with us, satisfy your burning questions, and maybe get a little writing in🎊: www.patreon.com/posts/our-ve...

I remember part of how LeVar Burton signed off from his pod was to say of its producer, I think, she was the best in the business, and that's how I feel about this one-of-a-kind mag/its crew. I've grown as an editor, caretaker of stories, and it's a true, constant joy whenever an issue is afoot.

Prosthetics, Glasses, and Other Disability Aids in SFF will feature moderator @rhaven.bsky.social + panelists @smreiher.bsky.social, @stephengrahamking.com, @jdridges.bsky.social, @diannalgunn.bsky.social & @fiversdream.bsky.social discussing how to create unique disability aids in your world 4/?

When we open to subs May 16, we'll be searching for 3 poems—publication in July, September, and November. To guide and ease review process, we've crafted a rubric rooted in our four core values. Additional excite, we're dreaming of digital broadsides with option for audio done by us or the author.

First prompt of National Poetry Month 🌌🍂⚧️🪐📜: www.patreon.com/posts/april-... Write on! 📣1️⃣✍🏾🛸3️⃣0️⃣🏁 @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social (💐for being a Nebula finalist @sfwa.org) @strangehorizons.bsky.social

Let us reintroduce ourselves (promise worth reading to end): www.patreon.com/posts/update... In 🫶🏾 & verse, @lyszflo.bsky.social @jdridges.bsky.social

It’s New Year’s Eve, and 2025 has been A Year. I thought everyone might appreciate a cozy gift. Please get the Worlds of Possibility Volume 2 ebook for free, if you would like it! www.juliarios.com/a-gift-to-en...

Captain’s Lay Back  by Jeané D. Ridges @jdridges.bsky.social "Trouble to be had out in Diuna Quad, but here a beautiful bowl of chicken n dumplings" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #sciencefiction #scifi

Could have just edited my OG eligibility, but a feast for one felt fitting, so I made chicken n dumpling for the first time while talking with my Grandma Barbara, who typically gifts this particular nourishment and more. Thank you @strangehorizons.bsky.social 💐 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

Trying an eligibility post for the first time. I'm grateful to myself for showing up this year to tend myself, the work, and community. Thankful for everyone I've met, deepened bonds with, and/or collabed to realize something wondrously meaningful. With and wishing care always, Jeané 🫂

My shortest pub to date but still with feeling/wonder/breath. Thank you, SoM 💐: stoneofmadnesspress.com/jeane-d-ridges

If you didn't get a chance to attend the symposium for SISTORIES's Fluid By Nature, the replay is now live and access can be purchased for $2: www.sistories.org/fluid-by-nat... (vid description has timestamps for happenings and an accompanying resource packet of materials/notes used) 🤎

🐉I'll be not only delightedly attending but on the program for Flights of Foundry Sep 26-28: flights-of-foundry.org/program-3/ 🪶

Wooh dat full tired 😌. Yesterday was a dream realized from what happens when you move and claim your work with intention, with whole care. If ya couldn't tune in, here's Issue V in all its glory--you can read online now and preorder a free-ninety-nine physical: www.sistories.org/b26db0d6-709...

(Fun Fact: I pictured posting this but didn't 😬.) Anyhow, SISTORIES is having a closing, celebratory hybrid symposium tomorrow, Aug 8, 11-6 for my LEI cohort and the issue we nurtured into being. Reg here (those who do will be first to receive hard copies of the issue)🤎🏞🧵: linktr.ee/fluidbynature

We're celebrating 5 years of khōréō by sharing essays & interviews! In "Writing the Space Between Here and Elsewhere: Interviews with Jennifer Hudak and Shingai Njeri Kagunda", @jdridges.bsky.social interviews two authors featured in khōréō's very first issue: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

🗣️⚙️🫂 Grab you a tall glass of water and come rest on the porch awhile: theseventhwave.org/publication/... (also be sure to explore the neighborhood: theseventhwave.org/publication/..., and get ready for spotlights on contributors June 11-18: www.instagram.com/seventhwavem...) 🗣️⚙️🫂

Apr 6 2 pm EST/1 pm CST/11 am PST: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Here with first quarterish updates and [spare *hugs*] ⬇️ 🥧🥔🥕🌶🫘💊🥣🧀🧈🫚 1️⃣ Concluding this issue's filling narrative menu, on a 🌑-orbiting world, "Recipes for the Course of Living" follows its narrator's luay to luay a recipe at a time. www.juliarios.com/the-february...

I'll be reading at Fellowship of the Griots' Community Reading this Sunday, December 8. The event starts at 4 pm EST/3 pm CST: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... . 🤗 to this community for not only the prompt that prompted 😆 these words but for the space, for everyone's incredible being.

If ya relished the friens, the noms, the vistas in "Prep Luay", the story where the world first unfolded, "Recipes for the Course of Living", will also find a home away from home in Worlds of Possibility next year. 💌 to @omgjulia.bsky.social and Rivers Misfits for y'alls enthusiasm for these words.

The readings for Roots.Wounds.Words' 2024 Retreat are open to the public. I'll be the penultimate reader on Jan 11 (rdgs start at 8 pm EST). The registration links to attend are here--at the bottom of newsletter: mailchi.mp/rootswoundsw...

Continuing my gratitude, it's been bout a year since I was presented the opportunity for [i\e\i\e\i\e] to spill from me: apparitionlit.com/inhaleexhale...

Meeting this lap's close, I'm grateful-glad: I was printed in my 1st antho and the story that's joy evoked it was an award finalist; I've already signed a contract for a poem to be pubd nxt round; & for all the spaces that offered me chances to connect while leaning into creation for its own sake.

Even though it's been several years since I read Han Kang's Human Acts, the end of this passage still surfaces clearly when I'm haunted by/overcome processing such violence. (content awareness: graphic imagery)

Proud my work is among this thoughtful compilation of possibility. Thanks to @omgjulia.bsky.social & my fellow contributors--storytellers, storytelling artists--for imagining then nurturing what became this.

My reads stack continuing to be abundant with thought-provoking indie, highly melanated, &/or queer stories is something that will never not bring me joy and solace.