So you have to upload video/audio media as well to do Patreon Drops, live & learn, but never fear February Prompt #1 is here 🌋🦴〰️✊🪸: www.patreon.com/posts/februa... Without 🔔🔔, you can still throw some love, & if you give it a go, a little of how it went or what sparked. @aishatuado.bsky.social

Can you guess when @lyszflo.bsky.social and @jdridges.bsky.social time travelled to for January's reckoning final prompt 🍂👻? (& with this continued brrr, U.S. Mid to East, there sure is a longing for days steadily above fifty. Radiating extra toastiness to y'all 🫖🧣🍲): www.patreon.com/posts/januar...

Anathema | In Verse's first prompt of the year is up. Prepare for reflecting and imagining here to elsewhere 🛣️🛋️🌌: www.patreon.com/posts/januar...

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

@lyszflo.bsky.social @jdridges.bsky.social

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.