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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

November submissions are OPEN! The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS! We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

there's a giveaway for one of ten print copies of AN ARCANE INHERITANCE going on on goodreads right now! almost 6K people entered before i even saw it, which is so wild and flattering. go go go! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Before you hit the costume party don't forget to hit SEND! Subs for our next unthemed issue close Friday!

Working on your query letter? Conciseness is key: #amquerying #writersky #writersofbluesky #10Queries

We up! In a day FULL of stellar releases to celebrate, behold our latest issue of FIYAH! Gods and Monsters. Six stories. Three poems. All we're missing are your grabby hands! 🥰 fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

We have reports of the FIRST known offer of rep by a literary agent has been received due to #DVpit 2025! Less than 2 weeks is so fast, but is proof that the marginalized voices that participated are needed in publishing! We are so proud of everyone who put their work out there! #booksky #writersky

We are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible. Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon! 📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!

It's time!!! Enter #RevPit #10Queries for your chance at winning free feedback on your query + first 5 pages! reviseresub.com/mini-events/... #amwriting #writersky #amquerying

It's International Lesbian Day, so let's have some book recs! First, some fantasy and horror below⬇️🌈 📚Cinderella Is Dead 📚If We Survive This 📚So Let Them Burn 📚Vow of Moonlight

That's a wrap on #DVpit 2025! Thank you to everyone who participated, volunteered, or supported! Thank you to the agents & editors who showed up! And thank you to our board @peterlopez.bsky.social & @katchowrites.bsky.social & @claribelortega.com who brought #DVpit to Bluesky!

Adorable🖤 #Huntrix

RAYBEARER W/ CONTEMP FANTASY TWIST X BLOOD LIKE MAGIC ✨Complex mother/son relationship ✨Celestial night magic (stars, moons) ✨Complicated family dynamics ✨Sibling bonds ✨Friend trio ✨Religious trauma ✨Coming-of-age and Identity ✨African, Queer characters #DVPit #YA #F #POC #LGBT #OWN

Halfway into #DVpit 2025 & we've been trending all day! Not only are we seeing great pitches, but great community! Special shout out to our board @peterlopez.bsky.social @katchowrites.bsky.social @claribelortega.com If you have any questions, check out dvpit.carrd.co #writersky #booksky #artistsky

Hi #DVPIT loves. Be sure to look at my Black Authors starter kit for names and pitches as well. This algorithim is weird next to Twitter's/Xs and so what I'm seeing is a lot of Black Authors fading out of the algo due to typical engagement. #POC go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e

RAYBEARER W/ CONTEMP FANTASY TWIST X BLOOD LIKE MAGIC ✨Complex mother/son relationship ✨Celestial night magic (stars, moons) ✨Complicated family dynamics ✨Sibling bonds ✨Friend trio ✨Religious trauma ✨Coming-of-age and Identity ✨African, Queer characters ✨Understanding one’s power #DVPit #YA #F

TOMORROW (Oct 8th) is #DVpit! Any unagented Marginalized writer or artist seeking out representation is invited to participate from 8AM - 8PM ET! Please make sure you review our rules & guidelines before the event: dvpit.carrd.co#faq #writersky #booksky #artistsky #weneeddiversebooks

Just 3 days until #DVpit on October 8th, 2025--a pitch event for unagented marginalized writers & artists seeking out representation! Here's our guide about what to do during the pitch event! dvpit.carrd.co#during So excited for all the amazing talent we'll see! #writersky #booksky #artistsky

RM says "Read Banned Books!" Not surprised Kim Namjoon supports Banned Books Week. This is why Namjoon is worth stanning. He uses his platform to support causes that matter! bannedbooksweek.org #bannedbooksweek #namjoon #KimNamjoon #CensorshipIsSo1984

SO LET THEM BURN and THIS ENDS IN EMBERS (yes, both!) have earned out. SO LET THEM BURN, my debut novel, came out a year ago. THIS ENDS IN EMBERS completed the duology in February. And now every time someone buys a copy in any format, I earn royalties. I can't stop crying. Thank you so much.

Wow! Never thought I'd see WICKED FOX in the New York Times more than 6 years after it came out! Thanks for the shout-out @smartbitches.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b... #booksky #twilight

Mycella Nightcap It's getting close to my favorite spooky season and my head is full of art ideas sprouting like mushrooms ahahaha #Witch #Mushroom #art #painting #illustration

#PreDV was great! It was a trending hashtag all day! (& it's still trending now!) Saw so many amazing pitches for #DVPit! *If you didn't get as much feedback as you were hoping for, then a hack is to look at other pitches and see what advice they got and incorporate that advice to your own pitches!*

#preDV, a pitch practice event before #DVpit, is happening this MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29! If you're a Diverse Author/Artist looking to get agented & traditionally published, please join us! We're hoping to create a fun creative community here! #WriterSky #BookSky #writingcommunity

Black Speculative Fiction Month starts next week. Read/reserve/rec/preorder/buy accordingly

Born to watch the cave entrance at night, stuck living as a dysfunctional modern human 😔

Tiger print

I'm moving to Sweden & can't bring these with me so I'm having a super sale for wallscrolls, artbooks & more! Plus 10% OFF all orders on top! This is also your last chance to request free signatures on any orders during checkout. Get them at yuumeiart.com/Shop

Querying friends! I had a revelation yesterday! If you look at your QT Dashboard, it will tell you right there that your queries and submissions are “outstanding!” See? You’re doing fantastic! #AmQuerying #AmWriting #QueryTracker #YouAreOutstanding (Double meanings are fun!)

A new month approaches! FIYAH will open to submissions on October 1, for our first *unthemed* issue of 2026! Polish up those pieces, we can't wait to see your work 🔥🔥🔥 Share with a hungry Black SFF author or poet who the world needs to know about ✊🏿🖤

Yeah, we quiet over here, but we love y'all. These publishing streets are rough these days. October marks Black Speculative Fiction Month, and we're thrilled to drop TWO issues on you in the coming weeks. Updates soon come. Anyway support some Black creators: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p Follow, share, BUY 🔥

Query tip: make sure you get someone who knows *nothing* about your book to read your query and explain the story back to you. You might find you’ve overemphasized some elements or confused them with others. An agent won’t know anything about your project, it needs to make sense to someone fresh!

Incredibly honored to be nominated for the Best of The Net with this story!!!

happy bisexual visibility day to my visible bisexuals, hudson graves and ellory morgan, the main characters of my Adult dark academia fantasy AN ARCANE INHERITANCE! bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...

Good morning. Good vibes your way.✌️🍀

Hey y’all @britneyslewis.bsky.social Blood Moon novel is currently outselling Twilight and made number 1 on NYTBS. Can we be louder about it on here. For fans of Twilight/The Vampire Diaries #blackbooksky

Hiya I’m Britney. I write ya fantasy romance and speculative horror. Blood moon is my latest book & obsession. It’s an enemies to (Star-crossed) lovers fantasy romance for fans of The Vampire Diaries, Legendborn, and New Moon. Preorder today: rb.gy/cgwvvq

Just read an ARC of Red City by Marie Lu and it’s SO good! So so so good! A Chinese-American girl and an Indian boy become friends at school, with no idea that they’re both training to become alchemists, part of rival magical mafia-style gangs. When they grow up, loyalties are tested. 📚💙

Oh hey, Neighborhood Literary is six months old today! We’ve sold some cool projects, signed some wonderful people, and are continuing the goal of free, accessible local events to make publishing more accessible. Thanks for hanging in there with us. ❤️

Are you a fast or a slow drafter? How long does it take you to finish a first draft? I’m a little all over the place, and I’m not sure yet how fast I’ll be drafting this one. But I’m still going, so I count that as a win. All writing speeds are okay. Writing is not a race. #FallofWords

Listen bro, you can create a little and you did something. You can create nothing, take care of your mental, rest, and you did something. Imagine, envision. It builds toward the ultimate goal of finishing something. Sometimes, this shit is slow and agonizing. Just do what you can when you can.

emerging to share my writing with others before returning to become one with the soil for another 6 months

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st! We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th. Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

omg i just saw that AN ARCANE INHERITANCE is one of Indigo's most anticipated fiction titles??? which means if you preorder it now you get 500 Bonus plum Points???? ahhh, honored, thank you! www.indigo.ca/en-ca/an-arc...

Here are some Indigenous non-fiction books to add to your TBR. For more book recommendations and to support an Indigenous woman in publishing, become a free member of my reader community here: boozhoo.binderybooks.com

I don’t know where this project for my #FallofWords journey wants to go. But that’s okay. I never really know where my stories will take me until I sit down and write them. I’m a true discovery writer. And you?

The Unmapping is about human reaction to catastrophe. It features messy characters cutting in and out of the narrative, moving in a way that mimics the world shifting around them. I hope you get so much out of this story. a.co/d/hP6nGkS bookshop.org/a/20702/9781... audiobrary.com/products/the...

I’ve been unemployed all year after a layoff. If my content has ever been valuable to you, here are some ways to support me: TIP: ko-fi.com/mynameismari... FREE FOLLOW or $5 MEMBERSHIP: mareas.binderybooks.com THE UNMAPPING: bookshop.org/a/20702/9781... ORANGE WINE: bookshop.org/a/20702/9781...