This is a truly wild decision to make. It's insulting to all the writers and past winners/nominees.

Thank you to the contributors in December's #Penumbric! Elana Gomel, Maia Brown-Jackson, Yuliia Vereta, @flairiart.bsky.social, @yeahiknowbut.bsky.social, @emmiechristie33.bsky.social, @epapasoulioti.bsky.social ... www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

This is a creation of the multitalented @epapasoulioti.bsky.social! 🦑

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

So this happened. Today has been such a rollercoaster. Hug all your friends tight and celebrate every little joy when you can <3

Quick reminder that our 5th Anniversary Anthology is still available to buy in print, featuring some of the finest writers in contemporary SF, including @bethcato.bsky.social, @epapasoulioti.bsky.social, and @avramargariti.bsky.social mixam.com/print-on-dem...

Take a chance on what might be in @epapasoulioti.bsky.social’s new poem “permutations.” kaleidotrope.net/summer-2025/...

The August @utopiascifi.bsky.social is out!! We're now printing 5 poems/issue and this one features themes of florals and the natural world. Poems from @rkduncan.bsky.social @epapasoulioti.bsky.social @marysoonlee.bsky.social Josh Pearce & Kelley Tai! www.utopiasciencefiction.com/product-page...

Saying you don't like poetry is like saying you don't like television. There is poetry out there that is for you, whoever you are. I promise.

In honor of the #PoetryHugo passing and jumping on the current trend 1 like = 1 opinion about #specpo!

Plus new poetry by @mariness.bsky.social, Alexander Etheridge, Mike Sluchinski, @writerjencrow.bsky.social, @epapasoulioti.bsky.social, @carterhaugh.bsky.social, and @jamesjosephbrown.bsky.social! With fantastic artwork by @kattysouza.bsky.social!

You can read my poem “Hungry Years” in the latest issue of Kaleidotrope online. kaleidotrope.net And while you’re there, don’t miss excellent poetry from @epapasoulioti.bsky.social and @mariness.bsky.social .

I did it. I won the Bram Stoker Award. What an honor. My heart is full.

And in case you were worried you wouldn't see enough of me on your TL this week, I also have a new short story out in Strange Horizons! It's about Alan Turing, artificial intelligence, love, the Entscheidungsproblem, and a thought problem about a changeling. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

I have a story out today! "The Way Through" is a portal fantasy about finding yourself and portals that are always there when you need them. 😊 www.orions-belt.net/archives/the...

💫 congrats to @tiffmorris.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @angelvleal.bsky.social @epapasoulioti.bsky.social @feliciafm.bsky.social & everyone else!! stunning list as always & I’m honored to be part of it 🦔

So thankful that my poem "traveling through breaths" in @radonjournal.bsky.social is shortlisted for the Rhysling Award among such great company! Congratulations to all the nominees!

Bravo to @epapasoulioti.bsky.social and contributors for a gorgeous, plant-rich issue of @sfpoetry.bsky.social Eye to the Telescope. 🌱🪐📚🎉 eyetothetelescope.com/archives/056...

So grateful to have a little cinquain out today with Eye to the Telescope 💖 Thank you for picking it, @epapasoulioti.bsky.social! Full issue here: www.eyetothetelescope.com/archives/056...

While you're reading Eye To The Telescope #56 PLANTS, edited by @epapasoulioti.bsky.social eyetothetelescope.com/archives/056... Don't forget to get those poems ready to submit to the upcoming BIRDS, edited by @mariaschrater.bsky.social✨✨ ✨✨✨✨ eyetothetelescope.com/about.html

AAAhHH my story "Zarghána" is shortlisted! And I have so many weird stories to read now, YAY!!

It's publication day for Sour Cherry! I can't thank enough everyone @tinhouse.bsky.social and @wildfirebooks.bsky.social who worked to make this book happen. And now here we are! I hope it finds its readers. 🍒 US: tinhouse.com/book/sour-ch... UK: www.headline.co.uk/titles/natal...

OMG IT'S REAL 😭😭 You wonderful people thank you for putting both of these in the ballot!! Incredibly thankful today 🙏 Shoutout to all the kick-ass writers in my category @thomasha.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @awprihandita.bsky.social and @christinehanolsy.com

Alright y’all, are you ready for some poetry recs?! Hugo nominations close on 3/15, so it’s a great time to get [re]acquainted with some fantastic speculative poetry. Here's a 🧵 of some of my favorites from 2024.

Last night I was doomscrolling reddit and this post was like… an unexpected poem and also now I want to whisper little love spells over everything I make. For my own good as well as for others.

I also want to point people to Rhonda's gofundme page. I know it's a difficult time for all of us but she is so very close to reaching her funding goal which will help focus on her health. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

I have an agent! Super excited to announce that I am now represented by Stevie Finegan at Zeno Agency. Can't wait to find out what the future will bring for my Cyberpunk 2077 x Spirited Away science-fantasy novel 🤞

Reading 2024 poetry? Try the poem "In blue sight" by Eva Papasoulioti! (@epapasoulioti.bsky.social) You can read it here! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/in-blue-sight/

Enjoy my novelette about parallel universes, human connection against all odds, and a goth video game in which teeth are the currency. 🦷❤️

Eye to the Telescope is OPEN! Send me your submissions about Plants! Alien plants, magical plants, vampire plants! All the plants!

And upcoming! All with windows TBA Immortality, edited by @ccrayne.bsky.social Paying Tribute, edited by Angela Acosta Aliens, edited by @spires.bsky.social

Is one of your 2025 goals to write or submit more poetry? Consider submitting to Eye to the Telescope's themed calls! ⁣ 🪴Plants, OPEN NOW, edited by @epapasoulioti.bsky.social 🪶 Birds, Opens March 15, edited by @mariaschrater.bsky.social 👁️‍🗨️ Cyberpunk,TBA, edited by @caseyaimer.bsky.social

"Last week I had a word for it. That feeling when something goes well, really well, and you’re warm and bright inside— there’s a word— but it’s gone, stolen, seized in the raid;" Loved this poem by @swantower.bsky.social in @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/poetry/a-war...

Holy shit! Yesterday, #TheNightward hit #1 in Australia in Black & African American Science Fiction! It was also #6 in Black & Af-Am Fantasy. This is incredible since the book comes out there next Jan. But it's out today in the UK, so get in on this now! www.amazon.co.uk/Nightward-No...

IT’S HERE 💫 IT’S QUEER 🍄 AND YOU CAN PREORDER TODAY 🔥

For #ReadPalestineWeek, I have this list of 25 Palestinian books I loved (not just 25 unsorted books! These are 25 personal recommendations from me) Hoping to do a followup with more books this year, G-d willing. www.bogireadstheworld.com/read-palesti...

Final touches on my Darling Cardigan: buttons 💜

Just a reminder that submissions for Eye to the Telescope’s (Non) Binaries issue are OPEN until Dec. 15, edited by Haley Bossé ✨ eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html

Thrilled to share the UK cover of SOUR CHERRY, coming April 2025. Karen Joy Fowler called it "An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment," and you can pre-order it here: www.hachette.co.uk/titles/natal...

Teto was trying to drink water from the vase seconds before I took this picture 🤣

Oh, I have a small new poem in Kaleidotrope!

If you'd like something to read on this Saturday, my story @therumpus.bsky.social is a section of the novel I'm working on. It's about the cost of exploration and the weight of memory. I'd be honored if you read it Tw: depictions of dementia therumpus.net/2024/11/04/r...

hey newish sky friends! don’t forget to RT here like you’re throwing confetti—just liking something won’t help other people see or find it here

I neglected pruning the syngonium and it came this close to devouring us.

"I didn’t know what my own body needed, and I didn’t understand what had happened to my tío. Did an American boy break his heart, or did his Catholicism break it?" "A Book Is a Map, a Bed is a Country" by @angelvleal.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social

This is your reminder that writing is a political action.

Celebrate literary Halloween with us by congratulating our nominees for both Brave New Weird and Best Horror of the Year! 1) Take Care (Issue 6) by Lex Chamberlin 2) They Remember Faces (Issue 8) by @leokaolive.bsky.social 3) Dreamer, Passenger, Partner (Issue 8) by Colin Alexander

Don’t be afraid, I’m only walls and windows and foundations. You can touch them. Me. I’m not made of gingerbread -from "The house at the top of the hill" by Eva Papasoulioti (@epapasoulioti.bsky.social), in #Penumbric's Oct issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #poem #poetry #poet #horror

It's here! Super excited to see my Strange Horizons story 'The God of Minor Troubles' in The Year's Best Fantasy Volume 3, edited by Paula Guran, alongside some of my favorite writers.