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We are open! Let your strange natures bloom

wrote a blog post last night with the working title "justifying to myself why i need to do months of research to even start thinking about beginning my novel" but it turned out to be another treatise on being a writer in the age of AI buttondown.com/frankiehagg/...

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TRACTOR BEAM: THE WATER ISSUE is open. 🌊 Seeking speculative fiction about water, agriculture, migration, ecosystems, and anti-apocalyptic futures. 💰 $1,000/story 📚 Under 6,000 words preferred 📅 June 30, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social #OpenCall #AmWriting

Your teenage years are all about learning who you are as a person. Your 20s are for taking risks and making mistakes. Your 30s are for being stuck in a time loop. Your 40s are for being stuck in a time loop. Your 50s are for being stuck in a time loop.

myself being in 1-2 careers where AI looms around every corner, @weareravenous.com's initiative gave me hope for the kinds of professional futures we can build for ourselves. subscribed. stoked to see what they turn out

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often when first-drafting a translation my linguistic centre is all confused and i have to unmix my idioms in post. some good ones today. cook while the iron is hot (arguably reasonable). take some perspective (good magic system idea)

Heads up–we open to submissions on May 1st at midnight (EST). Get your rotten leaves ready 🍂

GET READY TO SUBMIT ‼️ Augur Magazine is opening for a priority call! We're accepting submissions from anyone living within Canada who is also... - BIPOC - 2SLGBTQIA - Disabled on MAY 5TH!!! Open call for international + Canadian subs will take place this summer! Check out our subs guidelines👇

it's almost two years since I started translating full time! one of my struggles as an early-career translator with an editorial background is that a translator really cannot edit the text in the same way. improving the text is only sort of within my purview, and it's a journey to grasp exactly how

running headfirst into every wall until i find another portal

last week a work client relayed that i was too comma-happy because i use the oxford comma, and while all language rules are fake and made up, i am completely unable to get over it. COMMA HAPPY? for separating LIST ITEMS CLEARLY? early introduction to chicago manual of style shapes a person

picking up a lot of history and environmental nonfiction these days, but it's challenging as an outsider to the field to pinpoint which books will provide the sort of information i'm looking for. this is an invaluable comparison for readers like me, thank you

Here's an essay-length review of 4 new books on the history of #ClimateChange, with my thoughts on how the scale of our analyses and the depth of our engagement with global warming alters the kinds of stories we can tell about history (and their accuracy). #EnvHst online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...

Here is the other winning portrait. "The Clarity Of Untangling The Threads (portrait of a stitch artist) 5" Hand embroidery artwork. #PortraitArt #embroidery #ThreadPainting

To fully understand "Sinners" and the world of the Smokestack twins, we need to explore the Rust Belt Gothik, the tradition of Black speculative survival strategies forged in response to the pressures of the Great Migration

✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨ Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up. This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year. Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!

The falconer: Things fall apart! The falcon: WHAT? The falconer: Things fall apart! The centre cannot hold! The falcon: WHAAAT? The falconer: fucksake MERE ANARCHY IS LOOSED UPON THE WORLD!

I'm really proud of this little story of a big robot and all the lives around it in and above the soil, and I hope you enjoy it!

"Chaffinch" Hand embroidery thread painting artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p115/c... #birds #embroidery #FiberFriday #WildlifeArt

this hand-embroidered finch has moved me to tears this morning. there is great beauty in the world (birds, art)

I barely think about The Obelisk anymore. Couldn't care less about its strangely oily surface or the gentle hum of its presence

Mechanic rolled out from under my car and across the room and out of the garage and down the road, never to be seen again

me: i heard you do a terrible owl impression him: where me: holy shit that is bad

i naturally read about a book or two per week on average, though that number has been declining year over year since i started translating. 2025 was my first full year as a full-time translator, and I'm on track to have "only" read 44-45 books by EOY. this is still a good achievement!

Watched "In the Mouth of Madness" last night, which is a movie all about how Southern Ontario is the most terrifying place on earth.

I had the great honour to edit Chlorophilia in this issue - a flippy little take on Ovid for the modern era. If you, like me, love an epistolary story (or any story about natural desire), take a little look at Augur 8.3 out now 👀 🌱

🪶Augurians! Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE! 🎉 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Inside you'll find... 🌲 glowing red eyes deep within a forest 🧜‍♀️ the price of revenge from sirens 🫐 a berry world of grief and awe & so much more! 🔗 Link in bio! More details below 👀⬇️

at the end of the day you have to love the dishes. that's what separates the greats--they see the next stack of dishes as an opportunity to run the track one more time. And they take it personally. Dishes? in MY sink? you should've called ahead. you'd know better

ELPHABA and GLINDA will return SUMMER 2027 in SINNERS 2

a post about Psychopomp in 2026 please read and share thank you very much

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

this is great advice at a time where i am daily looking at my little notebook of short story ideas followed immediately by hyperventilating into a paper bag

Arsenal Pulp Press is proud to be a #CertifiedCanadianPublisher. 🇨🇦 The majority of books sold in Canada are published by foreign-owned companies, yet Canadian-owned publishers produce the majority of books by Canadian authors.

It's my first time leading editing. The process was so eye-opening and amazing. I won't restate the editor's note but yall. Yall...I am so proud of each and every one of these stories and the authors who wrote them. Come meet some new reads.

as @ridethekick.bsky.social said of baseball yesterday: anything can happen, until it doesn't, and if not, you do it again

Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.

CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA: Seundruls 2022

I'm doing a bastardized version of nanowrimo (bastardwrimo, as my friend hyemi put it). here are my november goals: 1. sit down to my writing daily, for any amount of time 2. read at least 10 pages daily, of anything 3. walk daily 4. journal daily (based on julia cameron's morning pages)

Augur Issue 8.2 is NOW LIVE! 🎊 & you can find 2 FREE pieces on our site! Discover... 🔥 an elemental aftermath of an affair 🦖 a monstrous hymn of awe and destruction 🍯 devastation dripped in honey and rain & so much more! 🔗 Starting reading here: augursociety.org/augur-issue-... 🧵

very exciting month ahead! halloween... jays in the world series... [flipping very quickly past the page in my planner that has a daily wordcount tracker for november] concert coming up with a friend...

Indigenous horror may seem new to many, but it is ancient. It is born from stories that carry lessons, warnings, and survival through generations. What is new is seeing those stories retake their rightful space in the contemporary horror landscape. redpopnews.com/13-must-read... #redpopnews

We're here! www.briefecology.com/p/annoucemen...

i'm friends with several phd students in video games (it's montreal), and when they ask me why i love management sims, i don't know what to tell them. right now it's planet zoo. i can't explain why i finish doing tasks at work just to boot up the device to finish doing tasks at simulated work

i don't understand why they're called the toronto blue jays and not the toronto baseballs. i'll never understand it. same with the dodgers, they should be called the baseballs too. more people should be like me and speak out when they see that something is wrong

hat is also a glove

Congratulations to Guelph MFA alum @teresempierre.bsky.social on the release of #ASTHEEARTHDREAMS (House of Anansi), out now! Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reflections, and hopes of Black writers in Canada.