@Clarion alum @larazontally.bsky.social has teamed up with @clarionwest.bsky.social alum @huwevansart.bsky.social (and others) to found Homeward Books, a new small press! Support their Kickstarter campaign today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

Canada's Aurora Awards ceremony starts at 2pm Pacific. My novel Blackheart Man is shortlisted for it. YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy2k...

Last year, I was in San Diego at the Clarion Workshop and had the best time! This year, I’m prepping for a big move and write-a-thoning with my awesome alumni-friends, Jai, Anj, and weeg bree. Check out our pages and consider supporting 💜 clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...

We’ve reached over $2000! We’re pushing for our $15,000 goal, and have a very special Write-a-thon incentive to offer. Donate $750 or more (which can be spread across multiple writers) to have your name, or a name of your choosing, immortalized in text by the renowned Kim Stanley Robinson!

I wrote all about my experience at Readercon and the Shirley Jackson Awards! www.juliarios.com/why-didnt-yo...

If you are *at all* interested in thinking about genre fiction in general and the weird in particular, then reading what Zach writes really is giving yourself an excellent present.

We’ve reached over $1000 in donations! We’re so grateful to all our donors. We still have some way to go to reach our target. So, consider supporting the workshop by donating or sponsoring one of our amazing Write-a-thon writers! Spread the word 🚀 clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...

thank you, Andrea 💔

This is 💯 @mariaschrater.bsky.social is amazing with poetry and I miss working with her at @apparitionlit.com — but it warms the cockles of my barnacle heart to see her producing a whole issue 😍

This October, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my first edited anthology, "As The Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories." Haunting. Reflective. Charged. And everything in between. 💜🩵🖤 Preorders and contributor list at the link below! houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

We’re cheering on our dedicated writers working towards their Write-a-Thon goals! Check out their pages and show them support via the link below! 🖊️✨ clarionwriteathon.com/members/brow...

I love to see this! Sydney is so amazing and talented. Huge congrats @sydneyficant137.bsky.social! 💜

⚡New Story!⚡ 'Til Earth and Heaven Ring' is a historical piece in @strangehorizons.bsky.social Afrosurrealism special issue! Inspired by Robert Smalls' self-emancipation, this is a story about strangeness, risk, art, and of course, about freedom. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

The reviews are in! Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time by Rasheedah Phillips review by Joy Sanchez-Taylor Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction edited by Eugen Bacon review by A. S. Lewis The Afrofuturist Evolution by Ytasha L. Womack review by Jacqueline Nyathi

The Clarion Write-a-Thon is up and running! Do you have any writing goals in mind? Sign up and join our list of amazing participants to help us reach our $15,000 goal! 🚀 Find more about signing up and donating at: clarionwriteathon.org/writerstips/

New story! "The Best Way to Survive a Tiger Attack" by A. W. Prihandita! buff.ly/7211uCO

Strange Horizons is delighted to present our special issue on AfroSurreal SF, edited by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu and Shingai Njeri Kagunda. Read the entire issue - with stories, poetry, essays, and reviews - here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/is...

Excited to see my Clarionmate @julialicia.bsky.social in this issue! 💜

The Clarion Write-a-Thon will be starting up again in just a few days! Get on top of your writing goals by joining us from June 29 to August 9 to raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop. Sign up through the link below! 🖊️🖊️🖊️ clarionwriteathon.com

Ahhhh I am so glad to see Anselma's work celebrated! 💜Huge congrats!!!

Hi everyone, we are running out of time for our fundraiser. We want to keep doing what we do and uplifting writers at every stage of their careers. Please visit igg.me/at/locusmag2... to see all the ways your donation will be rewarded! We love you! Like and share if you can. Thank you. 💌

Have a new story, “The Adjutant’s Dinner Guest,” in this upcoming antho from Flame Tree Press, Fever Dreams, edited by Mark Morris. If you enlarge the cover you can see the terrific list of authors in it.

So excited for the class of 2025! Hope you all have as fantastic a time as I did! 💜

The finalists for the prestigious Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire have been announced, and my novella “Kid Wolf & Kraken Boy” is on the ballot in the “NOUVELLE ÉTRANGÈRE / FOREIGN SHORT FICTION” category! I am so moved and grateful to the awards jury and to my incredible publisher, Le Bélial’!

Submissions for our Afrosurrealist Special Issue are open now until April 30th for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction! Find out more about what the editors are looking for and the link to submit in the Call for Submissions at the link in our bio!

And it is such a good listen! Anj has a way of creating wonderfully unsettling and layered stories.

I'm a huge fan of Thomas Ha's work. So excited to read this! And the cover is so good!!

I'm so happy to see this story being celebrated!!! Anselma is absolutely amazing and so talented! Read, read, read if you haven't already!

We have an update for the 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop application period. The deadline has been extended to February 18 at 12:59 am PST! We look forward to reading all of your work! Apply through the link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/applicatio...

Hey! SH is doing an Afrosurrealism special issue. I know a lot of my mutuals are interested in this! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

HELLO I AM IN THIS NOTICE ME SENPAI!!! Story info pinned on my bsky profile. Story is much sunshine few grumpy. Very needed these days!!! Rage against the machine!!! Resist!!! Commune!!! Joy!!! Especially joy!!! ✊

We are honored to have Annalee Newitz as a 2025 Clarion instructor. They are the author of The Terraformers, The Future of Another Timeline, and Autonomous, which won the Lambda Literary Award. They have published in The Washington Post and The New Yorker, among many others. Application link below!

How does a leviathan, fond of being the little spoon, fall in love? "Ways of Love for Three-Hearted Creatures," by Rachel Sudbeck, has an answer. smallwondersmag.com/...

The audio version of my novelette “Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being” is now live on Clarkesworld’s podcast! ✨ Here are the links to the episode: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7jTF... Apple podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

My story on the Bram Stoker Award Reading List, "A Consequence of the Body", is now up with a kickass cover by @akeiruart.bsky.social! If you like scifi ft clones, AI, and violent catharsis, with an unhealthy helping of self-destruction & toxic co-dependence, check it out here: tinyurl.com/fp98snbb

The awards eligibility post I wasn't going to do... My story "Sit Up With Your Dead" is on the Stoker Rec'd Reading List. (Who even put it there!!!) If you wanna read it, the WHOLE Dark Blooms anthology is available for 2.99USD on the website like the river in Brazil

Got a story in this one, “Emergency On Floor 2.” Follow the link to see the entire TOC www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/34

Hey! @bourbonpenn.bsky.social 34 is here. A wild ToC and great stories. Includes my latest, "House Traveler." An amnesiac. Some whiskey. And a walk in a neighborhood. Definitely a December read and suits this dark, chilly morning. Thanks for reading, and if you enjoy, feel free to drop a line.

Today is Giving Tuesday! Since 1968, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop has taught aspiring writers of science fiction and fantasy. Donations support the workshop and make the opportunity accessible to a wide range of writers. Consider donating and spread the word! #GivingTuesday Link in comment below!

Applications for the 2025 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop are open! Aspiring writers of fantasy and science fiction will write and workshop together from June 29 to August 9, 2025. Apply by January 31st for early application rates. Follow the link here:

The September issue of Clarkesworld is now online. Includes stories by Marissa Lingen, Tiffany Xue, Laura Williams McCaffrey, Eric Schwitzgebel, Cirilo Lemos, Ben Berman Ghan, Renan Bernardo, and R H Wesley. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_216 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

We are open for subs for the rest of the month *and* Issue 4 is fully free-to-read! Get a taste for what we love 🫀 Mothman says go www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-4/

Writers, historians, curious folk: a lot of librarians keep count of the number of questions we're asked so that we can compile yearly totals, which is a way to show our bosses & our bosses' bosses how busy we are. So please ask us questions! They actually help us in our workplaces!

My essay on my lived experience with found family is live and free to read on the @heartlines-spec.com website! I wrote with raw honesty about what it's been like to find true family halfway across the world 🖤 ❤️

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN! Send us your Anachronism-themed stories and poetry. Guidelines at apparitionlit.com/submissions/

Today, we have "Kannaki Contemplates the Fire in Her Breast" by Tehnuka. When you've burned and been burnt before, sometimes more fire is the answer... smallwondersmag.com/...

this essay is a beautiful way to finish the incredible body of work of the MERCURIAL issue. thank you so much to @moriamekuye.bsky.social for writing it!!!

Danai is not kidding, it's a real thing... In our co-written YA fantasy, #CursedTheDeer

We wouldn't be here without you 💙