keep seeing people talking about Hugo and Nebula nominations which means it is my professional duty to remind you that nominations for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize open on SUNDAY

we are 80% funded (if you were curious) 80% of a skeleton cannot lift a thanksgiving turkey 80% of a liver is not enough to feed a bear 80% off is a going out of business sale please keep us in the business of publishing death things 4 u join us! get fiction! 👇

The fundamental premise behind AI-enabled cheating is that coursework is merely busy work, because your'e just doing it for professors. We would never say that showing up for football practice is merely busy work because you're just doing it for your coaches.

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks. You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.

Canadian authors. The PLR program is open. Don’t forget to register your new titles. publiclendingright.ca

Reckoning reopened to submissions on February 1st! We pay @sfwa.org pro rates, we never charge fees, AND we're piloting a new/improved process for reviewing and publishing submissions, which shows every sign of making our response times MUCH faster. Please submit? Guidelines: reckoning.press/submit/

I TOLD YOU I LOVE THE LIBRARY! Surprise! I'm the 2026 Brampton Writer in Residence. Reception on Tuesday, March 3, 2026 TIME: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM I'll be running workshops and reading partial MSs during the residency. ALL FREE. BRAMPTON PPL TELL YOUR FRIENDS. www.bramptonlibrary.ca/programs-and...

Tomorrow-- Thursday 12 February--I'll be reading with @myriamontheoutside.bsky.social at the Wild Prose Reading Series. It's at Books & Shenanigans (347 Cook Street, Victoria BC). It's a lovely bookstore, and worth browsing (as well as listening) (@stelliform.press)

CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS! Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!

Got some donated freelance edit slots (via help with current financial messes - pressing ones sorted, and thankfully out of that a breather.) So I've got *4* short story edit (dev, line, copy, whatever) slots open. One per person. 7.5k max. Marginalized writers only, please. Reply or DM.

The rumours are TRUE! There is a Romance x Horror bookstore PopUp in Union station running from now until May 31st. This great little space, shared between us and Hopeless Romantic Books, is the pink/black bookstore of your dreams. Come by say hi on your next commute! 🖤📚👻💕

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

this one's a rerun but, you know, it felt relevant!!!!

So grateful to Johnnie Jae and Red Pop! News for this thoughtful interview 💚🌿 redpopnews.com/the-scariest...

Also, ICYMI, our 2 main 2025 titles on sale as a bundle. Both on the Locus Recommended Reading List. And @thomasha.bsky.social 's UNCERTAIN SONS is a Philip K. Dick Award Nominee, and NYPL 'Best Of' 2025. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

This issue is 50% original Canadian Toronto ghost stories with apartments. His is east end and mine is west. It's a serendipitous combo.

Nice to wake up to THE OTHER SHORE (from @stelliform.press!) on the recommended reading list, along with a LOT of good reading, and space for translation as well.

You guys, everybody has to drop what they're doing for 15 minutes a day and read the stories that make up THE OTHER SHORE, by @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social. Irreplaceable. #booksky #review #fiction #SF boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/rebe...

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

This is interesting stuff, and a reminder that military tactics are discursive as well as practical-- that they are theatre, even if the regime is telling you over and over again that it's about solving a problem.

I'd love to build out my list of BIPOC illustrators interested in book covers or page illustrations!! If anyone is interested (or if you want to rec an artist), please introduce yourself, ideally with some art samples and/or portfolio link!✨ *Absolutely no AI allowed, and please tag any NSFW art!

Reading Awards Longlists to Gratifyingly Find 'Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism' in an Age of Fascism (Heartfelt thanks to anyone nominating and/or voting and/or just reading the essay. The fascists will lose.)

In good company over on the BSFA list.

I never get any AI agent or bookclub scammers trying to separate me from my hard-earned cash. And yet when I ask any of the AIs directly, they all *love* my stories, and even like a couple of novels I don't remember having written. What am I doing wrong?

A friendly reminder for HWA members: the deadline to recommend/nominate works for the Stoker Awards is January 15! Get your recs in now! bramstokerawards.horror.org

EXTRAPOLATION seeks a reviewer for Mayurika Chakravorty’s FANTASY AND THE POLITICS OF SUBVERSION: SPECULATIVE WRITING IN COLONIAL INDIA. Please send queries to [email protected]. www.bloomsbury.com/us/fantasy-a... @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social (2026)

Is the attack on Venezuela a distraction? Well, it acts that way, and might have been intended that way, but it is also another set of crimes. Trying to distract from crimes with more crimes is not mere distraction. Criminals commit crimes because that's the criminal mindset.

Just a reminder that I'm still collecting links and making updates to my eligibility and recommendations link post. If you have a link, send it my way! acwise.net/what-have-yo...

We're a bit late with our new year's wishes. It takes time to muster up the optimism these days, but what else can we do but face the year with love and creativity and good books to support us? Resistance and transformation are hard work. May you find the stories and the courage you need this year.

When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?

all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do

Submissions @thedeadlands.com are open until 12/31 (midnight ET). SUGGESTIONS: do not send me novels, simsubs, stories about Dear Leader, corpse-fucking, or any combination thereof. HOT TIP: Why don't you read the guidelines! psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

in 2026 instead of lore-diving whatever giant franchise benefits from your engagement try doing it with any writer/director with a substantial body of work but no “fandom”. Marie Ndiaye. Maryse Conde. Samuel Fuller. See where it gets you. If you gotta have a static setting do Mervyn Peake

There are many people who simply do not understand the stakes and either understate or overstate them. The issue is not that AI will replace writers or w/e: it can't. The issue is that AI will make our working conditions significantly worse and harm the development of new artists in our fields.

prolonged and exhausting

Signed.

Had a student who used Grammarly to tidy up language etc and all the references that were formerly fine got changed to nonexistent ones by the software

Oh sorry, one more I would not ever take the output of any software translation as accurate. Even excluding hallucinations (and that's a big exclude), what you're not getting from it is context dependent meanings (like homophones, idioms, slang, etc). Fastest way to accidentally insult someone

Regarding Nebula AI kerfuffle, this is kind of it. Like, why do we have to be bullied into using it so that tech companies that can make back their stupidly large investments? After wasting my time combing through hallucinated citations in undergrad assignments, I'm just annoyed at it.

Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

i’m looking for agented authors of color interested in writing new adult contemporary romance for our new adult imprint, requited. any agents i can connect with on this? #mswl

I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes: In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art. I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:

Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2. www.sfwa.org/complete-neb... This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI

If you want to dive deep into settler colonialism in horror (books, movies, and video games) I have two books for you by Mohawk and Chickasaw authors. Bloody Bodies Bloodied Landscapes by Laura Hall Indiginomicon by Jodi Byrd <- this also gets at the settler colonialism of coding itself.

We're reopening to submissions on January 1st. Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.

When I was a kid, my little group of friends and I used to call each other after characters from Stand By Me. I'm not quite sure why-- the kind of in-jokes you make when you're a small-town weirdo, I guess. King got it, and Reiner knew how to put it on the screen for us to see.

Well, before I take off on vacation, here's my 2025 Award Eligibility Thread! First, my short story collection, The House of Illusionists. 17 tales of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror, including the original horror story, "Sweetest." www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...

One big effect of AI hype and promotion of unreliable chatbots is that a significant amount of additional friction and labour is being injected into our knowledge-making and -maintaining systems. At a time when these systems are already contracting and being starved by growing austerity.

And for our eco-fiction review, @benlockwood.bsky.social explores the mixing up of time and space in @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social's short story collection, The Other Shore, from @stelliform.press 🧵 (4/4)

Thinking of the student Mary Young who 106 years ago today 'said "shan't" under [her] breath when told to repeat poor work'.