"This was an insight that I too gained in illness, and it is part of what I tried to write about in Piranesi: that there is a whole world endlessly going on, endlessly being beautiful, regardless of whether anyone is there to see it or not." Very moving piece ♥️

an extra little painting for The Wizard, The Witch, & The Wild One graphic novel 🌞🌱

I would love you clean off the bone

Michigan, you've got the chance to vote for the most American candidate in the 2026 race, a cowboy named Abdul el Sayed who works as a public health doc.

Absolutely gutted to hear about Victoria Cruz. I had the honor of receiving an award from the Brooklyn borough president in 2020 alongside her. When so many of our trans siblings rarely get to old age, I felt so privileged to be able to know her. Rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/n...

hi! i am an Eisner, GLAAD, and Lambda nominated comics writer and i want to help YOU write the best comics you can! i am offering script reviews for $150-$300 (sliding scale honor system)! that gets you: - sxript review - hour-long video chats going over it and answering q's please boost!

it's crazy to have been working on this game for 4 years and to finally have mockups of it

Submissions for FIYAH #40 are OPEN! Deadline July 31. Get more info about "Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars" at the link! fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

IT'S HERE IT'S HERE! My new story is up!! I'm proud to be in Clarkesworld again after a few years absence. I'm proud to be in the anniversary issue of the magazine's conception. I'm proud of taking ellipses back from AI 😉. Read it here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/

Really thought this one was gonna kill but it never caught on.

I’d tell you a joke about the monster from It Follows but I gotta run

Widow's Bay, a show that answers the question "What if they made an entire series out of the disturbing murals in city hall on Parks & Rec?" reactormag.com/10-reasons-t...

NEWS: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building antenna. They are holding a banner that reads: “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace”

My first short story collection comes out September 8th. It's the book that's taken me the longest to write (lol I wrote the first draft of one of these stories in 2010) and is filled with ghosts, dystopias, Black women trying to figure out how to make art, & the unknown: lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

STRANGE 👽 SURREAL 👽 SHOCKING 👽 BEAUTIFUL Apex Magazine is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of July! We're seeking short spec fic up to 9k words. Closing August 1st, reopening in September and November. We can't wait to read your work! 🖤 Submit here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

Hey! Latest story, "Our Revels Now Are Ended," now out at @clarkesworldmagazine.com. In a library connected to other libraries, a man with redacted memories exchanges ideas with a state interrogator. As always, if you enjoy, feel free to drop a line.

So you know how the Obama Presidential Center just opened in Chicago on Juneteenth? How it not only has a library but a specific President’s Reading Room featuring books personally chosen by the Obamas? NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT is one of those books. @tvayyyy.bsky.social

We're halfway through 2026 & I think doing those SO WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU ACCOMPLISHED, HUH??? posts are, hmm, unhelpful. So, tell me instead: *What's made you happy this year? *Favorite book or story you've experienced? *Thing you're looking forward to in the back half of 2026? Sending love <3

My god, they aren't targeting trans people just to get at other people. They are targeting trans people to target trans people. And they are targeting other people. We don't just exist as a warning for the rest of you, fuck me.

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO ME! The last book in my Astra Black trilogy, A CITY DREAMING, dropped today from @torbooks.bsky.social. I’ll be celebrating all week.

Fix your hearts or die. You know how many of us joke that Pride month should be followed by Wrath? This year I feel a deep, burning fury towards all who use transgender lives as political propaganda. We are human beings. You cannot erase us. Happy Pride. Trans liberation at any cost. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

I consider myself generally well-educated on the subject of US empire & this piece showed me a great deal I didn’t know, & put what I do know into engrossing context. & the experience of reading something that digests the horrors of the world so thoroughly, right now, is so moving & so cathartic.

This is one of the sharpest, clear-eyed & compassionate pieces of political writing I’ve read in a long time. If the headline puts you off as facile please know that it’s a longread that develops a vivid argument through a lens of Black women’s organizing & I urge you to find 30 minutes to read it.

trans rights are human rights and anyone who tells you otherwise is a stone cold bigot fuck SCOTUS and kavanaugh specifically

Once again, there is no gender equality without our trans community. There is no feminism without our trans community.

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

But I mean yeah in all seriousness, a second shortlist spot (!!!!) in this incredible company for what I consider to be my PERSONAL most meaningful award in SFF is... is very something! Thank you so so much to @psychopomp.com @ecatherine.com @mkcurry.bsky.social @seanmarkey.bsky.social !

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

"Fuck you for being dead or whatever it is that happened. Be a secret. See if I care." The Book of Love by @kellylink.bsky.social

Holy shit the @ursulakleguin.com prize shortlist is WONDERFUL, so delighted to see @willalex.bsky.social & @seraph76.bsky.social & @premeemohamed.com & @isaac-fellman.bsky.social in each other’s fine company! Short story collections! A novel in translation! What a wonderful mix!

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

I'm spending this summer drafting my next nonfiction book: TYPO, coming soon from Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series! As part of my research, I'm collecting stories and anecdotes about memorable typos and similar errors from other writers/readers, if you'd like to contribute. More at the link!

loved loved LOVED Avalon Fast's Camp! It's a reminder of how special and weird indie films can be, and I encourage you to see it in theaters if you can.

Honored to say The Works of Vermin is a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Congrats to everyone on the list!

I could not be prouder to be nominated for the Le Guin. To be acknowledged as part of her tradition is an honor.

Again, if there's a Democratic majority in the House in 2027, I think it's imperative that they start impeaching Supreme Court justices.

we are speechless with joy and pride and wonder @premeemohamed.com's glorious collection One Message Remains is a finalist for the Le Guin Prize!!! AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa 🎉🎉🎉

I’m really honored and humbled to see Call and Response in such august company. My little book means so much to me, and I’ve felt so gratified to find it resonated with others. I am so very grateful to be nominated.

An absolutely stacked shortlist, and I couldn’t be more excited for each of these incredible authors!!! Congrats, yall 💜🎉

Oxford at sunset, the Royal Institute of Translation looms over the city. First illustration for R. F. Kuang's Babel - illustrated edition 40x30cm ink on claybord

Every single time someone is like "Oh can you stop doing do X, Y, or Z in your writing" I'm like a) I don't care what you want b) I will continue to do what *I* like c) Go eat a pinecone d) You can think it all you want but you CANNOT ASK. WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY. YOU CANNOT. NO. BAD. NO.

ALSO THIS, which is so well-put. (And I swear this is the last thing I'll say about the word discourse.) To me is it not really the 'I don't know this word' that bugs me, it's the ask. You do not get to ORDER UP what an artist provides! You get what you get! When did this change?!!??

Ever finish a book like “well, damn, THIS is gonna win all the awards & change our industry fundamentally & its illustrations of horror enlighten & shame us while reveling in the beauty of language & connection we’re capable of when we see others as people?” Yeah. @slhuang.com DID that. What a book

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

Ever finish a book like “well, damn, THIS is gonna win all the awards & change our industry fundamentally & its illustrations of horror enlighten & shame us while reveling in the beauty of language & connection we’re capable of when we see others as people?” Yeah. @slhuang.com DID that. What a book

my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp

As much as I hate to see good people slandered, I have to hope this kind of unhinged frothing about Lander — a person who has never been anything but decent & committed to his stated values — is clarifying to people with an ounce of remaining sense