My review of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's captivating novel, Terry Dactyl, has just gone up at The Masters Review. mastersreview.com/book-review-...

A story by Ariel Katz about the many visible and invisible cracks and fissures in a home.

When your commitment to the church is lukewarm, even after you’ve been dead for hundreds of years.

There are loads of great recommendations in @strangehorizons.bsky.social's review of the books of 2025. I was excited to find other reviewers also noted @sgj.bsky.social's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and @griffski.bsky.social's Eat the Ones You Love. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Our reviewers have chimed in with the highlights of their 2025! Catch up and find something new to enjoy in this week's issue! #bookreviews #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #horror

Some great reads in @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org’s notable books of 2025. Next to my pick of @amfaulkenbury.bsky.social’s Somewhere Past the End, I was delighted to see Isaac Fellman’s Notes from a Regicide and @rhirschgarcia.bsky.social’s Other Evolutions. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...

ARB's Notable Books of 2025!

I had so much fun reading and reviewing @pfracassi.bsky.social's new novel, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre for @strangehorizons.bsky.social. A fun, intelligent slasher that, amidst all the - well - slashing, is also surprisingly delicate. 📚📖🗡️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Today at @strangehorizons.bsky.social, that @daviddaviddavid.com on Philip Fracassi's The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre. Our senior copyeditor, @jampersand.bsky.social, declared the book one of their favourites of the year - find out why!

In between Bostonian tourist spots and drinking obligatory pints of Samuel Adams, I had a quick peek in the @harvardbookstore.bsky.social and @mitpress.bsky.social bookstores 📚

My theater going in NYC this trip was camp, queer, festive and absurd with Messy White Gays, Bat Boy, Queen of Versailles, Waiting for Godot and the Rockettes Christmas Spectacular! 🎭🏳️‍🌈🦇🎄

On this trip to New York, I just got one book at the @strandbookstore.bsky.social’s Mark Z. Danielewski event. But at nearly 1250 pages, I feel like this one will contain multitudes.

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC! The window will close after 500 submissions are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.

“Wonderfully weird”! “Really fun to read”! “Watch out”! (Okay, that last one was pieced out from a larger context…) Thanks to @daviddaviddavid.com at The Masters Review for this smart, generous look at Tell Me Yours: mastersreview.com/book-review-tell-me-yours-ill-tell-you-mine-by-kristina-ten/

Over at The Masters Review, you can find my review of @kristinaten.bsky.social's weird and wonderful short story collection: Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine 📚📖 mastersreview.com/book-review-...

Not a bad way to spend a Sunday evening 🦌 🏳️‍⚧️

Easily one of my top audiobooks for this year! Nick Medina’s Sisters of the Lost Nation is brilliant!

A flash story by Nadia Born, about a woman who copes with her own impending death by 3D printing the world.

A story about a teen who shaves off enough skin to create new bodies. buff.ly/DXfEbzp

A flash story about the environmental effects of burning history, by Bernie Jean Schiebeling. buff.ly/GwpKhxR

Quick photo of my ever-growing free bookmark collection! It’s very possible that I spend more energy picking a bookmark for whatever I’m reading than I do picking an outfit for the day. 📚

While in Oklahoma City, I found Bookish bookstore-Caboose Coffee - a really charming used bookstore/coffee shop that hosts regular literary events and sells dangerously nice oatmeal cream pies!

On this trip to Oklahoma, I finally managed to make a stop at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur. A great center with a traditional village, dance demonstrations, exhibits and films on Chickasaw history, a restaurant and (of course) a bookshop! 📚

While back in Oklahoma for a few days I discovered Boarding House Books in Claremore. A used bookstore that looks like it’s cozily merged with my grandma’s living room. Grandma, like me, loved influential Native literature and old timey photos of naked strongmen.

🎧 New Critical Friends for your listening devices! This month, Sneha Pathak and @tansyg.bsky.social talk to me about texts often dismissed as too slight to review - books, films, genres with which we might be accused of merely passing time. How should critics approach this sort of work? And why?

My review of Kristin Kirby's fun and disturbing short story collection, Dark Worlds We Wander, is up on this week's issue at @strangehorizons.bsky.social 📚📖 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Today's review at @strangehorizons is @daviddaviddavid.com on Kristin Kirby's Dark Worlds We Wander (@eddiegenerous.bsky.social). David discovers a collection that is broad in form and subject matter, but in which "Kirby strikes the right balance between the profound and the practical."

I’m delighted that my story about demonic exes and doppelgängers, “The Replacement,” found a home in Issue 44 of Dark Horses Magazine! www.amazon.com/Dark-Horses-...

Summer reading ☀️📖

A story about a coworking space whose application features more than a few red flags. buff.ly/k5zwC6y

Read Devan Murphy’s flash story about a child who tries to become everything her parents have lost.

I had a great time at the summer intensive workshop with @stingingfly.bsky.social. The moderator, Mia Gallagher, was brilliant, the group was fantastic and the feedback for my work was so helpful! ✍️ 🪰

NEW: on this month's episode of the podcast, host Nicole Flattery is joined by James Hudson to read from and discuss his story ‘Dog Story’, published in the Summer 2025 issue of The Stinging Fly Issue 52 Volume Two. Listen 🔗 stingingfly.org/podcast/jame...

Vacation reading 🏖️

Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come. translatedhugo.org

Paul Lynch was at the Irish Cultural Center of Paris last night. His thoughts on the historical rise and fall of rationality was interesting, if bleak. Though his statement on fiction’s ability to inspire empathy, where other information sources fail, was surely inspiring to any writers in the crowd

A story about being the only person in your family who hasn’t blossomed yet.

Another year, another wonderful #Cymera festival! Sapphic pirates, uncanny synthetic meat, time traveling explorations of dementia, terrifying town rituals, explorations of weird and “murdery” folklore, retelling myths and legends, vampires and werewolves and witches! Oh my! (1/17)

Definitely one of my favorite reviews. I solemnly swear I am not planning to start a cult... probably 🤣 Thanks to The Masters Review and @daviddaviddavid.com for the lovely review! #2025debut

Really enjoyed the 2025 Angers Literary Festival on Possible Futures! The opening remarks with readings from the ALA’s Freedom to Read statement by Mandy Torsey-Guillet were both sobering and inspiring. 1/7 www.ala.org/advocacy/int...

A flash memoir about parents sharing a painful aspect of their love story with their child. buff.ly/JDXDfK1

You can read my piece on "Somewhere Past the End" over at The Masters Review! A brilliant debut from @amfaulkenbury.bsky.social with unique characters, elegant prose and a simply fantastic story! A real pleasure to review. 🤩📚 mastersreview.com/book-review-...

I was really excited to get my contributor’s copies of the Weird Fiction Review today. Then I just about squealed when I saw my essay on Bolesław Biegas in Paris is in the same publication as a @pfracassi.bsky.social story, Red Leather! 🤩

My review of Greg Hewett's new novel, No Names, is over at The Masters Review. I haven't fallen for a book this hard in a long time. But then again, I've always had a weakness for punks. 🎸📚 mastersreview.com/book-review-...

Your last review of the SH week is from David Lewis, on a gothic novel of race, adoption and class from Del Sandeen. "Cross-cultural adoption stories are flourishing in contemporary literature," David writes. "Yet This Cursed House is unique among these examples."

There are a lot of good things about Del Sandeen’s book This Cursed House. But, as an adoptee, I couldn’t get past the problematic clichés about adoption. My thoughts on it are over at this week’s issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

I’ve just seen Sinners and absolutely loved it! Also, I was surprised and delighted to see Choctaw vampire hunters appear in the beginning of the movie! After raving about the movie to friends. That detail got me going down so many Choctaw rabbit holes. 1/11 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGx...

I'm so excited to have my essay on the weird and wonderful artist Bolesław Biegas in the latest Weird Fiction Review (issue 13 - my lucky number)! If you're in Paris, stop by the small museum dedicated to his work at the Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris. www.centipedepress.com/anthologies/...

What a great weekend in London! Leigh Bowery exhibit at the Tate, Richard II at the Bridge Theatre, then final stops at the Museum of Transology and the National LGBTQ+ Museum… and maybe a few book shops! 😉

You can find my review of Mary G. Thompson's new SFF book, One Level Down, over at The Masters Review. mastersreview.com/book-review-...