Had a great time at the launch of @bowparis.bsky.social’s second issue on the theme Healing in the Tennessee Bar. Loads of great readings, but the highlight was seeing my friend Michelle Crowell send chills through the audience in the middle of Paris’ historic heatwave 📚📝

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Beings by Ilana Masad! @ilanaslightly.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

Just had time for one #Cymera2026 panel yesterday before my flight. A good one with @annasmithspark.bsky.social, @brigiddooks.bsky.social and Samantha Davey on the fantastical as an outlet for expression of hardships and the need to write difficult scenes fully for the integrity of their subjects.

My Saturday at #Cymera2026 started with @catamaroon.bsky.social and @rainewilson.bsky.social talking about rewilding, ghosts of the internet, hope as necessary for survival and exploring where endings become beginnings

Great start to #Cymera2026 yesterday with @dancoxon.bsky.social @richardstrachan.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social and Hanna Kaner discussing character, worldbuilding, magic and some writing advice to take home: “If you think something you’re writing is ‘too weird’ the double down on the weird”

Over at the Masters Review you can find my review of Joe Bond's touching debut novel, Hope House 📚📖 mastersreview.com/book-review-...

Just out at the Masters Review is my review of @housleydave.bsky.social's comic, extraterrestrial apocalypse, ALIENS ATTACK! mastersreview.com/book-review-...

As a longtime reader and fan of Tin House books, I can hardly believe that I'll be going to the @mccormackwc.bsky.social's workshop in Oregon this summer! I’m so excited and terrified! I can’t wait! #mwcsummer

My review of @justinfeinstein.bsky.social's debut novel, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored, is up on The Masters Review. A view into the uncanny valley of a fictional AI tech firm that's both funny and creepy. mastersreview.com/book-review-...

It was such a pleasure to read and write about @ilanaslightly.bsky.social's gorgeous novel, Beings, for @strangehorizons.bsky.social. I was also delighted to see it's a finalist for a 2026 Lammy in speculative fiction! 📖📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Over at @strangehorizons.bsky.social today, @daviddaviddavid.com on the @lambdaliterary.org nominated Beings by Ilana Masad, a novel that presents “an experience any queer reader can instinctually recognise: the fear of recognition alongside the need for it.”

The next feature from Tomm Moore/Cartoon Saloon (Song of the Sea, Secret of Kells, WolfWalkers) is called Kindred Spirits. Inspired by the below facts, it tells the New York-based story of the friendship between a Choctaw boy & an Irish emigrant child whose family have fled the ravages of the famine

"Mom is a groupie, so when Dad has a gig, no matter how big or small, she forces us to go as a family." Read "Prodigies," new flash fiction by Drue Denmon. buff.ly/OCjfpYv

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.