It's Straith's awards eligibility post for 2025!! I'm putting forward two of the three stories I had published this year for your consideration. I'd love especially if you'd consider "Fishwife" for the Aurora Award for Short Fiction, since it's my mémère story 💜

✨ We are delighted to welcome ten writers to this year’s 2026 Novel Writing Workshop. These writers will be working to complete a novel draft under the guidance of novelist and teacher Dr. Karen Lord (CW instructor ‘18 & ‘23) ✨

Sometimes I get too powerful… starting to think I could finish this revision on the 31st. But at what cost?????

A workspace for students and freelancers in Gaza could use our support:

QUAKE IN TERROR (or maybe lols) at the cosmic horror of finding all of a classic novel uncannily printed inside an English muffin: cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/spor...

want to lol at a bunch of really bad optical illusion puns stitched together into the shape of a story? ENJOY: translunartravelerslounge.com/2023/08/15/m...

one day when I have oodles of free time and a mysterious benefactor with a kabillion gabillion dollars I'll start a queer specfic mag that specializes in humour

THIS THIS RIGHT HERE OMG THIS THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS

bu bu bu bu basketball gimme gimme the ball because I'm gonna dunk it

My local bookshop understands their audience.

there are so many more chia seeds in a serving measured in grams than I thought, like the package says “1 tbsp = 15g = 1 serving” but they’re talking absolutely MASSIVE tablespoons if the gram side of the equation is correct

petition to protect gender affirming care in canada. go fuckin sign it www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Kelpie, now a 2 color risograph print. I looove how much texture came out in this print kendrap.com/shop/kelpie

Hey Artists of Bluesky! PAYING GIG: 2-4 pieces of original interior B&W/greyscale SFF art for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Vol 4. Canadian artists strongly preferred. 🇨🇦 Any style, NO AI. Post links to portfolios below. Need artwork in May/June. Pls share WIDELY! #ArtSky #ArtistsOnBluesky #Illustration

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

striving to break into the top 20% of my friends' most offline friends

Velociraptors with day jobs. High school field trips to the Jurassic. Becoming a fossil in a far future museum. My debut poetry collection Time Travel Is Easy is available pay-what-you-want on Itch! dinoholler.itch.io/time-travel-...

Please follow this upcoming queer space opera anthology!

simple dinner: miso and ginger chicken breast + miso and ginger cauliflower and carrots (all together on a sheet pan in the oven for 25’ at 450) plus a side of stir-fried bok choi :9

getting a little overconfident with the math, starting to think I could be querying in 3 weeks instead of 4

knight/sorcerer is one of my favourite tropes. one day when I am free of the current project, I shall knight-and-sorcerer it up

the way I preordered this. so fast

I'm doing a book launch at the Bakka-Phoenix bookshop, 6pm on February 3rd - if you're in Toronto, drop in for snacks and merch!

turns out revision can be fun actually

tool use in cows tool use in cephalopods Tool listening in cephalopods do cuttlefish enjoy Tool

Hey friends! We're bringing back one of our wishlists specifically looking for hand & foot warmers for the folks who have to be outside to protect the community! With temps plummeting in the Twin Cities, this is a quick & easy way to help! @naomikritzer.bsky.social will be collecting again!

The #SmallPitch submission window is now OPEN for 48 hours! Reminders: - Underrep writers only - Finished manuscripts only - One pitch per manuscript - Up to 3 manuscripts per writer - No hashtags in your pitch - Comps & emojis are ok Once submitted, check your pitch here: database.smallpitch.org

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Truly one of the greatest scientific images I have ever seen

watching THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI (1920)... I am not super captivated by most of the oeuvre of Tim Burton but now I can certainly appreciate where he's coming from

(picture of NFL sideline reporters inadequately dressed for freezing conditions in chicago) if you're cold, they're cold. bring them inside

looking forward to the next big fad diet. yes that’s right it’s the Hildegard of Bingen diet of spelt, chestnuts and fennel

I always wanted to make one of those graphics with the arrows and now I have :D #IgnoreThisBook

How to Make a Good Movie: Use one of the following hooks Ship hunting submarine Submarine hunting ship Submarine hunting other submarine If your movie is not set on a submarine, ask yourself why you hate good movies, change to submarine

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

my husband’s latest psychic damage sortie: “How about a TV show where two hockey players are too busy banging to notice that aliens have landed. Heated Arrivalry.”

If you are wondering if i ever get tired of drawing grotzillas, the answer is no :-)

are there horse places I can go to just befriend and hang out with horses

I am HOWLING

The UK team is still in the red by £900 🥲 US/Canada/UK links in the Chuffed description. The best way to help is by making it recurring.

my little $2 rescue cuetlaxóchitl is responding really well to its recent haircut! new growth!! I’m proud both of the plant and of myself for taking on my first rescue 🌱

please world I just need the weekend to not have any responsibilities in it so that I can instead direct my attention at my book. PLEASE

This call is now open 🚀 Looking forward to your queer space opera fashions!

✨ Announcing...our FIRST NOVELLA ✨ Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social has acquired CREST by @thesuiway.bsky.social for our 2027 debut book line up. This haunting, ethereal contemporary fantasy captured us from first glimpse, and we're so excited to share it next year. Read on in the 🧵 for more deets!

My partner 3d-printed this soil scoop for me and I think in honour of all you poetry people out there I MUST call it my Golden Shovel

hey Bluesky I hear you like sports I have a science fiction sports story for you it only contains a MODERATE amount of sports-induced hallucination

The secrets are knowing: a) magic is real & b) everyone throughout history has always made it up 👍

Oh hey, it's the cover art for issue 8! Painted by @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social! ✍️ Sign up to be alerted when NESS 2026 launches, 👨‍🏫 Learn about our crowdfund exclusives, and 👁️ See teases, with reveal dates, for all kinds of surprises all at... ⚔️THIS LINK⚔️: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

The other day at a nearby patch I caught some movement that was a Groove-billed Ani. This time I didn’t hear its striking call. Turned out there were 2 deep in the tree cover. #CorpusChristiTx #Birds