We're one month away from FUTILITY by @nuzo.bsky.social hitting shelves! 👁️ This is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly funny tale of murder, body-swapping and bloody vengeance from the ‘Queen of African Horror’. 🥣 Have you pre-ordered? https://tinyurl.com/2re64uh6

Got my Nebula Award Showcase copies in the mail! Still so grateful to everyone who read “Imagine: Purple-Haired Girl Shooting Down The Moon.” I think that was the first time I ever felt like maybe I could make it as a writer (and even if I couldn’t, I still wanted to keep trying)

We were talking the other day about how the loss of RWA meant it was harder to find good cons and good craft talk. Chicago Sprint Fling has great guests and offers a hybrid online program as well! Do recommend for anyone interested in romance!

This is just one of the many panels that's happening Oct 4 & 5 at the 6th annual Rainbow Space Magic. This free virtual con is for writers & readers of queer speculative fiction. Full schedule at www.rainbowspacemagi... #LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

Richard Siken, speaking on poetry better than I ever could. His collection, Crush, was life-changing. (Read the whole interview on @adroitjournal.bsky.social: theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-...)

Please consider supporting The Speculative Detective Agency anthology! By donating to the Kickstarter you also get the book at a discount. www.kickstarter.com/projects/for...

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

🚨 FoF Reminder for Registrants: If you entered the lottery, results will be emailed today, Sept 17, even if you didn’t win any seats. Keep tabs on your inboxes (and spam)!

The Nerd Daily had me back to talk about my new collection, TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS! 😈 We talk about the challenges to writing these coming-of-rage stories, how the horrors of adolescence can inspire horror fiction, and a tease at my next Titan novel 🎟️ thenerddaily.com/hailey-piper...

"Hey, Dark Academia genre? Cassandra Khaw just said, 'Bet?' and pushed all their chips into the middle of the table." The Library at Hellebore offers a cutting perspective on community and power in academia, all while presenting an entryway for new Khaw readers. reactormag.com/book-review-...

The Writers' Union of Canada is hosting what looks like an amazing panel next Wednesday. ✨ Navigating Publishing as a Writer with a Disability ✨ It'll be recorded and available for a short time after. writersunion.ca/webinars/nav... #Publishing #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AmEditing

If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to advocate for Black and brown authors, read this article.

Don’t sleep on this method!! It can often feel like forms go into a black hole, but purchase requests do get seen. Librarians get excited when folks make their collection development responsibilities a little easier. 🙏🏾

Allow us to toot our own horn here while showing off the Guild's schedule of upcoming free, virtual editing events for you, our dear edibuddies. Most open to all editors, registration required. 🍻 Copyediting & Proofreading Fiction Happy Hour, 9/17, 4 pm Pacific (🧵: 1/6) #GiantPencilFanClub

ICYMI. Reading tonight at 9PM EST!

My Neighbor Demon-Tiger

If you’re an @sfpoetry.bsky.social member, don’t forget Rhysling Award voting closes on 9/15! (And if you’re not a member, it’s always a great time to check out all the nominees for some great spec poetry!) My poem “The Final Trick” is a finalist this year in the long poem category.

🚨 FoF Reminder for Registrants: The lottery is open until Sept 15. Results will be emailed Sept 17, even if you didn’t win any seats. After the lottery closes, everyone can directly sign up for remaining seats. Haven't registered yet? Now's the time! flights-of-foundry.o...

I can't do real reviews of books by friends, but I also wanna promote their awesome stuff. So here's my thoughts on Becky Siegel Spratford's essay collection Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature. Horror fans, def check this out. Out 9/23 from Saga Press bookjockeyalex.com/2025/09/12/n...

So excited for #10Queries!

On September 10, 2018, I launched the Editors of Color Database to raise the visibility of editorial professionals of color. Like many POC, I was tired of being left out of projects, interviews, panels, and jobs because the people in charge claimed we don’t exist… Continue on LinkedIn

When giving exposition to the reader, share why the information matters to your character. Color it with your character’s opinions. #WritingTips #AuthorServices #AuthorCommunity #Editor #BookLightEditorial #BookCommunity

Just 42 hours left in the @3lobedmag.com Kickstarter! Support another wonderful year of dark, strange fiction! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

It's the last day to enter to win an ARC of #ThisHouseWillFeed on #Goodreads so enter the #giveaway today #newbook #irishhorror #historicalhorror #booksky #horrorsky

In which @brendaclough.bsky.social explores the idea of historical science fiction as its own sub-genre, and what different strands appear... Free to read right now! Share it with your friends! www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/histo...

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

Friends, Flights of Foundry is free to attend but it isn’t free to run. If you like what we do, and want to see it continue, consider donating. Those funds are essential to ensure Flights of Foundry continues in the future. flights-of-foundry.o...

This October, @houseofanansi.bsky.social will publish my first edited anthology, "As The Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories." Haunting. Reflective. Charged. And everything in between. 💜🩵🖤 Preorders and contributor list at the link below! houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

And that submission link is... smallwondersmag.com/submissions/

FLIGHTS OF FOUNDRY 2K25 LET'S GOOO I'll be running a line-level prose workshop based on metrical feet interpreted through music, not poetry; an Andor S2 panel (CMON!!); a "how Bioware changed us all with Dragon Age romance" panel; and a chill-and-chat where you can ask me stuff.

Dear publishers: Hello! Wanted to say I’m a little tired of dark academia novels set in Ivy League schools and would love to edit an anthology of dark academia set in universities across the world, in local community colleges, and online. I have a PhD and everything! Let’s talk.

hello!!!! would you love to come to this all-virtual convention that runs all timezones?! i know i'm going!! i'll be doing a Chit-and-Chat for anyone who's ever had a burning question like: "Jordan why?"

Hey microfic writers 👀👀 Here’s a chance to win one of THREE $75 awards & publication on the front page of an Augur issue!! Share widely ✨ Anyone can enter, and there’s NO fee to participate!

MONDAY is the last day!!! 😁🦄

Hi! Have you ever wanted to chat with David Steffen, (aka the weird gremlin known dor Diabolical Plots, Submission Grinder, and Long List Anthology)? there is a lottery signup to do just that online with Flights of Foundry, session on September 26th! flights-of-foundry.org/lottery/

If you’d like an hour to ask me anything about editing, writing, Small Wonders, or that really cool Nature paper I just read about ants incorporating another ant species’s genome, sign up for my chill-and-chat at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social Friday evening (US time)! flights-of-foundry.org/lottery/

are you ready for some big news? WE ARE OPEN for BIPOC subs for issue 100! and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body 💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖 find out more here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Want to get feedback from a professional editor on the opening pages of your #QueerSFF novel? This year, @spacemagiccon.bsky.social has created that opportunity for you! Submit your novel's opening pages to apply for a one-to-one session. ⬇ forms.gle/vaqPkKYwM1ex... #RSM2025 🌈📚🪐 #WriterSky

Reasons comps are necessary: a thread 🧵 #amquerying #amwriting #writersky Seeing lots of doubts and confusion surrounding comp titles and whether they're necessary, so here's why agents (and editors!) need them:

Today's the last day to get 25% off THIS HOUSE WILL FEED at B&N, so preorder today with code PREORDER25 #booksky🦋📚 #newbook #writesky #writersky #horrorsky #historicalhorror #irishhorror

Happening tonight! (Please use alt text on your images by the way, everybody -- I'm putting alt text on this one but usually I will not re-skeet images without it.)

We’re halfway to our goal, and only 5 days left! Please support us now for 2026 so we can read new stories by Eugen Bacon, Clay McLeod Chapman, Ai Jiang, Gwendolyn Kiste, John Langan, Premee Mohamed, Hailey Piper, Keith Rosson, Nisi Shawl, Molly Tanzer, Wendy N. Wagner, and more. kck.st/4mIkEm1

It's finally September! Do you know what that means??? Flights of Foundry is THIS MONTH. Register: flights-of-foundry.o... Let's gooooo! 🪽🪽🪽

we're live baby! send em if you got em 🙏

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Ebook sale ends today, so giveaway time! Get the House ebook anywhere, send me proof, and you’re in! Giving away a signed copy of TEOTWAWKI. Picking a winner at 10pm. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...

We all need an occasional reminder, so listen up. Write that book. Send that story. Query that agent. Ask for that blurb. Maybe it doesn’t work out, but there’s a chance it will, and that chance—however small you think it is—is all you need.

Pssssssssst... have you signed up for Flights of Foundry yet? 👀 FoF returns September 27-28 flights-of-foundry.o...

Horror can be cathartic. Horror can be subversive. It can help us understand the human experience. It can help us shine a light on beliefs and norms and systems that cause people pain. It can help us find strength. It can expand our consciousness. Horror can be so many things.

The Sidewise Award for Alternate History is looking for new judges to join the award committee. This is the first time in the 30 year history of the award that they've made an open call for awards judges. I want to see an awards panel that represents the field. forms.gle/WWsFSAZLPvqb... 1/