Announcing this year's Dwarf Stars Award Winners ✨ (thread!) 1st Place Perish and Live Forever @pedroiniguez.bsky.social 2nd Place old junkyard Ngô Bình Anh Khoa 3rd Place warp drive folds spacetime Jean-Paul L. Garnier @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social /

This Saturday! Join me and C.S.E. Cooney for poetry!

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

RFKjr cannot give even a basic summary of the scientific method. He has zero science background. He has zero medical background. Everything he spouts about autism is a lie. Do not believe him.

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

A little less than a month to go before the release of my collection CYANIDE CONSTELLATIONS. Thank you to the wonderfully poetic Grace R. Reynolds for this blurb 😍💚✨ I can’t wait for readers to step into my wicked Eden of poisonous plants 🥀 darkmattermagazine.shop/products/cya...

The show's pretty great as well. #TheLeftovers

If you're looking for some Rapture Music for today, you can't go wrong with @maxrichtermusic.bsky.social's work on "The Leftovers". #Soundtracks #TheLeftovers #MaxRichter #CalmingPianoTunes

FACT CHECK: Acetaminophen (Tylenol) has no credible link with autism. Tylenol is the leading option to combat dangerous fevers during pregnancy — fearmongering around tried and tested medicine puts pregnant people and children at risk. #impeachthequack

Actuellement deux comètes présentes dans notre système solaire semblent se tirer la bourre. Leur nom de code : C/2025 K1 ATLAS (à gauche) et C/2025 R2 SWAN (à droite). En réalité leurs trajectoires respectives sont très différentes. Reunion Island - 20 septembre 2025.

I'll be with @hwaoregon.bsky.social at Salem Pride in the Park tomorrow! We'll be selling horror books and talking about the HWA (@horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social), including our local chapter. Come find us! salemcapitalpride.org/pride/

On the poetry front: I'm happy to report a poetry acceptance from Star*Line. For the curious: - written 6/2024 to fit the outlaws theme of Eye to the Telescope, but I didn't end up sending the poem there (not sure why now) - rejected 6 times - this is my 92nd poem to be accepted by Star*Line ✏️

Why is every song The Midnight releases a fucking banger and so capture my feelings? youtu.be/FEJm6vd6HbY?...

The readings will be held at the Sonder Bar 1925 NE 42nd Ave Ste E, Portland OR 97213.

Portlanders! On Saturday at 1 pm, I shall be reading poems from my new alliterative verse collection as part of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival, alongside the illustrious authors John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social and Garrett Cook. Come one, come all! hplfilmfestival.com/hplfilmfesti...

Big news! Happy to announce that legendary Spanish press @dilatandomentesed.bsky.social will be publishing translations of my SF/F collection ECHOES AND EMBERS: SPECULATIVE STORIES and my horror fiction collection FEVER DREAMS OF A PARASITE! Look out for them in 2027 and 2028! Mucho amor!

Hear me read my Rhysling-nominated poem "Our Combusted Planet." youtu.be/8IcMtDc6rWk?... #scifi #sciencefiction #poetry #climate #fireflies

The latest poem from @azpaula.bsky.social is beautifully dynamic, unexpected, and affirming: stonecirclereview.com/to-the-woman/

Interested in tasting what we're serving in WFQ? Scott J. Couturier reads a classic poem from Robert W. Chambers, as well as two new works by the Dark Poetry Couple, Ashley Dioses and KA Opperman. (Hit the Like and Subscribe buttons to be notified about future installments.) #KingInYellow #WFQ

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

Welcome to the world of Locus Magazine, where your dreams of being first to know everything about sci-fi come true. Grab a subscription to be first on the scene for new science fiction, fantasy, & horror books. Reviews, news, interviews, and more! www.locusmag.com

HWA Oregon September events! Come hang out with us at Mox Boarding House in PDX next week! We will also be at Salem Pride in the Park on the 20th and have our Chapter Meeting and Book Club Meetings at the end of the month on Google Meet. Keep reading and writing Horroregonians!

The September edition of the SFWA monthly Market Report is here! Get the latest updates on markets and opportunities at www.sfwa.org/2025/09/10/s...

HWA Oregon co-chair H. A. Spector (@haspectorwrites.bsky.social) launched the Ink to Paper: Stories & Interviews podcast this year, featuring writers and editors: haspector.com/podcast

Just hours to go! Support Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

It’s like opening a grocery store selling pure puke. Cans of throw up and bags of barf and cartons of hurl. “Why does no one want to buy my regurgitate? Are you Luddites? I’m just flooding the zone! Look at all this food I have carefully prepared! Feed, you foolish doubters! Do you hate nutrition?”

SFWA members and Nebula attendees, save the date! September 27th at 11 am Pacific, @csecooney.bsky.social will be the guest poet at the SFWA Quarterly Poetry Open Mic! Read a poem or just listen! @sfwa.bsky.social

September articles on the @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social website so far include an in memoriam for Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, info about candidates in the upcoming HWA election, the latest Seers' Table with recommendations, and an interview with Nyasha Hatendi. horror.org

I'm paying closer and closer attention to book covers, like these book covers highlighted in "What Book Covers Do Book Designers Love?" by Jenny Kimura: indigoediting.com/what-book-co... What styles would work with what I write? Hopefully I'll find out someday!

HiPOD: Bright Spots on Desolate Plains These patches appear to be persistent water frost or ice, lasting well into the summer and in some cases all the way through it. More: uahirise.org/ESP_088767_2... NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #NASA #science

Apparently em dashes are seen as evidence of AI writing. Well, based on examples I've seen, they're random, stupidly used em dashes, because AI is ignorant and artless, but more pertinent to this post, you'll have to pry my "em dashes in place of parentheses" preference from my dead hands.

I just backed Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026 on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

Impossible Archetype was the first place to pick up one of my poems. This was a huge burst of confidence for someone who’d been writing their entire life but had never been published. They then included me in five more issues over the years. IA will be greatly missed but the archive will live on!

"Department of War" certainly makes these fascists' priorities clear. Maybe that should be the name of this country, too.

Hi! This is me, once again reminding you that substack is a Nazi bar. Please don't use it, or link to it. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/im-leaving...

This week— Saw a cover for a new book Received the delivery and acceptance on a dream project Attending my first Bouchercon in one of my favorite cities, NOLA! I’m an attending author at the 40th Printers Row Lit Fest, and for the year I was named a Chicago Lit 50 by Newcity Magazine ❤️

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

I’ve made an update to this situation. open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

Update on the Must Read Magazines contract situation from somebody on the front lines. tl;dr it's bad. open.substack.com/pub/pacornel...

@cybergodwrites.bsky.social is an incredible author! And we are thrilled to read their #ecohorror prose in our spore themed horror anthology Dark Spores. Read their full interview here: cronegirlspress.com?p=2068 #sporror #mushroomhorror #sporehorror #ecoterror #planthorror #fungihorror

Did you see SFWA is starting a quarterly newsletter about games and comics? Find out about new releases. It's Free! mailchi.mp/21ba3d702...

Thank you @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social for ten incredible years of Impossible Archetype. Truly an impressive accomplishment, a wonderful LGBTQ+ poetry journal, and an incredible opportunity for new and established poets. impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com

Take it from over 1,000 health care professionals: RFK Jr. is a threat to your health, your family's health, and the health of our country.  Innocent people will die at the hands of his incompetence. He must resign. www.axios.com/2025/09/03/r...

Little Key Press is open for submissions to the CLOCKS anthology, edited by HWA Oregon member Elizabeth Mitchell with Laura K. Burge: littlekeypress.com#submissions

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...

We're excited for all of our club events and meetings in September, and then we're attending an exciting book launch to kick off October! oregonhorror.com/news/coming-...

I took @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social's AI story challenge and put on my @weirdfictionquarterly.com hat to see how well the 8 entries (4 human, 4 AI) would fare in our submission vetting process. The results surprised me. (Don't read this before his post linked below.) #Writing #AI #FlashFiction

Powerful work.

Kate Boyes’s poem “One Bright Moment (International Research Station, Nili Fossae, Mars)” in the 2024 SFPA Valentines Day Reading (sfpoetry.com/valentines/2...) is a 2025 Rhysling Award finalist. Congratulations, Kate!

The new Willamette Writers website looks amazing while making information for members and writers easier to find than ever. Congratulations to everyone involved in this extensive update. Check out the new calendar, too; a new year of programming launches today! willamettewriters.org