This is, I suppose, the one award-worthy thing I have for your consideration this year. A mystical, grief-laden, yet imminently hopeful poem in collage form

For AaN it would be our "Mmeory" memory manipulation anthology. A lot of first time professional rate authors in this one from around the world.

I think "Written on the Subway Walls" in @morningtransport.bsky.social is most dear to me, because it's a love letter to my adopted city, and it's about the power of community in the fact of systemic oppression and violence www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...

I'm still so proud of my story "Whalesong", published in Deadlands this year: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread! Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)

starting an initiative on ig where i post pics of my dog for engagement. i will mirror here. my dog's name is puddles and she's 9. i'm moderating a panel called "in defense of romance" at b&n perimeter 11/22 @ 2pm w/ @runwithskizzers.bsky.social and others AND Y'ALL BETTER SHOW UP BC IT'LL BE FUN

Its SHIGIDI paperback release day, US & Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾 Art by @stephenembleton.bsky.social

It’s official! I have a short story collection coming out Nov 3! Pre-orders open now! And look at the gorgeous cover designed in-house by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...

It's new story day! My latest, "Within Dead Dreams," is a horror story set in an extinct majority-Black settlement in Colorado. Generational trauma, racial trauma, and body horror. I'm glad this one found a home. Buy the issue from midnight & indigo here: midnight-indigo.com/products/mid...

My name's O.Z. and I'm here to say, You can despair at my works from far away

did you know that right now, we're only a partial skeleton? we're not fully funded, and so we're missing some critical bones. this is truth and sadly not sustainable help us be a full skeleton? patreon 🖤 www.patreon.com/c/the_deadla... our coin fundraiser 💀 psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

taps the *dropbox is not a backup* sign

Honoured to be a Pushcart nominee for "A Parable of Slow Songs"! Thanks to @mattkendrick.bsky.social for all that he does. You can read the micro here: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...

On a mission to get subscribers to my free newsletter up to an arbitrary number. If you're interested in the workings of a historical fantasy novelist's career, you can read the archives here. Stuff like what my editing process looks like, what I'm reading, craft/career things I'm working through.

A wonderful review of ECO24! "The diversity of stories reflects the diversity of the authors and also showcases the indefinable quality of eco-fiction." Ben highlights stories by K-Ming Chang, Guillermo G. Mendoza, @hironennes.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @kayv.bsky.social & Mathew Freeman 💚

Violet Lichen Books (@apexmag.bsky.social's sister imprint) is open to novella queries until the witching hour on Halloween! 🖤🎃🌿 We're looking for speculative ecofiction, folk horror, Weird & New Weird, and surreal SF. Guidelines violetlichen.com/submissions Portal querytracker.net/query/Violet...

Today's newsletter, discussing a sentence courtesy of Rebecca Solnit: "For mothers, some mothers, my mother, daughters are division and sons are multiplication; the former reduce them, fracture them, take from them, the latter augment and enhance."

I've been enjoying writing my newsletter again, and I think other people have enjoyed it too? If you'd like some short thoughts about sentences and writing, you can sign up at my website to be in time for the next one: guanun.com

YOU'RE INVITED to an ECO24 launch party! 🥂🎉 Join authors @louisevans.bsky.social and Kay Vaindal at Lofty Pigeon Books on Nov. 18th for reading, conversation, and signings to celebrate ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction! Reserve your spot; RSVP below!⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/louis-evan...

Aurealis Awards entries close on November 30, 2025 - this is by necessity a couple of weeks earlier than in past years to facilitate our exciting Awards Ceremony at GenreCon on the weekend of 20-22nd February! #AurealisAwards

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today! This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic. In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook Available wherever books are sold. #booksky #Blackbooksky

I'll have some prints and this original, pencil piece at SLICE Vancouver's collective art show this week! Along with awesome art, prints, and other goodies from 20+ local artists. Trust me, it'll look a lot better in real life. ;) #shoplocal #artgallery #artshow #traditionalart #womenartists

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

Welcome to the Horror Opposition Association!  by Bree Wernicke "Unless you move/transform/get eaten/somehow fail to maintain proper quantities of teeth, you’ve joined your local Horror Opposition Association, permanently. Yay!" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry

New newsletter: "Make it story-shaped or something" in which I dip briefly into how to make the edges of a thing take hold like reality.

Tomorrow is the last day to snap up this bundle of signed 1st edition novels and support @thepixelproject.bsky.social in their goal of ending domestic violence against women and girls. thepixelproject.rallyup.com/read4pixelsf... #booksky

<totters out onto porch> <settles into rocker> <thumps cane a few times> Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.

There's! a! new! Virago! edition! of Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light coming next spring with a new introduction by @samanthashannon.bsky.social — and of course blurbs from @amalelmohtar.com, @hollyblack.bsky.social, & @ursulakleguin.com. (I'm yet to find an artist credit for the fabulous cover.)

Wow, I think I just got a *real* online book club invitation, which I might have deleted to be honest except I happened to know about this one and that they were in fact discussing my book. A unicorn! Anyway, I've had a lot of good feedback from Friday's newsletter, so here it is again 👉

🎂🎉 Happy UK Book Birthday to @isabelcanas.bsky.social 's THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ! Are you ready to be obsessed? A young woman in 18th Century Mexico becomes haunted by a sinister presence in this historical horror for fans of THE EXORCIST and MEXICAN GOTHIC! Buy now: geni.us/palbad

WATERSTONES PREORDER CAMPAIGN! Eager readers, I have a special surprise for you! If you preorder FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN through @waterstones, we’ll send you some gifts☀️ Head to the form in my bio to share your proof of purchase🧡

Friends in the Northeast! I and a whole bunch of authors are headed your way in the next two weeks for @yumewrites.bsky.social 's Traveling SFF Festival! Instead of having conversation partners, we'll be paneling with one another at each stop. More info at www.yumekitasei.com/travelingsff...

Announcing our first open call for 2026 - "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" which will ask for hard SF stories with tea or coffee, stars, and gravity all playing a prominent narrative role. Info here - aanpress.com/submissions.... Important: Be sure to read the cover page to the PDF.

Ain’t no mail like contributor book mail! So proud to be in this anthology from @aanpress.bsky.social

I had a story come out today! If you think too much about fairy tale witches and also murder and complicated relationships, this one is for you. theorangebee.substack.com/p/tasting-no...

I’m still chewing over the sentence Guan chose and his excellent analysis of how it breaks “rules” and why it works.

New newsletter! A sentence from Lorrie Moore's Birds of America that spins out of sight—

My novelette “The Third Movement of Time,” is now free to read in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ! "Winter observes her frustration at Gorgós's irrational behavior and, within it, a particle of jealousy..." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

this YA horror antho is out today ~ incl. my literally hostile architecture novellette and 12 other amazing stories featuring disabled protagonists! (it's also @bookshop.org anti-prime day! free shipping!) bookshop.org/p/books/thes...

Welp, in a first for me, my story "Painted Surfaces" has been translated into Estonian: algernon.ee/jutt/varvitu... Big thanks to Kristjan Sander who translated and the Estonian spec fic scene!

The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai is fascinating look at archival work through a speculative lens. reactormag.com/book-review-...

Feeling spicy this morning and might actually send a newsletter in uh ... let's not talk about it. If you'd like it, you can sign up here! guanun.com

good news everybody, there's a new Sarah Pauling story out in the world to read

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Psst @choiceofgames.bsky.social games are in the Steam Autumn Sale! Mine, in which you teach magic in secret at a liberal arts college and certainly don’t summon potentially world-ending entities, is less than $6! That’s $0.000012 a word! store.steampowered.com/app/1766340/...

Writer PSA: as submitting to best of year awards and anthologies season rolls around, it's a great time to take any stories you've published this year and save a clean document of the published text, without any editorial comment. I often forget, but it will come in handy more than you think.

Everybody look! My debut novelette is out, thanks to @psychopomp.com! 🖤💀🌹🧟🌹💀🖤

I missed this very sweet review of my story when it came out: "If you need something beautiful to make you feel a bit better about the world, read this." 😭 Thank you Sara!

REVIEW: “The Last Items of the Forgotten Hero, or the Grandchild’s First Dragon” by Guan Un sffreviews.com/2025/09/22/r...