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reneec.bsky.social
30s. Black queer writer. Words in: FIYAH Lit, Fireside, Anathema Spec from the Margins, Ecotone. Cats, hot drinks, DND, board games, basically your cozy indoor bestie who needs to go on more walks.
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This speech is what the fuck I'm talking about. Read it to feel like you could run through a motherfucking wall.

This is only barely WisCon adjacent, but, for our health and safety at future in-person WisCons... We have until June 20 to submit a comment to the CDC about reinstating experts on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Talking points and tips: precaution.substack.com/p/tell-the-c...

Literature is dead and no one reads anymore! I would still encourage you to make terrible life choices and become a writer anyway! Fuck a job, write poetry!

Thank you to everyone who helped us over the $10,000 line! We're also thankful to everyone spreading the word. We're still only halfway to our base goal! If you haven't donated yet, we would very much appreciate your support. Check the link ⬇️ to see if any of this year's tiers catch your eye!

Happy Pride Month! In case you didn’t know, I’m lucky enough to work on some incredible LGBTQ+ stories. So treat yourself this month and pick up a book at your local indie! #lgbtqreads #happypride

It's always the ones you least respect!!! If I had a nickel for every time a book banner turned out to be the pedophile they accuse librarians and authors and educators of being...

Wonderful thread 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

DISRUPTION IS NOT VIOLENCE. Pass it on.

Errands fairy

ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! The recipient will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2025.

The June issue is live! Come read 21 amazing stories by a celestial collection of women-identified authors. www.lunastationquart...

DVpit is officially coming back on October 8th, 2025 and we have over 50 agents and editors excited to participate. Follow this account for all announcements and check out dvpit.carrd.co for more details and information! #dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks

Need to go reread this story

Looks like I'll be buying this summer's issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social !!! This mushroom art is delightful, and I can't resist the knockout combo of MERLIN SHELDRAKE and JEFF VANDERMEER.

The Kickstarter for Aces and Aros: An Asexual and Aromanctic Comic Book Anthology went live twenty minutes ago and we're already over $2000! Please jump in and help us tell the kinds of stories other comics miss! #LGBTQIA+ #Comics #queersky #booksky #lgbtqbooks www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Happy pub day to @jamsternazzy.bsky.social for THE GLADE!!! 💚🍄 I haven't read MG in a bit so I'm really excited to read this! #Booksky #MGHorror

The Millennial urge that big purchases must be make on a computer, not a phone

You can still register for WisCon! Panels, workshops and readings all weekend. Pay-what-you-can. wiscon2025.sched.com Coming up on FRIDAY (5/23): -Asexual representation in SFF -Moving beyond Western structures of storytelling -Author reading at 4pm CDT And more! Register via the link above ^

Books, books, get yer books!!

Wow. This is fucking shit.

The good folks at the Multiverse School have built a very comprehensive round-up of discussion and thoughts about AI: ai-problems-index.vercel.app (The copyright section is a bit under-nuanced to me and probably most folks who make their living via copyright, but the other stuff is interesting.)

My upcoming novel, Ballad of the Bone Road is now officially available for preorder! If you're so inclined, there are several options at the link below. linktr.ee/acwise

It’s Pub Day! I HOPE THIS HELPS is officially in the world. Born in rupture. Shaped in breath. Carried by love, survival, and the magic of our lives. This book understands heartbreak and turns it into balm, blade, blessing. May it find you when you need it most. #IHopeThisHelps #PoetryIsMedicine

Loooove Tiana's work and this interview is really energizing

I quite respect this approach as a writer

BIPOC Writers! Join us on Jul 19 - 20 for the new Cultural Storytelling workshop with Naseem Jamnia, where we'll examine the storytelling elements that arise from our "non-normative" backgrounds & how to use this strength to craft the stories we want to tell. events.humanitix.com/cultural-sto...

WisCon (ONLINE, May 23-25, 2025) urgently needs panelists. Details: wiscon.net/2025/05/08/u... May 19, we remove unstaffed panels. Pls get word out to cool people- be part of this awesome con. Email [email protected] to participate!

BOOK LAUNCH BOOK LAUNCH AT @theradicalcat.bsky.social AT WEEK FROM TODAY FRIDAY, MAY 16 6PM COME CELEBRATE A QUEER BIPOC MG MUSHROOM HORROR WITH MEEEEEE #Reno #BookLaunch #NorthernNevada #Booksky

ALOCASIA is now accepting creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by queer writers. Our honorarium is $50 per contributor. Deadline: May 31. Shares appreciated! More details: alocasia.org/about-send-w...