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Curious what our previous zine bundles have looked like? Want to nail down my editorial preferences before you write something? Or just want to read some damn good stories? Snag a free digital copy of our second zine bundle here and see what it's all about: dl.bookfunnel.com/mk8nnv897b

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Seems like a good day for anti-fascist fiction. Snag a free ebook: dl.bookfunnel.com/rtl56fi074

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I had 5 stories published in 2024. My best year ever so far. Here they are: "A Self-Guided Manual for the Despondent Necromancer," December 2024, The Archive "Gig-Heroes for Hire," November 2024, Tech Bro Terrors, Cursed Morsels

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Look at that gorgeous cover art! And please take a look at Swallow, my little tale of desperate subterfuge

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Listen closely and take comfort in "The Year of the Humming Turban" by Kiran Kaur Saini in our issue 12:

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My story "A Self-Guided Manual for the Despondent Necromancer" is available now at The Archive! I hope you love it and aren't worried about a slightly haunted book or a little blood magic getting in the way of your resurrection projects Read it here: www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...

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My story "A Self-Guided Manual for the Despondent Necromancer" is scheduled for publication at The Archive on December 13! Check out the cool promo cards they made for it

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For you SF fans, Jo Walton is a fantastic writer and reader. I’ll be trying to find many of these recs.

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The Tech Bro Terrors issue of the Cursed Morsels zine might be one of the most anticapitalist things we've put out in a hot minute. It also features super imaginative, fun, and horrifying speculative fiction. Snag a copy along with four other rad zines! www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/curs...

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Just a heads up - the deadline to recommend works for the Otherwise Awards is this Friday, 11/15. Anyone can submit a recommendation! otherwiseaward.org/award/2024-o...

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My gig-worker firefighter story is out and ready to scare you about our near future! Yay! And there are so many other good stories here too

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Rad. Get your creature in the bathroom stories ready

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Yeah, alright, no. No don't this. I'll do you a few fucking better and teach you right here and now how to do this: You game? Blurb and lesson time. Got you. First up, a SPOOC. This is one technique that can be expanded (gonna give you examples too). WRITING LESSONS AHOY: 🧵

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I've posted my GOH speech from #WorldFantasy2024, about indie zines not paying editors limiting the range of editorial voices in our field. It's a call for discussion how to change that, like devising pay standards for editors. 1/2 www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2024/10/24/n...

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I loved writing this story, and I hope it will haunt you all in the best of ways

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Very excited to be hosting the Speculative Poetry Challenge at Flights of Foundry! Write a new poem each day of the convention, and enjoy the support and community of other poets ✨ The launch is Friday Sept. 27 at 10am pst. I'll have some prompts ready for inspo. Can't wait to see you!!

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I'm building a starter pack of ESL SFFH/Spec Fiction authors! If you are one (or know one) please let me know so I can add you. go.bsky.app/m3iw7U

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I also created this one for Brazilian SFF authors already published in English in some form! go.bsky.app/7eE7MC4

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Will climate fiction save us? In this new essay, @mollytempleton.bsky.social draws on discussions of genre: the border between science fiction and reality, and the border between literary fiction and our fears for the future. reactormag.com/coming-to-te...

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Okay everyone, I started a Flash Fiction Starter Pack. It's short right now bc I couldn't remember who wrote flash specifically and who wrote longer short stories, so if you want to be on the list, just ask! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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These lists are great. Feels like the writing community is forming and flourishing

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The last episode with Vajra Chandrasekera was amazing, and now we get this one too?? So good.

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I've made two starter packs with speculative fiction publications - magazines and podcasts - on Bluesky. I hope they make it easier for people to find & follow a whole bunch of great spec-fic venues. I'll keep adding as I go. Starter pack 1: go.bsky.app/4FbEmZU Starter pack 2: go.bsky.app/ASWSvfZ

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I'm looking for culture/language/history advisers. Can pay. 1. Haitian creole and folk tales, 2. Sephardic Judaism in Portugal during the Inquisition, 3. Islam in Portugal during the Inquisition, 4. Hawai'i during WWII, 5. The Mali Empire/Mandinka. If you know someone can you pass this on?

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Q&A with Sofia Samatar on publishing, writing, publicity, and her new book Opacities (which I'm half way through and finding both painful and fascinating; painful b/c she doesn't hold back from the aspects of publishing that are terrible): lithub.com/sofia-samata...

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Hey, science fiction writers. A request to make. Normally it's unethical to discuss a story we didn't buy. But years later, there's a "one that got away" I still think about, and I REALLY want to know who wrote it. Did YOU write about space snails taking over the anglican church? (Read on...)

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About that vague announcement: Happy to announce that FF will soon be launching a sister magazine, Saros Speculative Fiction! The goal of Saros will be, of course, to publish more great fiction, but also to give those interested the opportunity to work as an editor for an issue!

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In 1969, Publishers Weekly reviewed The Left Hand of Darkness. They may have missed the point. (Thank you to @juliephillips.bsky.social for first posting this!)

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I have a new story out in Sci-Fi Lampoon! It's a short and funny (and horrifying?) story based on the kinds of messages desperate and single 40 year old men send to people they remember from high school. Enjoy! Links here: scifilampoon.com most recent issue: bit.ly/3V4jB4U

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my Mantis PI story is out in Zooscape! I hope you love reading it.

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CALLING all CliFi writers and solarpunks, I am teaching a class that links climate fiction + science & technology studies. I am always looking for recommendations for new stories that I haven't read yet, especially shorter pieces. Can you help me out?

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Applications are now open for 'An Honour and a Privilege', the ambitious collaborative fiction/non-fiction book coming late 2025 from Stanchion! If you're interested in working with me and being part of this unique project, check out the link below! RTs VERY much appreciated—I'd love to share this

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the mad lads actually did it

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You can put googly eyes on anything. No one can stop you.

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The @khoreo.bsky.social fundraiser has been going for just over a week and we're less than a quarter funded. Social media feels like yelling into the void more than ever: if you can give us a boost, it would be deeply appreciated 💚 www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

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"Where should I start reading SFF"-type questions get a very familiar set of answers on the internet, but when people (who are readers, to be clear, just not readers of SFF) ask me this question in real life, I try to answer with book recommendations like this: vajra.me/2023/01/04/p...

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statement

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While you're posting your award eligible stories, feel free to drop me links to your SFF works between 3400 and 5200 words as I'm still looking for stories for S13 of LeVar Burton Reads! (There are additional requirements so don't get too excited!)

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A Ramble on How Short Stories Have Shaped my Chaotic Writing Career by Ai Jiang locusmag.com/2023/12...

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Any time I can't quite find the right ending for a story I go back to the beginning and look for it there. Usually, I find it.

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I have a story coming out soon in Tales from Fiddler's Green 2! It's up for pre-order and looks beautiful. And it even comes with a song on a flexi-disc. www.fiddlersgreenzine.com/shop/tales-f...

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