Jackie Rogoff

I am accepting this challenge and raising $1200 for one Minneapolis family to cover their overdue rent today. Venmo me at nkkritzer and I will send the money to that family once it's raised. I believe in us.

Cat photo because you know who likes cat photos (everyone, everyone likes cat photos)

I don't actually know but @alexshvartsman.bsky.social does!

Update 14: UFO10 table of contents & my next project · Unidentified Funny Objects 10 The book contents are locked in and the galleys are currently with the authors for review. They will be going out to advance reviewers in the next few days. We're on schedule for the May release of th...

My very first published story will be in @alexshvartsman.bsky.social 's Unidentified Funny Objects volume 10! I already freaked out over the table of contents earlier this week, so now you should too: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ufo...

I've been following Jay for a little while. His work reviewing short fiction is especially needed!

Can confirm, your rejection was very nice and fast and I appreciate the chance to get a personal rejection on the table so early in 2026!

A screenshot of "the left hand of darkness" on Google Trends. There is a big spike in June 2025 and a bigger spike in December 2025.

Just caught up on Pluribus. Me vs. Carol Sturka. What can I say, she has great taste in books.

2025 in writing stats:

4 brand-new stories
24 rejections, 5 of them personal
6 weeks of Clarion, after 3 years of applying
1 story ACCEPTANCE!!

Looking forward to it!

@cadwellturnbull.bsky.social do you have something coming?

A little light dystopia with my subway rides. NYC, you okay?

Newsmakers 2025: Jackie Rogoff’s encounter with fleeting ‘Jeopardy!’ fame Santa Cruz's Jackie Rogoff embarked on a "Jeopardy!" journey, never expecting she might win. But she did.

One of my cats is famous! She just had to wait for me to be on a game show. lookout.co/newsmakers-2...

Working on it!

Yes, if I skip the best parts of writing and revising and working the ideas out, then I get to speed run straight to trying to get the work published somewhere. Which is 100% the worst part. And nobody wants to buy slop!

Not that I wouldn't keep writing new stories anyway! I'm just tapping out the markets so much sooner and the soft-trunk grows ever bigger.

Obviously I could always write more stories so I can keep hitting those windows that are still always open. Maybe one of those editors will bite one day. In the meantime I already have a backlog of things to send the places that open once in a blue moon.

I've only been submitting short stories since 2022 and it was better than, yes! Unfortunately it took me a little while to grow my skills, but by then most windows were so much smaller and more sporadic. It's rough right now while I wait to see how the Asimov's and Analog contracts shake out.

OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

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All of the best vibes for your perfect angel-who's-never-done-anything-wrong-ever-I-mean-just-look-at-those-eyes!

"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire."

Worth a watch if you have some spare time this holiday weekend! If you don't have time, there's still a link to donate.

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What a wild and wonderful fever dream! How strange to get through an entire Monday without any stories to workshop, or anyone critiquing mine.

Just read it again! So delightfully creepy.

to Jews, on the Gaza famine an open letter: we have been commanded

I just sent this out.

The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.

It is a choice not to heed them.

Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

You had to know, sorry :(

I'm very excited to see how this will go! And even more, how it will feel after.

Just had my heart stomped on by @theferocity.bsky.social 's memoir, How We Fight For Our Lives. It's already a treat to listen to Saeed read poems to us every week on Vibe Check podcast, so I knew his own writing would be beautiful.

But what if it hurts when I write?

If I say it enough times, it's bound to be true.

Perfect is the enemy of done lalaLALA PERFECT IS THE ENEMY OF DONE