mimi mondal (they/she/🐈‍⬛)

My first in-person reading in NYC since the pandemic (aka in more than half a decade 😱)

is

NEXT MONTH!!!

Come over if you're in town! Bring friends, lovers, dance partners. Let's make this a beautiful, fun midsummer evening by the East River💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

Mimi Mondal | Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art Mimi Mondal was born and raised in Kolkata, India. Her fiction has twice been nominated for the Nebula Award. As the coeditor of the nonfiction anthology Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E....

Bookmarking @mimimondal.bsky.social's page at the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine, to read all their work there thus far: a series of 6 short stories, with a 7th on the way!
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While I'm at it, I encourage you to follow Mimi's Patreon!
www.patreon.com/c/mimimondal...

Press Release July 14 2025 - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association Must Read Publishing Removes Moral Rights Clause; SFWA Will Flag Analog in Market Listings Pending Further Contract Improvements  Recently, SFWA […]

SFF writers take note! SFWA's Board of Directors has updates on the Must Read Publishing situation: what Must Read has now promised to change, and what steps SFWA is taking next, to ensure future contracts require less negotiation from writers in genre. READ MORE BELOW ⬇️ www.sfwa.org/2025/07/14/p...

not getting any younger but with ice cream cake 🎂 (and all these blessings, which are good stuff 🥹)

Paco: Vampire Fiction | Spiral Magazine A story from Blood Ties series by Mimi Mondal. Read Paco and more in the Interdependence issue of Spiral magazine from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art.

Every day of the year is Pride 🏳️‍🌈 but I've never been so excited to close out the month with a fresh new story! Paco, the sixth and final story for my "Blood Ties" series from the Rubin Museum's Spiral Magazine is out now for you to read.

(CW: fangs.🧛🏼‍♂️)

rubinmuseum.org/paco/

😍😍😍

Afrosurrealism Special Issue: Submissions Call The editors for the AfroSurrealism Special invite you to submit fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Calling poets, prose writers, & essayists to submit to the
AfroSurrealist Special Issue of @strangehorizons.bsky.social! Eds. @yvettel.bsky.social & Shingai Njeri Kagunda are seeking worlds that slip b/t mundane, uncanny, ghostly, & futuristic.

Submissions window is April 15 to April 30.

Orijit Sen – River of Stories (Article in the Kindle magazine) Backlisting, my new column to write about books and publishing, started this month in the Kindle magazine from Calcutta. The plan for the column is to take an interesting non-canon book from Indian…

From 2013 (long before the hardcover edition was released, when India's first graphic novel was still circulating as a grainy pdf): @mimimondal.bsky.social on RIVER OF STORIES mimimondal.com/2013/11/06/o...

Get your copy here:

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recommend to me some short stories based in florida?

doesn't have to be only from famous authors.

if you have a florida-based short story, i'd love to read it as well!

This was my first publication in Chinese. The excitement of seeing my byline in a new language never fades! It was surreal enough in English to write about the first storybook I ever owned: Thakumar Jhuli, which my dad got me for my 6th birthday. Doubly surreal to see that cover in a Chinese mag.

I'm glad that 0GSF dated the essay because I wrote it *just before* there was a BIG boom of South Asian authors in international sff. I was fairly comprehensive about the older literature but if you don't see some of your favorite current #SouthAsianSpecFic writers here, that is why!

One more translation to celebrate! As a sweet beginning to 2025 my two-part essay "A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction" was published in Chinese (Mandarin) by the Hugo Award-winning writer and editor @riverflowsf.bsky.social in Zero Gravity Science Fiction.

currently in training to be a dog person 😎

#chihuahua #ChihuahuasOnBluesky #DogsOnBluesky

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Drumroll, please! Our 2025 IndieGoGo fundraiser is now live!! You can check out the bounty of donation perks available at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 (link in bio)
We have so much to offer you guys for supporting us, with new rewards in rotation all month so keep an eye out!

An ornately carved arching doorway opens out on a desert landscape. Within the doorway potted palms, lush flowers, and orange trees grow in the partial light filtering through the doorway.

Horizons 3 is NOW AVAILABLE, featuring these amazing articles!

💬 Villains, Accomplices, & Bystanders: an interview w/ Brennan Lee Mulligan
🪭 Deals & Appeals: The Crowd Patron | Leon Barillaro
🎰 The Gilded Quill | Sam Mannell
⚔️ The Avenging Heart | Brandes Stoddard
🏝️💀 Deathmatch Atlantis | Tim Denee

NEW YORK (AP) - ProPublica wins 2025 Pulitzer for Public Service for reports on deaths of pregnant women in abortion-restricted states.

Congratulations! So well deserved 💜💜💜

collage of four photos of a ragdoll cat sitting in rainbow-colored afternoon light

every afternoon is a good afternoon 🏳️‍🌈

#ragdollcat

close-up selfie of my face framed by cherry blossoms

collages of six spring flower photos against the sunset on the hudson river

collage of three photos of sunset on the hudson river from fort tryon park

i've been counting my age in selfies with autumn leaves and spring flowers, routinely every year 🌸

This is published from India but you should really check out @blaft.bsky.social's Book of Anti-Caste SF! They ship internationally + there's an ebook.

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF

The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India

Instead of buying our books on Amazon India (where they're often marked up over MRP, because it's impossible to communicate with anyone at Amazon and their logistics are a mess), try buying from our website! Or from your local indie bookstore! No shipping w/in India!

www.blaft.com/collections/...

Wish I could be present for this myself but if you're in Kolkata next weekend, go attend the launch of this beautiful and beloved book that contains my story "So It Was Foretold". 💙

#DalitHistoryMonth

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF New! Click here for the eBook  To order in the USA: Powell's Books An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the dias...

Featuring science fiction, horror, and supernatural short stories by Bama, Gogu Shyamala, @mimimondal.bsky.social, @architamittra.bsky.social, and 30+ other writers!

There's a Kolkata launch planned for April 19 at Storyteller bookstore. Save the date! More deets soon

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@pyaariazaadi.bsky.social (aka the radical political outspoken endearing South Asian artist older sister you all need) hosted last evening's incredible reception for @bakeryprasad.bsky.social at her Xenana Projects studio.

Over this weekend in NYC I had the opportunity to meet and experience the works, ideas, and visions of TWO of the most exciting Dalit visual artists of my generation (Shrujana Niranjani Shridhar and Siddhesh Gautam, who's @bakeryprasad.bsky.social) so that's how my #DalitHistoryMonth is going ✊🏽

Two graphics comprising photos of me, the cover of the magazine, and three pages from the translation

Didn't get around to posting this earlier but the Polish 🇵🇱 translation of "Malotibala Printing Press" was published in the Nowa Fantastyka magazine from Warsaw in June 2024! Translated by Kamila Regel. I didn't receive a print copy this time, which made me a little sad because look at that cover! 🤩

NYC(-area) friends with tattoos, give me all your recs please 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

this was the first time anything i wrote was made into a figurine! unforgettable feeling 🥹

New year, new event from @bsfwriters.bsky.social 🎉👾

"We Demand Stories About Human-Centered AI" with panelists @hmason.bsky.social @matthewkressel.net Holden Lee, moderated by @brklyndragon.bsky.social

...wow!