gwendolyn maia hicks

there’s nothing scarier than just staying alive despite it all. but there is also? maybe nothing more rewarding

It's Charli's Body, You're Just Living In It It's Charli's Body, You're Just Living In It by Gwendolyn Maia Hicks

It's Charli's Body, You're Just Living In It by @prioryruins.bsky.social from Issue 8

Resurrection; portals; the obligation of living

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Hey kids, you know what’s really scary? 👀

Loving something with your whole heart 🖤

Yeah that’s right, Heartlines has scares too! Cosy up and let’s get spooky:

"The fundamental power of poetry is the friction between the sentence and the line. The sentence is a unit of meaning. When you break it, you get two or more units of meaning that exist simultaneously with the original meaning. No other form of writing has this quality. Since we’re not really writing in traditional forms anymore, it’s even more important to find ways of saying and writing that make shapes, support voice and music and rhythm, and help build architectures." https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-seven/a-conversation-with-richard-siken/

Richard Siken, speaking on poetry better than I ever could. His collection, Crush, was life-changing.

(Read the whole interview on @adroitjournal.bsky.social: theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-...)

If magazine teams were paid fairly and writer rates increased, mag budgets would be $200k+. Minimum.

If you can, subscribe. That’s regular, renewable revenue mags can use to plan for the future.

This industry is sustained on free labour and free content.

Passion is high, but so is burnout.

Complete 2024 Hugo Voting Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Sci­ence Fiction Convention, received 1,962 valid ballots, down from 3,436 at Glasgow 2024. 1,338 nominating votes were cast electroni­cally (another two sent …

Complete 2024 Hugo Voting

I truly can’t imagine the person I would be, the art I would’ve made, the choices I might’ve made, the wide-open vistas that might exist in my brain if the constant anxious horror of the last 10 years in America wasn’t just 24/7 squatting its horrible carcass on every cell of it.

In a Time of Mourning, Grief Stories Are a Lifeline The comfort found in reading about loss will never replace the need to be in community with grievers.

ICYMI: I brought back a classic Catapult essay on why I love reading about grief...but how reading grief stories will never replace community.

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover

Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

Ursula K. Le Guin — 2025 Prize for Fiction

Congratulations also to the other finalists: Andrea Hairston, Nola Hopkinson, Margaret Killjoy, Jared Pechaček, Eden Robins, Nghi Vo, and Ursula Whitcher. It was an extraordinary short list, and I highly recommend reading all of these books. More info on all of them below!

On her birthday, a poem by #UrsulaKLeGuin

"let’s hurry, yes, to offer
everything and count on nothing,
make and break no promises ...
Outside trust, what air
is there to breathe?"

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Promo graphic for the LitCrawl event “The World With Different Words” at Blondie’s Bar, 540 Valencia, San Francisco, October 25, 5 to 6 PM. Featuring Gwendolyn Maia Hicks, Giovanna Lomanto, Chloe Smith, Nick Mamatas, and T. K. Rex.

Doing a LitCrawl! Months ago I was given a prompt and asked to curate a lineup. @prioryruins.bsky.social @chloehsmith.bsky.social @nmamatas.bsky.social & Giovanna Lomanto said yes! We were granted the power to change one literary event from history. What did we change? How is the world different?!

Overworked and underpaid agents are the bottleneck protecting overworked and underpaid editors and the quest for writing that adheres to a recognizable formula clouds people's ability to register novelty, let alone genius.

i think a lot of people don't understand what translating a text _is_. languages are not just word-for-word ciphers for each other. translation involves making a lot of complex creative choices, and the longer the text the more complex. it is, ultimately, an act of rewriting from scratch.

A Story About A Poem: “A Body Without a Name” In college, I used to churn out 5,000 word short stories two-hours before class in a burst of god-like arrogance and never look at them again. Now I can spend thirty minutes or more just staring at…

My [old/new] poem "A Body Without A Name" is free-to-read now!

I also wrote a bit about over-editing and the importance of embracing imperfection.

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You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

Donate to Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices, organized by Sam Asher For two years, The Cosmic Background has been the world's premier venue for f… Sam Asher needs your support for Support The Cosmic Background's Diverse Voices

@thecosmicbgr.bsky.social is having a @gofundme.com campaign to support its third year of publication.

At $.10/word, The Cosmic Background pays authors of flash and poetry to share their work on the website

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Tasting notes Issue seven: flash fiction by Cislyn Smith

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.

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With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

Liner Notes #21: No, I Won't Tell You My AO3 Confession, however little of one this may be: I have an AO3 account, have had one for a long time, and have been in fandom since the mid 1990s. I have read...

Figured I'd drop a link to my mailing letter about fic and sundry since we're all talking about it. This piece has gotten the most engagement of all the letters I've sent out.

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Dear [Author],

Your book [Title] is wonderful. I had painful urination and blood in my urine for years, until I read [Title] and now there is a clear golden stream.

[Title] deserves a wider readership. My team of 5,000 cyber-turtles can post honest reviews and raise your Zoob ranking, for a modest

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YAAAAAY KATHERINE!!!!

INCREDIBLE LINE-UP! congratulations to all the winners 🦞 ❤️

So happy to see my poem, “The Final Trick,” get an honorable mention in the Rhysling Awards! Thanks to everyone who read and voted! Eternally grateful to @ajodasso.bsky.social who gave this poem the perfect home at @strangehorizons.bsky.social.

Congrats to all the winners and nominees!

Announcing the 2025 Rhysling Award Winners

The Rhysling Award honors the year's best in speculative poetry ✨

Nominees were selected by the membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Each member is allowed to nominate one work in each of two categories: Long and Short poem

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Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.