gwendolyn m. hicks

The nominating period for the 2026 Rhysling Awards is officially closed, and nominations have been verified. Thank you to all the members who sent in nominations this year!

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a doodle from my jane austen class that i’m particularly pleased with. these two!!!

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"

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The Tide Folk - Lightspeed Magazine In summer, when the ocean ebbs at dusk, when the sand turns to glass and it becomes impossible to discern the difference between reflection and sky, the Tide Folk emerge from their pools. You might th...

This week, on LIGHTSPEED: "The Tide Folk" by Jennifer Hudak www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

REMINDER: Hotel reservations open to the public March 9 at 10 a.m. PST!

The reservation link will be posted on our site and social media once it goes live.

being nonbinary is cool :)

i’ve had enough i think

The Wildcraft Drones by T K Rex Rex’s debut collection takes its name from AI-powered drones, but the 14 connected sci-fi tales within prove deeply human. The o...

My publisher emailed me this today, it’s a review?? Of a book?!? That I wrote ?!?!?!! 😳🫣😮
(thanks @stelliform.press !)

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Locus Awards Announces Guest of Honor Stephen Graham Jones locusmag.com/2026/03...

Bittersweet Endings (for All Who Live to See Such Times) - Uncanny Magazine This is a story about the theatrical release of The Fellowship of the Ring, about finding hope in your despair and despair in your hope, and about the year 2001. I first read The Lord of the Rings at ...

I wrote a personal essay about my love for bittersweet endings and LOTR, via the awfulness of the year 2001. And uh I wasn't expecting history to be rhyming quite so hard this week but here we are 😓

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What We Mean When We Talk About the Hole in the Bathroom - Uncanny Magazine After dinner, the woman and her husband argue about the hole in their bathroom. It’s not such a big hole. Two feet by two feet, the kind you might drop your garbage into every Thursday night and never...

I have a new story out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!

“What We Mean When We Talk About The Hole In The Bathroom” is about superstition, intercultural relationships, and yes, a strange hole in the bathroom.

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i keep seeing writers who want both:
* to be bold iconoclasts going against the pretenses and trends of the day and
* to have a perfect 5.0 review score on goodreads

and like, I'm sorry. those things don't go together.

Hey Hugo nominating people. You know who you are. Now's the time to nominate your favourite works from 2025 for the greatest, most stupendous, most prestigious award in the entire universe: The Hugo Award!

as i travel to baltimore all i can think of is the anya i leave behind

Flash Fiction Online - SPECIAL CALL -- "Tiny Gods" FFO Special Call: “Tiny Gods” Speculative fiction about small, personal rituals and moments of worship to the tiny gods in the protagonist’s life. Flash Fiction Online is seeking speculative fiction s...

My open call with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is live! ffo.submittable.com/submit/35050...

Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei Israel spent years hacking Tehran’s traffic cameras and monitoring bodyguards ahead of the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader

"Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/bf99...

You are… dangerously curious🥀 Now this is hardly appropriate behavior on anyone's part...

This month's news letter has one final little taste of whats to come + some important info before Hunting the Scavenger comes out in just a few short weeks!
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‘Not again’: Gaza rushes to stockpile amid Iran war, crossing closures Crossing closures following US-Israel war with Iran spark panic buying in Gaza, where residents fear food shortages.

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Vindictive israel finds another way to punish #Gaza - food shipments have ground to a halt causing starvation, panic

The zionist state's institutional cruelty surprises even the most hardened of aid workers

It's sickening & the world awakes to more 🇺🇲🇮🇱 horror

i ❣️ bodily autonomy

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

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Damn fine cup of coffee!

Tehran tonight.

Twenty people were killed in a US–Israeli attack on Niloufar Square, a busy mixed residential and commercial neighborhood in Tehran.

(The photo was taken by Iran’s Student News Network and has been geolocated.)

drew some things from the v&a museum catalogue

CONGRATS TO YOU TOO NICO <33

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them.

At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

thinking about my #dnd guy 🫣

no war on iran, hands off iran. the united states and israel are an existential threat to all human life.

JOYOUS CONGRATULATIONS to all the @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling nominees!!!

to my astonishment, my long poem “One Hundred Thousand Legends and the Longing Underneath,” published by @cbdroege.bsky.social, is among them! ⚔️

i share this honor with gamers everywhere

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