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With @smallwondersmag.com you do have to look issue by issue: smallwondersmag.com/issues/

And finally, the SFPA has two poetry-specific mags:

sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

eyetothetelescope.com/archives.html

That's a wealth of places to start! Hopefully useful for noms.

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@havenspec.bsky.social likewise lets you go directly to its poetry: havenspec.com/poetry/

@mergansermagazine.bsky.social has a poetry checkbox under "filter by genre": mergansermagazine.com/home/

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@kaleidotrope.bsky.social has a poetry page, which you can search for 2025: kaleidotrope.net/archives/all...

@nightmare-magazine.com also lets you filter for poetry: www.nightmare-magazine.com/category/fic...

#HugoAwards #Hugos 3/-

@strangehorizons.bsky.social makes it very easy to filter for poetry published in 2025: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/ca...

@uncannymagazine.bsky.social, you can filter for poetry in general: www.uncannymagazine.com/type/poetry/

#HugoAwards #Hugos 2/-

Tagging onto this #HugoAwards thread: with the poetry award returning, let's talk about where to find poems to nominate! I know a lot of people last year felt a bit adrift on that front, so here is a (*very* non-exhaustive) list of suggestions, with links . . . 1/- #Hugos

Someday I will succeed in arranging my life such that February can be one long nap interspersed with staring out the window at the rain.

(This will probably require me to be reincarnated as a house cat.)

Finally, I should mention that the pattern deck *itself* is eligible for a Hugo Award, under the umbrella category of "related work." Should you wish to get one for yourself, you can do so here! #HugoAwards #Hugos

pattern-deck.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

The card back design from the Rook and Rose pattern deck, showing a golden spindle, shuttle, and shears, linked by a violet thread that becomes ribbon, against a subtle background of a labyrinth. Credited to Emiko Ogasawara.

And @emiko-ogasawara.bsky.social/Emiko Ogasawara's design for the card back links the spindle, shuttle, and shears of the deck's three suits together with the thread of fate. Eligible in the fan artist category! (To be clear, that's due to other factors, not art quality.) 4-

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A grid of twenty-four images of cards from the Rook and Rose pattern deck, with Avery-Liell Kok credited as the artist.

@aliellkok.bsky.social/Avery Liell-Kok's Faces and Masks -- think court card/Major Arcana -- are gorgeous watercolors whose "blind contour" technique creates a shifting, overlapping look that perfectly fits the dream magic of Vraszan. Also pro eligible, near as I can tell! 3-

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A grid of forty-five images from the Rook and Rose pattern deck laid out in rows, with A.C. Esguerra credited as the artist

@blueludebar.com/A.C. Esguerra's cards are an intricate series of repeated motifs, compositional layouts, and color groupings that help link them together across the suits. As best as I can navigate the byzantine rules, they are eligible in the pro category! 2-

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If you're nominating for the #HugoAwards, may I rec to your attention our wonderful artists for the Rook and Rose pattern deck? I *think* the first two are eligible in the pro artist category and the third in fan (though if you want to be *really* sure, you can nominate them in both). 1- #Hugos

a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

POETRY by Marie Brennan Dulle Griet Stages a New Assault Quote Two women make a lot of trouble, gossiping in corners about hexes of protection, spells to summon higher pay 26 January 2026 Strange Horizons

POETRY ANALYSIS by Marie Brennan Dulle Griet Stages a New Assault  Quote There’s a long folkloric tradition of tales and songs about women so contrary or shrewish even the Devil washes his hands of them, but it takes only a tiny tilt of perspective to see that in a different light—to turn lamentable fractiousness into admirable ferociousness. 26 January 2026 Strange Horizons

Our second poem and author analysis is:

Dulle Griet Stages a New Assault
by Marie Brennan

Poem ⬇️
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Analysis ⬇️
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I feel like I can't claim "skill" -- just occasional luck!

Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to off a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed…

Excellent reading to pass along to anybody who thinks violent revolution would be an improvement on our current non-violent protests -- short form is, the success rate of the former is abysmal, the latter very good (and working *very well* right now):

acoup.blog/2026/02/13/c...

I really do have two types of titles: ones I had before I started writing or came up with very early on, which I love, and ones I came up with after finishing, which were like pulling teeth and they're okay I suppose.

Guess which one I'm having to come up with for this story . . .

I just updated my "appearances" page, and it includes several online events coming up in the next two months!

www.swantower.com/appearances/

From this week's short fiction readings, I really enjoyed @swantower.bsky.social 's "The Final Voyage of the Ouranos" in Sunday Morning Transport:
www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/the-final-...

YouTube video by Marie Brennan Bonus ARCs in the box!

And after ending that recording, we discovered that our lovely editor included bonus ARCs of books by @anuja-v.bsky.social, @mollyoneillwrites.bsky.social, and @oranjessie.bsky.social!

youtu.be/kS6ZZ4TF7ng

YouTube video by Marie Brennan Unboxing The Eye of Leviathan by M.A. Carrick!

We have ARCs! The Eye of Leviathan takes one step closer to being a real book!

youtu.be/mpCobQSGdkI

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.

A thread.

"The perfect side eye doesn't exist" proved wrong😍

how much unchecked influence over society & government do they have to have before we quit saying billionaires and start saying oligarchs

This is great! Fellow scholars, volunteer to guest lecture for Minnesota faculty struggling to teach during shutdown!

I think this would have the opposite effect of what is intended. Instead of supressing the vote you’re going to end up with angry people even more determined to cast a ballot bsky.app/profile/marc...

Immigrant Safety Act: Bill to ban immigrant detention in New Mexico heads to governor's desk "If the bill becomes law — it'll make it a crime for these counties, any county, any local government to contract with ICE to house ICE detainees," KOAT legal expert John Day said.

Really proud of New Mexico!

www.koat.com/article/immi...

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.

I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

Bookshop.org Teams with Draft2Digital The online bookselling platform has partnered with the self-publishing company to allow self-published authors to sell e-books on its site.

Bookshop.org is teaming up with Draft2Digital to allow self-publishers to sell ebooks on the Bookshop platform www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Today, I am matching donations to any org in this list, up to $1000. Reply here or DM me with receipt. www.standwithminnesota.com

Blumenthal, running through a list of proposed reforms, says that the right to seek redress agents violating their rights can be accomplished with four words added to current U.S. code, and adds:

"Rights without remedies are empty promises."