Marie Brennan

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Author Interview * Marie Brennan The first-ever Hugo award for a poem was awarded to Marie Brennan at Worldcon 2025. In addition to poetry, Marie is an accomplished author of novels and short stories. Thanks to Marie for talking w…

New interview with Marie Brennan today - hear about her Hugo-winning poem, novels, short stories, and some gorgeous art!

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An image of Earth from space with the title “This week on…” followed by the Planetside magazine logo. Featured article: “The First Hugo for Poetry: An Interview with Marie Brennan” by Holly Lyn Walrath Teaser: Read this in-depth conversation on the power, reach, and future of speculative poetry. Series name: Speculative Poetics

This week on Planetside… An exclusive interview with the very first Hugo winner for speculative poetry.

Read “The First Hugo for Poetry: An Interview with Marie Brennan” by Holly Lyn Walrath:
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It has been a delight to witness the love for speculative poetry after @swantower.bsky.social won the first EVER poetry Hugo award! Here’s my interview with the winner, you gotta read it! 🏆 Congrats Marie!

An image of Earth from space with the title “This week on…” followed by the Planetside magazine logo. Featured article: “The First Hugo for Poetry: An Interview with Marie Brennan” by Holly Lyn Walrath Teaser: Explore why verse has always been central to speculative storytelling and why its moment is now. Series name: Speculative Poetics

This week on Planetside…

The Hugos presented their first award for poetry at Worldcon in 2025.

Learn what that means for the genre in “The First Hugo for Poetry: An Interview with Marie Brennan” by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social & @swantower.bsky.social: www.sfwa.org/2025/09/30/t...

@indiaholton.bsky.social's AN ORNITHOLOGIST'S FIELD GUIDE TO LOVE was a delightful bit of diversion, recommended for anybody who's on board with their Victorian lady scholars deploying helicopter parasols.

Recommend a piece of art (any medium) that's not yours that you've recently enjoyed or re-enjoyed. Just something you think might help someone else, cheer 'em up, escapism, w.e.

Just wondering. :)

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A helpful script for calling your senators and telling them to hold firm against anti-trans legislation in the budget:

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At Interstellar Flight Mag, R. Thursday interviews Marie Brennan, winner of the first Hugo Award for poetry. magazine.interstella...

how long, o lord, before you let him die It struck me today, in a helpful if unwelcome fashion, that we are basically just replaying 1952, because: Republican president primarily advised by hard-right ideologues replaces unpopular Democratic...

In an odd way, I find this post reassuring. This feeling that we're living in unprecedently awful times? Turns out there's very apt precedent, within living memory. And the world didn't end back then, either. We just gotta push the rock back up the hill.

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Also prolly good to specifically mention that trans rights are fucking non-negotiable given how hard the regime is going after trans folks rn.

Call your reps/senators & tell them: DO NOT cave to the craptastic Republican budget, which cuts health care even further. Is a shutdown bad? Yes. Is going along with their agenda worse? YES. Hang this disaster around their necks, not ours.

(Remember, you can call after hours if you're nervous!)

Call your reps/senators & tell them: DO NOT cave to the craptastic Republican budget, which cuts health care even further. Is a shutdown bad? Yes. Is going along with their agenda worse? YES. Hang this disaster around their necks, not ours.

(Remember, you can call after hours if you're nervous!)

Yeah, the consolidation of companies means canceling Disney+ means losing a bunch of shows/channels, and that sucks a bit. But HIT THEM IN THE WALLET. Show that buckling to censorship is not profitable. There are other things for you to watch, or read, or play!

Yeah, the consolidation of companies means canceling Disney+ means losing a bunch of shows/channels, and that sucks a bit. But HIT THEM IN THE WALLET. Show that buckling to censorship is not profitable. There are other things for you to watch, or read, or play!

Hornytown Chutzpah A comedic noir novella by the wonderful Andrew Hiller, and an audiobook in collaboration with his super sister, Alicia!

I initially didn't pay attention to this Kickstarter because, frankly, the title made me assume it was some kind of sex comedy. Instead it's a deeply Jewish comedic noir about demons -- so if that appeals to you, back it now!

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Some glowing reviews, which are what got my attention:

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Hornytown Chutzpah A comedic noir novella by the wonderful Andrew Hiller, and an audiobook in collaboration with his super sister, Alicia!

I initially didn't pay attention to this Kickstarter because, frankly, the title made me assume it was some kind of sex comedy. Instead it's a deeply Jewish comedic noir about demons -- so if that appeals to you, back it now!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

It’s cute when Eeyore does it. It’s funny when George Carlin does it. Unless you are a small stuffed donkey with a pink bow, the late George Carlin, or a glorious and unholy melding of the two, your gloom is not currently appreciated.

Fair warning all, I am in a mood and coming in to the recent thread to tell me why various good things don’t ACTUALLY count and everything is terrible will get you an increasingly less gentle lecture about how outsourcing your despair is a dick move.

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⚖️ BREAKING: BOLSONARO CONVICTED

brazil’s Supreme Court convicts former President Jair Bolsonaro of coup d’état, conspiracy, and attacks on democratic order. Historic ruling marks first ex-president convicted of leading a coup.

If you're looking to take action on climate, targeting your city officials can have far more impact than national. Cities can respond more rapidly (and be held accountable more effectively), and cities make up a huge percentage of both the problem and the solution.

Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this.

Every pub should do this.

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