Nancy Hightower

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Family Ecology Emerging Writer Series

MP Vare has written a beautiful essay about their complicated family ecology--one shaped by anger and fear--and how they have tried to find a different way to exist within that ecology: audacity.substack.com/p/family-eco...

Re-upping this one more time: this is the audio version of one of my new stories for the year, "Data Ghost" originally published in the Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology Storyteller.

Bluestockings Workers Clash with Legal Owners Over Store's Closing Bluestockings Bookstore Cooperative worker-stewards are going public, complaining that they were given no advance warning that the 26-year-old cooperative bookstore would abruptly shut its doors for b...

Fuck this is so upsetting. I wrote about Bluestocking Books in my newsletter last year, bc it's an indispensable community resource and one of the last feminist bookstores standing. I hate that it ended this way.

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Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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Another great review:

We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to roxane@therumpus.net by Tuesday, September 2nd!

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky

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My pledge to our city.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Fig: N.K. Jemisin’s “Red Dirt Witch” - Reactor Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we cover...

For a dream to be prophecy, it must come three times.

This week, Reading the Weird dips into @nkjemisin.bsky.social short fiction collection "How Long 'Til Black Future Month?" for a story about hope, herbs, and horror grounded in the real world

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