Diana M. Pho (she/her) 📚 🔊

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

Huzzah!! 🌌❤️🚀

tremendous thanks go to my editor @dianapho.bsky.social for spearheading this project, to my agent @shannonlechon.bsky.social for believing in me, to @erewhonbooks.bsky.social for being such a great home for TIGS, and to everyone in my debut group for keeping me sane during debut year!!

A birth announcement for a book! Including the book cover, the size of the book (14 by 12) and weight of book (567 grams). There are faint, blue starts surrounding the book which is displayed against a light blue, watercolour background.

A.D. Sui (caucasian person with short, brown hair) is wearing a grey top coat and jeans, pointing to The Iron Garden Sutra on a bookstore bookshelf and smiling.

and we're live, folks!

THE IRON GARDEN SUTRA is now out everywhere books are sold! if you pre-ordered a copy, you should be receiving it soon (or already have) and if not, it's not too late to purchase the yellowest book in all of history!

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The Iron Garden Sutra, by @thesuiway.bsky.social (pub by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social) is an excellent blend of horror and sci-fi that lands in the meditative side, inquiring much about grief and loss, delivering a superb story.

Full thoughts:
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2025 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the final ballot for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards. Superior Achievement in a Novel Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix (Berkley) King Sorro…

Congrats to the Stoker finalists!!
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And we've got community presentations: work researched and prepared by the Sirens community for the Sirens community. Thank you to all our presenters for sharing their time, expertise, and thoughts to make our community a smarter, more welcoming, more inclusive space.

We're practicing morning joy! We hear that we can -- and should -- do things because we like them, not because we're good at them or they need doing or they'll help someone else buy a fifth yacht. Let's take a breath, try a thing, and be in community together!

The #Sirens26 faculty are a-maaaaaa-zing! You won't want to miss their keynotes! @kellybarnhill.bsky.social @notquitehydepark.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social Jewelle Gomez @laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social @lilliamr.bsky.social

“The Loom Tree is an alchemical gyre of myth and family history, friendship and song, all expertly woven into a delightful tale of magical academia. It is endlessly surprising and immensely moving—a story of stories reclaimed, reinvented, and set free.” —Jedediah Berry, Crawford Award-winning author of The Naming Song

Relieved & VERY grateful for author blurbs for THE LOOM TREE (6.30.26)

Thank you @jedediahberry.bsky.social, Olivie Blake & Lynn D. Jung for your words.

Pre-order link below:
www.kensingtonbooks.com/978164566088...
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FELICITY COMPLEX this year! mk ultra era super solider experiments lose funding + get bought up by man who wants them to staff his luxury bunker.
quick nasty read about flesh horror mutants emulating commercial girlhood, the red scare, domestic labor, abject violence, shame, betrayal, etc

Trade paperback cover for REKT by Alex Gonzalez: a single camera lens, splattered in blood, staring out from a neon orange background. REKT is in bold letters around it.

Revealing the new trade paperback cover for #AlexGonzalez’s REKT, a disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, about a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that’s nearly here.

Available July 28, 2026.

Cover Art by Seth Lerner

A photo of Sirens 2026 faculty Sarah Gailey, with their name and the words "Author. Inquirer. Instigator."

#Sirens26 Faculty Sarah Gailey (@sarahgailey.bsky.social): Speculative fiction master from alt-history hippos to horror. Gorgeous essayist. Dedicated fan. Thoughtful community builder. Hugo winner. Raconteur. Provocateur. EW: "For those who aren't [familiar with Gailey's work], well, get ready."

A photo of Sirens 2026 faculty Jewelle Gomez, with her name and the words "She. Writer. Feminist."

#Sirens26 Faculty Jewelle Gomez: Speculative fiction royalty. Author of THE GILDA STORIES, the first Black lesbian vampire novel and powerful exploration of found family. Essayist, poet, playwright, Lambda Literary Award-winner, activist, educator, and "foremother of Afrofuturism." Absolute legend.

A photo of Sirens 2026 faculty Lilliam Rivera, with her name and the words "Writer. Anticolonial. Force."

#Sirens26 Faculty Lilliam Rivera (@lilliamr.bsky.social): Dazzling author across genres and categories, including for the LOVE IN GRAVITY podcast. Winner of piles of awards, honors, and fellowships. Essayist (NYT, WaPo, Elle, Cosmo), educator, and speaker. Absolutely luminous firestarter

A photo of Sirens 2026 faculty Layla Azmi Goushey, with her name and the words "Educator. Writer. Advocate."

#Sirens26 Faculty Dr. Layla Azmi Goushey (@laylaazmigoushey.bsky.social): All-around all-star educator, with academic work focused on the literatures and cultures of the Southwest Asia North Africa region. Speculative poet and author. Editor of the literary magazine Baladi ("my home" in Arabic).

A photo of Sirens 2026 faculty Stephanie Burt, with her name and the words "Mermaid. Mutant. Writer."

@Sirens26 Faculty Dr. Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social): Poet, literary critic, Guggenheim Fellow, Harvard professor (remember that famous Taylor Swift course?!), and author of numerous gorgeous works. The NYT says she's “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.”

A photo of Sirens 2026 faculty Micaiah Johnson, with her name and the words "Author. Scholar. Activist."

#Sirens26 Faculty Dr. Micaiah Johnson (@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social): World-changing author, scholar, activist. Purveyor of hope, joy, rage, and revolution. The NYT says her fiction "rattles [your imagination] out of complacency." Her academic work focuses on the intersection of race and tech.

A photo of Sirens 2026 faculty Kelly Barnhill, with her name and the words "Author. Teacher. Mom."

#Sirens26 Faculty Kelly Barnhill (@kellybarnhill.bsky.social): Masterful teller of tales. Winner of a veritable mountain of awards. Maker of pie. Mom. NYT essayist. Former teacher, activist, bartender, waitress, janitor, park ranger. WaPo says she's "eloquent writer who spins beautiful lines."

A graphic with the words: Progressive speculative fiction – science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more – gives us the blueprints for futures full of hope, joy, justice, and revolution for all. Activists, scholars, librarians, and community-builders are providing the education, the tools, and the leadership that we need to make those futures possible. Join us for Sirens, a reader conference that believes in both those better futures and our ability to build those futures today. Check out our faculty

We need our communities now more than ever. So we hope you're thinking about coming to #Sirens26! Online registration ends February 20. Please take care of that so you can learn from our amazing faculty, discuss the books you love, and hang with our community of readers, dreamers, and world-makers!

A photo of Sirens 2026 faculty Diana Pho, with her name and the words "Dreamer. Editor. Hugo Winner."

#Sirens26 Faculty Diana M. Pho (@dianapho.bsky.social): Brilliant scholar, playwright, Hugo Award-winner, Editorial Director at Erewhon. Academic work on race in fashion, performance, and the media, as well as fan studies and communities. Runs Beyond Victoriana, on multicultural steampunk.

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

It's hard. "Can you separate the art from the artist"--I got asked that 1 million times in the last decade. It took a long time but I came up with my answer to that Kobayashi Maru dilemma. Talked about it with @colehaddon.bsky.social in 5am Storytalk in 2024: colehaddon.substack.com/p/q-and-a-jo...

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Titles Motheater by Linda H. Codega The Memory Hunters by Mia Tsai The Hunger We Pass Down by Jen Sookfong Lee Tall Is Her Body by Robert de la Chevotiere The Once and Future Queen by Paula Lafferty

Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley rekt by Alex Gonzalez Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo

Titles Ten Sleep by Nicolas Belardes A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde The Changeling Queen by Kimberly Bea The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo

From the wonderous fantasy to mind-expanding sci-fi, from the depths of horror to the magical realms of the speculative, we're proud to have an expansive list of SFF fiction eligible this year for awards consideration!

@dianapho.bsky.social @viengsamai.bsky.social

It's been a busy past year, and miraculous in so many ways. Grateful to bring these works out to the world, especially in there perilous times when BIPOC, queer & trans, immigrant, neurodivergent, and disabled voices should be cherished more than ever.

@erewhonbooks.bsky.social #AndreaEames #alexgonzalez @venessakelley.bsky.social @leemandelo.bsky.social @nicholasbelardes.bsky.social @franwilde.bsky.social @kimberlybea.bsky.social @victormanibo.com

Books I Edited that Published in 2025 For your consideration this awards season (displayed in publication order) A Harvest of Hearts by Andrea Eames A Sunday Times BestsellerTarget Book Club Pick, March 2025Amazon Editors’ Pick, March …

I have been behind on SFF things, but I sincerely want to shout out all of my amazing authors who had published in 2025, for awards consideration. #AuntieEditor

A full listing:

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I think there are three days now until the Hugo nomination deadline? If you're nominating for the slate, please consider ConCurrent for Best Related Work!

Working with @angelahur.bsky.social has been a wonder and excited to bring THE LOOM TREE out into the world this summer!

@erewhonbooks.bsky.social #AuntieEditor

Book Cover: an intricate, glittering bronze-gold tree from roots to aqua-tipped leaves, hovering over black, bordered by gold ribbon looped in Korean-inspired knot-work at the corners. Title: The Loom Tree. Author: Angela Mi Young Hur

I wrote an adult literary fantasy for my kids & all of us children of borderless fairy tales & cross-cultural myth, about preserving our stories & histories & passing them on, defying those who seek to deny, diminish or erase us.
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