@sawers.bsky.social
Mixed (gender)queer Thai American writer. Author of THE ANCHORED WORLD, finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bingham Award for Debut Short Story Collection. Senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Kundiman and Lambda fellow. Fiction editor at Blanket Gravity. They/them
So pleased and excited to judge the 2026 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!
Congratulations to all these longlisters!
Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.
“There is no place for political violence in this country” say the politicians using legislation and rhetoric to attack trans people, immigrants, women and BIPOC daily. Just because it’s done with a pen and not a gun doesn’t mean it’s not political violence. Hypocrites. Not that they care.
“Your uterus,” she announces, “is not happy.”
“I know,” I admit. “I have been sensing its unhappiness.”
New @kathyfish.bsky.social is always a delight. I love this one, especially the use of dialogue and humour. SO GOOD AS ALWAYS! A must read.
Wow so Earthlings. Read it in one sitting. I have to say I liked it leagues better than Convenience Store Woman, but I could see the thematic throughline between them easily.
This enormously pernicious and no one should still be on Substack - not just because of the Nazis, but for sheer practical business reasons.
"All Your Fragile History" by @sawers.bsky.social won second place in The Smokey in 2020, went on to be a finalist for Best of the Net and was included in Flash Fiction America. The 2025 Smokey deadline is May 10! www.smokelong.com/stories/all-...
For anyone aware of the tragedy at Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival, here's a thread of GoFundMe's available to help support the many victims. (copy pasted from my friend 'J' in the Vancouver Filipino community)
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Long have the people cried out for this justice, “when, when, o god,” they ask “when will men be allowed to write books?”
Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.
Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.
authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...
A class action lawsuit is underway. If your work was pirated to train AI, you are included in the lawsuit without having to take any action.
Send a formal notice: If your books are in the LibGen dataset, send a letter to Meta and other AI companies stating they do not have the right to use your books.
Here is a template you can use. actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
Mine is, as well as two short stories
Is your book on the LibGen list? Let us know.
Like so many others, my work has been illegally uploaded into Meta’s LibGen to train AI. Does anyone know if there has been a class action lawsuit filed yet? What can be done?
Like so many others, my work has been illegally uploaded into Meta’s LibGen to train AI. Does anyone know if there has been a class action lawsuit filed yet? What can be done?
Oh cool thank you
Thanks for these recs! I loooove Monster Portraits and had forgotten that it has NF elements.
Thanks so much!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Love this one by Claire Hero we published back when Fairy Tale Review had an online portion
www.fairytalereview.com/genie-when-s...
Does anyone have any recommendations for speculative nonfiction books or essays?
The most horrifying slide from today’s National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) organization grant webinar, imo
When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work
They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first
The moral here isn't to tell the truth
It's to never co-operate with Nazis
Yeah I figure I’m walking talking DEI
A stupid moment we are living through
Me too, Kathy.
It’s beyond infuriating