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Seattle Special #Hugo Award for Best Poem:

Ä War of Words”by Marie Brennan (Strange Horizons, Sept. 2024)

The Hugo committee is considering adding Hugo for Best Poem as a permanent award. If you found this poem moving, remeber the threat presented in it is one faced by many, everyday.

#SciFiChat

The Translated Hugo Initiative Putting the World in Worldcon

Hello, Bluesky! This is a weird day to go live with this project, but: this is an initiative to add a Translated Speculative Fiction category to the Hugo Awards. If you are a fan of global SF, and want to put some more "World" in "Worldcon", check out our site! Lots more to come.
translatedhugo.org

What a treat to get personalized reading recs from @hugobookclub.bsky.social in the #Worldcon book exhibit:
@carysgreenauthor.bsky.social’s Always On My Mind, @aptshadow.bsky.social's The Hungry Gods, and @nedbeauman.bsky.social’s Venomous Lumpsucker!

Great to finally attend #SFRA in-person for this year's 'Trans People are (in) the Future' conference at the picturesque University of Rochester!

@sfrareview.bsky.social

Poets, subs are open for Taipei Poetry Collective Review!

#FreeSubs #SubsOpen #poetry #LitMag

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“'Ocean green of shadow': Coloring the Speculative Urban Landscape in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon and Beyond" is out and #OpenAccess from Tamkang Review tamkangreview.org/data/10000/u...

#SpeculativeFiction #Africanfuturism #ClimateChange #ColorTheory @nnedi.bsky.social

“Demand a Red Line Against Genocide” in Photos | New Bloom Magazine Today we bring you photos from yesterday’s “Demand a Red Line Against Genocide” protest in Liberty Plaza, which demonstrated against the genocide in Gaza…

"'Demand a Red Line Against Genocide' in Photos" by PS

newbloommag.net/2025/06/23/r...

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

Party this Saturday!
www.nokings.org

Buzzing to start the day joining @ahmedmehreen.bsky.social @carriganak.bsky.social @taralabovich.bsky.social @cb99videos.bsky.social @danadelibovi.bsky.social @hayleyshucker.bsky.social @saybar12.bsky.social @aaronlelito.bsky.social & others to read from the new Door Is A Jar issue!

We're hiring 6 TT (basically) positions in #French, #BritishLit, Literary & #CulturalStudies, #Drama in English, #TESOL, + Computational #Linguistics!

#ForeignLanguages & #Literature NTU #Taiwan

Deadline: Sept 10 '25
PhD in hand required
No Mandarin required

www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/the-dfll-tea...

text: 0 days left to reach our fundraiser goal, we need you ! Indiegogo and Locus logos and Cluso alien

LAST CHANCE!
Today is the last day to reach our fundraising goal & we can use all the help we can get!!

Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!

Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #books

Tomorrow!

#CFP!
Project+ June 2025 Issue: Apocalypse
Deadline: May 15, 2025

Email full pieces ( #essays, #reviews, #poetry, #ShortStory, #memoir, #cnf, 'Collective (Re)Definition') to: Lainey Hsu r12122028@ntu.edu.tw

Flash Fiction writing workshop with @karissachen.bsky.social?! What a treat!

Tuesday, April 29th 1:10PM—free and open to the public at NTU.

Come learn from a celebrated local Taiwanese-American author, and get your copy of Homeseeking signed! Bookman Books will have a few for sale.

How do 21st-century film adaptations of 'Red Classics' resurrect the socialist past?

Come learn more at Yvonne Lin (UC Berkeley)'s DFLL colloquium talk Thursday April 24, 3:30–5PM at NTU!
Free & open to the public

"Universality reborn: Hannah Arendt’s natality in feminist ethics" is out today from Continental Philosophy Review.
rdcu.be/eg7zH

Thanks to @dananaomymills.bsky.social and particularly our supervisor, the late Professor Pamela Sue Anderson, always.

Happy #NaPoWriMo, Poets!

I'm thrilled to be starting this April with a residency at Taiwan Literature Base and a speculative marine poem in Abyss & Apex!

www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/03/noct...
(you can also listen to me reading the poem)

Laura Moye is offering a Workshop on Making a Case for Human Rights this coming Tuesday afternoon at NTU!

Thanks to @bootssky.bsky.social for designing the poster, and NTU's DFLL for sponsoring this free workshop!

You're invited!
I'm running two free creative writing workshops at 臺灣文學基地 Taiwan Literature Base as part of my residency in April (#NaPoWriMo), both in English with Mandarin translation. Taipei Poetry Collective is co-hosting the first, on current events poetry!
Register at reurl.cc/4LRVej

Tomorrow at NTU! Thanks @bootssky.bsky.social for the gorgeous poster design and ordering the donuts!

Hope you're having a gorgeous day, and have a fun weekend planned! Cheersing you from across the Pacific!

Taipei, 3 free upcoming talks at NTU:

Tues. 3/11: Sheila Cavanagh “Shakespeare through Culinary History"
Wed. 3/19: Kevin Wu "Perng Ching-Hsi’s Rendition of Shakespeare"
Thurs., 3/20: Elly McCausland "Why You're Still Singing Along"

details: www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/%e5%ad%b8%e8...

Hi, it's a rough time. I don't know where you live, but please look at this list and find someone to call or see in person near you blog.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotl...

I'm excited to be attending Science Fiction Research Association (#SFRA2025) this summer, and presenting "Dousing Brutalism with Alchemical Tinctures: the Capricious Trans-Blackness of Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE." Who else is going?

“'Let the Sky Rain Potatoes': Shakespeare through Culinary History"
Prof. Sheila T. Cavanagh (Emory University) will be giving a talk at NTU Tuesday, March 11. More info at the link

www.forex.ntu.edu.tw/3-11-faculty...

antihero - Palette Poetry "in a single breath / fought off an evil corporate polluter / without somuchas a lawyer”

"Every small town has its hero who
jumped the gorge
—–blindfolded
tamed the wildest mustang
—–with whispers..."
@bootssky.bsky.social has a new poem featured in Palette Poetry!
www.palettepoetry.com/2025/02/24/a...

I'm a speculative poet! Also @angelaliu.bsky.social @ajodasso.bsky.social @pedroiniguez.bsky.social @danaiwrites.bsky.social @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social @cafenowhere.bsky.social @madverse.bsky.social and ofc our Worldcon Poet Laureate @therisingtithes.bsky.social

And bookshop.org now has ebooks! Your ebook purchase through them can support your local bookstore.

Thanks for starting this list! My favorites of my 2024 SF poems:
"Unsolved Elevator Disappearance," Eye To the Telescope issue 51
"Crystalline Anthropogenic Technofossils," Star*Line vol. 47 issue 3
"War Dream: Mapped," JMWW
"Ajar," Dreams & Nightmares issue 126 (coauthored)

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

advait.org/files/lee_20...