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A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

"So, together, she and the new boyfriend, they just weren’t “baby” type people, it seemed, or at least not earnest baby type people."
Read "Baby" by Marie Buck and ponder your baby-ality.
Art: "忠孝東路 Loyalty and Filial Piety East Road" by @acadialogue.bsky.social

Come discuss 3 classic Edgar Allen Poe works with the American Center's Book Club in Taipei!

My session, on his 1836 essay "Maelzel’s Chess-Player" engages contemporary debates around so-called "AI"—do we have artificial intelligence, or is it a ruse, like the "Mechanical Turk" under the blankets?

Thrilled and still astonished to have an essay in here, reviewing Julia Armfield's Private Rites and Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep! I struggled with sharing the first-person vulnerability, and could not have done it without @claireoleson.bsky.social!
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Thanks, Peatsmoke, for pairing my photograph with Marie Buck's flash "Baby," and letting me share some context of my title, "忠孝東路 Loyalty and Filial Piety East Road."

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labyrinth — Ghost Parachute The only person standing in the tiny windowless club, I hold in any move to dance like a secret, battling urges to conceal or spill it. The DJ stares at her controller, so I can stare at her: tape wou...

Read "labyrinth" written by @acadialogue.bsky.social and illustrated by @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social.

"The only person standing in the tiny windowless club, I hold in any move to dance like a secret, battling urges to conceal or spill it."

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December 2025: DANCE | NGĀ KANIKANI | Flash Frontier

after years of enjoying (& teaching) Flash Frontier, it's a joy to have a piece in their dance issue, also featuring @lailamiller.bsky.social @charhamrick.bsky.social @cbigs.bsky.social @judydarley.bsky.social @chriscottom.bsky.social @kathicrawford.bsky.social

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Temple in a city Literary journal Flash Fiction All's Fair by author L. Acadia. Published in Temple in a city Literary journal.

Sentences too full and brimming to snip a quote from, read the whole thing down to the last syllable and feel the title come up and slam you to the mat. @acadialogue.bsky.social whew. templeinacity.com/fiction-l-ac...

Literary/theory salon in Changhua Friday, 19th Dec!

After a screening of A City of Sadness, Tzuchien Tho will speak about the film, then I will speak about the Unbecoming Trope of Suicide in Taiwanese Queer Literature (a project with Lainey Hsu).

RSVP/more info: www.instagram.com/nice.h0use247/

pleased to have a dark little flash in the Imprint issue, alongside work from @iamchrisscott.bsky.social @hilary55.bsky.social @crankypacifist.bsky.social @joannatheiss.com @robm67.bsky.social @chriscottom.bsky.social @sagreene1.bsky.social & others

國立臺灣文學館臺北分館 國立臺灣文學館臺北分館

I'd highly recommend applying for a writer residency at Taiwan Literature Base! Applications will probably open in March for the following academic year. tp.nmtl.gov.tw/home/en-us/A...

Glad you could come, and thanks for your question in the Q&A!

#cfp & more #AcademicConference info:
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You are invited!
Literary translator @yilinwriter.bsky.social will give a talk, "Translating Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poetry into English: A Feminist and Sino Diaspora Poet-Translator's Approach," New NTU Humanities Bldng rm B208
Tuesday, November 4th
3:30–5PM
(free & open to the public)

what about a poetry category?

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Everything is a distraction from this.

"on either side of the river was the tree of life" | Poetry | ALMA MAGAZINE Poetry by L. Acadia.

my favorite historian says
“Evangelicals want to keep
Israel real
for the rapture,” now
their plans are
falling into place:
their bombs are...

read the whole poem here:
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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

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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

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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!

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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